Yes, I can, because that’s exactly what liberals were doing in 2020-2022 in the wake of the George Floyd riots.

LOL, when? People who were white were being targeted for getting rounded up by a rogue outfit like ICE, which is now threatening to go “door to door”?

Also, 2020 - 2022 - that spanned two administrations. You are saying both administrations targeted the poor widdle whites?

Was that before or after they were doxxed?

I guess they could take the advice of conservatives everywhere and “self deport”.

Yeah, all good points. The conservatives only like to talk about people “invading” the country “only” for things like economic ones (in other words, finding a job). They don’t like to talk about any systemic things and how things like NAFTA might have created such conditions…

Anyway, yeah, depending on the options of either shrinking ICE to a fraction of their funding and size and constraining them in a sane way, or the plan to outright abolish them - the implementation would matter a great deal as to what would make the most sense.

If it’s done smash-and-grab style like the fake “doge” group did, I don’t think that’d be good. If there are actual plans to spin down staff and transition responsibilities and data to other appropriate group(s), being led by someone that actually knows something - that’d be the right way.

He questioned if the people of Minnesota “really want to live in a community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escaped prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention.”

/facepalm

He is so fucking stupid.

Will someone please tell donnie dumbass what asylum means?

It doesn’t mean they came from a mental institution. JFC, this is the stupidest fucking timeline.

Depending on the research group, they may limit it to certain people.

There’s been a lot of those. Some more easily accessible than others.

The book Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations: The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data is rather interesting and Micah delves into how you might contribute in analyzing the data…

50% oppose doing so

I don’t know if I’d support abolishing them. But I would definitely support reeling them in, defunding them by a lot, and having a lot more oversight, including from the states, on where they can go, and how they are used. All the cosplaying bullshit should be taken away from them (and cops, too) - the militarization is just ridiculous.

And for sure - none of these fuckers should be masked. Not ONE of them should be allowed to do that job anonymously.

If those changes are not on the table, yeah, abolish ICE.

So I really wonder how that 50% looks if you were to dig in. Probably a LOT of nuance in there.

Slurp, slurp.

Well, “Americans” are right about that.

Fuck, I barely hear anything from Democrats or the left about trans except to A) acknowledge they exist and B) they have that right to exist.

Nearly every conversation about trans seems to be something initiated by the crazy, unhinged out of touch right wing. Same thing when it comes to things like furries and supposed litter boxes in schools…

It seems they moved on to feverishly thinking about trans nearly 24/7 now that gay marriage is no longer as politically divisive as it once appeared…they keep on trying to cast everyone else as being weird with dumb phrases like “what is a woman? can you define what a woman even is?” and other such tripe, trying to paint Democrats as being out of touch.

The message: “don’t fuck wit da conomy”.

Yeah, I think that’s why lots of them spent a lot of time and energy on conspiracy theory and “doing their own research” (meaning, trading tall tales with people equally clueless about critical thinking).

The notion that disease can just happen - these people also deny evolution so they struggle with this notion for sure - is anathema and threatens their world view. So of course it had to be a conspiracy - China is covering up Wuhan stuff, Fauci did it with “gain of function” research - and that’s when they acknowledge the disease at all. When not doing endless arguing over the source they’d downplay the entire thing. It was “only” the old, it was “only” those with preconditions, and we all just need to “open everything back up” and “get back to work”, and so on, even if millions have to die, because we must make the line go up.

In addition to that, they’d spend lots of time complaining about “the clot shot” and instead do nearly anything but acknowledge that the experts actually know anything and have public safety in mind. Nope, everything is a conspiracy and experts are not really experts, so preventative things like social distancing, avoiding in-person things, doing remote learning and remote work, masking up and of course, the vaccine that was a modern-day moon shot is a big plot to get conservatives or whatever.

So instead, they are resorting to bullshit medicine like HCQ and horse dewormer. Once the stupid train left the station, that’s where it was bound to end up.

I think what really, really broke their brains was the fact that they want to be able to follow and repeat narratives that Faux and Taco make up for them, and those are usually entirely unshakable. Except for something like the pandemic, combined with watching the market and job numbers go into freefall. No amount of spinning from Taco OR Bullshit Mountain was going to change that bedrock truth.

And that infuriated not only a whole lot of redcaps, it drove Taco absolutely nuts. If there is something that the conservatives just cannot stand, it’s when liberals are proven correct, and that was happening nearly every day during the peak of Covid.

The 20s are not over, and Donvict 2.0 is only at the one year mark.

Donvict has been harping on wanting lower interest rates, so it seems that is the likely outcome.

You may be right. I have little idea as I’ve not really paid attention to Musk prior to about 2022. I’d probably have to read some biographies about him (and ones that aren’t simping for him, since there certainly was and still is a LOT of that) that cover the kinds of things he did in the 90s.

It’s quite interesting to see what really tips these conservative Karens into a blind fury.

I remember hearing them constantly bitch about seeing people in their own cars wearing masks. Of course they have no context, they just thought that was soy boys being total pussies or overly compliant or whatever the fuck.

They’d bitch that they couldn’t understand people in masks. Of course you could usually hear people if you bothered to listen, but these bitchy Karens were upset that people were even acknowledging that there was a pandemic. They’d rather that everyone had just engaged in the same delusion Donvict wanted to engage in, which was to just ignore it for economic reasons in order to support Donvict…

And now - after all the years where they concern-trolled about “government overreach” and “tyrannical government” they are just fine with the tyranny being done by people in masks.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

One of my favorite Bushism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushism

And we have a military base there, too.

I think someone wrote some gaslighty DARVO piece in The Atlantic taking this “reasonable” position about how we “had” to acquire Greenland at any cost.

I still don’t understand how any of their reasons are real reasons, other than Donvict wanting to feel like his tiny peen is yooooge and still works.

Never underestimate the power of large groups of dumb people doing very dumb things.

The redcaps are not a majority, but they got Donvict into office and Donvict probably has something like the Sarah Palin Floor for support - somewhere in the high 20s percent to low 30s percent, I’d wager. That’s millions of very stupid people that are cheerleading dumb things.

It’s really wild how all these things are coming back around again.

It’s especially wild because it seems lately the mediascape has been practically saturated with stuff (most of it seemingly from very misinformed/uninformed people that are much younger than the boomers) that tries to paint “boomers” as one big monolith.

In some moments, I actually start to nearly buy into this nonsensical rhetoric.

And then I remember this is the generation where things like the Panthers, the Weather Underground, the SDS, and so much else was going on as well. The people kind of mindlessly spewing stuff about boomers would probably do well to zip their lip for a bit and actually learn something about that generation.

I don’t have any special information, so this may sound like a conspiracy theory, but it seems that when people with very deep pockets have someone fucking with their stuff, it seems like they retaliate and in not-so-peaceful ways.

And fucking with the markets is very much something these kinds of people consider “their stuff”.

Donvict is a moron, but it seems he’d be cunning enough to realize this and he probably even had an understanding about this kind of danger on a much lower level when he was rubbing elbows with the mafia in NYC. But maybe he’s not as cunning as I thought.