The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
PR has a territorial income tax that makes up for it. And the territorial government is corrupt and incompetent so you can be sure very few of your tax dollars go for anything you'd want them to go to.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
I'm not talking about mere warning, I'm talking about deliberately physically interposing themselves between the police and the speeders.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
I would have thought that about the current enforcement actions.
ICE actually has wide enforcement powers granted by statute law. It's just that previous administrations didn't use them so much -- some of this being that local law enforcement co-operated with ICE, making direct enforcement less necessary. Immigration enforcement is where Trump is on some of his strongest legal ground.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
Incidentally, if the Puerto Ricans made a similar argument with similar fervor, it might behoove the United States to give them a senator or let them go.
Puerto Ricans do not have to pay federal income tax. And they consistently vote against independence in referenda (though a fair number of those are tainted in some way). For statehood, it's not only their interests but the interests of the rest of the country which should be considered.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
Certainly ICE is not rounding up innocents. They've mistakenly detained at least a few innocents who (following the activist playbook) refused to identify themselves, but those innocents were released when identified. The illegal immigrants they've arrested, detained and/or deported may not have committed any crimes, but they were not innocent -- they were unlawfully present in the United States, and had orders of removal against them. Arresting them is ICE's job.
And, quite a few of these detained immigrants are also, in fact, serious criminals.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
Yes, and that would be a massive political win for Trump. If ICE were absolutely impeccable and locked in, the protestors would look like fanatical lunatics, moderates/swing voters/independents would all look at them, go, "I'm not voting for the party that panders to these retards" and help Trump not get whacked in the midterms.
Is that how things were before Pretti? Before Good?
No, it wasn't.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
Please, the blues have zero appetite for civil war.
They know there's no risk, because they can escalate arbitrarily and the reds will give up -- the courts, even red ones, won't support their actions and the bureaucracy and military won't act. At which point the blues have demonstrated that they run the country regardless of what the outcome of elections is; they win without the war.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
Every time one goes over 55 (or 65, or as much as 80) on the freeway, they are engaging in an illegal act.
Yes, and if the National Motorists Association set up teams to impede the police from catching speeders, they'd be arrested and jailed and get no support.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I'm fine with sending in a bunch of men to remove the cats and kittens. Especially since the people now claiming "Oh, go after the cans of tuna" favor providing free tuna by the palletload.
This sudden received indisputable wisdom that going after the employers is the best and only reasonable way to do anything about illegal immigration and, as a result, going directly after illegal immmigrants is cruel and should be verboten is not credible.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The world where ICE is completely professional and competent would have near identical protests and complaints to what we're seeing now, although probably with fewer deaths.
Perhaps one fewer death. The "ICE is untrained and incompetent" claim is just a backstop to the "ICE is an invading army" claim. I have watched all sorts of videos showing arrests which were claimed to be some sort of horrible, and in nearly every one, it shows an arrest more professional and with less drama than I'd expect from one on the news with local cops. To have Ross not shoot Good wouldn't be a matter of Ross being more competent and professional, it'd be a matter of Ross being omniscient.
I don't even thing protesting "enforcing lawful immigration policy" is the center of the onion here; it's "resistance to Trump". If someone with a (D) after their name wanted to enforce lawful immigration policy, we wouldn't see anything like this.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Fahrenheit wrote about ammonium chloride (sal ammoniac) brine and salt brine, but those two have different freezing points, both lower than 0F (-13F for ammonium chloride). It's likely he used neither, and the real fixed points were temperature of an ice-water mixture (32) and body temperature (96).
The division of the scale depends on three fixed points, which can be determined in the following manner. The first is found in the uncalibrated part or the beginning of the scale, and is determined by a mixture of ice, water and ammonium chloride or even sea salt. If the thermometer is placed in this mixture, its liquid descends as far as the degree that is marked with a zero. This experiment succeeds better in winter than in summer. The second point is obtained if water and ice are mixed without the aforementioned salts. When the thermometer is placed in this mixture, its liquid reaches the 32nd degree.
Clearly Fahrenheit knew that his 0 wasn't really fixed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
What this confrontation is demonstrating is that only the left has the legitimacy to rule in the United States; elections don't decide that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Fahrenheit has nothing to do with dial thermometers; it was originally set with mercury and alcohol liquid thermometers.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
On a practical level, I want these people to understand that they aren't fully lost. They can come home if they want to and the world still loves them.
LOL. The world is at best indifferent.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Getting the bum out of your park means that the bum will move to someone else's park.
And then they can kick him out. And if this keeps happening eventually he'll move someplace which isn't a park.
Oh - and in harsh conditions when someone is in what in my country is known as helpless condition - you go and check on them. Because next time it may be you, and you probably wouldn't want your life to depend on whether the single person passing by you can do the heuristic that you are not a bum, but upstanding citizen right while in severe snowstorm.
If it were me, conditions would be such that no one would check. "There for but the grace of God goes I" is usually false. And the prevalence of the false ones probably makes it less likely the real ones get helped.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It’s especially galling to see conservatives, who under normal circumstances are all about the Second Amendment, suddenly do an about face when someone they don’t like has a gun.
HereAndGone2 isn't American and definitely isn't one of the Second Amendment people. The Second Amendment conservatives are pretty consistent about not getting into it with the cops when you're carrying, and if you do, letting them know, calmly, that you have a gun and allowing them to disarm you.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
There may be a causal relationship between your second paragraph and your first.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Renee Good and the other people at the sharp end are patsies. The people doing the organizing want them to be harmed and/or killed by ICE in order to shock the conscience of those who would otherwise support the ICE side in this. And I expect it to work.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The finger end was recovered, that was in the pics. I don't know they attempted re-attachement.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It’s not a game, it’s the government storming your city and demanding to see everyone’s papers and perhaps snatching up your friends, terrorizing people to be afraid to go out of their houses.
All those people running around blowing whistles and yelling, they're absolutely terrorized and subject to constant papers checks?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Business owners fill out a lot of paperwork. You know what e-verify tells an employer if the employee gives the employer a legitimate name and social security number that doesn't belong to them? It tells the employer they're OK to work.
The whole "punish employers" thing is just a tactic akin to concern trolling; people who don't want immigration laws enforced at all are saying "No, leave sanctuary cities full of your political opponents alone, instead prosecute employers who may be your political allies, otherwise you're a stinky hypocrite." It doesn't really deserve more than an eyeroll and the administration isn't even giving it that.
The point that such indirect enforcement requires a much greater impingement on liberty than going after the people who are actually here illegally in the first place is true, but it isn't the reason it's not being done.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
If all Trump wanted to do was enforce immigration nationwide, having hundreds of small operations in the interior that were not announced ahead of time would be a better way to do it.
And how, exactly, do small operations "in the interior" do anything about illegal aliens in sanctuary cities? Again, your suggestion still boils down to enforcing the law only on Red Tribe.
If it's Abrego Garcia he's referring to, ICE actually DID admit error.
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