BTW, just a reminder that the US Economy, which is the envy of the world, is, in many ways, built on the back of these low wage workers.

Oh, and here is another short-sighted side effect to keep an eye out for.

Many of the Central and South American countries where the immigrants are coming from have economies that are, in many ways, propped up by the money that the immigrants send back home. That is WHY the seasonal workers come here, they work for a few weeks/months and send their paychecks home where that money goes a long way to providing sustenance (by this is a topic I am quite familiar with as my niece studied this phenomenon in Europe and Africa.

We cut off that revenue stream, those economy suffer and guess what, that destabilizes those countries resulting in more violence, more cartel power and more impetus to push immigrants to America.

No one ever said Republicans are smart though.

I just wish he would answer one simple question

How come you don't hate --------- adjudicated rapist?

Like this has been bothering me for months and especially since the election.

Take everything else away, ------- is a rapist.

How can American vote for him?

Like I get the Bro culture and the woman haters and the religious nuts, I get that. I get the white supremacists and the christian nationalists. I can understand ignorant denialists like Boaz, to a degree

But that doesn't account for nearly 50% of the voters.

I wish I could get my head around it.

I mean it is not like it wasn't a basic fact of the man.

Like how can ANY man who is the son of a mother or the husband to a wife or the father of a daughter or the brother to a sister vote for a rapist. Any man who has a woman or girl in their life that they hold feelings for (paternal, romantic, fatherly, brotherly) like aren't their primal instincts to protect and defend them?

I simply don't get it.

Bill, I am more man than any magat scum.

Her answers to questions. Her not taking the hard interviews.

Her being the "border czar" and doing nothing. Americans arent stupid.

She couldnt say she was going to do something about the border because she never did anything while she was in office.

She was coasting along as a government employee and everyone, especially those who are government employees could see that.

#112 | Posted by boaz

Her answers to questions... like discussion of Hannibal Lector, sharks vs electrocution and 40 minutes of dancing?
Hard interviews....like Hannity or Kristi Noem?
She wasn't the "border czar"
Americans ARE stupid-case in point=you
She and Biden came up with a bipartisan border security bill which ------- tanked, She and Biden have cut border crossings to a trickle.
Coasting? As DA, AG, Senator and VP

Seriously, magat scum are stupid beyond measure.

I wish, I really and truly wish magat scum could offer something, anything approaching reality as a defense of their actions beyond lies, half truths and denial of reality. [See Boaz]

So, Bill

How come you don't hate --------- adjudicated rapist? And I will even allow you hating both if that is how you see the Biden case.

Those are known as the "net losers" in -------- economy.

This Morning Joe thing is YET ANOTHER thing that people should really think hard about. Another piece of the puzzle.

What do you think brought those two to Mar-a-Lago?

It wasn't their decision; it was the owners of MSNBC. An action like this is not taken unilaterally by 2 talking heads. It is a directive from higher up.

They must be shaking in their boots.

The hire ups MUST have heard ominous tidings about retribution that ------- is planning. At best it is a Bezos move with the Washington Post- of anticipatory surrender.

The media is bending the knee to that monster.

That should scare everyone.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL.

MSNBC who has spent the last how long claiming ------- is the devil, has taken an immediate about face to "reopen communication".

THIS IS NOT NORMAL

As someone said a journalist should only look down on a politician.

It is clear that the press is going to act deferentially to -------, the press that is that is separate from his propaganda machine of Fox and OAN and the blogosphere.

The House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the DoJ, the military, now the press... what else is there? The corporations and the churches. Well the latter are all in on him, the corporations are either already in his "government"-Musk or bending the knee.

We may end up hoping that Big Pharma puts pressure on Congress to keep the worst of RFK Jr's madness at bay or Wall Street steps in to cut through the tariff madness. Maybe big ag can get through to ------- about the impact of deporting their workers.

Him putting Lutkin in Commerce is a really really bad sign in that direction though, he is a ------- toady who will do whatever tariffs ------- wants.

