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... The vote last week to advance a measure to limit Trump's military authority reflects growing uncertainty among Senate Republicans that they know where the president's foreign policy agenda is headed.

"It's the innuendo about, Colombia, you better watch out.' Mexico, you better watch out.' Greenland, we're going to take over you,'" said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), one of five Republican senators who voted to send the measure to the floor for a vote.

"Ordinarily, you would just say those are just bluffing words," she said, summarizing Trump's threats to topple other regimes or assume control over other territories. "But when you see he didn't bluff there with Venezuela, it does cause you to just step back and say, What else is being planned?' ...

Will Ms Mara Corina Machado has her body guards with her>

Or might her [planned] superficial adulation of Pres Trump be enough to assure her safety?

@#23 ... It's not uniformly 90%, obviously.

People that are anti-vaxx sometimes form communities that are anti-vaxx....

And those areas seem to be where measles has been spreading.

MAGA has been trying to blame the measles outbreaks on immigrants, but the reality seems to be more of MAGA's odd reluctance to be vaccinated.

@#24 ... I guess Lamp figured out he can't just talk to hear himself talk without me interrupting him.......so he moved on. ..

Huh?

Do try to be coherent in your alias' comments.

@#14 ... Fundraiser for ICE Killer Is Busted Spewing Antisemitism

Is anyone surprised? ...

I am not surprised.

... The only people who support ICE are racist, xenophobes and Nazis. ...

While I would not go that far, my current opinion is that ICE seems to be currently used as Pres Trump's private militia.

As such, things like skin color and religious beliefs may be targeted by ICE.

After all, ICE are not subject to the laws that law enforcement are subject to.

@#22 ... -90% vaccinated?

isn't that were are now? ...

It looks that way. 90%

That seems to be the low end, the very low end, for herd immunity.

But there is a need to get back to at least 95% vaccinated to attain real herd immunity.

@#8 ... Labor disputes always suck. ...

I do not disagree.

They usually are the symptom of management abusing workers.

... This is particularly bad because this will adversely affect administering health care in NYC. ...

Yup. And hopefully, the healthcare management in NYC realize that and come to terms with the nurses quickly.

I will note (again) that I once worked for a privately-owned company. The owners of that company were quite good to the employees, sharing in the wealth of their efforts.

30% bonuses to all employees each year were not uncommon.

At one point, after a 40% bonus year, the owners said that the bonuses were becoming too high.

So every employees' salary was increased by 20% (in addition to the usual annual salary increase due to personnel performance) in order to lower the percentage of the annual bonus.

Then, at one point, a union arrived on the site, and started to try to recruit employees to join the union to fight against the evil managers.

The employees basically told those agitators to f--- off.

Long story short (probably too late for that, but here goes ...) if management treats employees well, the employees know that.

When management does not treat employees well, the employees also know that.

And, fwiw, I will say, unequivocally, that the owners of that private company knew how to motivate employees. For starters, we were not viewed as employees, but more as partners in the business.

@#67 ... First, what is a "worker?" In my mind, it's anyone earning labor income. So...that's most of us. ...

My view is that "worker" means low- and middle-income folk, i.e., those that spend most of their income on necessities to live.

.. Yet there is not much left the government could do to reduce taxes for them ...

Bingo!

That's the point here.

Reducing taxes is not the only way a government can assist.

Instead of providing assistance for those who live, and try to live, paycheck-to-paycheck, indeed, Pres Trump has stopped such assistance ...

Pres Trump seems to be providing massive (and I do mean massive, i.e., trillions of dollars) of tax cuts for the uber-wealthy.

While he seems to be OK with Americans not being able to buy food to live.

An American citizen was shot in the face and killed by a person sanctioned by Pres Trump.

Pres Trump deployed a person who wound up killing an American citizen.

Take a step back, and let that sink in.

For me, law enforcement serves and protects Americans.

Law enforcement is not there to control, they are there to serve.

Is ICE acting in that realm of law enforcement?

Or is ICE acting more in the realm of Pres Trump's personnel militia, killing those he may not approve of, and trying to exert control?

@#5 ... I was on strike three years ago, and it sucks to be back outside, having to fight for health care, having to fight to protect my patients, having to fight to be protected myself ...

Worth a repeat, imo.

imo...

Senate Ldr Thune's comment - a surprise. Signs of growing a backbone?

House Ldr Johnson's comment - just more of the usual obsequious bowing to Pres Trump's whims.

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... "I haven't seen the case or whatever the allegations or charges are, but I'd say they better be real and they better be serious," Thune told reporters on his way to the Senate floor Monday.

The Senate GOP leader expressed his views in more detail later Monday when he said the independence of the Fed needs to be respected.

"It needs to be resolved quickly because the Fed's role and the Fed's independence in shaping monetary policy in the country is something we need to ensure proceeds without political interference," Thune said.

Thune offered stronger pushback on the Justice Department's investigation of Powell than Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who earlier on Monday defended the Justice Department's impartiality and said he wanted to see how its investigation would unfold.

"No, the Justice Department is not being weaponized," Johnson told reporters on Monday. "It was for four years under Biden-Harris so that is what everybody expects." ...

@#129 ... Red states are working WITH ICE. They aren't trying to impede ICE like some of these blue states. ...

Nice deflection attempt.

I did not assert that the Red states are not working with ICE.

I did say that ICE is not targeting Red states because of the Red state usage of illegal immigrants in their economy, e.g., farms, meat processing.

Big difference.

That aside, the lame objection of your current trolling alias just seems more to give credence to the point I raised.

@#16 ... Why does your current trolling alias think the left wants to keep them in this Country for eternity?

fwiw, here's the link for its comment ...

... and as an different question ...

Pres Trump has said that ICE would be deporting only the most violent and criminal.

So, in the comment your current trolling alias has provided, maybe, a dozen or two deportees.

What about the other tens of thousands?

Were they deported merely because of the color of their skin?

@#112 ... Here are some of the people being deported that the left wants to keep in this country for eternity: ...

Why does your current trolling alias think the left wants to keep them in this Country for eternity?

fwiw, here's the link for its comment ...

@#103 ... Some would say he's taking advantage of you, no different than any other Televangelist fleecing their flock. ...

Bingo!

@#101 ... He's saying eff the Somalis because a bunch of them committed taxpayer fraud on a grand scale. ...

How grand?

What percentage of the Somalis were involved in the alleged fraud?

Got any evidence?

@#98

Always playing the victim.

Poor me, oh poor me.

Typical MAGA.