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ICE agreed to a Netflix documentary for propaganda but they recorded so many examples of illegal tactics, lying, terrorizing, and mocking that ICE is demanding it not be aired next month.
A Rare Look Inside Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Draws Legal Threats
A new documentary peers inside the secretive world of immigration enforcement. The filmmakers faced demands to delete scenes and delay broadcast until after the election.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/trump-immigration-nation-netflix
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Section of Donald Trump's 'indestructible' border wall COLLAPSES as Tropical Storm Hanna lashes south Texas
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8562843/Moment-Trumps-indestr
uctible-border-wall-collapses-Tropical-Storm-Hanna-lashes-south-Texas.html
The video posted to Twitter on Sunday shows construction workers standing by and watching as fierce gusts knock the steel structure to the ground. The clip became the target of ridicule on social media as critics likened the collapse to President Trump's re-election campaign.
So much for that wall... 
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Leave a job to the Unions and you get Union quality work.
Then again, the Legacy Media was showing children caged up a few years ago claiming that it was Trump doing it when the photos were actually taken from a story that happened during the Obama administration.
The media probably shouldn't be "Covington Kidding" this story until they know what actually happened. It's quite clear from the article they don't, and they don't even know where it happened.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by reaverfan:
ICE agreed to a Netflix documentary for propaganda but they recorded so many examples of illegal tactics, lying, terrorizing, and mocking that ICE is demanding it not be aired next month.
A Rare Look Inside Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Draws Legal Threats
A new documentary peers inside the secretive world of immigration enforcement. The filmmakers faced demands to delete scenes and delay broadcast until after the election.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/trump-immigration-nation-netflix
.html
Agreed, I'd add, Jacob Soboroff is the guy to follow regarding this topic.
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.
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We wouldn't even need a wall if we just cut off any and all forms of financial aid and the ability for anybody without a social security number to make money here.
Wouldn't need ICE either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:6ix, stop thinking that your social security number means you deserve special treatment. I can cut more than you with no consequences to me, but it would be terrible for the unemployed, poor white trash, prisoners, the homeless, the mentally ill, etc. Too bad, so sad, for them, but great for me since my taxes would be lower:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
We wouldn't even need a wall if we just cut off any and all forms of financial aid and the ability for anybody without a social security number to make money here.
Wouldn't need ICE either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
The Cult of Selfishness Is Killing America
The right has made irresponsible behavior a key principle.
America’s response to the coronavirus has been a lose-lose proposition.
The Trump administration and governors like Florida’s Ron DeSantis insisted that there was no trade-off between economic growth and controlling the disease, and they were right — but not in the way they expected.
Premature reopening led to a surge in infections: Adjusted for population, Americans are currently dying from Covid-19 at around 15 times the rate in the European Union or Canada. Yet the “rocket ship” recovery Donald Trump promised has crashed and burned: Job growth appears to have stalled or reversed, especially in states that were most aggressive about lifting social distancing mandates, and early indications are that the U.S. economy is lagging behind the economies of major European nations.
So we’re failing dismally on both the epidemiological and the economic fronts. But why?
On the face of it, the answer is that Trump and allies were so eager to see big jobs numbers that they ignored both infection risks and the way a resurgent pandemic would undermine the economy. As I and others have said, they failed the marshmallow test, sacrificing the future because they weren’t willing to show a little patience.
And there’s surely a lot to that explanation. But it isn’t the whole story.
For one thing, people truly focused on restarting the economy should have been big supporters of measures to limit infections without hurting business — above all, getting Americans to wear face masks. Instead, Trump ridiculed those in masks as “politically correct,” while Republican governors not only refused to mandate mask-wearing, but they prevented mayors from imposing local mask rules.
Also, politicians eager to see the economy bounce back should have wanted to sustain consumer purchasing power until wages recovered. Instead, Senate Republicans ignored the looming July 31 expiration of special unemployment benefits, which means that tens of millions of workers are about to see a huge hit to their incomes, damaging the economy as a whole.
So what was going on? Were our leaders just stupid? Well, maybe. But there’s a deeper explanation of the profoundly self-destructive behavior of Trump and his allies: They were all members of America’s cult of selfishness.
