"Most likely not everyone who visited the island partook in illegal activity with young girls."

Then why not release the names?
You're covering for countless child rapists, and you are proud of it.

"fishpaw should be asking why we are detaining instead of deporting."

Yes he should.
But he cannot acknowledge the truth of what's happening.
His answer is always going to be, for the rest of his life: "Liberals"

"Homan is trying to deport them"

No, Homan is trying to detain them.

They could be deported immediately. There's nothing stopping it. Don't you remember the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and hundreds of others to El Salvador?

"How about shutting down the border, how many illegals crossed in June of 2024 vs 2025?"

How many illegals were in taxpayer funded detention in June 2024 vs 2025?
If you have a way of demonstrating financial upside to the taxpayers from Trump's immigration actions, please share it with us.
You don't have that.

"Who's judges are trying to stop the deportations?"

Whose administration is spending billions of taxpayer dollars to detain people before deporting them, instead of not spending those billions of dollars and simply deporting them?

Do you understand and acknowledge detention comes at a cost to the taxpayers?

Do you understand and acknowledge what Trump is doing costs more than the way deportations were done in Trump's first administration?

"And who's fault is that?"
It's the fault of the person spending the money.

"Who let them all in illegally?"
Who is spending taxpayer money to detain them, rather than simply send them home?
Whose fault is that?

"My point was that the left wants to be torn down. They want zero accomplishments from this administration even if it helps this country "

None of Trump's plans help the country.
You can't point to a single success, six months in.

"Ever since the DOE was established test scores have decreased."
Ever since wages started lagging behind productivity test scores have decreased.

"Dismantling the DOE will not take money away from children it simply lets the states control it."
So then the States take the money away from children.
It's like saying Roe did not make abortion illegal. It simply lets the states make abortion illegal.
The end result it the same.

"eliminating fraud and waste in the federal government"

We're expanding waste.
We are spending billions to detain immigrants rather than deport them.

"shutting down the border"

The border is still open. People and goods still move across the border. You do not know what "shutting down the border" means.

"lowering taxes"

The Trump Tariffs are the largest tax increase of your lifetime.
It's weird how you can't seem to acknowledge such a simple fact.

"We should all just get over that the left called him Hitler"

See, this is the real problem for you guys.
At your core, the reason you love Trump
Is because you have Hurt Feelings.
And you can't Get Over It.

So Trump makes you feel better.
By punishing the people you think hurt you.
Liberals. Immigrants. Muslims. Women. Career Professionals.

The Party of Fiscal Responsibility says it's a wise use of taxpayer dollars to imprison a non-violent offender for months on end.

"It's also sickening that he isn't a rapist"

He is a rapist.

Trump is (still stalling on) paying millions to E Jaen Carroll because she called him a rapist and he called her a liar and she won in court.

"That being said, it's crazy to see how much anxiety this has caused Reps over some stupid guy who both liberal AND conservative powerhouses shmoozed with."

That being said, tell us why Republicans won't release the Epstein Files.

"Trump comes along and wants to stop the actual problem, which is the war."

So, when do we nuke Moscow?

"Based on how liberals have handled this war, we now know they want to continue to enable the war machine profits over actually trying to end wars."

^
Good point.
Liberals haven't said "We should nuke Moscow."
Because liberals don't want to end the war that way.
Liberals simply want Moscow to take their tanks and go home.

The only reason I would steer clear of solar panels is it's a little harder to sell your house when your roof is leased to Tesla or whoever.

It's still doable but some buyers will rabbit at the first inconvenience.

"shutting down the border"
That's the same things as "tear down the Left."

"and 2M more native born workers employed"
That was a net loss of 0.5M jobs compared to Biden over the same timeframe.
So that's also the same things as "tear down the Left."

"highest real wage growth in 60 years"
That's called "inflation" and now you're giving Trump credit for it.
It's safe to say the "inflation" part is yet another example of Republicans doing everything they can to "tear down the Left." And the middle, and the right. Anything is fair game, so long as it tears down the left.

"You still believe that the Russians got Trump elected don't you."
I think they helped. I think you helped.

"You still believe there is a pee tape don't you."
I have never had a strong opinion on the pee tape. Was that a claim in the Steele Dossier?

"You still believe that Trump had Putin get him elected so that Trump could build a hotel in Moscow and in exchange Trump would let Putin run this country."
That's far too detailed a plot for me to have a strong opinion. But I absolutely believe Trump would accept help from anyone who offered to get him elected, and as a transactional thinker, Trump would be expected to provide something in exchange. Like the way he appointed Dan Bongino to the FBI after Dan Bongino helped get Trump elected.

Anyway, what was in the Steele Dossier, and how much of it was true, false, or TBD?

If I were looking at installing solar panels, I would ask myself one simple question:
How did I afford a house to put these things on!?

The other simple question is:
Do you think electricity is going to be cheaper or more expensive from this point forward in your life.

Not to mention: With Trump gutting the Federal government, the ability to generate your own electricity just got a lot more valuable.

Republicans don't care that he's a------------. Eberly is right about that.
The next DR Republican who says Trump should resign over this will be the first.

As I have been saying for about a year now:
The historical analogue to Trump is The Prophet Muhammad.

"The review, declassified last week, found that Brennan insisted on the inclusion of the discredited Steele dossier, over the strong objections of the CIA's two most senior Russia experts, who said it "did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards."
You need to get out of the basement.
#29 | Posted by fishpaw

Couple questions from Mom's Basement:
1. What information was in the Steele Dossier?
2. How much of that information has been proven true, false, or still to be determined?
Thanks.