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Hey no problem! And I didn’t mean anything by it; my reply could have been read with snark included, and I definitely didn’t intend it. Good on you for taking breaks when you need to. You’re good people, and the world needs more of you.

All you have to do is think about this reasonably (I know, I know). Undocumented immigrants to the US want to come here so badly that they’re willing to do it outside of the law. They know full well that if they get caught just for that, they’re in a fuckload of trouble. It is clearly in the immediate, direct, and personal best interest of an undocumented immigrant to stay well clear of law enforcement. This means - wait for it - not breaking any other laws.

Undocumented immigrants have a very strong incentive to be absolutely well-behaved.

Society and politics work only when people agree to abide by the same general set of rules. When a sufficient amount of sociopolitical power stop agreeing to rules, it all falls apart. Most importantly, that sufficient amount is not anywhere near a majority. A large enough minority behaving with disregard to existing rules and norms, and only in their own self-interest, will overwhelm the ability of the rest of us to manage a functioning society. Not only are the disregard of rules and selfish aims a threat, the unpredictability is, too.

The Palestinian Authority is a now pretty weak organization providing some autonomous rule in Gaza and the West Bank. Hamas is a very different group.

Driil, drill, drill?

In all fairness, they did whine first before ghosting.

Ashcroft: “Are you scared of the truth?”

Sanchez: “Oh, I am not terrified of the truth at all, seems like you might be.”

You need to watch those clips in the Xitter link. Sanchez is on fucking fire and does not let up.

Because what two foreign powers decide to do is totally Biden’s responsibility?

From the filing, should have been included in the article:

Mr. Biden seeks specific information from three former DOJ officials and the former President that goes to the heart of his defense that this is, possibly, a vindictive or selective prosecution arising from an unrelenting pressure campaign beginning in the last administration, in violation of Mr. Biden’s Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution.

That’s why I was confused - nobody said anything in this particular thread about Thinkpads, and you said “Wait till you hear where Lenovo came from” after I’d mentioned IBM.

If you were saying “Guess what, Lenovo came from IBM,” I’d essentially just said that.

I think you’re referring to IBM. Lenovo has always been suspicious.

I long for the days when this would have been the biggest story in US politics for weeks.

Good plays by rules. Evil does not.

And you’re a lezbian to boot.

https://youtu.be/GCTScJ5twWI

~9:00 in he starts talking about the national motto, in opposition to Marxism and Communism, “which begins with the premise that there is no god.”

His opening statement as Speaker explicitly denigrates atheists.

Edit: So glad to see that the Speaker of the “People’s House” as he so much likes to call it decided it would be a good idea to use his first speech as that Speaker to shit on some of those People.

Fucking fascists.

Well …

In addition to the former president’s tax documents, Littlejohn is also accused of stealing IRS information on “thousands of the nation’s wealthiest people, including returns and return information dating back more than 15 years.” Littlejohn then sent that tax information to a second unnamed news organization.

If it was only Trump’s tax returns, then I might agree with you. It wasn’t targeted specifically and only at Trump; it was an extremely wide net that was cast, and we don’t know who the rest of the people are. Based on the information publicly available, this appears more like an attempt to sell the information, or act illegally based on some fringe principle.