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Comment Re:If he is found guilty (Score 1) 174

I think what you say is not as strong as you think it is.

Perhaps you missed this bit in my comment:

... to the extent specified in the Constitution, as interpreted by SCOTUS, ...

An example is that naturalized citizens can have their U.S. citizenship revoked, if, for example, it's proven they lied on their application, while that of a natural-born citizen cannot.

Comment Re:Wrong headline (Score 1) 60

Pretty much, yes. Although very simple systems, designed carefully, can achieve security that cannot practically be broken IMO. But let's not get into that. The point is that if you have good, state-of-the-art security on your systems, designed and operated with actual understanding, you very likely will not get attacked or not get attacked that way.

Comment Re:If he is found guilty (Score 1) 174

If the reality is that ICE can shoot you at pretty much any time, without any real penalty, then you have no 'rights'. Rights are not something someone gives you, they're something that no one can take away.

Anything can be taken away if there's no one protecting them. The job of ultimately protecting U.S. citizens generally falls to the Courts and the Dept. of Justice (DOJ), whose Mission is:

The mission of the Department of Justice is to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights.

The only reason ICE is getting away with what they're doing is because the Trump administration is encouraging them and Trump's DOJ isn't prosecuting them, and other entities (state/local LEO and private citizens) and the courts are hamstrung by a lack of cooperation, to say the least, from this DOJ. I imagine that will change if/when a Democrat is elected and perhaps even if a Republican is elected. I also imagine that under a Democrat administration there may be investigations and prosecutions of current ICE personnel, assuming Trump doesn't give out another blanket pardon to everyone in ICE and his administration.

The only hitch may be getting rid of all the hastily hired, ill-trained ICE personnel. Simply firing them would probably mean severance and unemployment payments. Personally, I'd just reassign them all to "guard the border" at the tip of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, until they quit... :-)

Comment Re: Chinese robots (Score 0) 102

Biden right now, today as we speak, is more cognitively coherent than Trump.

Here's the challenge: Submit a video clip of Donald Trump discussing a topic, policy or issue and demonstrating a cohesive understanding of it, where he shows he's done the reading, absorbed the information and speak about it in an intelligent manner.

Anything at all, please submit. Should be easy right, he's the President.

Comment Re:They'll get what they're asking (Score 1) 102

Once again, next time just say "I don't understand how global markets or the global petroleum industry works" because this response just confirms you don't understand.

But hey, continue to slurp up whatever you are told from your X feed.

And don't you dare start actually learning something sir, you have a reputation to uphold!

Comment Re:Trump supports grifting? (Score 1) 51

Partial credit, that's a small part of it but that is also connected to the actual answers.

The biggest reason is the majority of those deportations were done at the border itself, it was CBP catching illegals around the border and sending them back, every one of those is counted the same as deporting someone from a town or city.

But yes, the fact Obama didn't make a fascist spectacle out of the day-to-day operations of immigration enforcement is also a piece of, along with the fact that that the admin at the time still held to some degree of human rights, for example they were allowed to make phone calls.

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