And ------- will put at least 2 more justices on the SC

And that doesn't even touch on abortion or the environment or education

The future is truly bleak

Yav, I, for one, suffer for having studied history, especially the post WW1 to pre WW 2 era and am all too familiar with the parallels between then and now. Anyone who has studied that timeframe has to be fully aware of what is coming.

I fear people are going to be in for a rude awakening as to the transformation of our country in short order and the lack of guardrails that ------------ is in the process of dismantling the last of them.

I heard a historian respond to the question: "What are you most worried about?" with "That Project 2025 only covers the first 6 months and what will happen beyond that."

I see Bill ran away.

I can't imagine living a life where I couldn't defend my choices.

----, even boaz, came up with some nonsense.

Except all Boaz could come up with is he is going to show us liberals. That is all, that is the sum total of who and what boaz is-to not be liberal.

What a pathetic excuse for a human being.

@93

All of that is simply excuses.

Even leaving the rape aside (which one shouldn't), the man is simply a bad human being.

He mimed oral sex in front of children FFS.

He mocked a disabled person

And did you give ANY thought or consideration to what he has stated he wants to do, like be a dictator?

Have you not given ANY consideration to the people he surrounds himself with?

Have you not even considered his appointments?

He stole nuclear secrets.

He stole state secrets and months later our intelligence assets around the world were being killed in rapid session, like someone was giving intelligence away.

He has promised to get rid of literal Amendments to the Constitution.

Christ the list of his unfitness for the office is legion.

He ------- sold bibles FFS.

Yet, "I voted because he said "Promises made, Promises KEPT". No one else said that."

You voted for a man who is a legendary liar, cause he said something.

No one else said that. I just can't....

Jesus wept.

I mean, I am honestly curious, as this is a big issue with me-i.e. how many Americans can vote for a rapist.

Boaz is one example-he simply denies (though I can't fathom how one draws that conclusion).

I guess there might be a significant number who are unaware-but the grab em by the P**** thing is pretty common knowledge.

I am curious about you.

You aren't denying the claim, clearly his behavior makes it a possibility.

So, you, don't disbelieve it, you likely believe it true.

You voted for him anyway???

Because.....

I am honestly curious. And I PROMISE not to attack you in immediate response-though I hold the right to be harsh later on.

You mean this Tara Reade?

LOL, you actually think you are explaining something? LOL...

A tariff war would hurt China 10 times more than it would hurt us..

#82 | Posted by boaz

Christ, you're ------- stupid.

You realize the goal of economic policies should be to not inflict hurt on yourself.

Does anyone else find it funny, that "truthhurts" is the only one hurt by the "truth" that Trump got elected again?

#76 | Posted by boaz

Boaz, let me make this perfectly clear.

------- is going to unleash devastation on our nation that even YOU won't be able to deny.

I am telling you it is going to happen.

Believe me or don't believe me, I care not.

I WILL point and laugh at you when you are suffering though, that I promise.

I will not forgive, nor will I ever forget.

Do you know what a tariff is?

Sure I do. It's what China does to our goods when they are sold in their country.

But we shouldnt return the favor, right?

#74 | Posted by boaz a

So, you DON'T know what a tariff is.

Ok, let me explain.

A tariff is paid by the COMPANY that imports something from another country.

So, say Company A makes widgets and to make widget they need flungs from IDK, say -------------.

If a tariff is put on imports from ------------- then the flungs cost is increased by the tariff.

This cost is now part of the price to build a widget, which is generally passed on to the consumer

So, you see, that is decidedly NOT something paid by -------------.

So, either Company stops making widgets OR raises the price as finding flungs is not possible elsewhere (as flungs are not made here and the tariff applies to everyone).

NOW ALSO consider ------------- is unhappy as they cannot export flungs. So they put a tariff on doohickeys imported from the good old USA. So, fewer doohickeys from the US are exported.

