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Krysten Sinema, Thom Tillis Now Circulating a Comprehensive Immigration Reform Bill for "Dreamers"
Gotta ram this through before the new Congress comes to town.
Supposedly, the deal is:*Some form of path to citizenship for 2 million dreamers. * A large boost in resources to speed up the processing of asylum seekers, including new processing centers and more asylum officers and judges. * More resources to expedite the removal of migrants who don't qualify for asylum. * A continuation of the Title 42 covid-health-rule restriction on migrants applying for asylum, until the new processing centers are operational, with the aim of a one-year cutoff. * More funding for border officers. The idea behind this compromise is this: It gives Democrats protections for 2 million dreamers and beefed up defenses of the due process rights of some migrants. It gives Republicans faster removal of migrants who fail to qualify for asylum to prevent them from remaining in the country, a continued restriction on applications for the next year and more border security.Why shouldn't Title 42 be permanent? As far as "more funding to expedite asylum cases:" if Title 42 (remain in Mexico) were permanent, this wouldn't be as necessary. Also, this is more Democrat smoke and mirrors; so, you're going to get the process reduced from nine years to, what, seven? And note, during this period, they're allowed to stay in the US -- and have children, who are automatically citizens, aka "anchor babies." What about the absurd rules that get people asylum if they just tell the right lies? What about requiring actual proof of these claims? And again, what about just making Remain in Mexico the rule going forward, permanently? But whatever, I'm totally sure we'll get the benefit of the bargain on this, like we always do, on all of these amnesty plans. Basically Biden just wants to extend Title 42 for another year because he's afraid the overrun border will hurt him politically. But he wants the Republicans to give him something in return for something he himself needs. And the Republicans are just stupid enough to give him something in return for nothing.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: runner at December 05, 2022 04:41 PM (UK2bo)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2022 04:42 PM (UK2bo)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at December 05, 2022 04:42 PM (2rmiY)
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 04:44 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: DaveA at December 05, 2022 04:45 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Piper at December 05, 2022 04:46 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 05, 2022 04:46 PM (G/v5P)
It's probably packed with so many poison pills and contradictions that no Congressman or Senator will vote for it...Especially as they start campaigning for 2024.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2022 04:46 PM (YIVH2)
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“[Germany] remains in a heightened threat environment.” It seems that “lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances continue to pose a persistent and lethal threat to the [Father]land.”
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Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 04:46 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 05, 2022 04:46 PM (3hSHB)
Posted by: SturmToddler at December 05, 2022 04:47 PM (Mkvkw)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2022 04:47 PM (pIKd9)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 05, 2022 04:47 PM (G/v5P)
Posted by: Amnesty at December 05, 2022 04:47 PM (vzDVp)
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at December 05, 2022 04:47 PM (2rmiY)
Posted by: Piper at December 05, 2022 04:47 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2022 04:47 PM (eo2rU)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 04:47 PM (sn5EN)
And I bet it includes the rail-workers' paid sick leave in an amendment
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 05, 2022 04:48 PM (3hSHB)
Posted by: golfman at December 05, 2022 04:48 PM (BLVc0)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at December 05, 2022 04:48 PM (vzDVp)
Posted by: JT at December 05, 2022 04:49 PM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at December 05, 2022 04:49 PM (oWBc3)
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ShainS' Law: "Never attribute to ignorance, stupidity, loyalty, and/or incompetence what can be ascribed to corruption and/or evil ... but mostly evil."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 04:49 PM (YE2oq)
Posted by: Dick Sipper at December 05, 2022 04:49 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2022 04:51 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 04:51 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 05, 2022 04:51 PM (MGB5H)
Because nobody can make them afraid enough.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 04:51 PM (UnA8+)
You people here are always mocking us, purporting that we say "That's not who we are."
Well, this is exactly who we are! Put that in your pipes and smoke it!
Posted by: GOPe at December 05, 2022 04:51 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: They don't have any balls to kick, so... at December 05, 2022 04:52 PM (V6LRK)
Posted by: Larry Craig at December 05, 2022 04:52 PM (sWM8x)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 05, 2022 04:52 PM (uNylN)
The working title is "BOHICA Mexico, You Duplicitous Motherfuckers".
Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2022 04:52 PM (pIKd9)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 04:52 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 05, 2022 04:52 PM (t3/qz)
The despicable damage to America of the GOP simply keeps piling up.
The elected leader of the Senate GOP caucus is as toxic to the country's well-being as any of the stupid, corrupt, alien, totalitarian, racist Dems. And GOP voters clearly are incapable of fixing things.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 05, 2022 04:52 PM (OTzUX)
And the Republicans are just stupid enough to give him something in return for nothing."
Alternative option... the Republicans want that Chamber of Commerce money back and amnesty is the path?
Posted by: Inogame, in the rear with the gear at December 05, 2022 04:53 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 05, 2022 04:53 PM (flINI)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at December 05, 2022 04:53 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Greta at December 05, 2022 04:53 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at December 05, 2022 04:53 PM (CkFy6)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 04:53 PM (Cw0fX)
even money Sinema decided to let him sniff her empty boots for 30 seconds to get him to go along...
Posted by: SturmToddler at December 05, 2022 04:53 PM (Mkvkw)
Posted by: Holy Crap at December 05, 2022 04:53 PM (glGDV)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 05, 2022 04:53 PM (t3/qz)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2022 04:54 PM (Qy7kP)
"This is nacho country anymore!"
Posted by: Fool Otto at December 05, 2022 04:54 PM (DB16e)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 05, 2022 04:54 PM (t3/qz)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 05, 2022 04:52 PM (OTzUX)
Mitch has his money, Mitch has his good life.
