"Based on available sources, the claim of a $45M US cash delivery to the Taliban on Dec 8, 2025,"

It was summer of 2001, juuust before 9/11 facilitated the Republican transition to Fascism, which ironically not far from what OBL had in mind when it comes to bringing down the West and all that damn Liberalism where gays can live freely and women can rise to power.

Back when the White House was painting North Korea as the existential treat, remember the first nine months of W?
During that time, George W. Bush gave the Taliban $40M to fight the War on Drugs.

It's small enough that we can safely draw statistical inferences.

We were literally discussing block effects at work yesterday, as in, block effects we can't account for because of how sampling was done prior to us receiving the aggregated data.

That's about as far as I got in graduate school in biostats. Happy to take the B on that one.

"I guess someone needs to mansplain to me the significance of trade deficits."

Can't wait!

"Because in my mind, they don't. In fact, in my mind, trade deficits are likely indicative that the enconomy has moved from a production economy to a knowledge economy. And that's a good thing."

Holy ----, you correctly identified a feature of the United States economy! We are a next exporter of services, but a net importer of goods.

So really, your job is to mansplain this:
Why is Trump trying to re-home manufacturing, and reverse the trajectory of what we both see as a successful economic arc?

"There is room in America and Brotherhood for all who will support our institutions and aid in our development."

I wrote the other day about two White English-Speaking "illegal immigrants" who worked in construction and food service.

They supported our institutions.
They aided in our development.

And if there is anyone to be blamed for undermining our institutions?
It's the people who hired them.

Go on. Tell me where I've got it wrong.

"But those who come to disturb our peace and dethrone our laws"

Like that drug dealer Trump pardoned?
You're a laughingstock, Boaz.

"Do you know what is meant by 'statistical significance' and how very small numbers in a large population can skew results?"

Go on, estimate the error bars on a sample size of 38,000, assuming a normal distribution, and a 95% confidence interval.
Plus or minus... how much?

"You go to jail for writing bad checks."

Only poor people go to jail for writing bad checks.
Well, and immigrants, years later, when ICE arrests them for a crime for which they've already paid their debt to society.

"Just like ICE is deporting people for writing bad checks."
You go to jail for writing bad checks. You get deported for not being in the country legally.
#150 | Posted by madbomber

You're really just clueless, huh?
Why are you more often wrong than right, when it comes to the facts on major issues?

Yes, individuals have been targeted for deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) due to past convictions for writing bad checks, even if the offenses were minor and occurred years earlier. For example, Donna Hughes-Brown, the wife of a Gulf War veteran, was detained by ICE after returning from Ireland, despite having been a lawful permanent resident for decades. Her detention stemmed from two bad checks totaling $80 written a decade prior, which led to her green card being revoked.
--AI Summary