You see, the modern U.S. right is committed to the proposition that greed is good, that we’re all better off when individuals engage in the untrammeled pursuit of self-interest. In their vision, unrestricted profit maximization by businesses and unregulated consumer choice is the recipe for a good society.
Support for this proposition is, if anything, more emotional than intellectual. I’ve long been struck by the intensity of right-wing anger against relatively trivial regulations, like bans on phosphates in detergent and efficiency standards for light bulbs. It’s the principle of the thing: Many on the right are enraged at any suggestion that their actions should take other people’s welfare into account.
This rage is sometimes portrayed as love of freedom. But people who insist on the right to pollute are notably unbothered by, say, federal agents tear-gassing peaceful protesters. What they call “freedom” is actually absence of responsibility.
Rational policy in a pandemic, however, is all about taking responsibility. The main reason you shouldn
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A small federal agency focused on preventing industrial disasters is on life support because Trump wants it gone.
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board is without enough voting members, and its investigations are stuck in limbo.
It was late in the second shift when workers at a silicone factory in Illinois noticed something had gone wrong. A tank of silicon hydride, used to make water repellent, started foaming and hissing. An operator mixing the chemicals in the tank yelled in frustration. Two of his coworkers came running. A pale yellow haze filled the air. It was hot. None of this was normal.
A supervisor quickly ordered one worker to turn on the exhaust fans and another to open the building’s garage doors, but neither got the chance. Within seconds, the 30,000-square-foot building exploded, rattling homes and businesses within 20 miles of the Waukegan, Illinois, factory. Rescue crews had to sift through the rubble for four days to find each of the bodies.
Four workers died the night of May 3, 2019, at AB Specialty Silicones, including the chemical operator and his boss. Yet the public may never find out what went wrong, and other chemical companies may never learn how to prevent a similar blast. That’s because the small, independent federal agency that investigates chemical disasters is on life support, and the Trump administration wants it to disappear altogether.
That agency, the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, investigates accidents and makes recommendations — but it doesn’t regulate the industry. Since 1998, it has looked into some of the nation’s biggest industrial disasters, including the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, which killed 11 workers and dumped an estimated 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico; and the 2005 explosion at the BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, that killed 15 workers and injured 180. The board’s work has led to changes in industry practices from Texas to Kansas and laws in states from Mississippi to Connecticut.
It’s likely, however, that when the investigation into the AB Specialty Silicones explosion wraps up, the board will not be able to meet the quorum needed to vet and approve investigators’ findings and recommendations. Since May 2, it has been operating with only one voting member out of a possible five — one vote short of a quorum. It’s been effectively disabled.
The White House hasn’t announced plans to fill the board’s four vacant seats. In fact, President Donald Trump has been trying to do the opposite, pushing to eliminate the board in each of his annual budget proposals — though he hasn’t persuaded Congress to defund it.
More at www.vox.com/2020/7/28/21336481/chemical-safety-hazard-investigation-bo
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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If only Biden were the bearer of that button.
But he's not.
And if democrats don't do any different, how are they any better?
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This comes as no surprise. 6ix would even agree.
Alt-Right’ Watches Most Porn But Has Least Sex, New Survey Finds
https://avn.com/business/articles/legal/alt-right-watches-most-porn-bu
t-has-least-sex-new-survey-finds-884526.html
Members of the political faction known as the “alt-right,” the extreme right wing of the ideological spectrum, are more likely to watch porn than any people who subscribe to other points of view. But at the same time, alt-right individuals are less likely to actually have sex with another person. Those are just a couple of the findings in an extensive survey of sex and politics conducted by the tube site xHamster, released this week.
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Quote:The establishment Dems, like the Republicans, are loyal only to their lobbyists.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
If only Biden were the bearer of that button.
But he's not.
And if democrats don't do any different, how are they any better?
Dumping Trump is only step 1. Joe defeating him is not an instant escape from fascism. Joe's fine with fascism, as his record plainly shows.
I'm afraid that when Trump is gone, people will assume that our slow march into total fascism has somehow been stopped. They will be wrong.
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