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Comment Re:The fusion delusion strikes again (Score 1) 41

So to sum up, I think we should send you. You are dim-witted enough not to understand the implications so you won't experience any angst over the trip or the radiation or the lack of functioning bodily organs. But you'll at least be wanting in a little buddy. I suggest Elmo, he too is dim-witted and is wildly enthusiastic enough to go. And he has the money to make it happen. Go submit your application to him for the trip. Better take a lot of ketamine with you (hint: that's what you will need, not him).

Can we throw silvergun in there? :)

Comment Re: Fuck this administration (Score 1) 393

Because the general public doesn't fully appreciate that when 6% of Republicans have no driver's license, 9% of Democrats, and 18% of independents, that represents the potential for massively skewing future elections towards Republicans through illegal disenfranchisement. (source).

CDCE is a activist group and I for one think their stats are bogus. How are all these people cashing checks? Can't open a bank account. Can't get any government services. Can't buy alcohol, cigarettes, or even Sudafed. I could go on and on. It is next to impossible to survive in this country as an adult without a state issued ID.

Comment Re: The large wheel turns slowly (Score 1) 179

And according to studies, hybrids are only 19% more efficient than ICEs in reality.. probably less in cold weather. So it's hard to see the point.

I'll take that 19%. My wife commutes 70 miles round trip daily for work so we would notice that. And there are enough hills and stops to make use of the regenerative braking too. Last go around, during covid, there just wasn't anything available in the pure EV land. But she'll be coming due in another 2-3 years so we'll be keeping out eye out for both.

Comment Re:Pretending not to understand (Score 1) 54

sure, take them. They're literal human garbage.
They're not as bad as the republicans though and thats pretty much the only reason we vote for them.

I know you wanna make a nice "both sides" shitpost but I'm not gonna let you equate the two for to confuse our drooling audience.

No I actually don't. I want them all gone, no exceptions, staffers too. A clean house.

Comment Re: No Shit! (Score 1) 339

Not My opinion, It's the Judges opinion, the only opinion that counts here.

Until they are restrained from doing it nationwide that simply isn't true.

Funny you trust ICE's word over the courts.

Here you go again. I never said anything like that, nor do I approve of this. I am merely discussing a fear of why they may be right.

A bounty hunters authority to apprehend is often granted by the contract between the bondsman and the defendant. -pointless example, do more reading, you agreed to the apprehension methods when you took the money from the bail bondsman.

It isn't pointless when they do the exact same thing applying for a visa. Ask Seamus Culleton, the tourist visa program requires you to give up your rights to appeal detention and deportation. You waive a lot of rights to come here. And bounty hunters used to be able to go into anyone's home if they had reason to believe the fugitive was in there. It's really only in the last few decades that most states restricted that after multiple abuses, some resulting in death.

Pinkerton agents used to do the same, as did the Texas Rangers. Yeah, it's stopped now, but what was their legal justification to do it in the first place?

You seem to really want to strip my rights away, you have lots of justifications for why we need to have less rights.

And again, you are really on a roll today.

No thanks, boot licker.

Is that like your go to word for when you have nothing intelligent to say? I've kind of noticed that people who do that are the very first to want to apply the boot to others. Regardless, I'm done with you. I made the mistake of replying to a dog and now I need to check for fleas.

Comment Re:Live by the Executive Order, die by the EO (Score 1) 149

Trouble is, to do this, you have to get it through Congress. Which you can't.

There is the 2/3rds of state legislature route but you'd face the same problem. Very few politicians would vote for something that would restrict their ability to raise campaign funds.

Before any clever ideas can be enacted to improve things, there's a much more fundamental problem to be solved - find a way to bring people together, to stop half the country hating the other half.

Bill Maher has been discussing this. He's willing to at least sit down and talk to anyone. But after he interviewed Kid Rock and had dinner with Trump for many he is now persona non grata. Why? Bill is a what I would call a old school liberal. From the other side is Charlie Kirk. Just mentioning his name will make people's head explode. I didn't know much about him until after he was killed but it appears that's all he did as well. Talk.

There is no "quick" solution to this that doesn't involve a lot of pain. From the left I see calls for "reeducation camps" which just feeds into the right's call for civil war. This is not going to end well if our leaders keep stoking the flames, and that is happening on both sides.

