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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 16, 2024 17:18:18 GMT -5
it is pretty clear what is going on here.
our immigration system needs overhauling to allow people to enter. the exact opposite is happening. one by one, the channels for entering the US are being closed. what will end up happening is what happened to Shogun Japan- the country will stagnate without an influx from outside. it is how we have managed to grow for centuries without interruption. every economist recognizes that. but we are apparently going to throw ourselves into the arms of jingoists and nativists.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 16, 2024 17:14:12 GMT -5
DIL is Chinese and is now a citizen. They have a 6 month old and are hoping to have her mom and little sister visit from China for a month. Mom’s visa was turned down probably because of worries she would overstay visa. DIL is very frustrated since she sees thousands including Chinese coming over the southern border daily. Just say asylum seeker and go into US with court date sometime in years meantime here with varying benefit eligibility. DIL works translating Mandarin for these border crossers. She feels the US government is extremely unfair in how people trying to comply with rules are treated poorly in comparison with those taking advantage of very loose asylum is she aware that 90% of asylum claims are rejected (resulting in deportation) in the US, or is she a FOX News viewer?
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 16, 2024 17:10:54 GMT -5
that nails it. but keep in mind, that this is not really "conservatism". it is ELITISM. and yes, it has been this way forever. and yes, many Republicans, and a fair number of Democrats, particularly those in positions of authority, feel this way (even if they will NEVER admit it publicly, privately, or in some cases, even to themselves). the TRUTH of our situation is that the bottom 50% are getting fucked. that is the vast majority of black and brown people and disproportionately women. if we could organize along lines of common grievance, we would have wild political victories (not to paraphrase Trump). but instead, the ELITE use wedge issues to drive us apart and keep us fighting each other, and siding with the ELITE. it has been a remarkably successful strategy, culminating in the person of Trump. 2024 is not going to bring us back together. instead, we will probably pry off just enough of the moderates to join Biden in averting the brewing catastrophe known as Trump. but the differences will remain, which means that the threat of Trump or someone like him will remain as long as the wedge divides us. It’s always amazed me how someone will vote against their own best interests because a callous politician waved abortions or trans people or the war against Christmas in their face. It’s getting worse. Wages have only barely increased in the last thirty years while every thing else has jumped up. My dad could support his family on one salary. Took DH and I both working to get a comparable lifestyle. Now middle class kids might need to work multiple jobs to stay afloat, while conservatives scold them about not working hard enough. i think this is a great campaign issue, because it won't add one thin dime to the deficit. since corporations have pretty much taken themselves out of the tax paying business, the only way to get that money out of them is through wages. if we DOUBLED the FMW, that would put more TAX MONEY into the system. in addition it would LOWER our expenses for those that are making sub-living wages, because they could rely on private employment rather than public services. it is a win-win-win. it is STUPID that it is not yet a campaign issue, and probably won't be (because corporations are running the show at this juncture).
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 16, 2024 16:59:04 GMT -5
it is actually a violation of international law. which should make sense to everyone, here. I've been searching I cannot find a law that states we have to help a person who is trying to enter the country illegally. you don't know if they are entering illegally until you rescue them. we have already been through this. you just keep arguing the same point.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 16, 2024 1:02:35 GMT -5
it is amazing what people do simply because they have the liberty to do so.
MERICA!!!!!
let half starving people die in the Rio Grande while we stand there and watch.
....the envy of the free world....
John Cleese got it right about 20 years ago when he described it as the Death of the Milk of Human Kindness. how did we all get so mean to one another?
bad parenting?
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 16, 2024 0:37:05 GMT -5
that nails it.
but keep in mind, that this is not really "conservatism". it is ELITISM. and yes, it has been this way forever. and yes, many Republicans, and a fair number of Democrats, particularly those in positions of authority, feel this way (even if they will NEVER admit it publicly, privately, or in some cases, even to themselves).
the TRUTH of our situation is that the bottom 50% are getting fucked. that is the vast majority of black and brown people and disproportionately women. if we could organize along lines of common grievance, we would have wild political victories (not to paraphrase Trump). but instead, the ELITE use wedge issues to drive us apart and keep us fighting each other, and siding with the ELITE. it has been a remarkably successful strategy, culminating in the person of Trump.
