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Speaking of slavering followers...

Seems like the old alchie with a shriveled gherkin has serious zucchini envy.

You're full of it. The out-of-pocket limit for Marketplace plans varies, but can’t go over a set amount each year. For the 2025 plan year: The out-of-pocket limit for a Marketplace plan can't be more than $9,200 for an individual and $18,400 for a family. For the 2026 plan year: The out-of-pocket limit for a Marketplace plan can't be more than $10,600 for an High deductible HSA plans make sense for some people, particularly upper income folks who have a few thousand dollars on hand, but many families need predictable costs and earlier coverage.

This is dumb. Of course he's the most culpable. It's not even a question. He lied to his slavering followers for 2+ months about a fictional stolen election. That's the only reason any of them were there.

Farking gross. You read an article about how they are terrorizing these people and the damage it does, how they roughed up an American citizen, told him his real ID was fake, detained him, and your defense of that is that they didn't hold him very long? GTFO. You wouldn't tolerate them treating your family that way--but you don't have to worry about your rights because you're white. Just life in Trump's America--or what's left of America. And the only thing you "definitively proved" is that you don't understand how the courts work. ICE set out explicitly to use visual race, location and job for profiling individuals to be detained--existing while brown is now probable cause. Lower courts blocked it with an injunction at every step of the way. This twisted SCOTUS--a sad parody of justice--paused the injunction, allowing racial profiling to continue. And ICE is continuing. You lied, and you're trying to point the finger at me. Everything I said is factually accurate. You're not fooling anyone.

He said vs he said? Well, unless you count the goddamn video. And you just CANNOT bring yourself to tell the truth about it, can you? That's a concurring opinion. It is not binding and it does NOT change the fact that they paused the injunction. Paused is paused. ICE is free to racially profile, and they are taking full advantage.

🙄The other day I provided an article in which journalists have tracked down 170 examples. I 100% do not believe the DHS statement. The arrest is captured on video. He was just a brown person filming ICE agents and they reacted as they do. You can see on the video that he's nowhere near anyone else when they came over and tackled him. He provided his Real ID--on both occasions--and they did not accept it. The Trump administration argued before the Supreme Court to empower ICE to stop people based on race, location and job, and this twisted, disastrous court allowed it. They said they were going to do it. They are doing it. And there are far, far too many examples of this for you to pretend like it's not happening. That's absurd. You are not being honest.

Bullshit. It is happening on a large scale. And it is wrong. Why do you think people are protesting? US-born citizen sues after twice being arrested by immigration agents "DHS authorizes these armed raids based on the general assumption that certain groups of people in the industry, including Latinos, are likely illegal immigrants," Venegas' attorney claimed in the lawsuit. "Once immigration officers are on a site, they preemptively seize everybody they think looks undocumented."

🙄And you're just a shade smarter than a bag of hammers, so I'll give your unhinged reactions all the consideration they are due.

I did what now? I'm assuming you're painting me with some kind of broad brush, but it seems entirely disassociated from actual history. If you want to talk about which political party has staunchly opposed comprehensive immigration reform, guest worker programs and all other attempts to modernize our approach to immigration, it's the Republicans. Including Trump himself torpedoing a Republican-led bill with bipartisan support just a couple of years ago. The Trumpublican idea is rather less sophisticated. Howzabout a big wall?🙄

Wrong. We have always, for decades, arrested, incarcerated and deported criminals and the undocumented (two totally separate buckets). We have done so by simply arresting those individuals. We have not done so by terrorizing communities en masse. That is the wrong approach. It creates enemies of the communities that agencies are supposed to serve.

Not very well. Rather than taking the cues to do right, you'd just ratchet up the authoritarian deployment of force to do more wrong more effectively. You can beat people until they cower and comply. You can't beat people into becoming allies. Rather than by the people, for the people, you've chosen North Korean compliance. The ability to course correct is a virtue. Where have all the conservatives gone?

