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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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By "immigration problem" I was talking about the people who were crossing the border illegally.
Answer no master, never the slave Carry your dreams down into the grave Every heart, like every soul, equal to break
That's still not a problem.
edited 23rd May '18 7:27:11 PM by LSBK
Oh, bother.
Especially since it's been trending downwards for years.
edited 23rd May '18 7:28:11 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
Basically, a really small number of people do that.
And the big danger is them getting intercepted by roving vigilante Nazis or dying of thirst.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Oh, bother.
Fearmongering about border-jumpers from Mexico, along with the fearmongering of "MS-13" and other gangs, is just another dogwhistle against Mexican people.
Disgusted, but not surprised
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I thought that more of less all economists, even the Right Wingers intellectuals (yeah, they exist) agreed that Immigration is a net positive for the economy.
Immigration is sort of a interesting thing to me, my entire lifestyle is based on it.
edited 23rd May '18 7:34:47 PM by KazuyaProta
Watch me destroying my country
It's not a dog whistle. A dog whistle would be heard without making a sound audible to normal people.
This is just a whistle.
Text, not subtext.
Immigration is sort of a interesting thing to me, my entire lifestyle is based on it.
John Oliver said blaming foreigners is the one thing both UK and American voters can always agree on.
edited 23rd May '18 7:36:17 PM by CharlesPhipps
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Oh, bother.
A whistle would be them abandoning all pretense and just saying "We don't like brown people."
At this point I'd almost find such honesty refreshing even if it is something utterly repugnant. Almost.
edited 23rd May '18 7:39:18 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
We're almost there.
Ugh.
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I'm assuming Tanker means immigration phenomenon, as in why the people who do jump the border are motivated to?
It's been fun.
Like reflections in the glass!
I'd imagine that the Socratic method might be useful in combating dogwhistles. Peel away the layers of misdirection until the dogwhistlers lays bare their true motives or is moved to silence.
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On the other hand, you know what they say about arguing with idiots.
edited 23rd May '18 9:16:11 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
Has this been posted yet?
Sinkhole appears on White House lawn
The sinkhole, confirmed by groundskeepers, is just outside the office of White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley. The sinkhole, which groundskeepers remarked was smaller than they thought it might be, was roped off with cones and caution tape.
But, according to reporters who have observed it, it appears to be growing.
On Twitter, the hole's appearance garnered jokes about the president's "drain the swamp" slogan and that the sinkhole was actually a portal to another dimension.
https://twitter.com/MarkHigbee/status/998972759840473088
https://twitter.com/jurbanchuk/status/998965762764214274
Others joked about how close the hole is to the press briefing room.
https://twitter.com/Random_acct/status/998971983462268928
The White House covered up the hole later in the afternoon.
Oh, bother.
Yeah it was mentioned a while back.
If you mud-wrestle with a pig, only the pig will enjoy it.
edited 23rd May '18 8:20:19 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
There's speculation the sinkhole may be related to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center expansion put in back in 2010. It was basically a five-story building sunk into the ground, and the sinkhole is appearing right where it's located.
Another sign America is great again. :sarcasm:
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Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
Oh, bother.
Because of course he does. He doesn't want to admit that maybe voting for Trump was a bad idea.
Disgusted, but not surprised
Trump famously doesn't pay his workers.
He often refuses to over "shoddy work" waits until they sues, drags out court cases, and then settles for pennies on the dollar.
This is not the friend of the working man.
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Jared has his security clearances back. White House mentions that he canât wait to get back to work as Mid East advisor.
The Saudis called him the Clown Prince of America
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Well, more specifically, it was the lobbyists governing US foreign policy.And they're a swell bunch.
The operation, it seems, was wildly successful. Broidy supplied the relationship with the president, and Nader allegedly had a connection with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. Qatar, despite its support for the Muslim Brotherhood, has long been a critical U.S. ally in the Gulf region, providing a military base for U.S. Central Command. But Broidy, who dubbed Qatar âthe snake,â helped convince Trump otherwise, using scripts prepared for him by Nader.[...]
[...]Naturally, as the A.P. notes, Broidy did not share Naderâs true opinion of Kushner with the president, which wasâis?âthat heâs a total moron. âYou have to hear in private my Brother what Principalsââpresumably M.B.S. and M.B.Z.ââthink of âClown princeâsâ efforts and his plan!â Nader, who was convicted in 2003 on 10 counts of sexually abusing minors, wrote to Broidy, who had been convicted in 2009 of bribing public officials. âNobody would even waste cup of coffee on him if it wasnât for who he is married to.â
The North Korean-US summit has been cancelled. Trump reports the country was just too hostile lately (likely refering to Bolton) for it to happen. The full letter is here.
My favourite part is that Trump still finds a way to brag about America's "massive and powerful" nuclear capabilities, you know, because that's exactly what the koreans want to hear.
Life is unfair...
Oh, bother.
Wow. I am so not surprised by this.
I hope the Republic of Korea's president Moon learns something from this.
edited 24th May '18 7:14:18 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised
That letter is a marvelous tragedy of diplomatic-speak attempting to wade through blatant trumpisms.
This whole ordeal is due to both parties being stubborn shits. But hey, they wanted all the credit, now they can take all blame.
"NK: We'll give up nukes when you remove your troops."
"US: no"
"NK: Then we're going to leave. With the nukes."
"US: k bye"
And we're back to square one.
The real question is what President Moon will be doing next.
edited 24th May '18 7:22:51 AM by Eschaton
Not even just the really rich jackasses. Plenty of America's farmers rely on migrant workers.
The UK is in a similar mess. Their farms also rely pretty heavily on EU migrant workers. With Brexit looming, they are more or less fucked.
edited 23rd May '18 7:25:58 PM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprised