Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.
There is no reason to trust government bureaucrats. Except of course when it comes to disappearing people. In that scenario, there should be no questions raised about government infallibility.
After all they got the “no criminal record” = “really, really dangerous” answer right.
Discuss.
So, a guy with “no criminal record” strolls through the front door of your house, starts eating your food, watching your TV, grabs a change of clothes from the closet. You allow him to stay because “no criminal record”???
No. I send him to a hellhole in El Salvador forever without a hearing.
And if anyone asks why the fridge and closet looks untouched I say fuck you, I’m the King here.
Does the uninvited visitor get to remain in your house until such time as a jury trial can be arranged? If so, do you feed and clothe him for the duration of his stay? Provide for his medical care, and that of any family members who have tagged along?
No. I send El Salvador millions of dollars instead. Trials and lawyers are far too American for me. They’re written right there in the Constitution. Foreign gulag isn’t so it feels right.
8 usc 1325
Seems simple enough to me…. But I’m “uneducated” so how would I pretend to grasp such concepts?
People accused of violating 8 usc 1325 are eligible for jury trials. Something called “due process of law.” Even the deeply loved undereducated know that.
And yet, up until 2017, any Cuban able to drag himself up on the beach in Miami was greeted with open arms, even given PX privileges. I smell some hypocrisy somewhere.
That’s due to the well-known and traditional “lots of electoral votes” exception to the rules.
Tell that to Elian Gonzalez
Family separations are just too much fun isn’t it? I didn’t care that his dad wanted his son back home in Cuba then and I don’t care now. He was five years old and had just seen his mother drown. The least we could do is deprive him of his father.
The woman from Peru and her husband apparently did not file the correct paperwork before leaving the country. It’s called “advance parole” and if approved it allows immigrant spouses who have overstayed a visa and have already filed for a green card to travel out and back. This has been the law for decades. I guess she chose the detention center vs going back to Peru but who knows.
Puerto Rico isn’t “out.”
I missed the Puerto Rico part. Interesting. So then, if she wasn’t required to possess anything other than a valid government issued ID, then how did she get stopped?
Just an assumption, but they may just be cross-referencing lists. They’re on a numbers quota and going to homes/apartments and knocking on doors isn’t fruitful and they don’t want to raid businesses and upset the donor class.
It seems like there’s a lot of criminal activity at the border and in the states that is not Hispanic: https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/218560.pdf
I guess there’s “white crime” and “other crime.” Ah, the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.
“I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink. Now I am lazy and entitled. You shouldn’t have done that.”
GOP Jesus
“Greed is good.”
Matthew 4:26
Not as good as Two Corinthians though.
Hahahahahahaha!
Look, no one walked into anyone’s front door and ate food out of their refrigerator, at least not that we can tell because there never was a hearing. Of all the blogs in the world, the people here should be able to recognize that we are all on double-secret probation. Hell, it’s worse than that – even Wormer, Greg, Neidermeyer, Mandy, Babsy et al. staged a pretend hearing.
Let me get this straight. Resident Sponge Brain Shit Pants throwing open the doors and allowing anyone and everyone to flood into this country for the last 4 years is OK with the left. Feeding, sheltering and signing up wholesale upwards of 15 million of them for entitlement benefits at taxpayer expense is OK with the left. But when some people are deported because (a), they overstayed their visa, left the country, and didn’t have the proper paperwork to return, or (b), they were in this country illegally and in the company of convicted criminals, but had no criminal record themselves, well, that’s a bridge too far. Get back to me when the left ever cares about actual Americans citizens as much as they care about illegal alien criminals, terrorist sympathizers, anti-Semitic protesters, Ukrainian soldiers, and CEO assassins. Taking the 20 side of every single 80/20 issue is the best thing leftist ever did. Please continue.
And I gotta listen to a guy who supported a coup?!?!
The idea that you can’t have an opinion or a take or say anything unless everyone who you’ve ever agreed with on anything is a proven infallible God is lazy and pointless.
