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DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#176927: Mar 4th 2017 at 6:32:25 PM

[up] I do find it slightly relieving that he hasn't played the "Fake News" card yet. I'd rather he goes after his own administration/Barack Oboogiemen then the news agencies. Maybe we'll get lucky and see Priebus, Bannon and Sessions getting booted next week in rapid succession.

FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
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#176928: Mar 4th 2017 at 6:46:24 PM

Washington Post: Eight-Year Illegal Resident Detained Minutes after Dropping Daughter Off at School

The Rebirth of a Nation folks.

Anybody else but me notice that ICE agents in photos tend to be tubby white men with extremely short haircuts?

It's a profile to watch out for.

edited 4th Mar '17 6:46:51 PM by FluffyMcChicken

HextarVigar That guy from The Big House Since: Feb, 2015
That guy
#176929: Mar 4th 2017 at 7:33:45 PM

I don't want to be "that guy", but they're called illegal immigrants for a reason.

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JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#176930: Mar 4th 2017 at 7:38:13 PM

Yeah, but there are dangerous fugitives and there illegal immigrants who just live here, and ICE is focusing on "the good ones" to drive up their numbers instead of doing something useful. They're waisting time and money on vulnerable people who aren't a threat.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#176931: Mar 4th 2017 at 7:40:23 PM

Also, y'know, they may be called illegal immigrants for a reason, but that reason isn't necessarily a good one, or, even if it is, a sufficient one to kick them out in particularly scummy ways.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
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#176932: Mar 4th 2017 at 7:44:56 PM

[up][up][up] Well, see, that's sort of the problem: The way Immigration is now, it's almost impossible for anyone who doesn't have money and a Ph D to get into this country legally, which most Hispanics in Central and South America sadly lack due to Wars and Corruption. Most Illegal Immigrants, from all over the world and not just South of the Border, come here for work to improve the lives of their families back home. Immigration Reform must happen, sooner or later, and if Trump didn't threaten to destroy Mexico's economy, Illegal Hispanic Immigration would continue to decline (as of last year, there are more Illegal Pakistani's, Indians and Bangladeshi's coming to the US then Hispanics).

Now, this case in particular though, I don't like how it was handled, but the man did have a DUI record, and this kind of makes it more gray. I'm torn on him, personally. The only thing I will say is that ICE could have arrested this guy in a more appropriate manner, at a more appropriate time.

In other news: Sessions proves why him recusing himself is the best thing for the Trump-Russia Investigation.

edited 4th Mar '17 7:47:01 PM by DingoWalley1

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#176933: Mar 4th 2017 at 7:46:07 PM

[up][up][up][up]'Illegal' immigrants numbering north of 10 million, most of them doing the crap jobs people born here flatly refuse to do, and receive a large number of programs to help them and keep the economy from collapsing-like what happened with Georgia 3-4 years ago after they cracked down on illegals. They may not have gotten here legally, but they are still human beings and ICE is supposed to focus on the ones with actual criminal records, while programs naturalize the ones who are already solid citizens in all but name-not raiding churches and shelters and arresting restaurant workers as they drop off their kids at school.

edited 4th Mar '17 7:47:42 PM by ViperMagnum357

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#176934: Mar 4th 2017 at 7:55:15 PM

Is anyone else not remotely surprised that Trump is fucking off to Mar-a-lago again while all of this is happening?

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#176935: Mar 4th 2017 at 8:09:44 PM

No. He's already called it the Southern White House. He has announced his intentions to be there a lot.

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speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#176936: Mar 4th 2017 at 8:57:06 PM

Brilliant SNL sketch a few minutes ago. It was done in the style of a movie trailer, with the narrator saying how corrupt the current administration is... until one Republican stood up to it. And that Republican's name is [TBD].

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#176937: Mar 4th 2017 at 9:27:44 PM

He's going to go there every weekend. Because he totally stands for the little guy and isn't stealing tax dollars.

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#176938: Mar 4th 2017 at 9:27:52 PM

[up][up][up]It was called the Southern White House well before Trump was actually anywhere near the presidency. That's literally what it was built to be, back in the 1920s.

edited 4th Mar '17 9:28:00 PM by NativeJovian

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#176939: Mar 4th 2017 at 9:46:06 PM

I feel like after this presidency no one should be allowed to complain about presidents taking vacations every again.

[up]And he's the only one to buy into it specifically because the concept itself is a boondoggle. The lady who conceived of this idea was never able to sell it in her lifetime.

Gilphon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#176940: Mar 4th 2017 at 9:49:03 PM

Do presidents have a set number of vacation days or anything like that? Or is this one of those things that nobody thought to make a rule against?

edited 4th Mar '17 9:49:13 PM by Gilphon

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#176941: Mar 4th 2017 at 9:56:54 PM

Viper: it dosent help many companies just plain refuse to hire Americans to does those jobs or crap their process so they go away and go back to hiring ilegal immigrants

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Lightysnake Since: May, 2010
#176942: Mar 4th 2017 at 10:20:13 PM

[up][up] To my knowledge, there's no set limit.

Of course, people who gave Obama shit for taking any vacation will be conspicuously...silent at Trump doing likewise.

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#176943: Mar 4th 2017 at 10:48:13 PM

Has he gone away for literally every weekend he's had the job so far?

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#176944: Mar 5th 2017 at 12:21:53 AM

To be honest, what matters isn't how much vacation you take, it's how much shit you get done.

Republicans believe that government shouldn't get shit done. (Unless it involves regulating vaginas.)

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Oh, bother.
#176945: Mar 5th 2017 at 12:24:21 AM

[up] Well it does matter in the sense that said vacations cost taxpayer money. Especially since Trump is taking his vacations in a place that is a nightmare to secure as opposed to say, the Bush ranch.

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#176946: Mar 5th 2017 at 12:52:53 AM

At least it's in the United States. God forbid what mess would ensue if his preferred vacation spot was not in the US...

(Which is a major plot point in a setting I write)

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#176947: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:03:23 AM

[up][up]In more than one way - if I'm not mistaken the Secret Service presence has basically prevented the businesses around Mar-a-lago from operating whenever he's in town, and the residents have to drive circuitous routes to get around the cordons.

Hmm. Maybe that's why it never caught on with previous presidents.

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#176948: Mar 5th 2017 at 1:04:33 AM

[up]I wonder if a class action suit might not be an idea for business owners.

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Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
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#176949: Mar 5th 2017 at 2:39:14 AM

[up]It might get tabled if things don't get ironed out. Although the Trump administration isn't exactly what comes to mind for such actions.

Jared Kushner may have been lying about the meeting between Flynn and Kislyak for months.

EDIT: The Egyptian intelligence service has hired two DC lobbying organizations to get close to Trump.

edited 5th Mar '17 2:41:22 AM by Krieger22

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#176950: Mar 5th 2017 at 3:27:11 AM

According to the guardian, which "tracks" Trumps first 100 days, he has spend only 33 of 43 nights in the white house - so a little less than a quarter was spend elsewhere. He also tweeted 505 times.


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