Paramilitary troops shooting a protester holding a megaphone is a pretty apt summary of life in Trump's America. Kid is unarmed and looks like he weighs a buck thirty including the megaphone. Didn't appear to even touch anyone. I can see why a gaggle of armed and armored troops were so scared that they decided to shoot him in the face. 🙄

If you have to make up false positions for me, you may as well leave me out of it and create a fake persona as well. I have said quite consistently that the problem with what ICE is doing now is that they have intentionally and deliberately adopted new methods intended to sow fear. The leadership thought that terrorizing immigrant communities would lead to self deportation--and it probably has, but it turns out that terrorizing communities has secondary effects as well. The leadership is neither wise, nor thoughtful.

No, we just have VERY different perspectives. I think authoritarian abuses are the root problem. You think resistance to authoritarian abuses justifies the abuses. "Look what you made me do!" The fact is that various means of resistance to ICE--both wise and unwise--were never an issue before. Heavier deportations in previous administrations did not generate this response. What's happening now is a direct response to ICE's new tactics, which are deliberately and intentionally crafted to sow fear and chaos. Well, that's working, but people don't like living in an environment of fear and chaos, hence the resistance. ^^You want to talk about cause and effect, there it is. If ICE were still functioning as a proper law enforcement agency people wouldn't hate and fear them. Instead, they are Trump's goon squad, rightly despised as a paramilitary invasion of the communities they go into.

You're misunderstanding Descartes--which is common. It's not a celebration of thinking or an attempt to assert the virtue of reason over faith. Not a mantra either. The fact of thinking is simply proof of one's own existence. Full stop.

I'd like to think it's because you've been taught ways to tell right from wrong and would choose to do right as duty to yourself and to your fellow man. If fear of divine punishment and reward are the only thing keeping you decent, you are really vulnerable to moral drift and manipulation. Things like the golden rule are easy enough. Tools like Rawlsian conception of justice build upon the basics. Either way, people will have to choose to do right or do wrong, but an internal framework is both sturdier and more resilient.

That's one of the principle problems with organized religion: rather than learning and internalizing the tools of decency, people rely on someone else's third-hand interpretation of a set of obscure rules. That's why it's so easy for a charismatic voice to bend them to evil ends--and why history is chock-full of sectarian atrocities. If people learned to effectively judge right and wrong for themselves we'd all be a lot better off.

😆There are literally tens of thousand of sects based just on that one book, not to mention all of the other texts and oral traditions out there. And the sanctimonious conceit of each one is that they alone understand the true meaning. Not to mention that the "infallible word of god" is an anthology assembled by the Catholic Church. I've read the Bible. One star. Would not recommend.

Humans are suuuuper good at discerning the will of God. Uncountable sects have discovered through divine revelation that the god(s) favors them and that they have the one and only truth. If the gods exist, they sure are pranksters.

That's a blatant lie. Par for you.

Awful. I understand quitting in protest, but eventually that will just leave our institutions populated exclusively by the politically corrupt.

Your detestation of facemasks is clearly subordinate to your tolerance for authoritarianism. Like the abusive father who says, "Look what you made me do!" LEOs haven't been driven to it, just Trump's goon squad. I pity the veteran officers who were there when it was a respectable organization. Now they are lumped together with a flood of xenophobic zealots and sent out to terrorize American communities. It's a consistent theme that the MAGA crowd is never upset at egregious actions of government officials and agencies, but rather upset at the people who call out that behavior. The mean ol' press. The mean ol' protestors. Nobody is protesting normal behavior. Nobody is doxxing Officer Friendly. (Look he has a name!) The ones who catch heat are those who are doing egregious things. As always, the problem isn't objections to bad behavior, it's the bad behavior itself. People doing the right thing don't need masks.

Economic theory is miles over your head. May as well be quantum physics. But what anyone should know is that the Fed system was created by Congress specifically as an independent agency to avoid political manipulation of our monetary policy. It is not a political entity. It is independent for very good reason, and yes, Trump's attempts to coerce and strongarm that agency is very much an erosion of checks and balances. It's an unethical encroachment on congressional authority and an attempt to pervert another politically independent body and functionally consolidate that authority in the executive. And this particular executive is a narcissistic sociopath bent on serving his own interests rather than those of the people. It would be an unmitigated disaster.