"Donald Trump will end democracy." Over and over. And within two months 2 assassination attempts.

Honest question: Based on what's been publicized about the 2 shooters, do you actually think the Democrats, Liz and Dick Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Judge Michael Luttig, Cassidy Hutchinson, Stephanie Grisham, along with the hundreds of former GOP government and security officials any or all influenced them to do what they did?

Every person has called Trump a threat to democracy, every, single, one.

And none of them followed with any allusions to violence of any kind. All simply implored voters to vote, period.

Neither man was driven by words of politicians, they were both driven by the voices inside their own heads.

They've addressed the root causes to stop people from reaching our borders and it's working. Fewer and fewer are showing up each month.

And YES, Mexico, Panama and other countries immigrants travel through to reach America have upped their own border enforcements, turning migrants back to whence they came. I understand why our southern border crossings have slowed to lows not seen for 8-9 years. The asylum policy change has helped too. But hemispheric cooperation is likely the strongest repellant.

The reasons why other countries are helping us stem the flow is because of what's contained in the link. None of this is happening by chance, it's all part of a multi-pronged effort. And none of these factors required spending more money on static barriers across our Southern border that people either climb, cut through, or tunnel under - never completely stopping the illicit flow.

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That's well and good, but what's it got to do with the Haitians in Springfield?

You refuse to educate yourself on things you're ignorant of. There are no open borders, there never has been. The asylum rules have been changed. No one is denying our system is broken, yet you deny the best bipartisan solution in history was rejected by Trump to get idiots like you frothing out of that ignorance.

Trump doesn't want to solve the problem, he only wants to demagogue it, like he did in 2016. He had 4 years, and what did he improve in the overall system? Nada.

A George W Bush talking point?

A Funk and Wagnalls FACT!

Simple question Bell. Why do you want to hate the Haitians in Springfield? What did they do wrong that you want them deported for?

They're not perfect people, but neither are the rest of Springfield's residents. How is it the immigrants fault that the local infrastructure isn't equipped to handle the strain? It isn't the Haitians fault. They were told to go there if I understand the program. Should they have been located somewhere else? Should the immigration program they're here under be stopped, if so why?

We need immigrant workers to replace boomers. What have the Haitians done that enrages you Trump and Vance so?

The Haitians are building their own American Dream just like your forebearers when they first got here. They're not asking for favors, nor a free ride.

It's so freaking maddening that you ignorant fat-asterisks who've seldom done a day of hard work always think that immigrants only come here to get on the dole! It's so elitist, it reeks of privilege. Most immigrants are here to do just what the Haitians are here for: To live a better life in the land of opportunity and to contribute to the betterment of their adopted community.

Springfield's employers all say the Haitians are their hardest workers and they wish that they had more. Doesn't say too much about Springfield's non-Haitians, does it? And that's the reason government services - including health services - are strained in Springfield is because so many of its residents are also on the dole, now faced with sharing them with the Haitians until they make enough or get jobs with health insurance provided.

Basically, Springfield's neer-do-well class is torqued about having to wait in line when they were in front before the Haitians came.

Car accidents are up, an uptick in disease, schools overloaded, etc. and the left will not acknowledge the problems this has created.

The shift to focusing on the Harris-Walz campaign reflects a strategic move by Russian actors aimed at exploiting any perceived vulnerabilities in the new candidates.

*Storm-1516, identified by news reports as a Kremlin-aligned troll farm, produced and disseminated two inauthentic videos, each generating millions of views. One video depicted an attack by alleged Harris supporters on a supposed Trump rally attendee, while another used an on-screen actor to fabricate false claims about Harris's involvement in a hit-and-run accident. This second video was laundered through a website masquerading as a local San Francisco media outlet - which was only created days beforehand.

*Storm-1679, a newer group reportedly aligned with the Kremlin, pivoted its focus from producing content about the 2024 Paris Olympic Games to publishing false videos discrediting Vice President Harris. One of the videos, which was shared on X shortly after it was published to Telegram, depicted a fake New York City billboard advancing false claims about Harris' policies. The X post received more than 100,000 views in the four hours after it was published on Telegram.

As we inch closer to the election, we should expect Russian actors to continue to use cyber proxies and hacktivist groups to amplify their messages through media websites and social channels geared to spread divisive political content, staged videos, and AI-enhanced propaganda.

It's Tony, his implication is some of them came from within the US. But he assumes it has to be a RW person.