Even white Southern Christian conservatives can have an opinion in spite of their historical treason and slave holding. Even people of German descent too.
If you have an opinion about:
1) the guy who voted for the man who deporting his wife
OR
2) whether we ought to blindly trust a government who says “we are at war because I say so and I ain’t gotta go to court if I wanna ship folks to El Salvador”
then voice it.
But your “I won’t confront these issues unless you show me your stigmata” is a transparently poor argument.
All of us Indian killers and land snatchers are just trying to have an adult conversation so please try harder.
Adult conversations based on false premises are nothing but idle fantasy. Both articles you listed are from far left publications with an obvious political bias and a serious case of TDS. Sources with agendas are decidedly unreliable. Just a little research into both instances would actually explain a lot more that what your links imply. Confirmation bias can be a terrible thing. The husband does not regret his vote, nor does he blame Orange Hitler for the issue his wife faces. And at the end of the day, one of the remedies for her situation IS deportation. Despite the Independent’s assertion to the contrary, ALL of the deportees sent to El Salvador were criminal illegal aliens who either committed crimes here, or in their country of origin. But that doesn’t lend itself to “adult conversation”. I’ll take shit that didn’t happen for $500 Alex………..
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5202706-minnesota-senator-justin-eichorn-arrested/
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2025/03/19/so-another-male-feminist-turns-out-to-be-a-perv-n4938068#google_vignette
Is this how it works?
His lack of regret does clarify his status as maga.
Btw: they are quoting the words of the sworn and filed declaration of a trump official.
Truth has a liberal bias.
Derek, I’m going to go sideways for a bit with a topic that’s sorta close to the theme, but because I have become infuriated by the news I feel I must bring it up.
Now, before I start, the news is real, like the earth being round, and even though my bias might be a little off center, it doesn’t change the reality of the topic. So, let’s see if we can just stick to the right or wrong of the policy.
One of the heroes involved in the most iconic photo depicting bravery was a Native American, Ira Hayes. The Aryan Nation White House has decided to take down the webpage depicting the event because it showed how DEI could be used in selecting people who would climb a mountain into machine gun fire to raise the American flag: https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/pentagon-dei-native…/
I guess in the future we’re going to be dependent on Putin’s dream American military populated by white male trust fund babies. Sweet Jesus!
Imagine if you will the signed photo you have of our 2021 National Championship team (greatest college defense ever) and then taking a pencil eraser and rubbing out every black face in the photo because, in your opinion, their contribution didn’t matter. Or worse, the accomplishments of “the others” made you feel like yours didn’t measure up.
Y’all, this is some really sick stuff. Are we so insecure that we have to make the courageous acts of others vanish? A “but Hillary’s emails” response is not requested but a to the point, right or wrong, is this a policy you are comfortable with? Thanks.
Jackie Robinsons military story has been wiped clean from the DOD’s website as well as the Navajo Code Talkers. Evidently these events we all post America being great. I guess we need to go back even further in time to find the greatness.
Back to “The Birth of a Nation.”
We knew they were coming for the blacks and wouldn’t even allow a black MOH recipient to be allowed his due: https://www.military.com/history/highest-ranking-black-medal-of-honor-recipient-erased-pentagon-dei-purge.html
But to come after a Native American? How petty are these people?
Not sure this is entirely true. It looks like there was a change to the URL that included DEI in the address. I appreciate military.com but it is a commercial site. https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/article/2824721/medal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/
I don’t think it was erased.
Hey, how about Trump and Elon bringing those two astronauts home, who Biden had left in space to die a dark, quiet, death. That’s pretty good even for you commies isn’t it?
Personally, I sang “Ain’t No Sunshine” every day from 1/20/21 to 1/20/25.
I was personally overwhelmed by the sight of Elon and the Donald climbing into the ship and personally escorting the crew back to earth. Tremendous act of bravery and self sacrifice.
Now, let’s talk about Iwo Jima? Any Marines out here?
Derek – being serious with no snark…are you trying to 1. educate, 2. raise awareness, or 3. do you just want to stir shit up to stir shit up and rattle the Trump cages?…with your playpen articles and responses.