Comment Re:West Virginia (Score 1) 51

I think we can all agree that ensuring all graduates can in fact read well, posses some number sense in the form of statistics, be able to do common algebra, and perhaps basic differential calculus, and know some things about the natural sciences.

I've never seen blue collar need to do calculus or statistics. Some basic algebra, geometry, and trig on the other hand... I just used all three designing my front porch.

However, I still think secondary ed should be attempting to graduate students more than pure liberal arts backgrounds, they should send people out the door with some immediately employable skills, right?

Whatever happened to shop class? We had woodworking one semester and metal another. That's were I learned to weld. And auto repair although I didn't get to take that one. Didn't need too lol

Comment Re:Needs a new name (Score 1) 149

The gas is expensive because the refiners keep shutting down refineries for "reasons" (the reason is that they want the price to increase in California so they can blame blends and otherwise lie to sheep like you).

The reason is that the refiners have run a risk analysis and they do not believe it is profitable to continue operations there. Old plants with high maintenance, lots of regulation, custom fuel blend just for that state, and a heavy push to get rid of ICE entirely. It ain't worth it.

I have no problem with this because that is what the people via their representatives have voted for.

Comment Re:Live by the Executive Order, die by the EO (Score 1) 149

By removing money from politics

I agree in context of Citizens United, that was catastrophically bad decision. However, how would you remove money from politics entirely? Money and political donations are not entirely the same thing.

How about if you can't vote for them then you can't contribute to their campaign in any way. No more PACS, no more out of state funding, just individuals for their own representatives. It would take an Amendment which means it ain't gonna happen.

Comment Re:Pretending not to understand (Score 1) 54

Yeah we hate both those pieces of shit too but we gotta deal with the pipe-spanning corn-loaf ruining the entire country at record pace.

Tell you what, you put the entire corrupt republican party in a cell block where they belong and i'll gift wrap the clintons for you.

Do the same for the democrats and we'll have a nation wide street party. Because they are all corrupt.

Comment Re:It's more complex than that (Score 1) 71

I don't cheat, but I also don't like my wife conveniently tracking when I leave and when I arrive....having the times on a spreadsheet....she's from a red state and constantly hearing about her relatives cheating with other members in their church...because that's what people do in FL...so when I am gone abnormally long, she gets nervous.

One of two things is going on. She's been cheated on before, or you are doing (or not doing) something that is causing her to worry about it. Quite possibly both. I've been married for over 30 years. My wife and I have location sharing turned on. The primary purpose of this is if "something happens" the other knows were to start looking. There have been several instances over the years of people driving off the road and wind up trapped, missing for days. If one of us feels to the need to check on the other, like if we are running late, we don't care. Saves having to call and ask.

FYI, from the way you worded your post, I'd be suspicious of you too. I don't give two hoots if my wife tracks me. We have 9 outdoor cams w/ 2-way audio here and mess with each other even at our ripe old age.

Comment Re: No Shit! (Score 1) 339

The Supreme Court has ruled clearly that someone being here illegally does not itself give probable cause that they cross the border illegally (the actual crime)

Irrelevant to civil detainer, all that matters is if you are legally allowed to be in the country. If your visa is expired, if you violated the terms of it, if you don't have one (illegal entry), etc al etc, they know, and that's the probable cause to arrest you.

And now I'll ask you to provide the name of the case that says what you stated because I dug and could not find it. 8 USC 1325 says if you came in through a port of entry it's a civil matter, otherwise it's criminal. They know if you came in legally, it's all logged, and you will have paperwork of it. But ICE rarely does criminal arrests for illegal entry as it would require prosecution and they just want you gone.

Being here illegally, and then being ordered to leave or be deported, is a civil action, there can be no probable cause to break into a house for that. That is why administrative warrants exist, and special immigration judges that are outside of the judicial system.

Administrative warrants are mainly signed by ICE officers since the IIRIRA, which is why I have a serious problem with this.

First you should note that I am not asserting this, ICE is, or DHS, whichever. But I can understand why. Congress removed judicial review of most deportation events via the Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 and the Supreme Court has upheld that as recently as Jan 2025. So not only do these "administrative warrants" appear to satisfy the requirement of the 4th Amendment, the district courts may not have the power to intervene. Hopefully someone has filed suit on this regarding home entry but if so I've not heard anything about it.

Agreed. However, it is the purview of the Congress to tie the hands of the Executive- i.e., dictate how laws are executed (or enforced).

Congress needs the application of a #2 clue bat.

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