What can anyone do to make Mitch fear that they can take his hundreds of millions and his mansions away?
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 04:54 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Holy Crap at December 05, 2022 04:55 PM (glGDV)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2022 04:55 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at December 05, 2022 04:55 PM (t3/qz)
That wasn't the closet she uses...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 05, 2022 04:55 PM (ES7IQ)
Posted by: Rock Doc at December 05, 2022 04:55 PM (6I0gt)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 05, 2022 04:46 PM (3hSHB)
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It comes in a slow, time-release capsule, and isn't fully effective until all of your mind's defenses have been destroyed ... which could take a long time for some of us.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 04:55 PM (YE2oq)
Posted by: Wally at December 05, 2022 04:55 PM (FJYfm)
That wasn't the closet she uses...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 05, 2022 04:55 PM (ES7IQ)
She's not a closet conservative. She's a closet GOPer, though.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 04:56 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 04:53 PM (Cw0fX)
at this point, i'mma vote for trump or desantis in '24, and my local congess gal, provided she don't fuck up like this, and that's it on a national level.
not worth even expending the energy for more than that.
Posted by: SturmToddler at December 05, 2022 04:56 PM (Mkvkw)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 04:56 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2022 04:56 PM (63Dwl)
Tillis go nothing in this deal because the illegal aliens aren't even showing up to court. They get in, have to be released, and then that is it.
Posted by: Thatch at December 05, 2022 04:56 PM (A+k5G)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 05, 2022 04:56 PM (flINI)
Posted by: Rock Doc at December 05, 2022 04:57 PM (6I0gt)
Just talked to Thom Tillis' office in Greenville NC.
Asked the intern about the amnesty offer. She said he would ensure the border was secured first and then work on reforms. I asked her how that worked out for Reagan in 1986. She said that was before she was born. I asked what her degree was in, expecting history or political science.
Wait for it....
She said it was in social and economic justice reform.
I'm retired now. I will find time to call the same office again tomorrow.
Posted by: golfman at December 05, 2022 04:57 PM (BLVc0)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 04:58 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2022 04:58 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at December 05, 2022 04:58 PM (fs1hN)
So, it doesn't matter. Go it. Hitler anyone?
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 04:59 PM (sn5EN)
Stupid enough to give it to him? Or eager?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 04:59 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:00 PM (Cw0fX)
What can anyone do to make Mitch fear that they can take his hundreds of millions and his mansions away?
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 04:54 PM (UnA8+)
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Hire his wife to be Transportation Secretary?
Uhm, nevermind ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 05:00 PM (YE2oq)
What does it matter at this point anyway?
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:00 PM (sn5EN)
Wait for it....
She said it was in social and economic justice reform.
Posted by: golfman
That tells you all you need to know about Tillis.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 05, 2022 05:00 PM (ES7IQ)
Posted by: Rock Doc at December 05, 2022 04:57 PM (6I0gt)
That's really not a bad idea.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2022 05:01 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: Rock Doc at December 05, 2022 04:57 PM (6I0gt)
Actually, this isn't a horrible idea. We still wouldn't get our candidates elected, but we could really wreak some havoc in the meantime, which might be the only option we have.
Posted by: Wally at December 05, 2022 05:01 PM (FJYfm)
So Grandpa Diddlefingers opens up the border and continues to violate federal law, law made by Congress, and Republicans will ask him to actually obey the law, then reward him for doing his constitutional duty?
Did I get that right? These people are dunces.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2022 05:01 PM (pIKd9)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at December 05, 2022 04:58 PM (fs1hN)
Look, I'd love to spend the money finishing the border wall and securing our country at home, but gull dern it, there's a war in Ukraine we must finance in perpetuity!
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 05, 2022 05:01 PM (KbCG3)
Yeah, no. The Gormless Old Prats are not "stupid". They WANT this. The true aims of "both" "parties" are nearly 100% in alignment.
Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at December 05, 2022 05:02 PM (PWI4f)
What does it matter at this point anyway?
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:00 PM (sn5EN)
I guess I should've asked about slavery.
Posted by: golfman at December 05, 2022 05:02 PM (BLVc0)
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 05:02 PM (dwYx+)
And McConnell has already made secret deals with them, to screw their GOP nominees. Mitch the Bitch will also go after Rick Scott
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:02 PM (Cw0fX)
It's not getting any longer either. The worst of them stay around forever to torment us though, partly because we buy them excellent health care.
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:02 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:00 PM (Cw0fX)
Mitch likely does not believe in Hell (no matter what lies he tells us) and does not care.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 05:03 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:03 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:03 PM (Cw0fX)
Isn't part of the reason they were called "The Dark Ages" is because humanity as a whole forgot many of the advancements and lessons of history, and plunged into decline, violence, and political chaos?
Yeah, catching a whiff. "That was before I was born" indeed.
Posted by: Oldstoke at December 05, 2022 05:03 PM (z7sfH)
Posted by: brak at December 05, 2022 05:04 PM (lO5WT)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 05:03 PM (UnA8+)
He'll get promoted. He'll be Majority Leader there.
Posted by: Wally at December 05, 2022 05:04 PM (FJYfm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2022 05:04 PM (mP+mW)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2022 05:04 PM (Qy7kP)
I get less patient from there....
Posted by: Zek at December 05, 2022 05:04 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at December 05, 2022 05:04 PM (sHRkV)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 05, 2022 05:00 PM (ES7IQ)
Thus the Nip Sip reference. He was NC GOPe and pledged Tillis was on the up and up. I pledged I'd hold Nip's feet to the fire.
He was gone from here by summer of '15 or so.