I think it’s both 1 and 2. 3 is just a by-product of the process.
The purpose of the playpen is a weekly reminder that politics is not discussed anywhere else but here.
Would I like to see some intelligent debate? I would.
Do I have any hopes for it? None.
As far as the subject matter my read on people is that the majority is more likely to fart forth their nonsense inappropriately with a cocky expectation of tolerance.
As such, if this were a Cal Bear blog the subjects I would choose would be quite different and then then a different set of jackasses would bitch and moan and whine and threaten because being a sniveling little child who can’t use their words is not limited to any particular political ideology. Its seems to be part and parcel of being ideological, which I am not.
OK, serious questions for Derek and his unholy alliance. Do y’all really hate Elon now? After all, he has done more to put electric vehicles on the road than anyone. Do you merely disagree with some of his present positions or do you hate him now because of them.
I hate few. I question the judgment of any so-called business person, especially one selling a product, who alienates half of the buying public and probably more than half of his potential customer base. I say more than half for the reasons you state.
I do understand what he is up to. I don’t think the typical trump voter has a clue as to what these tech billionaire bros have in store for the “little guy.”
This is simply a continuation of a long 45 year long project to transfer wealth and power to a select few while the bottom 50% are misled into believing that the reason they’re struggling is the fault of everyone(thing) save the rich and powerful who stole it the first place.
Gurkha – I don’t hate Elon, I fear him. He is the de facto president. Not only was he not elected, he wasn’t born here. His sense of what it means to be an American is as delusional as his ability to relate to the poor. Even the Donald knows you don’t go throwing Nazi salutes just because you’re the richest man in the world. You don’t take your kid to the Oval Office so he can tell the elected President to “hush your mouth.”
In point of fact, I used to be a big fan. Had a bunch of TSLA and sold it when I realized that the worm that ate its way through RFKJr,’s brain, had eaten a pound of Ketamine and entered Elon’s brain for the purpose of fertilization. Watching him tripping balls at the inauguration led me to the conclusion that we were in for a bumpy ride. Its been 53 days in this term so far, any surprises for you? Any disappointments?
A similar argument could be made about George Soros. As for de facto President’s, who was running the Biden administration the last two years? As for Nazi salutes, do these count? https://photos1.similarworlds.com/00/00/00/00/04/13/48/43/NativePortlander1970-hUJKuCDCMFrgeHv.webp
Obviously ,I don’t believe any of these individuals are Nazi’s; nor do I think they are throwing a Nazi salute; anything can be captured in context. I don’t think Elon is a Nazi by any stretch of the imagination.
They hate Elon because he’s African American.
Just African.
*After all they got the “no criminal record” = “really, really dangerous” answer right.* I mean the 9/11 terrorists didn’t have a criminal record so I think Myth Busters would say that it is plausible.
As for your specific perspective, in FY24 (Oct 23 – Sep 24), the Biden Administration arrested 113,431 immigration arrests, and of those, only 28% were of people who had no criminal convictions or pending criminal charges. I haven’t been able to find similar statistics so far under the Trump administration. However, I think we both would agree that the Trump administration probably has a higher percent of no criminal convictions or pending criminal charges. My question would be, “What percentage, under any President, would be acceptable for immigration arrests without criminal convictions or pending criminal convictions?”
If they cross the border illegally, they are criminals.
Fair point (and one I agree with) — although one could argue that if you illegally speed beyond the posted speed limit, you are also a criminal.
Most countries consider crossing their border illegally a VERY Serious offense. Leave your passport at home the next time you travel out of the country and see what happens.
You can’t leave without your passport.
Wait, you mean a person can’t leave their country and go to another country without documentation? It’s not illegal or anything though, right?
You can drive/ride a train from Spain to France to Italy without showing anyone anything.
But in the US you aren’t getting on a plane without ID or on an international flight without a passport and you aren’t driving to/from another country without gumbit issued ID.
Home of the free and what not.