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Does this answer your question?
No, it doesn't.
Turning my question into an analogy, rather than just answering the question as phrased, shows you can't keep your thoughts organized.
Quote:pants Wrote:
Does this answer your question?
Quote: (04-21-2017 12:46 PM)MMX2010 Wrote:
Quote:pants Wrote:
Does this answer your question?
No, it doesn't.
Turning my question into an analogy, rather than just answering the question as phrased, shows you can't keep your thoughts organized.
Quote: (04-21-2017 08:41 AM)Sherman Wrote:
Julian Assange's arrest a 'priority': Jeff Sessions
Another big blow. And we all thought Sessions would actually be interested in going after lawless antifas who break windows. The joke is on us. His greater concern is protecting the security state and going after a hero who dares bring information to the people on how their freedoms and rights are being destroyed by the deep state.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/ju...13061.html
Quote: (04-22-2017 01:30 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
As I said before in the Trump thread.
The president cannot simply oppose the entire CIA going gunslinger in front of the TV cameras - imagine a president doing this:
Trump before the press:
"Today I have realized that my entire CIA apparatus is either a bunch of liars, hucksters and workers for more powerful people. Thus I have decided to stop believing in anything they say. That said - Assange is now to be left alone and the Syrian gas attack was done likely by some Jihadi group or ISIS. I am basing all my intelligence decisions on my gut feelings and bits and scraps I read on the internet. I will also stop taking questions from you, because you are fake-news."
Marches off to oval office.
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You see the problem here? Even if he thinks that Assad did not Sarin-bomb his people and Assange is not much of a threat to the US, he cannot simply waltz out there and oppose the fucking CIA.
People should really come to terms with the fact that if treason is deep enough, then a president cannot do too much. That is what General Eisenhower warned about in his final speech.
Quote: (04-21-2017 12:53 PM)pants Wrote:
If that does not help.
Quote me on exactly what i said that needs clarification then. Maybe its simply a typo, i am wrong, or i can explain it.
Quote:Sherman Wrote:
I actually think this thread has more potential for nuanced and skeptical thinking without the annoying chearleading.
Quote: (04-19-2017 03:18 PM)MMX2010 Wrote:
All I did was point out that eliminating the Paris Climate Accord would place the American environment in 2015-conditions, which (in his neighborhood, and in most American neighborhoods) weren't horrible environmental conditions at all.
Quote: (04-22-2017 02:56 AM)pants Wrote:
I rephrased it now
Quote: (04-19-2017 03:18 PM)MMX2010 Wrote:
All I did was point out that eliminating the Paris Climate Accord would place the American environment in 2015-conditions, which (in his neighborhood, and in most American neighborhoods) weren't horrible environmental conditions at all.
When you stop burning fossile fuels the climate will not go back to the condition as it were before we started to burn fossile fuels.
Does this make sense?
Quote: (04-22-2017 03:40 AM)MMX2010 Wrote:
Quote: (04-22-2017 02:56 AM)pants Wrote:
I rephrased it now
Quote: (04-19-2017 03:18 PM)MMX2010 Wrote:
All I did was point out that eliminating the Paris Climate Accord would place the American environment in 2015-conditions , which (..) weren't horrible environmental conditions at all.
When you stop burning fossile fuels the climate will not go back to the condition as it were before we started to burn fossile fuels.
Does this make sense?
No, because my question never contained the clause "climate will go back to the condition it was in before we started burning fossil fuels" (..)
You also didn't highlight the question I asked you, but rather a paragraph (containing zero questions) that was addressed to the entire board, not to you.
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Illegal aliens who crossed the border as children don’t have to worry about being sent home, President Donald Trump told the Associated Press in a Friday interview.
Illegals enrolled in the President Barack Obama’s “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals” DACA program can “rest easy,” Trump said, because “this is a case of heart.”
Federal enforcement agencies are “not [going] after the ‘dreamers,’ we are after the criminals,” he said, using the Democrats’ ‘dreamer’ euphemism for young illegal immigrants. “That is our policy,” he added.
The Friday comments confirm Trump’s reversal of his 2016 campaign promise to stop the DACA quasi-amnesty created by Obama during his 2012 reelection campaign. He created the program in 2012 by telling his immigration enforcement officers to provide young illegals with free work permits instead of repatriation orders. The program has allowed at least 770,000 illegal immigrants to find jobs in major U.S. cities, even though tens of millions of Americans outside the cities are unemployed or have given up trying to find work.
Since his inauguration, Trump’s deputies at the Department of Homeland Security have awarded new work permits to illegals who claim they arrived before age 16, despite Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” slogan.
Trump’s support for the DACA program is one of his biggest “flip-flops,” said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “During the campaign, now-President Trump had said he was going to end that on day one because it’s an unconstitutional action by the president,” Krikorian told Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday. Krikorian continued:
And of course he’s right, it’s illegal. And they’ve done nothing to it. They’ve done absolutely nothing.”
Trump’s post-inauguration turnabout on DACA means that pro-American reformers who want to reduce the impact of illegal-alien workers in the job market will need to bring a lawsuit arguing that the federal government illegally awarded work permits to illegal immigrants, say advocates.
