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House Passes Bill Requiring Proof Of Citizenship To Vote
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Trump Admin Will Fine Illegals Almost $1000 Per Day If They Don't Self-Deport
Thursday, Apr 10, 2025 - 08:45 AM
Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
The Trump administration has announced it will issue fines of $998 per day to illegal immigrants who do not voluntarily deport themselves.
Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News, “Illegal aliens should use the CBP Home app to self-deport and leave the country now.”
“If they don’t, they will face the consequences. This includes a fine of $998 per day for every day that the illegal alien overstayed their final deportation order,” McLaughlin added.
Reuters further notes that a Trump official confirmed the administration intends to use a 1996 law to apply retroactive penalties on illegal aliens dating back up to five years, meaning fines could rack up to over $1 million.
The report also states that government emails suggest the administration could seize property owned by illegals who refuse to pay the fines.
A DHS flyer aimed at illegals has also been highlighted by Fox News, touting the “benefits” and “consequences” of self-deporting, and includes mention of the huge fines.
“Self-deportation is safe. Leave on your own terms by picking your departure flight,” the flyer states.
The flyer further notes that those who make the decision to leave will be allowed to keep the money they earned in America, and still be eligible for legal immigration, in the future as well as subsidized flights if they cannot afford them.
It further adds that those who do not leave immediately will be “apprehended by DHS with no opportunity to get your affairs in order beforehand,” and could face additional fines of $1,000 to $5,000 for failing to self deport after “claiming that you will.”
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Quote:6ixStringJack, you act the same as every Trumptard. Weaklings that cannot calmly, bravely, and intelligently face adversity. Always on the edge of a mental breakdown. Frequently over the edge.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
Are we going to have to listen to you fucking goons freak out about the fucking market on a daily basis now?
Is he "stupid, erratic and weak" on economic policy like Paul Krugman said, or he is Nancy Pelosi like The Atlantic says?
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump Has Blinked In the Worst Possible Way
By Phillips P. Obrien | Apr 10, 2025
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/sentiment-can-be-overrated-trus
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You might want to see this video of Trump speaking to his supporters on Tuesday night.
There is, as always, the damaged and weak ego of a tyrant on display. Everyone is supposedly afraid of him, cowering in his presence and, naturally, lining up to start “kissing” his ass. The crowd cheering this nonsense is sign enough of the terrible state that the USA is in.
However, beyond the childish and cruel sentiments—there was also the boasting. Trump has been saying for days that there would be no pause in his tariffs—that they were beautiful things that would set the USA on a course to greater prosperity, blah, blah, blah.
Then yesterday, without a single ass-kissing deal agreed, he blinked and paused the tariffs for 90 days (at which point they will almost certainly be paused again).
Trump had blinked before when faced with the prospect of tariffs on Canada and Mexico alone—and they would not have created as much chaos as the full package of tariffs he proposed last week. If you don’t remember that earlier climb down—here is a piece on it from early February. Trump’s behavior proceeded in a cycle eerily similar to the last few days. There was the bombast, the threats (51st State!), the attacks on US friends—and then, inevitably the humiliating climb down.
Damaging US Relationships for Nothing
https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/damaging-us-relationships-for-n
othing
The truth, as always, is Trump remains a weak, bully—something which is being repetitively highlighted to other states by his cycle of threats and folds with no significant gains.
And who do you think will be most effected by this? Naturally the states that have the most to gain or lose through interacting with the USA—America’s security partners and possible security threats.
The role of Allies is something that Trump simply does not understand. He views relationships from what might best be termed a bilateral, zero-sum position. No state is a friend or a foe (except for Russia under Putin—which is always given the benefit of the doubt), and the success of the US relationship with any other state is measured by what the US gets financially and gives up financially. This is why he obsesses about trade deficits or relative levels of defense spending—because they are childish but easy to read metrics (which tell you almost nothing of the true value of an ally).
This deeply flawed view of international relations and power misses the enormous benefits that the US has accrued from its allies and partners. The entire US position in the western Pacific, which has given the country enormous strategic benefits, is secured by its alliances with places such as Japan and South Korea, and partnership with countries like Taiwan. There importance is such that they could very well be determinative in any war in the Indo Pacific—as was outlined in my recent CSIS piece.