*spit
Posted by: golfman at December 05, 2022 05:04 PM (BLVc0)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at December 05, 2022 04:58 PM (fs1hN)
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Mitch could write a book entitled The Art of "The Kneel."
/A good book name about the 2020 election would be "The Art of the Steal."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 05:05 PM (YE2oq)
Did I get that right? These people are dunces.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Neeeeerk
Foul on the thought.
Republicans will reward Dems for saying that they will enforce the law. They are not going to actually do anything they agree to with the Pubbies.
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 05:05 PM (dwYx+)
In a Twitter Spaces conversation, Musk said Apple had “fully resumed” its advertising, according to Bloomberg.
Posted by: Azathoth at December 05, 2022 05:05 PM (wb1YC)
Posted by: Art Deco at December 05, 2022 05:05 PM (1BrBu)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:05 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at December 05, 2022 04:58 PM (fs1hN)
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When Mitch has been up for reelection, how much Dem support and cheating has he got? After all it's in the Dems interest that he win his race.
Posted by: Ciampino at December 05, 2022 05:05 PM (qfLjt)
To me, this reeks of giving the Democrats an "immigration reform" talking point for the 2024 election and buying more time until the number of illegals is so overwhelming the Democrats are going to come howling that the only solution to the problem they intentionally created is to grant citizenship to every last illegal.
Posted by: Lost in Space at December 05, 2022 05:05 PM (c1mVn)
I get less patient from there....
Posted by: Zek at December 05, 2022 05:04 PM (5FPX4)
We should make them listen to the god-awful caterwauling of Supertramp's "Dreamer" until they all break and vote the bill down.
Posted by: Wally at December 05, 2022 05:06 PM (FJYfm)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 05, 2022 05:06 PM (uz3Px)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:05 PM (Cw0fX)
Leave the Halls of Power, lose the Foetal Blood Transfusions they get.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 05:07 PM (UnA8+)
******
I take it this means Congress has some plan for determining the present whereabouts of the 2 million?
Posted by: Muldoon at December 05, 2022 05:07 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Zek at December 05, 2022 05:08 PM (5FPX4)
This would be the second time a GOP "amnesty" initiative had been mooted, AFAIK, during this Congress. Unbelievable. Though actually now sort of SOP.
Note that "gun control" and marriage redefinition - oh and "infrastructure" - were already carried through by the Senate GOP. During an election cycle.
Which is exactly what you'd expect from the group that baby-sat and coddled the broad front coup and dismantlement of our system undertaken to prevent, neuter, and then remove Trump.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 05, 2022 05:08 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:08 PM (Cw0fX)
Amen.
Posted by: Lost in Space at December 05, 2022 05:08 PM (c1mVn)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2022 05:08 PM (Qy7kP)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:09 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2022 05:09 PM (dTFZY)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2022 05:08 PM (Qy7kP)
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They almost used that argument for Obama.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 05:09 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 05, 2022 05:07 PM (ykeLU)
They need an address for the welfare checks
Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at December 05, 2022 05:09 PM (FN401)
Boy howdy, they aren't even bothering to pretend any longer.
Also, this is a nuclear land mine:
"On the flip side, if migrants fail the initial interview determining whether they have a "credible fear" of persecution by being returned to their home countries, they’d be removed much more quickly."
OK, now tell me what the definition of "credible fear" is in this context. I bet the Secretary of DHS will be empowered to define that term.
Posted by: Gref at December 05, 2022 05:10 PM (AMIL/)
And people think Lake telling McCain voters to go away was a mistake. Umm, no, this is what the McCain machine wants and, by extension, McCain voters.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at December 05, 2022 05:10 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2022 05:09 PM (dTFZY)
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They'll see how much they need to cheat in the next election.
It will be like cooking, they'll add some and taste, add some and taste....
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 05:10 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2022 05:09 PM (dTFZY)
It'll be as many as it takes to turn Ohio, Florida, and Georgia permanently blue, and Texas purple.
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 05:11 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 05:11 PM (dwYx+)
Heck, I have a credible fear of persecution here.
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:12 PM (sn5EN)
A clever Speaker, would bypass McConnell and only speak to Ron Johnson or Hawley
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:12 PM (Cw0fX)
And shame (and impeachment) for those who have abetted criminal human trafficking.
Posted by: Zek at December 05, 2022 05:13 PM (5FPX4)
"Advocates tell me they think 10 GOP senators are gettable for these reforms, mostly Republicans who are retiring or are willing to challenge the GOP's Trump wing."
Posted by: lowandslow at December 05, 2022 05:13 PM (76Foq)
Posted by: Dorcus Blimline at December 05, 2022 05:14 PM (KuCHZ)
Posted by: Zek at December 05, 2022 05:14 PM (5FPX4)
Fort Myers it is
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:14 PM (Cw0fX)
******
I take it this means Congress has some plan for determining the present whereabouts of the 2 million?
Posted by: Muldoon
I take this to mean the Democrats want to normalize and set a precedent for granting citizenship to illegals. Today its the 2 million so called "Dreamers." Next up it will be granting citizenship to the other 40 million using whatever BS focus group, endorphin inducing term the Democrats will call them. Hard no on the 2 million.
Posted by: Lost in Space at December 05, 2022 05:14 PM (c1mVn)
Posted by: In case you missed it at December 05, 2022 05:15 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: Gref at December 05, 2022 05:15 PM (AMIL/)
The US for decades was a leader in providing exactly what the initial intent was - asylum - for people actually being persecuted for political or other beliefs. It was a great moral policy.