I said nothing about who I think made the threats. The fact that they were made tells rational people something about them, the main thing being whoever did call in threats exercised stochastic terrorism. It could be anyone, but what partisans try to terrorize people into taking the action that they want? Who makes their case by intentionally demonizing innocent people? The Haitian community broke no law in being here. The followed the law. They don't deserve to be victimized for presidential politics, nor does the city of Springfield.

And tell us which "side" is currently doing that?

You're bleeding out over "all" vs "vast majority"?

It's about the fact that SOME of the bomb threats came from inside this nation, and there wouldn't have been any threats at all if not for Trump and Vance throwing this city into their campaign.

I could care less that foreign interests piggy-back what Americans already do to ourselves. What do we expect those trying to divide and inflame us to do? That's why it's called counterintelligence.

Use deductive reasoning. The early threats were directed specifically at schools where Haitians predominantly attended. That wasn't something reported in the news before the threats started, so seemingly local knowledge would have been necessary to be so precise. The point of the threats were to put fear in the Haitians. Calling in a bomb threat to a school with few or no Haitians wouldn't achieve that, would it?

Some clarification from DeWine would be nice.

I posted clarification from DeWine's own spokesperson! Damn, what is your malfunction? You do realize that government official's spokespeople speak directly for their boss right? That's the whole point, officials don't have time to talk to the press every single day.

DeWine's spokesperson, Dan Tierney, said Tuesday that "the vast majority" of the bomb threats have come from foreign countries." He said a criminal investigation by multiple law enforcement agencies yielded information on the origin of the threats.

I just created a thread that links to video of Dewine standing at a podium stating these were all hoaxes.

Gotdamn son, are you really this stupid? My post wasn't about all the threats being hoaxes, BECAUSE THEY WERE. No bombs went off, did they?

You said that ALL the threats were foreign-based which they WEREN'T. DeWine never said anything different.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that when specific bomb threats are made and no bombs are found or detonated, of course all of them are hoaxes. 99% of bomb threats are hoaxes.

They were hoaxes. All originating from the same source in a foreign country, according to the governor of Ohio.

Strawlighter, you simply have no conscious do you? No one has stated that "all" the hoax threats were from foreign bots.

When broad violence and assasination takes over a nation you can bet the farm that the perps are vile angry TDS afflicted leftists.

Just like on January 6, 2021, right Robson?

These people are absolute cretins.

Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, said the announcement by federal authorities "is further proof the Iranians are actively interfering in the election to help Kamala Harris and Joe Biden because they know President Trump will restore his tough sanctions and stand against their reign of terror. Kamala and Biden must come clean on whether they used the hacked material given to them by the Iranians to hurt President Trump," Leavitt told USA TODAY. "What did they know and when did they know it?"

At least Trumpers are consistent. They truly think that everyone else is corrupt as they are. The only thing Kamala Harris has used against Donald Trump is the truth about what he's said and his pathetic record of failures throughout his entire life, but more specifically in allowing Covid to sicken and kill millions more Americans than needed to be.

Unsolicited calls and texts are an annoyance for most people. They even make some people less inclined to support a candidate.

Not so much Gen Z. They roll a little differently than easily triggered Gen Xers(?) like you.

The public warning by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence was issued because "the FBI has learned additional details about Iran's efforts to sow discord and shape the outcome of U.S. elections," the agencies said in a joint statement.

"Iranian malicious cyber actors in late June and early July sent unsolicited emails to individuals then associated with President Biden's campaign that contained an excerpt taken from stolen, non-public material from former President Trump's campaign as text in the emails," the agencies said in a statement. "There is currently no information indicating those recipients replied. Furthermore, Iranian malicious cyber actors have continued their efforts since June to send stolen, non-public material associated with former President Trump's campaign to U.S. media organizations."

The Justice Department has been preparing charges in that breach, the Associated Press has reported.

At least the hypothetical from 2016 has now become reality. Instead of praising the release of criminally-gotten campaign information and broadcasting it in the worst possible light to hurt his opponent, Joe Biden - even when markedly behind in polls - engaged the FBI and never made use of what he was given.

What a selfless patriotic thing to do. Diamond Joe for the win.

I wonder if it was his idea or hers? Did she specify?

From what I can find, Snopes and others do agree that the diary was indeed Ashley's because she submitted an affidavit verifying so to the court prosecuting the woman who stole it from her.

This is what she had to say in the court documents about the publication of excerpts.

"Young people have the power to decide this election where abortion rights, climate action and our economic futures are at stake. Since Gen Z organizers know best how to mobilize Gen Z, every contact our team makes is absolutely crucial, especially in battleground states and districts," said Santiago Mayer, the executive director of Voters of Tomorrow, who started the group in 2019 when he was 17.

