But Trump has deported people without hearings, correct?

So the GAO is lying?

They're talking about bombing Iran soon unless they sign another nuclear deal because Trump didn't want to leave a treaty with Obama's signature on it. Can we get the deep state back in charge soon?

We owe most of it to ourselves and the only problem there is we gave all that money to the 1% and they used it to buy up all their competitors and jack up prices on us

The stuff we all overseas is basically imperial tribute. It's how we prop up the dollar and force it to exist as the world's reserve currency. This maintains the Petro dollar which is why you can afford to drive that gas guzzling SUV you probably own or why you could afford to buy a fancy EV if you decided you wanted a cool piece of tech to drive you around town.

The interest we pay on that debt is dwarfed by the literally trillions of dollars of cheap imports. Folks do not realize that we are importing trillions of dollars of merchandise for about half of what the actual economic value is and using bonds and the bond market and manipulation to force our currency to be the de facto store the rest of the world.

America is a military empire and that debt is the velvet glove around the iron fist. But the last thing we're going to do is teach anyone that in school. Christ you're more likely to be taught about Iran Contra or how Nixon started the drug war then you are the fundamental underpinnings of our economic system. And whatever you do don't ever ask why raising interest rates reduces inflation. That's something you really don't want to think about

Trump can basically do anything he wants and no one can stop him because the only serious threat to his power is that the Democrats would win in a landslide taking a supermajority in the Senate.

In order for that to happen the Democrats would have to wield the power they have in order to shut down voter suppression. This would involve basically ignoring court orders as needed in order to ram voting rights cases up to State supreme courts where they have majorities.

They absolutely have the power to do it but the problem is the kind of centrist Democrat who would be in charge of doing it does not under any circumstances want to wield power. They are obsessed with proprietary and process and procedure believing it is sacred above All Else.

Now ordinarily what would happen is the left wing of the party and the left wing Independence would give them a kick in the rear and they would get off their asses and wield the power and solve this problem.

The problem with that is the left wing doesn't really want to stop voter suppression. They have a childish dream of kids 18 to 24 showing up to vote in droves and instituting Nordic style Democratic socialist reforms. They have literally been trying to achieve that for so long that the 18 to 24 set they originally started working on are in their 60s and voted overwhelmingly for Trump...

Basically we are a nation of 12-year-olds. We act like children. Left right up down center doesn't matter who it is we stopped maturing at around age 12, some of us make it all the way to 14 and then that's it. So it's extremely hard for any of us to do what really needs to be done to save our country's democracy.

It's possible to share incompetence of Donald Trump and everyone around him might save us again but it seems unlikely. I suspect the whole country is going to turn into a fascist dictatorship like China and or Russia. I hope my kid can flee the country when it happens and that Europe has enough nukes that still work to keep the US military at Bay. I'm also hoping to die before the worst of it.

Would love to be proven wrong but I have watched these last several months as the lefties and the centrists uselessly bicker over specific policy and do absolutely nothing about democracy. Every now and then one of the lefties realizes how fuck they are and does a screed about how we're going to all use violence to get back democracy. They're 12-year-olds but they're not that dumb they know it won't work. But the alternative is giving up that stupid cherished dream of theirs. and they're hobbyists in it for the fun so that's not going to happen.

Yeah nobodies saying that, that's Trumps stupid line of "we gotta give them all trials?"

Just like acres of case law there is many such acres describing what that due process is, the admin isn't following that. Obama and Biden deported plenty of folks and didn't have to violate the Constitution or employ a 3rd party work prison either. This admin is extraordinarily lazy, cruel and incompetent all at once.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fconstitution.congress....

aliens who have once passed through our gates, even illegally, may be expelled only after proceedings conforming to traditional standards of fairness encompassed in due process of law.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsupreme.justia.com%2Fcas...

. It is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law in deportation proceedings. Famous woke hippie Antonin Scalia

You are on your own for the next 4 years, longer unless a miracle happens because voter suppression means the Republicans are likely to win and Trump is likely to get a third term.

This means that if a storm destroys your property there isn't going to be anything there to rebuild it. The insurance companies you're paying out so much money to will go under or they will Stonewall you with lawsuits you can't possibly win. The courts are packed with pro corporate judges so you are unlikely to get very far.

Traditionally our government would bail out the insurance companies who would then pass the money on to you, keeping a large chunk of it for themselves. But that money is earmarked for $5 trillion dollars in tax cuts for the 1%.

Honestly though people on this forum who have hung around tend to be better off and there are probably safe. Probably. From what I could tell the storms that hit Florida last year had a lot of places that aren't supposed to be hit. Well outside the traditional hurricane alleys or whatever.

It's a hell of a gamble so that we could make Trump president. But I understand you can now use the 'r' word again and I suspect the 'n' word isn't far off. Plus those 14 girls you don't consider girls can't play field hockey. I guess that's a fair trade for some people.

To be fair Obama had to deal with the economic crisis after 2008 and 8 years of Republican economics. And Biden had to clean up the post-covid mess left for him.

Almost like there's a trend of Democrats having to clean up the messes only for Republicans to scold them for spending money to clean up said mess. The only Democrat in my lifetime to be handed anything close to a reasonable economy was Clinton and he famously left with a surplus.

So maybe this isn't "both sides" after all and maybe the GOP has been lying to us for our entire lives for craven political power.

Sure and Charlie Brown had hoes. Do show the worse health outcomes and finance statements of said countries and said healthcare systems. Which country has the highest per capita costs and by how much?

Well tell us, what is happening?

Cool, so why shut down the Jack Smith cases?

It's not about this link, it's about not read links for 4 years. All this evidence is known

Do you think the GAO is lying?

Or, if he had ever actually read the Constitution at any point during the 4+ years he took an oath to "preserve, protect, and defend" it, he would have seen that the first two words of the 5th Amendment answer that question quite firmly - no law degree required. Here's the condensed version:

No PERSON. Not "citizen". PERSON.

Everyone gets due process of law; and the law dictates what that process is. This is a surprise only to him, as any kid in 7th grade US history learns this kind of thing. If he doesn't like the process, have his rubber stamp brigade of yes-men on the other end of Pennsylvania Ave. change the damn laws and regulations that define the process. That's how it works.

Of course, they could have done that with the Republican-written immigration bill that Trump killed, which is just delicious hypocritical irony.

That leads to being informed by more than nutjob talk radio and nutjob right wing cable news!

Can't have that, can we? Same reason public education needs to be gutted: an educated electorate is an electorate that votes for other people.

Yes, because there absolutely is never a return on investment for infrastructure spending.

You know this was essentially the 21st century version of rural electrification, yeah? I mean the 20th century version (actual electrification of rural areas) certainly paid no dividends...

Look past the end of your own nose, please.