They're not moving their businesses to some red state

#24 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-01-12 02:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

Google? They're in 50 states. As far as talent, decentralized. Their engineering hubs are Mountain View, NYC, Austin, Kirkland, Pittsburgh, Dublin, Munich, Malaga, Taiwan, Mexico City, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Gurugram, Mumbai...

Pardon the redundancy.

#22 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-12 02:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

My mistake. Urine and vomit. Sometimes, feces. and legal weed now.

In the morning when the trucks are going around, in between passing garbage can stacks waiting for daily pickup, it smells like lemon.

Well that ended badly for Visitor. Duped by foreign deep fakes.

Also, the rich in Cali? and most states? In those private, gated neighborhoods, they pay for the roads in it through HOA fees those are specifically NOT public roads. They pay for the security. Cali rich are famous for having private firefighters. If you gave them the Disney deal where it's Disney As The Government, they'd take it in a heartbeat.

Public infrastructure is for The Poors.

I have never seen a "street cleaner".
So not sure what you're talking about.

#17 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-12 01:10 PM | Reply | Flag:

Home Owners Associations pay for street sweeping services. Mostly the vehicles that do it look a combination of vacuum and dump truck. The suburbs pay for it through annual HOA fees.

The French Quarter in New Orleans, famous for smelling like urine and piss, and other places withs similar needs, pay for liquid washer trucks called often called Scrubbers. They look like the street sweepers, but with giant pressure washing systems added on.

#24 The center of mass was behind an engine block and the fire wall.

#27 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-01-12 11:39 AM | Reply | Flag:

That's the deepfake version a foreign power used bots to circulate, where he's in front of the car. In the real version he's on the side of the car. You see her entire upper body in his bodycam footage.

ICE agents decided to drag people out of their vehicle for yelling at them, and one immediately used lethal force after moving himself to a position where nobody was in immediate danger.

Incompetent, belligerent policing and a highly questionable use of force. What kind of retarded LEO doesn't just dispatch a vehicle to their house and be waiting on them?

I wouldn't scoff at the training. He landed three shots to head while holding a cell phone and being rammed by a car.

#22 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-01-12 11:27 AM | Reply | Flag:

They train for center mass.

A police academy runs at least 16, up to 32 weeks, not including education in their 4 year college degree so many of them have. To make a basic infantry soldier, 24+ weeks.

------- 8 weeks. that's so upsetting.

8 weeks and now you're cleared to have gunfights with, what the govt insists, is an invasion level flood of hyperviolent cartel gangs.

Training?
What training do you believe the morbidly obese losers of ICE receive?

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-01-10 02:09 PM | Reply | Flag:

You didn't see the training videos? If you need a laugh...

The scary reality: 8 weeks. They get 8 weeks to learn to be a professional Federal Law Enforcement Officer. In that time, allegedly, they will become effective officers knowledgable on immigration law fundamentals, arrest and detention procedures, firearms safety and qualification (hit this paper 15 feet away), defensive tactics (like stepping in front of cars), become physically fit (that thing Hegseth keeps screaming at generals for), and get at least a 70% on an exam or two (at least it's not curved).

8 weeks, a light boot camp, and you're now cleared to snatch people off the street and blast away at angry lesbians.

This is what happens when you test humans inhumanly.

#62 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-11 03:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

Is it? Petty doxxing to make people's families feel scared? MMMkkay. Pretty soft.

White people will riot for a black dude getting shot by regular cops after stealing a box of cigars from a corner store, but not for a white lady shot down in the streets by what people are calling Nazi Stormtroopers.

I'm just here for the show and the apoplectic flailing of limbs as the exact sheet show we've been warned about for decades comes to fruition.

#40 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-11 01:53 PM | Reply | Flag:

The whiteness all around is wild. Entitled to harass and shoot citizens driving away. Entitled to get up in the feds face while they're working and threaten their families.

Kick off the white riots already. I need an excuse to set some neighborhood cars on fire that park in places they shouldn't.

Somebody woke up feeling dramatic today.

Does your name happen to be Cynthia Raygoza, Ashleigh Brown, or Sandra Carmona Saman?

The Covid ship sailed. Cops refused to wear masks then, in Philly specifically, and had mass absences as Covid went through their ranks.

But this is really about ICE agents, and they are wearing them to not get doxed.

They'll definitely be doxed and harassed, but that's what the sweet signing bonuses are for.

Do ICE agents wear body cams?
If so, why was the ICE agent in the video (linked in #2) [and, wow, that was an amazing video segment. thx] apparently using his cell phone to record what was happening?

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-08 07:11 PM | Reply

Yes.

Because cell phone video is instant, and his. Also, bad training.

WE REBUKE THEE!

That will show him.

I'm having trouble imagining a legal basis for this

#8 | Posted by et_al at 2026-01-08 12:53 AM | Reply | Flag:

National scale housing acquisition is interstate commerce. Sherman act, Clayton act. Congress could, theoretically, act.

Possible, simplified, constitutionally applicable laws:

"No entity or affiliated group may own more than X single-family residential properties in any metropolitan statistical area."
or
"No corporation, REIT, or investment fund may acquire single-family residential property unless it is sold within 24 months to an owner-occupant."

Putin's ghost fleet. If you don't like Russia's war in Ukraine, you should love this. That's where the money goes.

Here's how it went in Portugal:

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-05 04:36 PM | Reply

That's only half the story. The full story is more enlightening.

They made zero dent in drug imports. Budget realities led to slashing funding 75%. Police stopped citing addicts to get them into treatment. The number of adults who reported prior drug use went from 7.8% to 12.8% in 20 years. Overdose rates are at a 12 year high. Sewage samples for coke & special k are some of the highest in all of Europe. Drug encampments appeared, and when they did, private security forces were created.

Seattle runs a continuous budget shortfall. Currently $250 million. The prior Mayor addressed the shortfall by hiring freezes and cutting services.

It's an idea that works, if you can pay for it. Seattle can't pay for it.

Regarding OPEC, Venezuela currently produces about 1.1 million barrels per day, only about 1% of global trade.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-04 01:45 AM | Reply | Flag:

That's $63 million a day.

What currently happens is the oil is sold way below market to Russian state owned firms, whom transport it on the shadow fleet which take it to China and India, dodging sanctions and pocketing the income to fund the war in Ukraine and keep Putin and involved oligarchs paid.

When you expand that list globally, it's weirdly impressive how powerful and busy we are.

Yeah, we can only take so much!

Mexico 1914 & 1916
Nicaragua 1912-1933
Haiti 1915-1934
Dominican Republic 1916-1924
Guatemala 1954
Cuba 1961
Dominican Republican 1965
Bolivia 1971
Chile 1973
Uruguay 1973
Argentina 1976
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Grenada 1983
Panama 1989
Venezuela 2002
Haiti 2004
Honduras 2009
Bolivia 2019
Venezula 2025

Some American oil companies and/or billionaires connected to Trump will get richer from this somehow. That's it.

#78 | Posted by JOE at 2026-01-04 11:09 AM | Reply |

Who was getting rich on Venezuelan oil before?

That was rhetorical. It's Putin.

I could be wrong about the order but the last dictator we overthrew for oil was --------- to death with a knife.

#58 power dynamics.

The real struggle is naming a S or C american govt we haven't couped in the last 50 years.

Shockingly honest moment for foreign policy. We are in it for the oil. No lies about it for once.