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Oh, you're only cool with some kinds of criminals. Got it. I don't hate "my own people," whatever it is you think that means. This guy definitely had a weird immigration status (appears to be more complex than just overstaying a visa) but net-net, he seems to have been a hugely positive figure in the communities where he worked. Are we better off without him? Are the children of his district better off? No, it doesn't seem so. So it makes it hard to see his arrest as a "win" for anyone.

Maybe. That'll be settled in court. But that's okay, even if he's convicted you don't mind criminals, right?

Lol. Who is muddying the waters? You're citing as "proof that it does happen" a registration from a state where noncitizens are legally allowed to register. I didn't pick your poor example, you did. If you don't want to talk about exceptions, don't use exceptions as examples.

I'm not assuming anything. That's what the state of Maryland said. Registering to vote is often not a discrete act. One doesn't have to go seek it out. There are campus registration drives at colleges, there are booths in malls, and sometimes it's as simple as checking a box when you get your driver's license. I don't know anything about the circumstances under which he was added to voter rolls, just that he was added, and that it seems he never voted. As I said earlier, people in the country illegally have almost no incentive to risk deportation to do something with no direct benefit. Huge risk, no reward. They keep their heads down.

No, it's not a lie. It's fact. For example, he and Trump moved very quickly to replace the eminently qualified Black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs--a 4-star general- with (checks the record) a white, male, retired 3-star who literally didn't have the legally required pre-requisite qualifications for the job and required a presidential waiver. At the same time he was firing well-qualified women from top jobs and replacing them with white men. And none of it for performance reasons. None of it based on metrics. None of it based on merit. By Hegseth's own admission "more art than science." Finally, white men will no longer be oppressed in the military!🙄 He's actively racist and openly and overtly sexist. I'm sure that's going to be super inspiring leadership for the half of the military that isn't white and male.

As in the other thread, it's legal for noncitizens to vote in local elections in MD if their local governments allow it. There's a small handful of states where this is true.

I know you guys aren't good at reading, but for future reference, Maryland and Massachusetts aren't the same state. had heard about him being registered in MD, but the other poster claimed MA, which is why I asked him to support that claim. Noncitizens are allowed to vote in local elections in MD (local laws), but not in MA. And in any case, it appears that there's no record of him voting.

Got news for you, being white and male are not actually meritorious accomplishments. Yet, indeed, Hegseth moved quickly to fire women and people of color and replace them with objectively less qualified white men. Because he himself is objectively and unquestionably unqualified for his position and has done nothing to merit the appointment aside from being white, male--and slobbering all over Trump on Fox news. But if you're into that--or similarly unfit for a competitive environment--I'm sure it sounds great.

Will the current Commander-in-Chief be resigning then? People usually hit "general" in their late 40s. Nobody anywhere, ever, expects them to be stronger, faster and better than the 18 year olds serving under them. That's asinine. They are there for their brains, not their bodies. I think we all know what this is about. It's just another phase of political purging. You've just chosen not to care about the endless parade of wildly transgressive behavior because "the team" is more important than the country. Those of you who never actually believed in America as an idea really don't have anything to lose.

Not really. Pretty standard stop along the road to fascism. They always try to purge the military of people loyal to the country rather than to the aspiring dictator.

Have not heard of him being registered to vote in MA. Sounds like Twitter nonsense. Have a link for that? I know you guys are really hoping you found your Boogeyman--the illegal immigrant voter--but illegals know they are illegal and don't have any reason to risk their presence in the US. There's no upside for them, only risk. That's why it so very rarely happens.

It's a very popular position with the dumbest of the knuckle draggers. They want women in the home because they know with absolute certainly that they, the knuckle draggers, can't compete with women in the modern workforce. Same reason the worst white players hated Jackie Robinson. Meanwhile, back in America, most of us still believe that people can be, do and live free without anyone telling them where they "should" be and trying to force compliance.

You don't even want to know where he was registered and if it was legal or not? Just scooped up some Twitter outrage and brought it back here?

Did the watchdog group report that finding? Did PBS accurately report what the watchdog group said? Great. Job done. That's how journalism works. You should familiarize yourself with the concept.