Now it's been trashed and replaced with a ridiculous transparently dishonest "system" that is just mass illegal migration. Just a footnote, at this point.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 05, 2022 05:15 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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America soft
The Illegals have sharp teeth
There will be conflict
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 05:15 PM (dwYx+)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2022 05:15 PM (Qy7kP)
Posted by: Skynet at December 05, 2022 05:16 PM (pwExq)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:12 PM (Cw0fX)
This.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2022 05:16 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: Dorcus Blimline"
You're one to talk!
Posted by: Dorcus Blimline's Dildo at December 05, 2022 05:16 PM (sn5EN)
"The GOP establishment is micturating on their voters’ faces and not even pretending to call it rain. The humiliation seems to be the point."
Posted by: lowandslow at December 05, 2022 05:16 PM (76Foq)
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 05, 2022 05:16 PM (mnUzy)
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 05, 2022 05:16 PM (Rbu5d)
As Ace said, I am done
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:17 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: Skynet at December 05, 2022 05:17 PM (pwExq)
Posted by: Gref at December 05, 2022 05:10 PM (AMIL/)
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"The ACLU, ADL, & SPLC lawyers told me to say that White Supremacist Cisheteropatriarchical Oppressive Nazism Hate is being spread from the United States UltraMAGA Movement now all over the world, and specifically to Central and South America! Credible fear! REEEEEEEEEE!"
/"You're asylum request has been approved ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 05:18 PM (tP18f)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:18 PM (Cw0fX)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:12 PM (Cw0fX)
Yeah but we are going to get McCarthy.
Posted by: Skynet at December 05, 2022 05:18 PM (pwExq)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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Notice that DeSantis has done nothing since the foiled plane trip.
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Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 05:19 PM (dwYx+)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
Send them Sinema's home address.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 05, 2022 05:19 PM (t7RX7)
Posted by: torabora at December 05, 2022 05:19 PM (aGlce)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2022 04:52 PM (pIKd9)
Utilizing a trebuchet, yes?
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 05, 2022 05:19 PM (Rbu5d)
"The GOP establishment is micturating on their voters’ faces and not even pretending to call it rain. The humiliation seems to be the point."
Posted by: lowandslow at December 05, 2022 05:16 PM
Bonus points to Mollie for knowing the medical term for pissing.
Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2022 05:20 PM (dTFZY)
The horror, the horror.
Supreme Court Judges are appointed by the President of Israel, from names submitted by the Judicial Selection Committee, which is composed of nine members: three Supreme Court Judges (including the President of the Supreme Court), two cabinet ministers (one of them being the Minister of Justice), two Knesset members, and two representatives of the Israel Bar Association. Appointing Supreme Court Judges requires a majority of 7 of the 9 committee members, or two less than the number present at the meeting.
In other words, existing Supreme Court members and the Israel Bar Association have a majority of the votes on the committee, not people who have actually been elected.
Remember, allowing elected representatives to choose judges is a way-station on the road to fascism!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2022 05:20 PM (KCOCK)
Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 05, 2022 05:20 PM (qPZhe)
Posted by: Art Deco at December 05, 2022 05:05 PM (1BrBu)
Now do ObamaCare.
Posted by: Golfman at December 05, 2022 05:20 PM (BLVc0)
Posted by: lowandslow at December 05, 2022 05:16 PM (76Foq)
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Some people pay good money for that action.
Posted by: Igor Danchenko at December 05, 2022 05:20 PM (krQz2)
The GOP has ceased to be a political party. It's now Mitch's personal fleshlight. and he loaned it to Biden for the weekend.
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 05:21 PM (MLrvz)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 04:53 PM (Cw0fX)
the new congress isn't seated until January.
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 05, 2022 05:21 PM (Rbu5d)
"The GOP establishment is micturating on their voters’ faces and not even pretending to call it rain. The humiliation seems to be the point."
Posted by: lowandslow at December 05, 2022 05:16 PM (76Foq)
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And one could say: part of the kink.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 05:22 PM (z5Neb)
Posted by: XTC at December 05, 2022 04:54 PM (UnA8+)
Well, evidently SOMEONE can make him fear this .
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 05, 2022 05:22 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: McConnells Lieutenants at December 05, 2022 05:23 PM (hXzdW)
Posted by: Wally at December 05, 2022 05:23 PM (FJYfm)
https://tinyurl.com/2tv4hfv6
Posted by: Ultra pj at December 05, 2022 05:23 PM (G1dq6)
1. gheyboi marriage
2. abortion everywhere
3. gun bans
4. amnesty
5. killing oil
6. killing the American economy
7. a new era of racial animosity and tribalism
8. I mean, like really killing the American economy
9. using high tech platforms to kill free speech
10. political reprisals against political foes
11. Goddamn fucking trannies everywhere.
12. The IRS is a new goddamned fucking army
I guess the only thing we're waiting to lose next is covid passports, eliminating cypto, and ending cash transactions.
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 05:24 PM (MLrvz)
Posted by: Jonah at December 05, 2022 05:05 PM (Cw0fX)
A huge opportunity faces conservatives as these old GOPe Senate geezers die off in the next 5 years - until then, they'll hang on, basically because the Senate is a retirement community already and they're living at the public paid old folks' home. But die they will, and then - what is the RNC going to replace them with? Conservative MAGAs better have their donors and candidates lined up. Mitch is not going to be like that Galapagos turtle and live for 200 years - he's dead in 5.
Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2022 05:24 PM (+Cgut)
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Has anybody come up with the color for this internal revolutionary coup?
Perhaps the Rainbow Revolution would be most descriptive ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 05:24 PM (z5Neb)
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 05, 2022 05:16 PM
I went to the grocery store yesterday and there was a family of our new little brown brothers and sisters who looked like they might have been from Guatemala and spoke a language that might have been Mayan.
