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Cries of "Let me out!" can be heard from detained children in this ICE concentration camp. Conditions are described as filthy, horrible, and brutal: "We often hear about food with bugs or worms in it, half-frozen food being given, guards yelling at parents if their kids are making too much noise or they're asking for an extra apple," says one immigration advocate. "Reform is inadequate. It just needs to be shut down."

Immigration lawyer Eric Lee:

"But it's very important, as this protest movement develops across this country, as the calls for more demonstrations grow and grow, as calls for a general strike grow, the Democratic Party is as equally responsible as Dummkopf Trumpf for creating the infrastructure of mass family and adult detention in this country, and it is necessary that this protest movement stay a hundred miles away from the Democratic Party and develop its orientation to the working class."

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After DHS and ICE were created in the panic-stricken world of 9/11 to deport Muslims and Arabs without a hearing before an Immigration Judge (IJ), in 24 years neither Republican nor Democratic administrations dismantled or defanged these all-powerful runaway trains now trampling the country and tearing families apart. Note that ICE is now spending hundreds of millions of dollars buying warehouses to create more detention facilities. On 20 Jan 2029, the next POTUS must immediately sign an Executive Order to dismantle DHS and ICE.

The thoroughly despicable, corrupt, dog murdering Kristi Noem is a soulless monster who should be impeached, excommunicated, and banished from decent society after she has been kicked out of her free military housing.

So I was looking at buying gold, and since I also look at antiques and estate sales, there's always gold coins.

The first US minted coin to depict an actual person was around 1893 or so, and it's got a picture of Christopher Columbus on it. I believe they made $5 and $10 gold pieces.

This was hotly debated. The idea of memorializing any man's face and thus forcing your acquiescence to the values he stood for simply to engage in commerce is an unwarranted government intrusion into the private lives of free men. It woulkd have been absolutely unconscionable at that time to put a sitting President's image on a coin, and of course no President would have been so tawdry and tacky to have wanted such a thing. Many were staunchly opposed to depicting an actual person, for reasons that culminate with an Imperial leader striking his own image on the currency. Who does Trump think he is, another Caesar? (surely he does)

Before then, and for some time after, we had coins you're surely familiar with like the Walking Liberty Half Dollar or the Mercury Dime. These are symbols, representing the values of our Republic. Liberty, Justice, all that hoopla they talk about in the Declaration.

The values our Republic chooses to display have degraded significantly since then. We no longer celebrate the Virtues that make this nation great. Now, our coinage celebrates the Men, and very occasionally Women, who performed Great Works in this nation. But there is no Spirit. There is no universal truth being celebrated.

And now, we are turning the coinage into nothing more than a veneration of the current leader.

This Republic will fall soon enough, and history of our coinage tells the tale that it's been a long time coming.

When I was a kid we still had a few Indian Head nickles floating around. That was of course the end stage of Colonialism, when the colonists venerate those they eradicated, to puff themselves up of course, by painting the conquered as worthy opponents in combat.

I didn't buy the coins. I bought a gold ETF called RING. Gold didn't do bad, but it turns out I should have bought silver.

That's another sign things aren't meant to last. The USD is down 15% since Trump took ofice. That would be good, if we were a major exporter, but we're not, except for oil and jet engines, and with Trump abandoning the United States leadership role in the global hegemony, there's really no reason to keep using the Petrodollar.

So expect the dollar to completely crash. Wish I had bought the coins.

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Binary dumb***k.

Seems law doesn't agree with your simpleness. www.courthousenews.com

Secretary Noem exceeded her statutory authority by vacating and terminating Venezuela's TPS designation, and by partially vacating Haiti's TPS designation."
The introduction to the opinion is about 2 pages. It goes on for another 79 pages detailing why you are a dumb***k.

Trade Alberta for California, Oregon, Washington, New York, Minnesota, Michigan and all of New England. Sounds about right. Good luck to Alberta when they learn they'll be supporting all those poor red states.

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