These benefits have only accrued because the United States has been seen—and has acted—like a trustworthy partner who has in the past and will continue in the future to fulfill its obligations.
However, what these and others states have seen since Trump returned to the White House has been the US acting like an economic bully (and failing), while rowing back on security commitments where possible. Yes these states will and have had their feelings hurt—but more importantly, they are coming to no longer believe that the US is their ally—but instead an extractive competitor who would never stand by them in a crisis.
And if allies lose their trust in the USA, that will also be a huge benefit to possible competitors such as China. The Chinese can now present themselves as defenders of free trade, as a reliable business partner and as a state that can be counted on for consistency. In other words, the US cannot be trusted on to be a good friend (or really any kind of friend) but a
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Economists Say America’s Trade Deficits Are a Sign of Dominance Not Weakness
https://time.com/7275957/trump-tariffs-usa-trade-deficits-economic-gro
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Paul Wiseman in Time:
Trump and his trade advisers insist that the rules governing global commerce put the United States at a distinct disadvantage. But mainstream economists—whose views Trump and his advisers disdain—say the president has a warped idea of world trade, especially a preoccupation with trade deficits, which they say do nothing to impede growth.
The administration accuses other countries of erecting unfair trade barriers to keep out American exports and using underhanded tactics to promote their own. In Trump’s telling, his tariffs are a long-overdue reckoning: The U.S. is the victim of an economic mugging by Europe, China, Mexico, Japan and even Canada.
It’s true that some countries charge higher taxes on imports than the United States does. Some manipulate their currencies lower to ensure that their goods are price-competitive in international markets. Some governments lavish their industries with subsidies to give them an edge.
However, the United States is still the second-largest exporter in the world, after China.
More at https://time.com/7275957/trump-tariffs-usa-trade-deficits-economic-gro
wth-strength-world-order/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Keep crying about everything man. It must be miserable to be you right now, huh?
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJack, you act
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.
Are we going to have to listen to you fucking goons freak out about the fucking market on a daily basis now?
Is he "stupid, erratic and weak" on economic policy like Paul Krugman said, or he is Nancy Pelosi like The Atlantic says?
SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Shut. the. fuck. up.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:It's too bad for Trumptards that Trump had a mental breakdown. Send get-well-soon cards to the White House.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Keep crying about everything man. It must be miserable to be you right now, huh?
Shut. the. fuck. up.
Trump blinks on tariffs in the face of GOP resistance — but hasn't given up his cult-leader dreams
"BE COOL": Trump is still projecting "last days of Waco" vibes, despite a 90-day "pause" on tariffs
By Amanda Marcotte | April 10, 2025
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/10/blinks-on-tariffs-in-face-of-resistan
ce--but-he-hasnt-given-up-on-his-leader-dreams/
We're getting a compelling illustration on the national stage of how a cult leader can induce his followers to stick by him, even as he loses his mind and his behavior becomes too erratic and dangerous to defend. Almost every Republican on Capitol Hill knows that Donald Trump's tariff plan is political suicide, but few are willing to admit that Dear Leader fully intends to see this idiocy to the very end.
Calling Trump's move a "victory" among his true believers, it will likely be short-lived because of his underlying problems.
Trump has a messiah complex, which has only grown since that missed assassin's bullet from July was hyped by his followers into 'proof' that he's the Chosen One. Even as he blinks momentarily on his tariff mania, his behavior is getting even more erratic in a way that's got 'last days of Waco' vibes from a president who has already unsubtly compared himself to David Koresh. His Truth Social meltdown when announcing the 'pause' indicates a decline in Trump's already-fragile mental state.
The president tried to explain away his about-face just days after posting on Truth Social he has no intention of backing down from his policies.
With Trump writing, "They are dying to make a deal. 'Please, please sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything sir,'” it was a moment quite reminiscent of how late-stage cult leaders experience a total collapse between reality and their grandiose fantasies before boasting, "Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before!"
It all feels like the final stage of a cult, when the leader's frantic efforts to retain control result in escalating dictates and prophecies that become increasingly hard for followers to make sense of.