Posted by: huerfano at December 05, 2022 05:24 PM (dTFZY)
https://tinyurl.com/2tv4hfv6
Posted by: Ultra pj
Like sweet little lies?
Posted by: Fleetwood Mac at December 05, 2022 05:25 PM (ftFVW)
"The GOP establishment is micturating on their voters’ faces and not even pretending to call it rain. The humiliation seems to be the point."
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Call it Jebs revenge. 2016 was supposed to be the year the GOP shits on the base. It turns out 2022 was the perfect year to do so.
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 05:25 PM (MLrvz)
Posted by: That NLurker guy where's my Irene Adler? at December 05, 2022 05:25 PM (eGTCV)
https://tinyurl.com/2tv4hfv6
Posted by: Ultra pj at December 05, 2022 05:23 PM (G1dq6)
Look at Ilhan Omar. Her family gets to come over because Somalia was a hellhole. Forget the fact that her family was a big reason why Somalia was a hellhole.
Posted by: Wally at December 05, 2022 05:25 PM (FJYfm)
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 05:25 PM (MLrvz)
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 05:25 PM (MLrvz)
Posted by: Oldstoke at December 05, 2022 05:03 PM (z7sfH)
I guess we can stop taking about slavery, now, right?
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 05, 2022 05:26 PM (Rbu5d)
This is accelerating and will all accelerate more. It has to.
You can't do the things these people did three years ago and ever try to go back one step. The Dems *own* these motherfuckers outright, now.
The GOP will now help strip out everything left of this country as fast as it can before the Party's over, as it were.
The best part is when they come out in favor of comprehensive live-birth reform next year. (R)enfield's gonna have to help (D)racula fix that oopsie.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:26 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: torabora at December 05, 2022 05:19 PM
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My thoughts exactly!
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 05, 2022 05:27 PM (MFZ8i)
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 05:27 PM (MLrvz)
Posted by: Democrats at December 05, 2022 05:28 PM (aGlce)
The State Department distributes Cheat Sheets and Coaches to help them tell the right lies at the right times.
They fucking advertise the service in Central America and Mexico.
UN is balls deep in this as well.
Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2022 05:28 PM (eo2rU)
Yeah I didn’t think so. You are owned
Posted by: Ex-GOP at December 05, 2022 05:28 PM (qPZhe)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2022 05:28 PM (63Dwl)
I guess the idea of a Muskaphone was all Tiny Tim needed to hear before he wet himself.
Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2022 05:29 PM (+Cgut)
@TomFitton 3m
Dr. Fauci's daughter worked at
@Twitter until about a year ago...
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2022 05:29 PM (IyrhE)
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that's the thing, there's never been any comeuppance for any political betrayal. Oh what are going to do, not vote? not donate? not volunteer?
they don't care, fuck you. They're paid and laid.
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 05:30 PM (MLrvz)
Posted by: Juan's Reference Letter at December 05, 2022 05:30 PM (sn5EN)
It is almost like DC is a one progressive party kind of town.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at December 05, 2022 05:30 PM (MFZ8i)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBUNGLER at December 05, 2022 05:30 PM (jl+mR)
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at December 05, 2022 05:25 PM (MLrvz)
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I'm going to continue to vote about the same strength, probably for Republican candidates, even though I haven't been a "Republican" in about 15 years.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 05:31 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2022 05:31 PM (UK2bo)
Posted by: Guy with a suspicious bulge at December 05, 2022 05:31 PM (sn5EN)
Take a page from medieval warfare:
Find all of those with C19, drug resistant TB, leprosy, polio, small pox, heck, even import some people with ebola.
Ship them however humanely possible to their new homes.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 05, 2022 05:32 PM (3hSHB)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 05, 2022 05:32 PM (Qy7kP)
Posted by: Boswell a
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You think China's not going to own the young punks?
hahahahahahahahah
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 05:32 PM (dwYx+)
Advertisers are now returning to Twitter after Tim Cook crawled into a fetal position shortly after talking to Musk.
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Honestly, I have no idea what leverage Musk could really have. Cook has a whole, whole lot more power than Musk has. I doubt, for instance, he feels threatened by a phone manufacturing competitor. I doubt even Samsung would feel threatened by Musk in that arena, and they're the distant second in the market.
But it's apparently *something.*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:32 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2022 05:29 PM (+Cgut)
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I'd bet he had access to Apple DMs.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 05:33 PM (krQz2)
https://is.gd/dmOtHf
Posted by: Ciampino - Yeah a real winner at December 05, 2022 05:33 PM (qfLjt)
You forgot letting in a invasion
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2022 05:33 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2022 05:33 PM (rxUKk)
Posted by: Democrats at December 05, 2022 05:34 PM (aGlce)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:34 PM (sn5EN)
If I've worked this out correctly, these people are guys with dicks who claim to be women, but also claim to be lesbians because they still want to have sex with women.
I'm old enough to remember when "male lesbian" was a Rush Limbaugh joke.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:34 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:34 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2022 05:34 PM (UK2bo)
They are going to nut, they won't be stopped.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 05, 2022 05:35 PM (up/3i)
Are some places so dangerous you have to shop with a cop?
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:34 PM (sn5EN)
I used to eat at a McD's that was sufficiently dangerous that they posted a DPD officer in the dining room after 5pm.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:35 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2022 05:35 PM (xhxe8)
They have all-but appointed officers who are "certified" after plainly fraudulent elections as our "representatives."
The poor dirt farmer in colonial Pennsylvania had better representatives in Parliament than any rural or conservative American today. And far less taxes and regulations.