Trump’s refusal to reverse or even stop the DACA program is also a bad sign for future immigration reforms, says Krikorian. That’s because he could stop the program and then use the resulting public outcry to pressure Democrats to establish pro-Americans immigration policies. Those policies could include a mandatory requirement that employers check that job applicants are legal residents in the United States.
In August 2016, Obama’s chief economist said the federal is imposing the economic pain of five simultaneous recessions on less-educated Americans, thereby pushing millions of working-age men off jobs, out of the workforce, and into poverty.
Roughly 10 percent of American “prime age” men, or 7 million men aged 25 to 54, have dropped out of the nation’s workforce of 150 million. They are not trying to get jobs, and are not participating in the nation’s labor force.
“This [dropout] is caused by policies and institutions, not by technology,” admitted Jason Furman, an economist who chaired the president’s Council of Economic Advisors. “We shouldn’t accept it as inevitable,” he told a Brookings Institute expert, Dave Wessel on August 10. The primary reason for reduced employment is that “the amount [of money] that employers would want to hire them for some reason has gone down,” he said.
In February, Trump told that the AP that “DACA is a very, very difficult subject for me … It’s one of the most difficult subjects I have because you have these incredible kids.”
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Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday the United States would honor a controversial refugee deal with Australia which means 1,250 asylum seekers will be rehomed in America — a deal President Donald Trump had described as "dumb".
Pence told a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney that the deal would be subject to vetting, and that honoring it "doesn't mean that we admire the agreement".
"We will honor this agreement out of respect to this enormously important alliance," Pence said at Turnbull's harbor side official residence in Sydney.
Under the deal, agreed with former President Barack Obama late last year, the U.S. would resettle up to 1,250 asylum seekers held in offshore processing camps on South Pacific islands in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
In return, Australia would resettle refugees from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
The White House has already said it would apply "extreme vetting" to those asylum seekers, most of whom are on island camps on the Pacific nations of Nauru and Papua New Guinea. Australia has refused to accept them and instead pays for them to be housed on the impoverished islands.
The deal has taken on added importance for Australia, which is under political and legal pressure to shut the camps, particularly one on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island where violence between residents and inmates has flared.
Quote: (04-22-2017 12:53 PM)Samseau Wrote:
That is a huge flip flop on DACA. It's one thing not to get rid of the kids Obama approved, but to continue the policy under his own administration? Does Trump not understand demographics? No one should be able to get into the USA and give their kids citizenship just from birth.
Quote: (04-22-2017 01:40 PM)Gmac Wrote:
Sounds like a compromise to me.
Quote: (04-22-2017 01:44 PM)Samseau Wrote:
Quote: (04-22-2017 01:40 PM)Gmac Wrote:
Sounds like a compromise to me.
And what is the compromise? Democrats still refusing to comply with anything. Looks like a one-sided deal right now.
Quote: (04-22-2017 12:53 PM)Samseau Wrote:
That is a huge flip flop on DACA. It's one thing not to get rid of the kids Obama approved, but to continue the policy under his own administration? Does Trump not understand demographics? No one should be able to get into the USA and give their kids citizenship just from birth.
Quote: (04-22-2017 01:51 PM)Gmac Wrote:
Quote: (04-22-2017 01:44 PM)Samseau Wrote:
Quote: (04-22-2017 01:40 PM)Gmac Wrote:
Sounds like a compromise to me.
And what is the compromise? Democrats still refusing to comply with anything. Looks like a one-sided deal right now.
That's why I continue to take Fisto's advice whenever I feel a knee-jerk reaction coming on. I sense a good deal behind the scenes that will likely reveal itself in the near future.
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Mario Hernandez-Delacruz is a man of many identities. Hernandez-Delacruz is a father of three, and a homeowner in southwest Detroit. He is a small-business owner, running his own flooring and carpeting business, and a regular taxpayer, giving the government his due. He has followed rules and regulations — keeping his car registered and insured. He is a churchgoing man, and has worked to better his community by volunteering his services at the Spanish United Pentecostal Church. And, he is also an undocumented immigrant.
It was that last part of his identity that on April 14 cost him a one-way plane ticket to Mexico. It didn’t matter that Trump had promised to keep immigrant families together; what mattered was that Hernandez-Delacruz was undocumented. Despite the fact that he had been living in Detroit for 19 years, contributing to his community and supporting his family, new Trump administration policies resulted in his deportation.
Quote: (04-22-2017 05:15 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:
Good things are happening on illegal immigration. They're being deported en-masse, and their cries of "But I'm a good citizen!" are going completely unheard as ICE hands them one-way tickets to Mexico.
Quote: (04-22-2017 05:15 PM)SamuelBRoberts Wrote:
We're getting more than I ever hoped. The idea that illegal immigrants are threat to American jobs is now firmly ensconced in the national culture. I haven't heard that "but they add to the economy!" nonsense in forever. The wall is being built. The Justice Department is adding huge numbers of judges to work through the immigration caselog. Illegals are self-deporting in huge numbers, and no longer bothering to come at all.