"Don't be a coward, just answer: if it was YOU, would YOU deserve due process? Yes or No?
#18 | Posted by Danforth"

For an illegal suspected of being a gangmember? No, they do not deserve due process. By virtue of being illegal, they should be immediately deported. In fact, they should charge the Democrats under RICO for allowing the flood of illegals. For the RICO charge, I would allow for due process.

"Bail is part of due process.
Thanks for proving my point for me.
#16 | Posted by Danforth"

For known violent criminals that went on to victimize additional people. Thank you for proving my point - Dems want violent criminals and gang members out on your street to terrorize US citizens. Every action that they take proves this point.

""Which platform is the GOP trying to shut down for allowing too much free speech?"
Every Federal Government web page is being censored directly by the Trump administration.
#8 | Posted by snoofy"

The government choosing not tonpromote nonsense ideas on their websites is not a violation of freedom of speech -------.

"This didn't clarify it?
"To Republicans, this makes sense. Spend $815,000 of taxpayer money, to create one sub-100k job, making washing machines."

So, 2,000 new US jobs producing washing machines - given the 4x multiplier due to the propensity to spend, this 100K job produced $400K in economic benefits - and this is just the direct jobs. How many jobs did it create in the trades for electrical supply, building construction, inspections, etc? All told, after 2 years, even the $800K is offset. This reverse math is the ------- math liberals and globalists used to justify the outsourcing to begin with - yeah, it is just 2,000 jobs....until the trades shut down, the accounting firm shuts down, the local grocery store shuts down....

"My opinion of the tariffs can be found by looking at how the stock market reacts. And you can pick any stock market you like, in this case.
#57 | Posted by snoofy"

So if tariffs = BAD in snoofy math, why does every country place them on our goods?

The funny part for me, is that you are one of the biggest whiners on this board about low wages - and yet, you 100% support policies that destroy the US wage scale. Talk about voting against your own self-interest.

"So you're just not going to consider the size and the scope of the tariffs, and how they might impact the domestic and global economy.
#52 | Posted by snoofy"

So you agree that tariffs are needed - you just disagree on the size and scope? Please clarify.

""So you supported keeping the status quo until the US slips into bankruptcy?"
No
#50 | Posted by Danforth"

Okay - so we need you to clarify:

Are you:

1.) 100% opposed to all tariffs by the US?
2.) Accept tariffs were needed but you disagree on the size and/or targeted countries?

You seem to be all over the board - so, please clarify your position.

"Do you think there can be differing things that tariffs accomplish, depending on the size and scope, or is that another thing you can't bring yourself to think about?
#49 | Posted by snoofy"

The thinking on tariffs has always been that they protect domestic industries from unfair foreign competition due to:

1.) foreign country placing tariffs on your goods
2.) unfair labor cost advantage
3.) unfair environmental advantage (less regulations)

They also discourage off-shoring by lessening the profit motive by moving production overseas to get #2/#3 above.

That is why pretty much why every country in the world places tariffs on our goods.

Now, Dems are whining that the pricing on their cheap Chinese crap may increase and we are supposed to feel bad for them when they were whining that this is what they wanted for the last 40 years. Globalization and free trade LOWERS US wages. Illegal immigrant LOWERS US wages.

You -------- will be much better off in 5-10 years than you are now but you will be whining the entire time.

"I'm stating the economic upset won't pay for itself, and by the time the markets readjust, they'll do it with MUCH LESS America as trading partner.
#43 | Posted by Danforth"

So you supported keeping the status quo until the US slips into bankruptcy?

""Here is a hint ------- Dems - AMERICAN CITIZENS don't want foreign gang members roaming their streets."
Neither do Dems. They just want Due Process in between.
#8 | Posted by Danforth"

Sure they don't - which is why Kamala was bailing them out during the BLM riots. The game is up - people had their blinders removed and they see the Democrats fighting for EVERYONE except US citizens. That is why your party is plummeting below 27% approval. If you are here illegally and join a gang, your ass is being deported - period.

"You make the mistake of assuming Republicans desire free speech. They don't. They desire controlled speech.
#5 | Posted by ClownShack"

Which platform is the GOP trying to shut down for allowing too much free speech? You need a time machine to answer that question to go back to the time when the parties' positions on free speech were reversed back in the early 2000s. Since then, the Dems have been the party of policing speech - with your left wing equivalents in the UK jailing people over memes.

