So he wants to import socialism from other countries? Doesn’t sound very American of him.

To deport someone, the receiving country has to agree to accept them. Mexico will accept their own nationals, and possibly those of some other countries, but they won’t accept everyone. What do you do with people who’s country refuses to accept them back (this has happened)? And what do you do with them when you can’t determine where to send them back to? You’ve already promised they won’t be let loose, so you’ll put them into containment facilities - all very hastily-built, because there are so many people you’ve accumulated so quickly.

But you have more people than you know what to do with, and they’re all just idling in the camps, and the nation is desperate for workers. The temptation is too great: instead of spending all this money maintaining the camps, you can offset the expenses by renting them to various industries as cheap labor.

It’s still expensive, your people still resent spending money on them, and you still want to deport them, so you don’t spend much on food or medicine or clothes or sanitation. Winter comes, disease rips through the camps, and masses die - but that’s not your responsibility, these things happen …

Just a reminder that most of the concentration camps Germany built weren’t extermination camps, they were slave labor camps but the administration didn’t care if the prisoners died of disease or injury, they’d just round up more people to feed the German machine.

It is.

To be fair: there are home fridges that sell for over $20k, and that wouldn’t be out of place in a $6.5m condo.

“It is racial because the people who carry in the Capitol are primarily white people“

Because the black ones are accosted and harassed if they’re armed? Something I heard a long time ago was that whites fear becoming a minority because they know how minorities are treated. I just find it odd that they use that as a reason to obsessively cling to power instead of trying to make everyone’s lives better.

Back in 2020, Democratic lawmakers requested a change to firearm regulations in the Capitol when armed demonstrators and militia members went into the building demanding an end to COVID-19.

Funny how gun laws and gun restrictions are okay when it comes to protecting lawmakers, but not okay when it comes to protecting schoolchildren.

Reminder that Ben Stein was a member of the Nixon White House. So was Diane Sawyer.

New Jersey is in one of the worst droughts of the last 120 years. I’m not sure how many wildfires they’ve been fighting recently (it’s a lot); I know there have been over 200 brushfires in New York City in just the past couple weeks.

What’s scary is this 2016 column from Rolling Stone, titled Will America’s Worst Wildfire Disaster Happen in New Jersey?:

[…] the single most destructive blaze in U.S. history could occur in the Northeast […] The Pine Barrens is the lone island of contiguous forest [between Richmond and Boston] [covering a 1.1-million-acre tract in southern New Jersey].

Whereas regular fires used to thin out the Pinelands, large swaths have remained relatively untouched for decades due to strict preservation laws. The result is a giant tinderbox of untended woods that’s surrounded by 100,000-person suburbs. A Wildfire Risk Assessment published by New Jersey compared the Pinelands to “an inch of gasoline covering all of south and central New Jersey.”

In other words, they’re going to confirm him. :(

The attorneys invoked a New York rule that allows attorneys to withdraw when a “client insists upon taking action with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement” or when a client “insists upon presenting a claim or defense that is not warranted under existing law and cannot be supported by good faith argument,” or when “the client fails to cooperate in the representation or otherwise renders the representation unreasonably difficult for the lawyer to carry out employment effectively."

Translation: they’re afraid of sanctions or even being disbarred if they continue working with the man publicly flouting court orders.

”Mr Trump doesn’t have to help me get out of this,” he said as he stepped into a car. “All Mr Trump has to do is straighten out the legal system, and you’ll find out who the real criminals are.”

This was a civil case, there’s nothing to overturn. And you lost it by default because you couldn’t be arsed to show up in court.

But you don’t eat her food, why should she want to?

Just because you changed the clocks back doesn’t mean that time actually changed.

But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to close the door! You know that, right?

Interesting phrasing there. Orange guy “fell victim to” (was Innocent) while blue lady “was guilty”.

It’s true that we often excuse our own behavior by what we intended, and often blame others based on their behavior without knowing their intent. But that isn’t a behavior you might expect from a psychologist determined to analyze a situation, showing a bunch of his own biases.

Marvin, is that you?

That’s exactly what I was thinking.

I saw some professor online, saying that the first victims of fascists are the true believers of the party they grew out of, and to watch for that happening with the Republicans.

In court, expert psychiatrist Laurent Layet, who interviewed 20 of the accused – including Pelicot three times – said they could not be described as “ordinary men…because that would be tantamount to saying that all men are capable of such acts.”

Yes, and? We choose the bear.

It’s a threat that they could also air the pee tapes.

It’s not stupid, it’s deliberate. I had a friend who did consulting work (in a different area) with a large grocery chain, and they deliberately change the layout so you’re spending more time in the store, looking at things, because chances are that you’ll buy more. If the store becomes a little too crowded, they’ll just change the music to hurry you along.

She knows she tried. She can live with her conscience. There are people who are going to end up troubled by theirs.