What are we getting out of this "Grand Bargain?" A hundred men rot in the DC prisons for speaking up while we're told this is a free democracy.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2022 05:35 PM (yHJof)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:35 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 05, 2022 05:36 PM (hgD8w)
Nope. Cook has to answer to stockholders. Musk's Twitter does not.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:36 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:32 PM (oINRc)
By the fact that Cook backed down, immediately, is proof the leverage happened. A smart phone is just not that hard to develop any more - certainly not for Musk who lands booster rockets on floating docks in the middle of the ocean and has no problem floating risk capital. And has a brand and a name. Without the stupid black turtleneck.
Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2022 05:36 PM (+Cgut)
Posted by: polynikes at December 05, 2022 05:36 PM (l4ZPt)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2022 05:35 PM (yHJof)
One of the best lines in Mel Gibson's "The Patriot", regardless of what you think of the movie overall, was the line Gibson's character gives earlier as the colonies debate succession: "Why would I trade one tyrant 4,000 miles away for 4,000 tyrants one mile away?". Great line, dunno if it was based on what someone said at the time or just made up in a Hollyweirdo script.
Posted by: Thrawn at December 05, 2022 05:38 PM (Rl7KJ)
Nope. Cook has to answer to stockholders. Musk's Twitter does not.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:36 PM (bW8dp)
Cook runs a company with a $2.3T market cap and every legislator in the country in its pocket.
Musk can't tell him what to do, at least on the face of things. Hell, he could probably have Musk killed if he wanted to.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:38 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice "
People should look out because they might get McShot by a McCop.
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:38 PM (sn5EN)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:38 PM (sn5EN)
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Ashli Babbit did.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2022 05:40 PM (krQz2)
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I .... just don't see it.
Abbott is spineless.
DeSantis dreams of fitting drapes in the Oval Office.
The rest are pipsqueak dwarfs who'd pimp their mother for $7 in federal greenbacks.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2022 05:40 PM (yHJof)
Maybe it was as simple as "I have your DMs, bee-yotch. I know it was you got gay with Paul and beat him with a hammer."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:40 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2022 05:40 PM (F5ekr)
Posted by: Chad Thundercock at December 05, 2022 05:40 PM (AtoNk)
Posted by: Gahiggidy at December 05, 2022 05:40 PM (kfRGj)
Posted by: Piper at December 05, 2022 05:41 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Q and The Anons!
#TrustThePlan
#ItHadToBeThisWay
#TheWhiteHatsAreComing
#SteinerWillCome
#twoweeks
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 05:41 PM (z5Neb)
Doesn't alter the fact that he still has to answer to stockholders, who are by no means all "woke". In fact, the majority probably are not.
If Musk cut into the iPhone market by only 15%, Cook would be sitting on the curb rattling a tin cup.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:41 PM (bW8dp)
I believe it was "A lesbian trapped in a man's body"
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 05, 2022 05:42 PM (3hSHB)
Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2022 05:24 PM (+Cgut)
****
I'm trying to help you people out. This one has some kind of specialized immunity. Like stuff I've seen in Chi nah.
Posted by: Chi nah Virus at December 05, 2022 05:42 PM (aGlce)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 05, 2022 05:42 PM (3hSHB)
I think you're right. Thanks. That was a long time ago.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:42 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:43 PM (sn5EN)
Our only hope at this point, in my opinion, is an Article V Convention that goes one of three ways:
1. Congressional Term Limits to shatter the stranglehold of the establishment.
2. Modifying the "first past the post" system to be less hostile to third parties, such as with runoff elections in cases where candidates in local or statewide races get less than 50%. This would make it easier for voters to vote their conscience in the general election, knowing that a runoff between the top two was likely.
3. Implementation of a national referendum system for a "Zero Confidence" referendum that could dismiss all elected and appointed officials in the Executive and Legislative branches with prejudice (where nobody who was removed in such a manner could run for office again), as well as all management-level Federal employees.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at December 05, 2022 05:43 PM (MIb2C)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:38 PM (oINRc)
The fact that Musk did tell him what to do is evidence in itself that he can. We could have all said this about Twitter and its CEO just last year, and now?
When 50% of the world market could care less about your ideology and just wants a product that gives them everything that they thought it would, and Musk would do that as opposed to Apple, it's the end of the world for the lefty corporate Cook types - at least he was smart enough to figure that out in one meeting.
Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2022 05:43 PM (+Cgut)
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What am I? Controlled opposition? Tik tock
Posted by: Hannity at December 05, 2022 05:44 PM (aGlce)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2022 05:35 PM (xhxe
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Skip, that link is a 404
Can you fix it?
Posted by: Ciampino - Yeah a real winner at December 05, 2022 05:44 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 05, 2022 05:44 PM (F5ekr)
He just got authorization to launch another 2700 low-orbit satellites to expand into cell phone.
You think a smartphone not tied to the nearest cell tower isn't leverage?
What Cook bought was time. But the phone is coming.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2022 05:44 PM (yHJof)
If Musk cut into the iPhone market by only 15%, Cook would be sitting on the curb rattling a tin cup.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:41 PM (bW8dp)
Not gonna happen. 15% would be a shocking marketshare for non-Apple-or-Samsung, and most would come from that heap, not Apple's.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:44 PM (oINRc)
Big difference, one is an order, the other a promise.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 05, 2022 05:45 PM (t7RX7)
-- Dr Evil airquotes
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at December 05, 2022 05:45 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 05, 2022 05:42 PM (3hSHB)
_________
I had a roommate who used that line in the EARLY 70s.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2022 05:46 PM (TgBWG)
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Yes, but unlike Schumer and his "independents", Mitch would strip them of committee assignments.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2022 05:46 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice "
I stayed at an "extended stay" motel that was that way (you know, one of the ones that have kitchenettes... typically a good deal if you're going to be in an area for more than a day or two).
