McParadigm wrote:1. “If you can’t trust Pam Bondi as an acceptable source of information, then who?“ is an obscene form of credulity. Thirteen days ago she was using the position of Attorney General of the United States of America to claim Abrego Garcia was “one of the top MS-13 members.”
2. Bi is right. The fact of the case seem to be the facts of the case. I think everyone here can sympathize with skepticism about initial reports, just as nobody here is functionally stupid enough to take Pam Bondi at her word. But you have information enough.
3 Ya’ll need to remember that we define ourselves as much by what we choose to respond to as by how we respond to it.
Right now, they are doing everything in their power to prevent due process for the people they are disappearing. They are publicly insisting that whenever due process becomes inconvenient, the government should have the right to deny it. And they are shrugging their shoulders whenever they find out they got it wrong, and ruined a life for nothing.
Docks are empty, shortages are coming, a non-governmental agency run by the president’s billionaire friend is building a database using private citizen data, and the administration hopes to fund new detainment camp construction to the tune of half the entire federal prison budget.
And last night, a historically unpopular president signed an executive order setting ambitions conducive to the establishment of a police state.
Summer is coming. It will be hot. People will still be angry. Many are going to feel desperate. But everyone will be very reactive.
Nobody knows what tomorrow looks like, but surely we all can see that it is going to be messy. Messier, by far, than today.
Please, if only as a favor to me, remind yourself from time to time that being more interested in the stories about a messy or misplaced response to an injustice than you are in the injustice itself is how you become the injustice’s useful tool.
Being more concerned with a protestor’s bad behavior than in the shots that were fired after is how you become the enemy of everything your children once stood to inherit.
The US army in 1942 was not compromised of only good men. Neither was the Union army. There weren’t even 12 pure disciples.
What do you mean he's failing?? He's literally saved the lives of 258 MILLION Americans in his first 100 days! If they hadn't voted him in 70% of the US population would be DEAD!
You guys really should bow down and kiss this man's arse (like all the other countries in the world are apparently doing for trade deals). You owe him your life.
Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to to bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known MS-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy. You’re not the Rebellion—you’re the Empire.
May the 4th be with you.
"I really enjoy sandwiches but the other guys are so good at making sandwiches that I don't make them. Now I make sandwiches."
Happy May the 4th to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting so hard to to bring Sith Lords, Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, & well known MS-13 Gang Members, back into our Galaxy. You’re not the Rebellion—you’re the Empire.
May the 4th be with you.
Still better than The Acolyte
"The fatal flaw of all revolutionaries is that they know how to tear things down but don't have a f**king clue about how to build anything."