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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Giuliani's strategy is actually quite clever. He knows his client is guilty as sin and there's massive evidence against him that will come out.
So he's softballing it and acting like it's no big deal.
Which works.
Especially given he knows the Senate will never convict him.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.That article sounded reasonable right up until it made the false assertion that Warren claimed to be a Cherokee, something she has never done.
Warren shouldn’t apologise for something she hasn’t done, it’s not her fault people keep buying Republican propaganda.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranOne of my worries going forward is that the next president/s will have to spend so much time un-fucking everything that Trump fucked up that they won't have time to work on progressive policies. And if we get stuck with another Republican president soon after that, who knows what sort of hell they'll drag us back into.
Do not obey in advance.There’s a risk that the Supreme Court rules independent redistributing unconstitutional, so that issue isn’t going to be fixed any time soon.
Still remember that after Bush Obama had loads to fix but we still saw Obamacare become a thing, Dems aren’t Republicans, the last two years have been spent getting ready for retaking power.
If the Dems win in 2020 they’re going to have a whole host of good legistlation ready to go.
Plus the president isn’t needed for everything, for progressive legistlation you have the House and the president just has to sign, for undoing the damage done to cabinet agencies you’ll have the various cabinet members, the focus of the next democrat president will be fixing what Trump’s done abroad (much of which will be impossible, with the only fix being showing that Republicans can’t gain power again) while Democratic legislators fix things domestically.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranJust an article on how ICE has been pretty blatantly falsely accusing immigrants of being gang members to keep them from getting green cards, deport them, among other things.
There's no confusion about ICE's job. They have been ordered to deport as many immigrants as possible and have been doing so.
It's why all defenses of them are bullshit.
They've cooperated in numerous illegal actions and deportations.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.It honestly wouldn't surprise me if ICE members were doing things like turning immigrants into lampshades, forcing them into slave labor, or other Schutzstaffel-esque activities.
How is it that every single person who works with ICE comes off like Hans Landa gloating about his kill count?
(seriously, check out this one video of an ICE agent basically gloating about his streak of deportations.)
That seems to be a problem with the hiring of law enforcement in general. Not enough effort made to weed out people who are basically jackboot thugs and racists, and insufficient or no punishment for when those people abuse their positions to harass/mistreat/starve/torture/etc minorities.
Edited by Draghinazzo on Jan 22nd 2019 at 7:24:07 AM
I don't see why any branch of ICE needs to be defended as if it's some timeless American institution. It was introduced during the Bush Administration along with the TSA, and both have shown themselves to be little less than attempts at having law enforcement in the 21st century whose job it is to get, to paraphrase Pratchett 'people who aren't our kind of people,' to feel as miserable as humanly possible.
If you have an agency with utter contempt for local laws being given broad powers to ignore them in favor of deportation, and you give them the same (frankly disgusting) legal powers you give to regular law enforcement, you get ICE. This is a case where rotten apples haven't spoiled the bunch because they were all rotten to begin with.
Organizational theory holds that it's always easier to destroy a functional organization than fix a dysfunctional one. To get a 'better ICE' woule require a set of sweeping reforms that, frankly, aren't worth the effort compared to tearing it down and going back to the drawing board. And at least then there wouldn't be naturalized American citizens with the wrong fucking phenotype living in fear of deportation.
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.Given that a few days ago, they arrested a Marine who they suspected to be an illegal immigrant
(despite the fact that he was native to the States) because his name sounded foreign (read, Hispanic), there's no justification for the ICE to be considered a necessity.
It's a damn shame they're allowed to operate.
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That feels a little like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Most of what ICE does isn’t deporting people, and their authority isn’t exceptional among federal agencies. The talk of “destroying” it seems a bit over dramatic when all you really need to do is clean house a bit.
ICE is a lot like modern police forces in that, sure it's a "few bad apples" (nevermind that a few bad apples spoil the bunch), but the maintaining of ICE as an institution through everyone participating in it, even the ones that aren't necessarily the ones causing most of the talked about problems, shows that keeping ICE around at all is problematic.
Edited by golgothasArisen on Jan 22nd 2019 at 7:46:33 AM
"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"![]()
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Pretty much. Any investigation DHS does is conducted by ICE agents, but when you show up with an ICE patch on your jacket even if you’re there to investigate IP violations everyone assumes you’re those assholes at the border. The other parts of ICE have been calling for the elimination of ERO nonstop because it hurts their ability to carry out investigations.
I’m not sure that makes much sense. There’s not really any point in getting rid of an entire massive agency just because parts of it can’t behave. If we operated like that our government would be in constant turmoil.
Edited by archonspeaks on Jan 22nd 2019 at 5:57:32 AM
They should have sent a poet.In shutdown news, the Senate is finally getting a spending bill moving
, although it's not clear whether it even has a simple majority. This one has Trump Wall funding plus some other things such as Trump's proposed DACA extension (which, I presume, is the reason the bill isn't a sure pass even w/o a filibuster) and more disaster aid funding.
This is what they have to say about their bill
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Edited by SeptimusHeap on Jan 22nd 2019 at 3:12:59 PM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman![]()
Well, actually, we weren’t. The whole reason ICE was formed was because the mess of agencies that used to handle all of their functions were totally ineffective at doing anything, having 5 agencies do the work of one is more or less a burecratic nightmare. Nothing got done. These were all legacy agencies and were probably going to be reorganized eventually anyways, but when 9/11 snuck past them it was decided they’d be reorganized then and there.
Edited by archonspeaks on Jan 22nd 2019 at 6:05:21 AM
They should have sent a poet.I’d say have a massive massive investigation of the entire organization from top to bottom, leave no stone unturned, and clean house. I’d said investigation, somehow, warrants disbanding the entire organization and replacing it, do so. If not, just get rid of the roaches, and then put the new leadership on an extremely short leash
New Survey coming this weekend!

I think I can get why Native Americans would be upset, because people claiming to be "1/8 Cherokee" or having a great grandmother "Indian Princess" are apparently thing, but it doesn't seem like Warren was actually doing anything like that.
It seems like a reflex to chastise her actions based on other things, even they genuinely weren't the same. Like, a genuine misinterpretation that wasn't actually her fault.
But even saying that is awkward just considering the history.
Edited by LSBK on Jan 21st 2019 at 8:10:36 AM