2024 is not going to bring us back together. instead, we will probably pry off just enough of the moderates to join Biden in averting the brewing catastrophe known as Trump. but the differences will remain, which means that the threat of Trump or someone like him will remain as long as the wedge divides us.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 15, 2024 23:35:02 GMT -5
You realize people do that every day on this board, right? He can ask, its not illegal. You and others can refuse to do as well. ah, my one true troll has chimed in. it is a good day. listen, bills. i have you blocked. if you had any sense of fair play you would stop responding to my posts. you don't. you would rather snipe at me in the hopes of getting attention, which is both flattering and a little weird. or maybe you are just trying to spew your animus on me knowing that there is little or no chance that i will respond to it, thus allowing the critique to concretize on my avatar. please desist. tyia. i have infinitely more time for Tenn. he is good people.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 15, 2024 23:28:49 GMT -5
thanks to ken, i am aware of that fact. Your beginning to sound like donald trump. trump hated reading daily intelligence briefings. Just wanted five words or less summaries. oh come on, Tenn. i am not THAT bad. i just have an old laptop and limited bandwidth. i have probably read 100 stories about voter fraud/errors in the last 20 years and nothing amounted to much. the ones that stand out were all Republican issues of voter fraud surrounding mail in ballots, and excluding valid voters from the polls. i just asked a simple question to save time. i am sorry if you found it insulting. i know that you and others go to a lot of effort to post here, and i try to read everything everyone posts. but i will confess: i don't like links. half the time they lead to a paywall. so, if you have something important to say, and you want me (and probably some others) to hear it, you should give us enough of the article to make me take the risk/time and leave the board on what is likely, for me, a blind link. as all of us grow older, our time is more precious. that is all i meant to say. to have it framed as "dj doesn't have time for us" is really unfair. i spend far more time here than most other posters. i know, because i scan the board when i show up, and most of you are not here. and that is fine. you have busy lives, and i respect that. to summarize: please don't go hard on me for wanting a little more information before i click links. that is all it is. nothing more or less. it didn't earn a WTF or a comparison to Trump, imo. but for those of you that feel similarly insulted, that was purely unintended.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 15, 2024 20:23:33 GMT -5
it makes perfect sense, though.
this, coming in an era when so little does.....
but Trump sucked on Covid, and is a crass asshole. Biden has been better, and is generally an amiable guy. the ageism of the general electorate does not exist with older voters. and finally, we have the prescription drug pricing negotiations that Biden has gone for HARD that help a lot of these folks.
so, yeah. it is approaching 2:1 favorability, and that is great news for Biden. especially since this is a high turnout demographic.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 15, 2024 20:09:25 GMT -5
i wasn't interested in reading an article about four votes. that is what 99% of these incidents are. i was pretty interested in reading an article about 4000 votes. i was basically asking whether it was something that would interest me. i only have so much time. and with each passing year, the value of it goes up. My two linked articles were not about four votes. thanks to ken, i am aware of that fact.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 15, 2024 17:05:58 GMT -5
I know. But I posted it in both linked articles in 3135. i wasn't interested in reading an article about four votes. that is what 99% of these incidents are. i was pretty interested in reading an article about 4000 votes. i was basically asking whether it was something that would interest me. i only have so much time. and with each passing year, the value of it goes up.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 15, 2024 15:24:54 GMT -5
here is what gets me.
people travel here 2000 miles on foot. that is at least three months of walking. you get to Brownsville or whatever, and try to seek asylum into the US, and the state officials stand there while you and possibly your kids drown in the river.
tragic doesn't even come close to encapsulating that.
we should really cut the Statue Of Liberty into refrigerator magnets.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 15, 2024 15:19:36 GMT -5
originally this was apparently a criminal inquiry. the charges were dropped recently. the implication that part of the reason for doing that was so that the vote tally could be exposed to the public.
the other part is that it appears to be an accident. two precincts were duplicated.
i have never seen an error this large in any election before.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 15, 2024 15:08:24 GMT -5
The number of votes discovered is mentioned in both of the linked articles I provided. Board rules I cannot post the complete article. ken posted it in 3137.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 15, 2024 14:18:41 GMT -5
that is actually pretty significant.
thanks, i will look at this report.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 15, 2024 14:16:19 GMT -5
if we are talking about the primary, then i would encourage Trump voters to follow this advise.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 15, 2024 14:10:42 GMT -5
most of them are from Venezuela. the situation has gotten VASTLY worse there in the last three years. are you going to argue that Venezuela is a beautiful place that is devoid of political persecution? if not, they are probably legitimate asylum seekers and we should welcome them. Trump was breaking the law keeping them out, imo. so was Biden. Is the 2 mile stretch a legal point of entry if yes they should welcome them if not. It is ok to turn them away. If anyone drowns trying to come here illegally (meaning not thru an legal point) then that is on them we are under no obligation to use our resources to helpit is actually a violation of international law. which should make sense to everyone, here.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 15, 2024 14:08:27 GMT -5
how many votes?
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 14, 2024 22:08:55 GMT -5
absolutely. the man lied to her constantly. my favourite broken promise was the GDP promise. not only did he not produce 4-6% GDP growth, he did not even produce 1% in ANY quarter during his presidency. i don't know if that is a record or not, but i suspect it is. Obama had four quarters above 1% in (8) years, including two in his first term. he was, however, a very good liar about his record, and continues to be. His lie to explain why the economy is good now is that it’s continuing on the ‘last fumes’ of his fabulous economy - and also all the business men are confident Trump will win and that’s juicing up the horrible Biden economy. does he remember that he had 10% UE in his last year.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 14, 2024 18:05:22 GMT -5
absolutely. the man lied to her constantly.
my favourite broken promise was the GDP promise. not only did he not produce 4-6% GDP growth, he did not even produce 1% in ANY quarter during his presidency. i don't know if that is a record or not, but i suspect it is. Obama had four quarters above 1% in (8) years, including two in his first term.
he was, however, a very good liar about his record, and continues to be.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 14, 2024 17:25:54 GMT -5
i still like the Uraniums, but they had a huge day Friday, and are due for a little retrenchment.
i will take BA Short. special situation play. Alaska Airlines would be another one in this same 737 blowout play. but i like BA better because it has no real support until it hits 180. and that is about 15% below where it is now.
the holiday gave me the chance to reflect, and.....
