Some, yes.

Correct.

Sure could.
But it wasn't, and I think you know that.

These guys were picking people up after court hearings without a deport order.
They were going for the low-hanging fruit.

That's not how it works.
Due process isn't something granted by law, it is a constitutional right.
There are cases where that right may not apply, however. Trump weighed that calling these people "enemies" or "invaders" would put them into that category. He was wrong.

Actually, for a while, nearly 100% of them were deported without due process.
A Trump appointed judge put a stop to that bullshit.
The situation is now better, for sure, but let's not forget he literally raced to get people on planes out of the country before they could see a Judge.

Cool anecdote, bro.

My step mom has 11 acres, and my dad has 9.
I've never seen the neighbors.
In my condo, I quite literally see my neighbors every single day.

We aren't talking about prevalence, we're talking about what you eat.

I don't know what to tell you but you have no idea what you're talking about if you think that you guys and Americans have the same diet.
The near double rate-of-obesity in the US isn't because of inferior genetics.
The near 50% higher consumption of meat isn't a rounding error. Nor the 50% higher rate of diabetes.

The US life expectancy is based on a couple of things: Terrible fucking lifestyle choices, and the fact that the very poorest don't live very long at all.
People in the top quartile, for example have life expectancies in the high 80s- much higher than Canada's mean- which assuming no disparity in healthcare and lifestyle between your incomes group- should be the same top to bottom.

The US undoubtedly has a problem with taking care of its poorest people- that is literally what started this exchange.
But you interpreting numbers as if they affect the 80% who are better off is simply stupid or purposefully misleading.

LOL- where in Not-North-America do you live that you think that?

Get fucked, Kellyanne.
What's wrong? Your bullshit narrative that wages aren't keeping up with inflation, and that when you acknowledge that they are, it's because people are falling off of the workforce, even though unemployment declined during the period of high inflation, stabilized until then, and slightly increased in the last year.

You're trying to gaslight.

Citation needed.
But that's a pretty understandable feeling, even if true.
Even being well off at this point in my life, I think my biggest concern about losing my job would be my healthcare. So I'm not really sure what the point you're trying to make there is.

Says you?

I don't think healthcare is going to stop us from eating shit food, lol.

It is for the fucksticks happily sacrificing years of their life to eat a 16 ounce steak every day. Who are you to judge what's "working well" for them?

You can say it until you're blue in the face. You have no evidence to support it though, and there is plenty of evidence against it.

I don't think the collapse of the "creator" industry is going to bring about the end of capitalism.
It might slow down our march toward idiocracy, though.

Google has always had an irrevocable right to use what you literally store on their property in any way they like.

They're now using that very content to try to replace the people who made it.
That's fucking classically juicy. I love it.

I'm not poor like my father was. His problems are not mine. America is a quantifiably better place with regard to someone being born poor ending up in my current income bracket.
Instead, I work to make sure other people don't have to go through what he did.
No need to abandon what works better for 80% of the population than anywhere else in the world, just because it doesn't work for 20% of it. You fix what's wrong for the 20%.

Sure, we're backsliding right now. But I'm quite certain that will not be long-lived.

That link ends in 2023.
Time, as it turns out, didn't stop in 2023.

You're throwing spaghetti at the wall trying to save a point that is wrong. Get fucked, Kellyanne.

This logic is all wrong.
The US tracks mean wages, and unlike mean income- it has some relevance, because there is not a 100,000,000:1 ratio between the highest and lowest wage earners.
Wages have been beating inflation since 2023. I'm not entirely sure what your definition of "For the last year" is, but it's certainly not "the last 365 day period".
You can go look for median if you like, you will see that it tracks as well.
It is not true that wages have not kept up with inflation.

Bullshit.
Mean wages and median income have beaten inflation on average.
'21 to '23 was nasty, but the growth since then has more than caught up with it.
Person I replied to's narrative is a falsehood. You defending it makes you a misinformation peddler like them.

People who don't have health insurance don't stop getting healthcare.
They're just seriously in debt and financially ruined.
My father filed for bankruptcy when I was 17 due to medical bills.

But what he did not do, was ever stop working.
12 hours a day, 6 days a week.

ObamaCare gave 20 million people health insurance that didn't have it prior. There was no corresponding massive increase in GDP.
It's simply not true that medical insurance tangible affects economic output. It affects quality of life.
We don't need it to affect GDP for it to be worthwhile.

Ya. And most important is what you don't hear- really fucking loud turbofans.
That plane was at ~500ft of altitude at the flyby. It should have been an audio-distorting roar.

My wife's father lives under the takeoff path for SeaTac (SEA), and there's basically a constant stream of planes taking off. I'd guess they're probably 2000ft up when they pass over. They still rumble the windows.