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This part about the border security needs done. On national news yesterday, 3000 migrants in one day in Texas. The cities that say they are sanctuaries are moaning over what they have gotten sent to them from the border. 3000 migrants a day is 90,000 in a 30 day month. This is the start of winter a time when fewer migrants show up. This goes on year after year and is steadily increasing in the amounts showing up. NYC got a mere 116,000 total and they are really complaining about the cost to house and feed them.

There are simply not enough facilities here in Texas to deal with them, they have to go somewhere. Nor is there federal money to support what seems to be a steady increase, year after year.

In addition to the migrants coming over the border are the coyotes (name given for those paid to smuggle in migrants) have caused 98 traffic deaths this year, running from the law in high speed chases.

Then there are the problems of unchecked migrants that possibly are parts of terrorist cells. Increasingly, reports are they are seeing Chinese attempting to come in through our porous borders. A few have even tried coming down from Canada but that's a harder path to get in, due to the cold.

It is truly an invasion.

While I agree this would be a good thing to pass, it won't solve the problem of prices increasing elsewhere. The investers will just change what they buy. Instead of homes to rental, likely it will be investing in medical to a greater extent than it is now, making health care ever more unaffordable.

Trump continues to try and weasel out of his problems. So far, he's getting no where with muddying the process to any serious degree. What he has done is tee off the judge who has been very careful in his wording and dealing with Trump to prevent major claims on the appeal that he in some way tainted the legal process, which Trump would love to get a hold on.

There will come a time when the court makes the decision of just how much Trump has to pay and just how much he loses. This will be where the judge shows his displeasure at the Trump team and their antics. I suspect it will be a whopper.

Near every state has profiteering laws for use during public emergencies, such as a hurricane or earthquake, preventing price gouging. That is missing in the Federal laws. The only thing the Feds have is the The Defense Production Act of 1950, allowing the president to redirect manufacturing during times of emergency, which does not address profiteering. This is a case where a new law is blatantly missing and needs addressed.

That will never happen as long as corporations have voice to speak with money. They will literally buy their politicians to prevent such a law. I have advocated before and I continue to do so about corporation voice and money needing to be removed.

During the civil war, the 14th amendment was passed, ensuring civil rights for all citizens, including slaves. Because of cases before the Supreme Court, it allowed the basic follow through that corporations could be protected as well as becoming a corporate citizen. In 2010, the Supreme Court granted corporate personhood with money being their method of speech. Basically it allowed corporations to funnel money into corporate speech to buy their candidate since near no private citizen can hope to match the payouts of corporations.

This is the results of that questionable ruling allowing for corporations to become eligible for personhood. Since merger mania hit, these major corporations have gained a chokehold over raw materials and distribution of their products allowing them to jack prices with little or no options to go elsewhere and for the majority they are global in their influence.

If you have not already figured out you carry your own personal spy with you everywhere you go, and pay for that out of your own pocket, with a cell phone then there is no hope you will ever realize that. There have been so many times that these sorts of operations have been uncovered, with one after another being questioned about invasion of privacy and disregard for the 4th amendment. The government as well as major corporations hide it as best they can til sooner or later it is uncovered. Sometimes it is shut down, sometimes it's such a gray area there is no law there to prevent it. Technology is always a head of the law.

More and more evidence of the attempt to change the election's outcome by Trump and his lawyers. This won't end well for Trump as each state's results of each investigation paints a clearer picture of the attempt. With this evidence scattered over so many states, it's going to be harder and harder for Trump to find a place to weasel out of accountability for his actions and schemes.

When investigations take such a wide area of the nation, it starts pointing to the real actions. Actions that lying about won't cover. This isn't a witch hunt, this is holding Trump feet to the fire showing him he can't get away nor slide past his attempts to weasel. He'll throw a lot of mud at the walls, looking to delay and find that weasel hole but it is rapidly disappearing.

Another one down, a crap load to go. You don't have to go look for political drama, it writes itself in real time. For all intents and purposes, the GOP has already lost it's majority. They can't agree on anything it seems to keep the country budget going and it's showing up with incumbents leaving. Now, the far right has lost it's poker chip. In order for anything to pass, they'll no longer be able to disdain the Dems and get it done. It will take actual compromise to pass anything.

Trump will be beside himself he didn't win it. He'll be complaining before long about how it was a rigged vote.

The Lincoln Project has always tried to trigger Trump. To hit him right where it hurts him most. Trump can not stand to be shown he is wrong and it be proven, makes him look weak. When Trump hits out at anything, there is a reason for it, mostly because they've hit him where it hurts him and he can not ignore it. He is goaded into responding. This is how The Lincoln Project knows it has scored a direct hit. Trump isn't smart enough to let it go.

Tuberville wanted a soap box stage. What it did to anyone in the military wasn't his worry. The only reason he's relinquishing on it, is because they are ready to side step him and he has no way to stop that. Rather than look like the idiot he is, he's trying to save face.

Has anyone seen Trump go to church, short of being there for a photo op? Mostly he spent his time on the golf courses.