Voters of Tomorrow is officially nonpartisan, with a focus mainly on voter registration, including in U.S. House swing districts. But in spring, it joined more than a dozen other youth-led groups that endorsed the Biden-Harris ticket.

Its 2024 voter registration efforts are primarily targeted in Georgia, Florida and Wisconsin - presidential battlegrounds where it says young voters are positioned to have the biggest impact in November.

Here's hoping that prophecy translates into a substantial portion of the 41 million Gen Z youth indeed turn out and vote this election. As a fading boomer, it's simply tragic that we're leaving such a screwed up world for our grandchildren to deal with. But as we creep closer to the edge of the stage, these young people seem to be far better informed and engaged than my generation was at their age.

But then again, we didn't grow up having to practice live shooter drills and worry about our schools being turned into killing fields by deranged individuals wielding weapons designed primarily for use in wars to maim and kill.

From Oneiron's own link that was conveniently left out of his diatribe.

The program started in fall 2022. Migrants must apply online, arrive at an airport and have a financial sponsor in the U.S. If approved, they can stay for two years and get a work permit.

Some states said the initiative has benefited them. One Nicaraguan migrant admitted into the country through that process filled a position at a farm in Washington state that was struggling to find workers.

Tipton questioned how Texas could be claiming financial losses if data showed that the parole program actually reduced the number of migrants coming into the U.S.

they are flying them in, upto 30,000 a month through the parole program.

You do realize that the US needs immigrant workers in the worst way, especially in agriculture, don't you?

And these are vetted asylum seekers who did what we asked, and that was to register in their own countries and not show up on our borders.

And 30,000 is far less than the numbers showing up monthly during the peak months over recent years.

FFS, the US implements a plan for orderly immigration and you xenophobes continue to complain. Just wait until you need some service and there is no one there to provide it to you because the job is unfilled due to lack of workers.

Harris had nothing to do with Panama closing it's borders.

#203

He wasn't allowed to own guns due to prior criminal acts, so that's why his charges are all gun related at present.

I don't see how he can be charged with attempted murder/assassination unless he confessed to it during interviews.

#5

These layered efforts to mitigate, manage, and order migration have, in recent months, led to fewer encounters between ports of entry at the U.S.-Mexico border than there were in 2019 during the comparable time period.

From 2014 to 2020, increases in irregular migration to the United States were driven primarily by displacement from the Northern Triangle countries; migration was again on the rise in early 2021 as countries came out of peak pandemic shutdowns. As a result, the Biden-Harris administration focused its initial efforts there. Saddled with deeply unreliable partner governments in all three countries, Vice President Harris chose to emphasize cooperation with civil society and the private sector through the creation of the Partnership for Central America (PCA).

Under the LA declaration, the Biden-Harris administration has secured unprecedented cooperation to curb irregular migration. Today, for example, Mexico is doing more to stem irregular migration to the United States than it has ever done before. The administration also created alternatives to irregular migration so that individuals fleeing Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela - the primary sources of instability in the hemisphere - could come to the United States in a sponsored, orderly fashion and be able to legally work shortly after arrival so as to contribute to U.S. prosperity and enhance stability in their home countries without delay.

Critically, the LA declaration built on successful migrant integration efforts in Latin America and spurred multiple countries to create new temporary legal status programs for migrants in order to stabilize these populations and to provide an alternative to migrating further. In May 2024, countries such as Ecuador, Colombia, and Costa Rica at the third ministerial meeting on the LA declaration announced regularization programs for various irregular migrant populations - building on the nearly 2 million Venezuelans who had already been provided status in Colombia alone. Today, more than 80 percent of those displaced in Latin America and the Caribbean have found a home in the region and have not proceeded to the U.S.-Mexico border.

What she was charged with doing has been an unquestioned success as the number of migrants showing up at our Southern border has slowed to numbers not seen since early in the Trump Administration, long before Covid accelerated migration. Here's the receipts and the direct evidence that the US has never had open borders and certainly doesn't have them now. There are no hoards of people trying to enter America at this moment, whether they be asylum seekers or simply people wanting to enter outside the system.

In fact, we're seeing the greatest multi-nation coordinated efforts to address migration comprehensively, even though the Republicans in Congress refuse to join the party in lieu of allowing Trump to demagogue that everyone thinks they know about illegal immigration that has already been successfully addressed due to the LA declarations.