@#34

OK, let's say a thousand immigrants per week are being deported. That's 52,000 per year.

Dividing the 10,000,000 total goal by 52,000 per year results in 192 years.

So ....

At the current rate, it will take about 192 years to a achieve the goal of 10,000,000 immigrants deported.

Gee, it is no wonder why Pres Trump seems to be passing bricks into his diaper.

More from the article in #27 ...

... Meanwhile at ICE, Vitello told agents in January to aim to meet a daily quota of 1,200-1,400 arrests. According to numbers ICE has posted on X, the highest single day total since Trump was inaugurated was just 1,100, and the number has fallen since that day.

On Tuesday of this week, arrests of immigrants were over 800, according to a source familiar with the numbers.

But last weekend, there were only about 300 arrests, another source told NBC News.

In order to fulfill Trump's Inauguration Day promise of "millions and millions" of deportations, the Trump administration would have to be deporting over 2,700 immigrants every day to reach 1 million in a year.

And, as NBC News has reported, arrests do not always equal immediate detentions, much less deportations. Of the more than 8,000 immigrants arrested in the first two weeks of the Trump administration, 461 were released, according to the White House. ...

@#18 ...That is most assuredly NOT "assault"....

Assault and battery.

Assault is the threat.

Battery is the action.

OK, I now see that may depend upon the jurisdiction ...

@#4 ... Call me crazy, ...

OK, you may be crazy.

But not for the reason you may think.

... the MINIMAL amount of service is to be able to answer the question HOW DO I HONESTLY FILE AND PAY MY INCOME TAXES? ...

Well, yeah.

That is the crazy aspect of this.

Pres Trump seems to be aiding those high-income people who apparently intentionally want to avoid taxes, at the detriment of the honest workers who want to pay their fair share.

@#13 ... False analogy. ...

@#8 ..., Therefore, this is probably a move by Trump to scapegoat his Cabinet Secretaries to get the heat off Musk and himself. ...

I think you may be on to something.

I mean, when has Pres Trump ever taken responsibility for something he has done, when he failed at doing that thing?

Pres Trump always seems to want to push the blame to others for his failings.

More from the article ...

... The vessel had left the Russian port of Ust-Luga, heading towards Egypt. On Christmas Day, around the time of the power outage, it crossed the Estlink 2 power cable, according to Finland's electricity system operator, Fingrid. About 90 minutes after the crossing, it made a suspicious change of course, before continuing on its initial route.

It then carried on across four undersea fibreoptic cables, three of which registered failures around the time the ship crossed them. The ship was suspected by Finnish authorities of having dragged its anchor to damage the cables and was escorted into custody. ...

@#13,14 ... He shook his cane in a threatening manner. It's called asault. ...

Now do the January 6 assault upon the police officers protecting Congress ...

Yer up ...

DOGE's slaughter of the IRS looks to me to have one, and only one purpose ...

Cripple the IRS's ability to audit (and possibly, collect money from) high-income tax cheats.

@#13,14

Can you say, "grasping at straws?"

I knew you could.

@#14 ... He shook his cane in a threatening manner. It's called asault.

If that were actually the case, doncha think he'd be arraigned by now by the Law an Order GOP?

@#5 ... How is Ralph "unsafe at any speed" Nader still using up my oxygen ...

Your oxygen?

Really, get a grip.

It is our oxygen.

And like the many other things we share on this blue marble, it is available to all.

Your oxygen???

That is so funny, but in a respect indicative of how Republicans view the planet we inhabit.

Possessive, and likely for monetary gain.

@#13 ... False analogy. ...

Easy to say, tougher to substantiate.

What's yer current alias got?

... and nothings been accomplished by this "scapel" method. ...

Quite the contrary.

I'd proffer that millions of successful surgeries have been accomplished by the scapel methid.

... How is Ukraine different than either of those? ...

Are they really different?

The US supported the fight of an invasion and assault by an outside entity.

So, I have to ask, why does Pres Trump seem to be supporting Pres Putin's unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country?

More from the OpEd ...

... This comes just weeks after security analysts sounded the alarm on Sandworm stealing credentials and data from American organizations. Sandworm is the operations wing of Russia's Military Intelligence Unit 74455, part of the GRU, that has been blamed for waging cyberwarfare against America's critical infrastructure.

We highly doubt that particular crew or any other Kremlin goons are going to stop their phishing and espionage campaigns against the States nor other digital intrusions into US networks, not to mention the ransomware crews bleeding hospitals and other victims dry.

The reported retreat by the Pentagon marks a major about-face in American operations against Russia, as America's military has not only conducted these in the past against President Putin's regime, but then even spoken publicly about them and how they were used to support Ukraine in its response to Russia's devastating invasion.

"We've conducted a series of operations across the full spectrum; offensive, defensive, [and] information operations," former US Cyber Command chief General Paul Nakasone said in 2022. ...

@#9 ... he obstructed a government proceeding. ...

Did he?

I saw him being peacefully escorted out of the Chamber. He did not assault law enforcement officers.

What did your alias see?

Of course, Pres Trump's (and apparent co-Pres Musk's) solution solution seems to be to lay off the people who offer such research results.

More from the article ...

... Losing a baby late in pregnancy is more common in the South than in other regions of the United States, according to a new report given exclusively to NBC News.

The difference is dramatic: Compared with other parts of the country, the odds of having a high rate of late-stage pregnancy loss are nearly three times greater in Southern states.

The lack of Medicaid expansion in the South, along with the region's large rural population and relatively low levels of adequate prenatal care, contributes to the high rates of fetal loss in the second half of pregnancy, according to the report by United States of Care, a nonpartisan health care advocacy organization. ...

@#10 ... War is dumb. ...

From back in my days of protesting the Vietnam War, yeah, I will agree that war is dumb.

But the alternative?

In the current instance, allowing an aggressive nation to invade and eliminate a sovereign nation?

Is that good?

... and cannot pass a full audit of all branches. ...

I have never said that our Federal government should not be audited for waste.

But, along those lines, let me ask you ...

If you have to go in for surgery, do you want the surgeon to use a scalpel to operate on you, or would you want the surgeon to use a butcher's cleaver to operate on you?

I feel the same way about Mr Musk's cleaver upon our Federal government.

@#29 ... Ukraine was invaded about 10 months before Trump announced a second run. ...

So, what's yer point?

My concern is ... what, or who, are under the debris field that is falling from the sky?

@#3 ... He's afraid of lawsuits by the dear fuhrer err leader. Typical cowardous. Not surprised however. ...

My guess would be that Gov Newsom is kissing the ring of Pres Trump to get Federal help for the Americans affected by the wildfire catastrophes that have occurred in California.

If you want something from Pres Trump, you have to kiss his ring.

(and, in case you do not see the apparent equivalence I place upon "kissing his ring" and "sucking up to his most ample derriere," well what can I say?)

@#13 ... And which answer, yes or no, scares you most? ...

Can I state that when I asked the question, I had different views based upon the answer?

For example...

If "yes" - then why is Pres Trump intentionally trying to trash the economy?

If "no" - then is Pres Trump really as clueless as he seems to act?

I understand that this is not a direct answer to the question you poise, but, it is reflective of my current thoughts.

If you want a direct and succinct answer, though, I'd say, "both."

Full, more than 60 character headline ...

SpaceX rocket explodes, raining debris from sky for second time in a row

Tis ain't A Good Thing.

Second time in a row ...

Hmmmm ...

So, new problems not learned and solved from the first explosion?