""American-made cheap crap made by US citizens with living wages."
You only get two of those three.
~Sincerely, Math
#40 | Posted by Danforth"

Great, so it will be slightly more expensive crap made in the US by US citizens with living wages. You are arguing this is a bad thing?

"Time to put more tariffs on the McDonald Islands, amirite???
#38 | Posted by Danforth"

I guess I should respond to this as well given that the usual squad of uninformed Dems have latched onto this talking point. This is basically to close the loophole by which countries or companies declare their headquarters in areas that are not governed by normal tax or trade policies. It does not even matter if the islands are inhabited if countries can declare that is the port for their exports to skirt tariffs. It is basically how Ireland inflated their GDP over the last 30 years.

""Now that we are actually protecting American jobs "

That's not what we're doing. Not at all."

So, you are stating now that tariffs will not protect American jobs?

"Trump is causing broad sweeps in the market to short it, or long it. The goal is to squeeze out every last dime of value from that quaint old notion of "America"."

Stop with the BlueAnon conspiracy theories - you sound stupid.

"By choice. Your answer is to make that cheap crap SOOOO expensive, folks buy American-made cheap crap, for inflated prices."
#38 | Posted by Danforth"

Yes, correct. American-made cheap crap made by US citizens with living wages.

"#3 | Posted by Robson"

You make the mistake of assuming Democrats desire free speech. They don't. They desire controlled speech.

I can see the same Democrats back in 1945 making the argument: "But he was one of the good SS/Gestapo without a criminal record".

That said, I would like Democrat media to apply the same logic to every story involving an ethnic Russian. Despite lacking any proof whatsoever, all ethnic Russians are deemed to be Russian state actors. Meanwhile, guys will full MS13 and Tren De Aragua tats are deemed 'unaffiliated' with the gang. This is why the Democrats and the MSM have lost all credibility.

Here is a hint ------- Dems - AMERICAN CITIZENS don't want foreign gang members roaming their streets.

I want to see more videos of the Democrats throwing tantrums over not getting their cheap Chinese crap addiction fulfilled.

I think it was universally accepted (at least when Democrats were still at least partially sane) that cheap Chinese imports were bad for the US economy. What has changed now Democrats?

They should face the firing squad for treason. We cannot accept this behavior from the people given the public trust.

The Democrats will never allow "means-testing" because then SS will be viewed in the light of what it actually is - a welfare program. Thus, they will require 100% participation regardless of it being a horrible return for its participants. Take your 2% return and like it!

You -------- like Danforth have been whining for years about the 'tax incentives' to offshore jobs. Now that we are actually protecting American jobs and encouraging their onshoring, we get Democrats whining about them being taxes. The funny thing is the mental gymnastics your side has to do because your lives have become dependent on cheap Chinese crap and now you are fighting for that to continue despite the DOZENS of speeches by your party leaders embracing tariffs over the last 30 years - you know - the time before the Democrat party sold out workers for the elites.

just another sign of how the parties have flipped since the 90's. The GOP is cutting military spending and the Dems are pissed that they cannot keep the nation in a state of forever war. You Dems should be embarrassed - you now represent everything that you used to hate.

"Facts are, March's numbers are below the average 177,000 a month for the past 10 years.
#9 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY"

Whine more and louder - that way voters will be convinced to bump up that 27% approval rating.

"" So, all those open jobs that are being created, who might fill them?"
Newly unemployed government workers.
#7 | Posted by Danforth"

BINGO! From non-productive employment to productive employment.

"You think Adams represents the average New Yorker?
You can't find New York on a map.
#6 | Posted by snoofy"

Neither can the average New Yorker.

"tell me how a how a 50%+ price increase on a s***load of stuff from Walmart,
#11 | Posted by et_al"

Because American people buying less cheap Chinese made ---- from Walmart is good for the country.

"Businesses smell the catastrophe that's coming.
#2 | Posted by Zed"

Can't you read? 80% of the layoffs were the Federal government. Private sector payrolls increased by 155,000 last month.