$294 B to Mexico in 2022

I am sure that Mexico won't even consider a retaliatory tariff.

I wonder how that will impact our economy?

Well apparently, we exported $28 Billion in vehicles to Canada in 2023 alone

Over $57B in machinery in 2023

Apparently over $422 Billion in 2022.

I am sure that Canada won't even consider a retaliatory tarriff.

I wonder how that will impact our economy?

Do American companies sell anything in Mexico Canada and china?

Well, I guess Somalia is one government we can strive for.

What do these people do that they will be firing?

These are the people that review and issue permits.

These are the people that review and approve grant applications.

These are the people that develop the regulations that implement the laws that congress passes.

These are the people that audit to assure that money spent by the government is spent correctly and legally.

These are the people that do the research that guides policy and regulatory efforts.

These are the people that enforce regulations.

These are the people that make sure your SS checks are mailed.

These are the people that make sure you get your Medicaid and Medicare.

Etc.

It is childish (I mean infantile) to think that a government can exist or function without a healthy bureaucracy. What is the alternative? For Congress to review and approve permits?

This is reality. Not whatever fever dream people have that the administrative state is some nefarious ungoverned group out to get conservatives.

excellent.....

dr that mutilates children should be thrown in jail.....for a long.....LONG....time.

#6 | Posted by shrimptacodan

I am reminding you that YOU wrote the above.

I have pointed out that Doctors perform body enhancement surgeries on children all the time. In fact, the SAME exact body enhancement operations for non-gender affirming care as they do for gender affirming care.

Are you saying that the doctors that perform breast reduction or breast enhancement surgery on teen girls should go to jail for a long long time?

My bet is you won't answer.

What about breast reduction surgery? Done all the time

#15 | Posted by truthhurts

consenting adult...

#19 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Wrong.

Children get breast reduction surgery ALL THE TIME

Some for back pain issues, some for esthetics, some for body image, some for irregular breast size, some for posture, some for the fit of clothes.

Some girls get breast enhancement surgery due to body image issues.

Why is a girl allowed to get breast reduction or breast enhancement surgery for esthetic purposes and not for gender identity?

What business it of yours?

dr that mutilates children should be thrown in jail.....for a long.....LONG....time.
#6 | POSTED BY SHRIMPdick

What about breast reduction surgery? Done all the time

RUSSELL VOUGHT: We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. We want " when they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are so " they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down, so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry, because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.

AMY GOODMAN: Now, explain what the OMB does, the Office of Management and Budget, why it's such a powerful position.

MOLLY REDDEN: It's such a powerful position because, first of all, it oversees all of the regulations that the administration puts out. So, Congress can write a check for " you heard him in those videos talk about defunding the EPA and making sure regulators don't have what they need. So, even if Congress appropriates money for clean water regulation, you know, scrubbing pollution from the atmosphere, Vought can " Vought and his agency can oversee how rules get technically written so that that money can dry up.

This is what you voted for an unchecked executive branch terrorizing government employees

"I'll say this: President Trump has made it clear, we're going to prioritize public safety threats and national security threats right out of the gate [because] they pose the most danger to this country. What governor or mayor doesn't want public safety threats and national security threats out of their neighborhoods, out of their communities?" Homan said Sunday.

"That's their number one responsibility. So you can hate Trump all you want, but you gotta love your community more than you hate President Trump," he added.

And this is the tell at what their game is.

They are posing a nonsensical choice. Protest the removal of the worst of the worst and you are anti-American. That will justify their use of force against those protestors which will justify further and harsher deportation

When the reality of the situation is that there are no public safety threats or national security threats that are being ignored. That is an out and out lie.

The reality is that this incoming administration can either respect the rights of people OR they can do mass deportation, they CANNOT do both.

And to be clear the rights of the people extend FAR broader than the nasssty criminals and nassssty national security threats.

FTA

Trump transition team spokesperson Karoline Leavitt has also said the president-elect "will marshal every federal and state power necessary to institute the largest deportation operation of illegal criminals, drug dealers, and human traffickers in American history while simultaneously lowering costs for families."

Like, ummm, what?

Here is some advice, when someone speaks to you like this, they are lying-full stop.

As an aside, what this statement actually says is that they will deport criminals, drug dealers and human traffickers while making crime, drugs and human trafficking cost less for American families.

a very, very powerful weapon that the Democrats, when they're in power, use against Republican administrations, state and local, all the time

Did he provide any examples of that?

#3 | Posted by REDIAL

Of course not, because he lives in the fever dream swamps of right wing grievance politics.

All good questions. We will need a huge federal bureaucracy to write all the procedures and implement the policy. So, instead of DOGE the first order of business for the Trump administration will be to expand the federal footstep.

#2 | Posted by mattm a

They already exist. Well within the existing framework. There is a whole process to detain, process, try and deport or grant asylum to undocumented immigrants. The problem exists because there is a massive backlog to processing the cases, because the border bill was scuttled.

The current framework may change dramatically if some of what has been promised occurs including ignoring legal immigrants (asylum seekers, those with temporary protected status) as those will necessarily be extra legal or if they just grab people and fly them to another country-a blatant disregard for their basic rights.

Then there is the threat of this article. The proposed head of this deportation is threatening to keep funding appropriated by Congress from the states. If that is not a usurpation of Congress' power I don't know what is.

BTW that is yet another of the president elect's plans-Impoundment-LOOK IT UP>

Then there is this:

Fourteenth Amendment
Section 1

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

This is birthright citizenship. The president elect has in the past and has promised in the future to attempt to remove this right. And to be perfectly clear this includes children and adults who have known no other home and may have lived here for decades.

He has used the justification that the immigrants are an invading force (thus his violent rhetoric describing immigrants-despite the fact that the VAST number of immigrants are not criminals whatsoever-with the exception of possible criminality of entering illegally-asylum being an obvious exception to criminality).

Thus, it is very likely he will attempt to deny US citizens of their birthright citizenship as they are an 'invading force'.

So, we could have the end goal of removing 10s of millions of people (those are the President Elects figures) subject to deportation including people here legally or with birthright citizenship being stripped from them.

Is this what you voted for?

Can you explain how something of this magnitude could be accomplished without massive human misery? In 2017 the former president separated around 5,000 children from their parents and the outrage was enormous. We are talking several magnitudes worse in the number of people. We are talking 10s of thousands of images like the jackbooted thugs pointing a gun at Elian Gonzalez (a child) cowering in a closet.

Do you not believe it will happen? Do you not believe the misery will occur? Do you want the misery?

So, we have a number of people who have committed crimes who are either already detained (generally speaking those that have committed violent crimes) or are released with limits (generally for non-violent crimes).

It is presumable that the new deportation plan will prioritize these people.

So, I ask, how will this be accomplished? How does one square the stated goals with a system wholly inadequate to provide for the administration of this process while also respecting the rights of the people. I'd imagine that even at least some of the hardline immigration opponents would think that people are entitled to due process prior to deportation, that way people being deported meet the stated parameters for deportation.

I would also be curious to know what specific criteria will be used to determine who will be deported. I have heard various things. I have heard the President and VP-Elect state that in their opinion even some legal immigrants (like the Haitians in Springfield OH) are here illegally. I have heard they will deport people regardless of their status including US citizens. I have heard plans to ignore their rights.

Who is here legally and who is not? Who will make the determination? What rights' protections will be afforded each individual?