Nobody expects women to read the latest medical journals and interpret the studies. And surely nobody expects our dim POTUS to read medical studies--and indeed, clearly, he'd never read the word "acetaminophen" before deciding to offer medical advice on it's usage. Women get that guidance from their doctors. It's standard guidance in prenatal care--inclusive of proper detail and nuance. Go to your medicine cabinet, take out a bottle, look at the dosage and it will tell you right there to talk to your doctor if pregnant. Great damn advice. Unlike Trump's rambling, bumbling adventure into heterodox TV medicine. It's nuts. Never should have happened.

Well, shit. Turns out this degenerate is also an Olympic athlete. This is an elite and apparently excellent human being. I can see why the Trump administration is targeting such model non-citizen citizens for removal. Makes 'em look bad. I don't know what his immigration status was when he acquired a gun or how he got it--or why he thought he needed one--but it does seem pretty likely that it was illegal to have one. And yes, a functional gun tracing system could radically reduce the number of illegal guns.

But it's not the government's information to sit on, is it? It wasn't hidden. It's not like a government lab was doing research and came to a result and had to decide whether to publish or not. It's publicly available information from multiple research organizations compiled over decades. It's neither new nor timely. The medical community knows. OBGYNs know. They've been advising pregnant patients on how and when to use acetaminophen for a loooong time. The question--and why people are reacting to this scenario--is why did this government jump on a loose association that the medical world is already well aware of and decide to put on a public show about it? Why insert themselves in this process at this moment? They're bringing nothing to the table. Is it pure attention seeking behavior? Again this is a man who literally can't even pronounce acetaminophen--has clearly never read or said the word in his life. What motivates such a demonstrably ignorant person to go on TV and start dispensing medical advice? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT7Scg2okMs It's certainly not altruism or conscience. If this government wanted to warn Americans about definitive, scientifically established threats that we can mitigate through behavioral changes, boy do they have options. But that's clearly not the goal.

Boy, Trump sure is making our country better. Glad we got rid of this lowlife! "Roberts got his start as a special education teacher and completed his first doctorate on the importance of including special education students in the classroom, according to Nicole Price, who has written several books with Roberts." Maybe we can work something out to keep the multi-Ph.D education reformer and author who has spent 20 years helping America's children. Maybe deport some MAGA loser instead.

Luckily, you can't run down too many people with a Rascal scooter. The garden gnomes should be worried though.

This is what it sounds like when a professional wrestler gets old and senile, BROTHER!

"Oh, it's a miracle! You've remembered "Who said anything like that?" I called it "your OP," dummy. I said that you said something like that. Obviously I knew you posted it. That's what made it so absurd that you're asking who said it. So, back in reality... 274 armed LEOs from the FBI were dispatched to a violent insurrection threatening the lives of our legislators. Pretty straightforward. And you weirdos are going to pretend that it's somehow political. Lol

??? I can't read it for you. 🤦‍♂️

Who said anything like that? Well, you did. Did not not even bother to read your OP, FFS? "revealing for the first time that the FBI had a total of 274 agents deployed to the Capitol in plainclothes and with guns after the violence started" Just because the algorithm spoonfeeds an endless sewer of claims from like-minded people that does not mean that you're anywhere near the truth.

Suuuuuure he did. You might wanna to stop confusing random Twitter posts for journalism. That's not remotely what the clown case is about. And it's going to end in another Trump legal pratfall. This behavior would be hilarious if it weren't rapidly dissolving the fabric of America. The New Yorker Thursday’s indictment of the former F.B.I. director James Comey bore a single, telling signature: that of Lindsey Halligan, installed by President Donald Trump just three days earlier to serve as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Halligan is an insurance lawyer turned Trump attorney and White House aide; in March, Trump appointed her to remove “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian. She has scant experience in federal courts and none as a prosecutor. Her predecessor in the position, a seasoned prosecutor nominated by Trump, was forced out last Friday, according to numerous news reports, after balking at demands to concoct cases against Comey, in addition to New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and others... Prosecutors in Halligan’s office reportedly submitted a memorandum to Halligan outlining the weakness of the Comey case. None of those concerns mattered, apparently. Trump finally secured the indictment he had long been calling for... The indictment alleges that “that statement was false,” because, as Comey “then and there knew, he in fact had authorized PERSON 3 to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding an F.B.I. investigation concerning PERSON 1.” This was presumably Hillary Clinton, because the leak at issue related to the F.B.I.’s investigation into Clinton’s e-mails and the Clinton Foundation... And the IG report already determined that Comey was likely telling the truth.

No, dummy. Nothing will happen to him aside from the nuisance harassment. You enjoy your geriatric wet dream though.