Republicans would be foolish to treat this 90-day pause as a victory big enough to justify scurrying back to their holes, to hide from the wrath of Dear Leader. He is spiraling and sees these tariffs as the final proving ground of his total conquest of the GOP. He will keep going back to that well — which means economic tumult, more stock market crashes, and more panicked constituents — unless this tariff nonsense is put to bed entirely.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump’s Tariff Policies Are Perfectly Coherent After Factoring In His Psychology
The fundamental truth of Donald Trump is that he apparently cannot conceive of any relationship between individuals, peoples or states as anything other than a status game, a competition for dominance. His long history of scams and hostile litigation — not to mention his frequent refusal to pay contractors, lawyers, brokers and other people who were working for him — is evidence enough of the reality that a deal with Trump is less an agreement between equals than an opportunity for Trump to abuse and exploit the other party for his own benefit. For Trump, there is no such thing as a mutually beneficial relationship or a positive-sum outcome. In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win, and someone has to lose. And Trump, as we all know, is a winner.
This simple fact of the president’s psychology does more to explain his antipathy to international trade and enthusiasm for tariffs and other trade barriers than any theorizing about his intentions or overall vision. It certainly is not as if he has a considered view of the global economy. It is not even clear that Trump knows what a tariff is. This isn’t a dig. The president genuinely seems to think of tariffs as fees that foreign countries pay to the United States. “We have massive Financial Deficits with China, the European Union, and many others,” he wrote on his Truth Social website on Sunday. “The only way this problem can be cured is with TARIFFS, which are now bringing Tens of Billions of Dollars into the U.S.A.” Here, you also see his related belief that a trade deficit is an actual absence of funds, akin to a negative balance in a bank account.
“I spoke to a lot of leaders — European, Asian — from all over the world. They’re dying to make a deal, but I said, ‘We’re not gonna have deficits with your country,’ ” the president told reporters on board Air Force One over the weekend. “We’re not gonna do that, because to me a deficit is a loss. We’re gonna have surpluses, or at worst we’re gonna be breaking even.”
Of course, a trade deficit is not a loss any more than it is a loss when you, as a consumer, spend your cash at a grocery store. When American businesses buy raw materials from foreign countries to make their own products — when they buy finished products and sell them on their shelves — they aren’t incurring a loss. They are exchanging currency for something of value, which they will go on to use or sell for a profit. As a statement of economic policy, Trump’s pronouncement makes no sense. But as an expression of his zero-sum instinct, of his desire to dominate, it is perfectly coherent.
https://attentiontotheunseen.com/2025/04/09/trumps-drive-to-dominate-c
an-neither-be-satisfied-nor-appeased/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump’s Orwellian rewrite of 2020
He’s trying to criminalize telling the truth about 2020.
By Patrick Reis | Apr 10, 2025, 4:43 PM CDT
https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/408211/trump-2020-elec
tion-denialism-cybersecurity-january-6
Economic chaos from President Donald Trump’s tariffs continues to dominate headlines, but today I want to focus on his continuing effort to rewrite the history of the 2020 election — and his troubling use of government power to push the lie that he won it.
What’s the latest?
• Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate Chris Krebs, his first-term pick to lead a cybersecurity agency. Krebs, while in office, publicly acknowledged that the 2020 election was a fair contest.
• Trump attempted to pull security clearances and kill government contracts for the law firm Susman Godfrey, which represented a voting machine firm that sued Fox News for lying about the 2020 race’s integrity, leading to a $787.5 million settlement. It’s the latest law firm to incur Trump’s wrath for engaging in disfavored political activity.
• Trump’s pick for a top Interior Department position was forced to withdraw amid revelations she’d criticized Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection.
What’s the big picture? Trump has long insisted that Joe Biden’s 2020 victory was fraudulent. That’s a lie. What’s true is that Trump lost the 2020 election but tried to stay in power anyway. But Trump has now accumulated enough power — and is willing enough to abuse that power — to impose consequences for noncompliance with the official narrative. It’s the exact kind of abuse the First Amendment was intended to prevent.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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