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David Dennison

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  1. Just now, Iconoclast Texan said:

    Sink, sink, sink the mullah navy. I have been humming that tune for several days now. I can’t wait for the US Navy to obliterate the IRGC’s speedboat operation. I have never been this excited about change in Iran happening as I am now. I hope to see lots of blown up boats and dead Islamic true believers floating in the Persian Gulf.

    You're going to be disappointed. Donald Trump is a pussy.

  2. 1 minute ago, zork said:

    Since 2000, according to this graph from an org who tracks these things, ~50% of the amnesty cases are rejected.  Why let those people in who are not deemed worthy of amnesty?  Why keep the people, reportedly 20-30%, with their non-relative children?

    They are free to wait on the Mexican side of the border if they so choose but instead are choosing to be given free room, board and government medical care in the detention facilities while their claims are vetted and processed. 

    BTW, Britain, Germany, etc, hold people in detention while they are being processed for asylum.  It is pretty common.  

     

     

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    Separated from their children.

    You left that part out.

  3. Just now, Calihorn said:

    Again, that doesn’t make it a good policy decision.

    No one argued that it was. But you have to process folks before they get in front of a judge. Families that are taken into custody have to go somewhere while that process is taking place. The policy should be to make that detention as brief as possible. 

  4. 1 minute ago, Calihorn said:

    Yes, that makes up the difference and makes detaining entire families together a good policy instead of the abhorrent, soulless, shitty policy it is.

    They were detained and released. It is nothing like what is going on now.

  5. 20 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    Broke: Being associated with Obama isn't enough to make Joe Biden attractive
    Woke: Being associated with Obama is bad for Joe Biden's image

    Read the thread. Obama started locking families up for crossing the border and Trump merely carried it forward.

     

    They detained families together. They did not separate families as a matter of policy.

    That is important.

  6. 30 minutes ago, JimmyHoffa said:

    The more things change the more they remain the same-

    https://www.npr.org/2019/01/09/683623555/president-obama-also-faced-a-crisis-at-the-southern-border

     

    Trump is having the same problem that Obama had and he clearly isn't learning from the mistakes that Obama made and learned from but the problem remains. 

    What annoys the ever loving shit out of me is the double standard everyone seems to take based on what side of the aisle they root for. It's a fucking disgrace and is why shit doesn't get done. 

    Call the camps/centers whatever you want but none of that solves that actual problem or offers a legit solution that will make everyone happy. The fact that people are in a pissing match over what they were called and when they were called them tells you all you need to know. It's about my side being better or not as wrong because clearly a political gotcha is better than actually fixing the fucking problem and helping those in need. 

    It's a joke. And pretty par for the course on a lot of issues. 

     

    There was a bipartisan deal in place that provided Dreamers with a path to citizenship and $25 billion in border funding, including the wall.

    The administration rejected it because of pressure from the right.

     

  7. 12 minutes ago, ajax said:

    The guy who filmed the Eric Garner incident has been harassed by cops for years. They set out to make his life a living hell. Too busy to look it up.

    Cops clearly wanted to send out a message - "if you film us committing murder, we will fuck up your life".

    That doesn't sound like something cops would do.

  8. 3 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    The number of able-bodied adults dependent on food stamps remains near a record high. Federal law currently requires able-bodied adults who are between the ages of 18 and 50 and who have no dependents to work, train, or volunteer at least 20 hours per week to remain eligible for food stamps after receiving them for three months. Yet, some gaping holes in the work requirement have allowed for chronic dependency. As a result, six in 10 able-bodied adults on food stamps do not work at all, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

    States also have abused waivers that were intended originally for areas with high unemployment rates—above 10 percent—to exempt large swaths of their states from work requirements. Today, despite a near-record-low unemployment rate and nearly 7 million available jobs across the country, more than one-third of all Americans live in an area where work requirements have been waived, according to Department of Agriculture data. In fact, of the 1,300 areas in which work requirements were waived last year, just 28 had unemployment rates above 10 percent, according to calculations by Sam Adolphsen of the Foundation for Government Accountability.

    https://www.heritage.org/insider/winter-2019-insider/work-what-welfare-missing

    As always DD. Show your work 

    Food stamps are not what you are talking about. You are talking able bodied individuals with no dependents getting a check from the federal government because they are poor.

    That is a figment of your imagination. It doesn't happen.

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  9. 2 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Donnie sounding kind of soft in the clip I just saw, suggesting that the intelligence on the attack indicated that it was a mistake by an Iranian commander, giving some cover to the Iranian leadership. 

    Tucker Carlson getting shit done.

  10. 1 hour ago, bad_teammate said:

    The IDF. Saudi Arabia.

    There are two pretty obvious ones. We don't even have to go with covert, "regime-change" focused groups.

    Everyone painting Iran as an aggressor or bad actor. Everyone who is not vocally and actively speaking out not only against war in Iran but who is non-critical of the obvious effort from the government and mass media to make this war happen.

    It is the exact same centrist shrugging that we saw in the lead-up to Iraq.

    You should have just thrown in the United States military for good measure.

  11. 1 minute ago, hpslugga said:

    I love the hysteria over a fucking drone.

    ”Oh we get to declare war if someone breaks one of our toys!!!”

    This is so embarrassingly prepubescent.

    This is what an empire is reduced to when it runs planet earth.

  12. 3 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    Iran has been quite cautious and has bent over backwards for the Europeans to rectify the mess the US created, yet they are one of "two little dick administrations."  The US is the bad actor here and there is no reason to both sides this situation.

    This would be a much more persuasive argument if Iran stopped supporting Hezbollah.

    Just sayin'.

  13. 45 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    Was Malthus correct?  Kuznets?  Plenty are incorrect.

    Essentially, they are correct.

    Then reality gets in the way, just like it does for all economic concepts.

  14. Just now, Aqua Buddha said:

    The sad irony of Donald Trump is he’s always craved the admiration of the glitterati but on his way out, they’ve shunned him and the only people that love him are those rubes who showed up in Orlando.

    He's the King of White Trash.

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