I noticed that there were always a few cop cars parked in the lot, day and night. I asked around and found out that the management had found it expedient to give free rooms to cops just to have them on the premises.
Not particularly comforting.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:46 PM (bW8dp)
Focus you energy and activities on local and state politics. Support only state representatives and governors that will aggressively defend states rights and won't be shy about engaging in nullification.
Posted by: Ernie McCracken at December 05, 2022 05:46 PM (6tDeH)
As long as McConnell or one of his pals is essentially in control of the Republican Party even winni9ng at a national level makes no difference.
And voting against someone in the primary, like say Cornyn, never works cuz they're all hooked into the GOPe apparatus.
So, the simplest idea is to turn to using the Democrat Party to put a conservative in place against a RINO candidate.
This wouldn't be like Rush's operation whatever. A mass switch of Rep voters to Democrat could be enough to put a real conservative in place against the RINO by winning the primary.
A clever conservative could also find enough points of agreement to possibly get a bunch of Dim votes anyway.
The logistics of a mass switch might be too much to overcome, but the Democrats used to have a reasonably conservative faction until they went full commie. It's possible that the yellow dog Dims would vote for whoever was on the Democrat ticket.
Even a conservative.
The idea is to get enough conservatives in Congress of whatever party to block stuff.
Otherwise, the only option is a third party, which...is very unlikely to succeed without massive help financially.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2022 05:46 PM (KLPy8)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2022 05:46 PM (TgBWG)
Posted by: fd at December 05, 2022 05:43 PM (sn5EN)
No positive posts allowed. This is aos .
Posted by: polynikes at December 05, 2022 05:46 PM (l4ZPt)
Actually, no - Omar's actual family name is Nur. She and her relatives pretended to be part of another family to get into the United States. Her actual family was never admitted into the United States.
At some point, the State Department started doing DNA testing of Somali refugees and discovered that most Somali "families" were bringing in non-family members along with family members.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2022 05:47 PM (KCOCK)
Posted by: Duke Lowell
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I made a note last night of a comment made by a poster,
"The Russian speaking separatists of eastern Ukraine were trying to secede and take part of Ukraine with them. When the South tried that here, we prevented it and treated them as a defeated population."
I wasn't too surprised to see the comment, just disgusted with the point of view.
That is the current perspective, you see. States Rights, and Federalism just are not meaningful, or relevant to the current population. 'WE prevented it...',
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2022 05:47 PM (59Ws+)
Ask the ghosts of Blackberry and Nokia whether dominance in cell phones can be relied upon in the long term.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:47 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 05, 2022 05:44 PM (yHJof)
Satellite smart phones are the wave of the future - Musk knows this - Cook was smart enough to bend the knee or get eaten.
Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2022 05:47 PM (+Cgut)
You've got to remember - you could market the best phone in the world and put a $200 pricetag on the thing, and most of Apple's customers would stay put.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:47 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2022 05:35 PM (xhxe
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Skip, that link is a 404
Can you fix it?
Posted by: Ciampino
https://is.gd/c02DmF
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 05, 2022 05:47 PM (t7RX7)
Lightfoot's Chicagoland on a free fire zone
Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2022 05:47 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2022 05:46 PM (KLPy
Maybe we should ask Musk and Thiel to take a look at doing the Reform Party thing. They've got money.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at December 05, 2022 05:48 PM (MIb2C)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 05, 2022 05:48 PM (fs1hN)
Musk has a huge cult following in other countries. They would drop their I phones in a heartbeat.
Posted by: polynikes at December 05, 2022 05:48 PM (l4ZPt)
It would be a lot easier if the GOPe weren't determined to help the Dems put "Reverend" Warlock from the Ebenezer Scrooge Baptist Church in office.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:49 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: naturalfake at December 05, 2022 05:46 PM (KLPy
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Still, if we beat a RINO, it's something.
How long ago did Ace suggest the Shit List? I definitely nominate Tillis for a spot on it. We just pick out some, and go all out to kill their careers, not matter whom the D's nominate.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2022 05:49 PM (TgBWG)
The remaining customers would rather pluck out their eyes than use a Peasantphone.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:50 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: IC - #FJB #MitchTheBitch at December 05, 2022 05:50 PM (mnUzy)
And Musk is just the man who's prepared to exploit that.
Last I checked, Apple didn't have any launch capability.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:50 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Yudhishthira
Right. Well except if you took away their Twitter...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 05, 2022 05:51 PM (t7RX7)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:47 PM (bW8dp)
Tim Cook, the CEO of the largest smart phone manufacturer in the world, disagrees with you. If he thought Musk had no leverage at all, Musk would be right now begging some knock off smart phone brands to download the Twitter App. Satellite smart phones are coming, and Apple knows it - and Musk controls that universe, not Apple.
Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2022 05:51 PM (+Cgut)
Musk has demonstrated that he is perfectly capable of creating a popular luxury brand from scratch.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 05, 2022 05:51 PM (KCOCK)
I'm sure that one of you jackwagons has pointed out that "dreamers" already have a path to US citizenship: Take your ass home, go to the local US consulate and request the paperwork for emigration.
Besides, they already have citizenship... in their home countries.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2022 05:51 PM (n+4am)
Posted by: Piper at December 05, 2022 05:41 PM (ZdaMQ)
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He could lock the Deep State spies and name it the HyperSnoop.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 05:52 PM (z5Neb)
I think you are misreading.
Cook blinked, because Musk holds all the cards in the long run.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:52 PM (bW8dp)
"Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti sentenced to 14 years in prison for obstruction and embezzling millions of dollars from his clients."
