Aaron

Hi! Good question!

In addition to it being their responsibility to be a check and balance due to being a co-equal branch of government, specifically the article 1 branch in charge of the nation’s purse, they’re also entitled to unannounced access to any DHS facility specifically from the Appropriations law passed by Congress itself as a condition to monies disbursed for the purpose of detention or housing of “illegal aliens” (legal wording, not mine).

In order to enforce this right of oversight, usually a subpoena or command would be enough, however anticipating an article 2 body preventing the exercise of legal oversight, the house would be within their right to have the US House Sergeant at Arms accompany them to the appropriate facility they were interested in accessing and could invoke detention for inherent contempt of Congress.

Your decision to witting or unwittingly strawman the argument is noted and ignored.

Keep goose-stepping along the path?

It’s the fascists who SHOULD go, but that’s not often how it works in reality. And LOTS of people are trying to flee. Not everyone can or should fight. It’s going to be a long and hard, but necessary, road to fascists being held to account.

Some of them are held prisoners by Nazis… not everyone has the ability to flee unfortunately. There are levels of resistance but I can’t fault absolutely everyone there for being beaten down at this point.

There’s a difference in a single ping nearby and several pings with a protest, also like the LA protests they may have drones overhead to get even more accurate pings

Edit: sorry maybe you weren’t being disingenuous if you actually attended one. My apologies if so

There is no noise anymore. They have the computing power to sort through everything caught in the dragnet now.

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Oh lol it’s a stereotype that lesbian relationships move fast… and move in fast 😆 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Haul_lesbian

Not doing wonders for the stereotypes 😆

Pete didn’t add him, Mike Waltz did. But that’s neither here nor there, they all were in the wrong.

This was the primary reason for me leaving the church, but I had begun my whole “deconstruction” journey years earlier. Between losing my belief and losing my religion, I was there to be a good influence on the true believers. I eventually realised it was useless to do so, that these people who I once considered friends were actually just horrible people. I’m embarrassed how long I really ignored some toxic beliefs and actions just because the people committing them were doing so “for sincerely held beliefs”. Trump and Covid were the real catalysts just because the way and the speed of their “mask off” transition made it obvious even to a socially inept person like me that they were just bad people.

I’m not a financial advisor, so nobody copy this, but we removed all our money from the US over the last few years in preparation. We dont have stocks any more, and our last bit of US money is due to be transferred when our tax return is paid out. I’m cautiously optimistic things will hold until then 🤞

We’ve put most of our money short term into New Zealand banks, specifically term deposits at a few locations, as the financial system here is well insulated at least compared to most countries. Long term we will vary our investment more but we don’t have many options until we are permanent residents (another couple years). It’s a moderate low risk growth, and we are okay with the downsides of it being inaccessible since we have several staggered.

Here term deposits are likely to be frozen short term in the event of a crash by the Open Banking Resolution system, but our everyday funds will be more accessible. Now for a huge market crash, most bets are off, but being in this little island nation, I feel a lot more secure in the fact that society will pull together rather than eat each other. That’s the true benefit of being here: the culture.

Waving a specific 14 flags.

I was pretty sure I knew what a general strike was… wouldn’t any strike be more expensive than 2-4 hours of protest, and wouldn’t a general strike involve much more planning than a normal strike due to the scale and breadth?

Also I was worried that generalstrikeus.com was too soon. The UAW general strike is planned for 2028 to get time to plan, because a general strike isn’t something you can just do successfully at the drop of a hat.

Meanwhile, the US recommended against prosecuting Trump for insurrection because he wasn’t yet out of government, he was trying to retain control and not take control.

Good job South Korea, happy to see a country with a “justice” system that isn’t feckless.

Beautiful! Congrats on your escape :-)

Welcome! North or South island?

You’ve done right by your daughter. Good luck on the job search!

Wise move. I did the same years ago. Prepare for some serious survivors guilt. The best way to handle it is to know you made the best decision for your child.

The Starbucks 3rd space idea has been dead since 2015-2018. It was a conscious choice.