It looks like he has sanded down a horn over that eyebrow

#4 | Posted by truthhurts
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That's his public, photogenic side.

But Hunter Biden's attorney is pushing back at the House GOP, saying that the monthly $1,380 transfers were made to repay his father for a truck payment that Hunter Biden was unable to finance himself.

What is the root cause?

And how do we solve that root cause?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter
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We've thrown a lot of money at it, which has seemed to have disappeared without any real change. We've sent special forces as well as advisors, thrown diplomats at it, and nothing has really made any difference in the flood coming to the border. Those migrants are looking for either economic benefits or personal safety as the main key reasons.

I saw an article some days ago, saying something to the effect that some of the migrants are considering leaving the US in favor of Mexico, where they can actually work for income, since the US will not allow them to work while waiting for their years long wait for court. For them the American dream does not exist, as they thought it did.

This is similar to the flood hitting the EU as well. Unless you want to invade the globe to remove all the various dictators, gangs, and other disruptions, the source isn't going to stop. They are all eyeing first world countries as the mecca out of their various woes. The only thing I can see to slow it down is make it to where such are not eligible for any benefits, making the flood undesirable. Revolution in each country by it's own citizens seems to be the only real answer, to change the existing conditions for something a bit more workable. Another country coming in to establish some sort of order won't work. Lord the US has tried that over and over, with little or no results, other than animosity against the US.

They can indeed become a multiracial co-coalition. All it will take is a complete replacement of all congress critters in office now, so that the makeup of the members reflect that change. Short of that, it's not likely.

It won't be worth watching. The usual is when the candidates want to push whatever points they want to make, they ignore the question in their answer. No matter the question, it will not be addressed, instead the speaker will go on making the point they wanted to make as if they were asked that instead. That's not a debate, it's not even close to a debate.

I'd question if Trump will even show up. He's tried to get the GOP to drop the nonsense of debate and just declare him the GOP candidate as default. If Trump does show up, it would be the same things you already hear. The election was stolen, he'll use the government offices as a revenge against those he doesn't approve of, and he'll promise all sorts of things conveniently forgotten if he gets the office. (Not that this is any different in the last part from any other candidate.)

Trump only mentions people and events when he's upset over things being revealed about him. So put a feather in your cap Drudge, you made the worthy list.

Personally IMO, corporations should have their voice removed to influence politics. They are not people, because they can't be jailed, they don't die as long as they continue financially, and they can't make babies. Money is not speech. Lay a pile of money on the table and it says nothing by itself.

I also think corporations should have no influence in politics to get anything heard in their favor, unless they are headquartered in the US, pay taxes (not some long list of stuff saying they don't owe anything through deductions), and do not hold stances in favor of the public or public works benefits. If the CEO and the board members are making multiples of 100s ratios over their average workers wages, they should not be entitled to any deductions at all. Half of any moneys going to stock buybacks should be given to the lower paid workers in some manner, who made the products and services they sell.

CEOs and board members have used stock buybacks as justification for pay raises and benefits not available to the average worker. Stock prices now are just too high with distributions to stock holders too low to make investing in them worth the pay back. The result is investment houses for retirement plans have instead gone to buying real estate to own apartments and homes they can raise the rents on for their increased profits. Add to this a lot of investment companies have even went into medical, making medical procedures and medical equipment far too expensive as they raise prices to increase profits.

Once you gain all this money as profit, how you keep it is to dodge their taxes in some manner. Which is where Microsoft went. As long as there are countries willing to be tax shelters you will never get rid of corporations hiding their profits from the taxman unless you make some sort of penalty against it other than the laws on the books now. It has to be something that effects their operations to the point they want to voluntary pay their share rather than face the penalty.

Remind me to miss it.

The GOP for years has claimed it had a plan to replace ACA, only you never saw nor heard what this secret plan was. Up front that tells you it's not good. When politicians don't want to take credit for some bill they've dreamed up, you know it's contents are not going to be favorable.

Likely it was waiting on the cancellation of ACA and then it would be produced into a back room, where no one outside had any clue about it and then put into a must pass bill at the last minute with no time for the congress critters to read it before having to vote on it.

He may have the votes to initiate an impeachment proceeding but that does not mean he has the votes to convict. All this is political theater. The GOP is in a serious bind over the abortion issue nationally and they need something to distract from that. This is one of their attempts.

Another of Trump's attempts to weasel out of his problems restricting him from being able to rabble rouse against the court now causing him to lose his best weapon, that of speech to arouse those unbalanced enough to try and go after the court officers. He's hoping to throw enough legal mud at the wall in hopes something will stick, releasing him from his bind of using his favorite weapon.

Trump's problem is when he goes off script, ad-libbing, he has to keep up a praddle of speech to keep his audience engaged. Any long pauses, while he thinks of what to say next, will drop the interest level of his audience. He's not a fast thinker on his feet. So sooner or later, out comes the truth or some lie so outrageous that someone should catch right away what the flub was. That is everyone but the koolaid drinkers.

Trump has said up front what his real problem is. As long as there is a democracy, he can't be a dictator for life, which is his ultimate goal. Believe what he says, he means it.