You see this is what happened last time when ------- was relatively restrained with tarriffs.

American soybean farmers (IIRC) lost a BOATLOAD of money as china stopped importing (they went to Canada or Australia IIRC)

So, ------- had to use tax payer money to reimburse the farmers

Sooooo, American paid MORE for chinese goods AND had to reimburse farmers

I know, I know you are too stupid to understand.

but, truth hurts bitch

Boaz chooses denial.

LOL

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#4 | Posted by homerj

So, iow he's a nut

And I will remind you again

President is a Rapist
VP is a Closeted Homosexual
AG is a------------
Sec. of HHS-Sexual Predator
Def Sec. is a Sexual Predator
Veterans' Affairs Director-Voted against Violence Against Women Act

What is there, NOT to hate (though I'll give Vance a pass on the gay part, nothing wrong with being gay, it is the self hating policies that emerge)?

Bill, I will ask again, why don't you hate an adjudicated rapist?

Boaz, claims he isn't one, despite a court finding him one.

What is your excuse?

I am HONESTLY curious

Boaz,

"RCADE better start reigning you in, because you are lying on OUR President."

Come on.

Isn't it obvious Cadenhead turns a blind eye to the sick posters here who hate Trump?

#58 | Posted by BillJohnson

Yeah bitch ----, actions have consequences.

You bitch ass magat scum elected a rapist

I will never forget nor will I ever forgive.

Rcade, seems to be fine with me saying ---- you scumbags

See Action (elect a rapist) result is Consequences (be treated like scum for electing a rapist)

So, TL:DR? ---- YOU MAGAT SCUM

As an aside, Bill, I will ask with respect, why don't you hate trump like I do? He is an adjudicated rapist. Isn't that like the worst of the worst?

Let me state this perfectly clear

------- could walk into a kindergarten bathroom and rape a child and he would be immune from prosecution.

So, ummm ---- you magat scum

The SC said he was immune to everything.
- truth hurts

No they didn't. The SC said that a President is immune from prosecution when exercising the 'core powers' of the presidency.

#44 | Posted by oneironaut

Do me a favor and define "core powers" of the presidency, I'll wait.

While you're at that, I want you to explain to the class what you think ------- would claim as his core powers.

After THAT, I want you to explain WHO will decide what a "core power" of the presidency is.

While you're at it, define "outer limits" of his powers, I'll wait.

ALSO, I'd ask you to consider how one can investigate, let alone, prosecute a president, when you can't use his actions as evidence against him.

Then come back and claim that I was wrong.

My god, this is the level of deliberate stupidity we have to deal with.

"You want it, I'm going to give it to you. ---- you. You lost. I'm happy you did. ---- you."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

All I have to do is sit and wait you bag of ----.

----ler is in the process of destroying this country. And it you that will hurt.

You think federalism and state's rights are going to save you? ------- too ------- funny

Boaz, here is a little secret you may not understand. The literal instant that the 2nd Amendment threatens ----ler's power he will come for your guns. And you will give them up, freely.

----ler does not care about you. He is setting up one man rule. He is dismantling the government. He has already perverted the courts, he has shown that the CJS can't stop him, he has defanged the House and is one step away from doing the same to the Senate. Who will stand in opposition to him then? the DoJ HA! the Military? He is going to court martial anyone not sufficiently cowed. What other powers are there? the press? HA he is targeting them-MSNBC for ---- sake bent the knee, business interests? HA they already cowed. You should consider (if you weren't a moron) what his choice for Treasury Secretary says about his plans-he don't give a ---- about Wall street-he will implement his insane tariffs. And no one will stop him. Who else is there to stop him? MAYBE, just POSSIBLY some blue state governors. But that will be a minimal and narrow victory

Congrats you now Live in the United States of Trump.

We tried to warn you. I am trying to warn you now.

YOU DIDN'T WIN. ----ler did and he has little interest in you

You're so far behind you think you're winning.