Posted by: gnat's local 678 at December 05, 2022 05:52 PM (kFrCu)
/spit.
Government spending is what is driving inflation... so of course, the governments solution is to spend more money.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2022 05:52 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 05:52 PM (z5Neb)
Tim Cook, the CEO of the largest smart phone manufacturer in the world, disagrees with you. If he thought Musk had no leverage at all, Musk would be right now begging some knock off smart phone brands to download the Twitter App.
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I don't doubt that he does. I do doubt that it's an ill-defined threat about an awesome new satphone.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:52 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 05, 2022 05:53 PM (SJsWC)
Posted by: Yudhishthira'
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Heh, could lead to a version of the old Ford vs. Chevy contretemps, iDoodle vs. Muskphone.
By their phone ye shall know them.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2022 05:53 PM (clWQn)
Ocho ballots, por favor.
Posted by: The Future of our Country at December 05, 2022 05:54 PM (enJYY)
Besides, they already have citizenship... in their home countries.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2022 05:51 PM (n+4am)
Its clear from the Constitution that Congress controls the laws about immigration and naturalization... when the Supremoes ruled that Dual Citizenship was AOK, it was CLEARLY overstepping its powers.
That is the first step to cleaning up immigration IMO, get rid of dual citizenship.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2022 05:54 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2022 05:54 PM (B1OdU)
Posted by: Romeo13
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See: The Inflation Reduction Act
'We have to spend money in order to balance the budget'
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2022 05:55 PM (clWQn)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 05, 2022 05:52 PM (bW8dp)
Sorry RB - you are right - I didn't read your comment correctly - you have the right train of thought - sorry!
Posted by: Boswell at December 05, 2022 05:55 PM (+Cgut)
Posted by: gnat's local 678 at December 05, 2022 05:56 PM (kFrCu)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2022 05:51 PM (n+4am)
This has been a point of contention in our church. The Pope wants us to welcome the illegals with open arms, and open wallets. Many have noted that there are Catholic churches in Mexico, too, and the illegals are already citizens there. Maybe those churches need to step up.
Posted by: Wally at December 05, 2022 05:56 PM (FJYfm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 05, 2022 05:56 PM (PWvcU)
"Disgraced attorney Michael Avenatti sentenced to 14 years in prison for obstruction and embezzling millions of dollars from his clients."
Posted by: gnat
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Wait...I thought that he was Presidential timber.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2022 05:57 PM (clWQn)
Chinas consul pro tem
China buy US cheap
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 05:11 PM (dwYx+)
You here long time. You go now, mitch.
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 05, 2022 05:57 PM (Rbu5d)
When the ship hits the sand and the junta decides to switch off cell phone towers to control the people, those thousands of LO commsats are going to be mighty handy to those the junta seeks to silence and eliminate.
We are already in a communist country without rule of law, its not that long before the ferals understand that and join the Left in the game of total economic/social destruction.
Some dinged bats already are shooting out power substations for kicks.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 05, 2022 05:57 PM (3hSHB)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 05, 2022 05:57 PM (clWQn)
He is.
Posted by: ... at December 05, 2022 05:58 PM (B1OdU)
Now do Sam Bank Fraud
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 05, 2022 05:58 PM (3hSHB)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:35 PM (oINRc)
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Chicken Shack on the way home from work.
Fat black man in the corner, leaning back in his chair, shotgun laying across his lap.
He meant it too.
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 05:58 PM (dwYx+)
I'm sure that one of you jackwagons has pointed out that "dreamers" already have a path to US citizenship: Take your ass home, go to the local US consulate and request the paperwork for emigration.
Besides, they already have citizenship... in their home countries.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 05, 2022 05:51 PM (n+4am)
But they are being forced to live in the shadows!!
Oh wait, no one is forcing them to stay. They can still go home. Oh well.
Posted by: Javems at December 05, 2022 05:58 PM (AmoqO)
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Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 05, 2022 05:19 PM (t7RX7)
This.
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 05, 2022 06:00 PM (Rbu5d)
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If Elon Musk makes a new smartphone as an alternative to the iPhone and Android to fight censorship, will you get one?
Yes, I’ll get one . _ 71.3%
Yes, I’ll get multiple _13.6%
No, . . . . _ 15.1%
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 06:00 PM (dwYx+)
What's that in California years? One?
Posted by: lowandslow at December 05, 2022 06:01 PM (76Foq)
Remember, if Elon actually calls his phone a muskaphone, he owes me royalties. I will share, obviously.
Posted by: Piper
His phone company should be MuskaTel.
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There was a well orchestrated practice run in CA some several years ago.
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at December 05, 2022 06:03 PM (dwYx+)
@208 Patrick Henry, I think. But it was 3000 miles.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 05, 2022 06:04 PM (jYCXf)
Has anybody come up with the color for this internal revolutionary coup?
Perhaps the Rainbow Revolution would be most descriptive ...
Posted by: ShainS -- The Humiliation is Part of the Kink at December 05, 2022 05:24 PM (z5Neb)
I believe the overthrow of the USA was assigned the color purple. https://tinyurl.com/bdzj3feb
Posted by: Flyover's Kohlrabi at December 05, 2022 06:05 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 05, 2022 05:47 PM (oINRc)
Yep. Apple's a lifestyle brand, not a tech company.
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How long ago did Ace suggest the Shit List? I definitely nominate Tillis for a spot on it. We just pick out some, and go all out to kill their careers, not matter whom the D's nominate.
Posted by: Eeyore
i'm in.
Posted by: BifBewalski at December 05, 2022 06:07 PM (3CCua)
Myself I would rather have them working paying taxes and filling those 11 million open jobs.
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