Uranium stocks are on fire in Australia today. so, i am going to stick with the sector, but move to CA:CVV, long.
this was my biggest winner ever a few years back- my first 10-bagger (1000%). let's see what it does in 2024.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 14, 2024 16:31:35 GMT -5
he gets an F for managing the economy, and a D for managing Covid. the ONLY thing he did well is get abortion repealed, and a few other causes near and dear to Evangelicals, like defunding PP. so, yeah, if you are Christian Nationalist, he was the bestest president ever. sheesh.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 14, 2024 16:26:05 GMT -5
i used to think of India as a place that people went to meditate.
Ramaswammy (sic) has shattered that perception.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 14, 2024 16:24:01 GMT -5
“Trump has never lied to us one time,” she said. “Everything that man said he was going to do, he did. And I believe he cares about the people, because who would give up his life to try and fix this? You know, he does talk too much. Yeah, his mouth. OK, we understand that. But the man knows what he's doing. I trust him.”what about the things he said he would do that he didn't do? www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/list/?promise_group=trumpometer&ruling=promise-broken
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 14, 2024 14:41:07 GMT -5
that is the question i was asking. thanks. so, they would just bring in another judge. what judge would they bring in? how would that selection be made? It’s rotating assignment. Just next on the list. very sensible. ok, thanks!
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 14, 2024 13:40:41 GMT -5
This probably should be on its own thread, but I am putting it here because I should be sleeping. Vivek finally reveals his marketing strategy to the Presidency. Let the lawsuits take Trump down for him and spread the message that as Trump's one true acolyte running for President, that he is the one you should elect. As sadly, Trump was sidelined by the system. Big strong Vivek sheds tears as he takes one for the MAGA team and is elected... www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/i-ve-defended-him-at-every-step-ramaswamy-responds-to-trump-attack-before-iowa-caucus/ar-AA1mVTO5?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=ae2787f0682047ad884e3e25c86ff4db&ei=24Vivek Ramaswamy responded on Saturday evening to an attack on him by Donald Trump sent on the brink of the crucial Iowa Caucus vote in the GOP primary.
After Ramaswamy shared a photo on X of himself with supporters wearing shirts that said “Save Trump, Vote Vivek,” the businessman and candidate was slammed by a top Trump adviser who called him a “fraud.”
I respect the hell out of Trump. He’s the best President of the 21st century. I’ve defended him at every step against the unjust persecutions,” said Ramaswamy, who has vowed to remove his own name from the ballot in any state that forces Trump off. “But OPEN YOUR EYES to the hard TRUTH: this system will stop at nothing to keep this man away from the White House.”
He restates that premise in the video attached to the tweet.he's either stupid, or a liar. or both. maybe he respects Trump, maybe he doesn't. but the man is only the best fascist president. he is more fascistic than any president ever. that is the only standard he is the best by. even Bush was a better president by any other standard, and he was NOT a good president, or even an average one. and we SHOULD stop at nothing to keep Trump out of the WH. so....GOOD!
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 14, 2024 13:34:55 GMT -5
this is actually precisely what sanctuary states do, but kind of on the other end of the spectrum. California ALSO refuses to help federal employees with immigration "crimes". so, now i guess that Texas is a sanctuary state?
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 14, 2024 13:32:56 GMT -5
that will almost certainly be tested in court. are you willing to live with the outcome? i am. I suppose I am. If the court is in Texas. I think this is about states rights and sovereignty. A state has the right to protect it's citizens. this case will not be decided in Texas, unless the appeal stays a lower court ruling. immigration is a federal issue, rip. i am sorry, it just is. if we have states creating their own policies, it won't do Texas any good. for example, let's say that Arizona decides that it is going to just open the border and eschew any enforcement whatsoever. how will Texas prevent "illegal" migration? you would have to build a wall around your entire border. your idea falls apart quickly. what we NEED is federal reform on this issue.
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Post by djAdvocate on Jan 14, 2024 0:05:38 GMT -5
no the point, so i will spell it out: if your #1 goal was to delay getting convicted, how would you feel if a judge just happened to .... have an unfortunate accident? If there is a jury, they’ll just bring in another judge. bench trial, you start over. so if i was the defendant, I’d be elated. If I was the prosecutor I’d be pissed. that is the question i was asking. thanks. so, they would just bring in another judge. what judge would they bring in? how would that selection be made?
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