Absolutely true. Twenty years ago I heard a lecture from an HR person at a large resort who traveled the world to recruit summer workers. He emphasized that they were not replacing "American jobs," no Americans wanted them.
@unk-p This administration has made brutality legitimate. They not only have dropped their first rules about not going after family members of military employees, but now they are also going after them. The truth is that we send them overseas, they fall in love, get married, and we disrespect their service and put their family up for grabs. They do not care if there is an immigration request pending. These are bounty hunters searching down and arresting because they get a commission for filling quotas. This link shows how horrible we are now. Have we totally lost our humanity, or are we living the 1930's.
Sailor aboard USS Abraham Lincoln decries father’s ICE detention
@averylegacy in the article that you linked to, there was one sentence that particularly stood out:
"We are simply enforcing the laws passed by Congress. This Administration does not pick and choose which laws to enforce,"
Knowing what liars and trolls this admin has, I thought it would be interesting to see what that sentence would read like, if every single word was switched to the opposite of it's meaning.
So the lazy American in me asked Ai:
"please reinterpret the following sentence, by reversing the meaning of each word it contains":
"We are simply enforcing the laws passed by Congress. This Administration does not pick and choose which laws to enforce,"
became
...continued from above ^ :
now say it like John Wayne is a mean girl
"Listen here, pilgrim, you can't sit with us. Like, omigod, we are literally just backing up the rules Congress made, and you're, like, totally tracking mud on the rug. This administration doesn't cherry-pick laws, sweetie, so go cry about it, or I'll give you something to cry about."
OMG. LOL. Sooo spot on!
Regarding the midterms, am enjoying reading in Slate that:" As Politico reported last week, some GOP candidates representing harder-to-win districts don’t want the president to campaign for them this fall. Others, as my colleague Jim Newell explains, are anxious that Trump’s super PAC won’t spend money to help them except on ads that would yoke them to his unpopular record."
Could there be a better example of damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Well, if they might just consult their conscience and do the RIGHT thing, they won't be damned.
Well there's now no danger of the SAVE Act passing prior to the midterm elections. Mike Johnson just adjourned the House until after the midterms so that the GOP members wouldn't have to vote on AI regulation or articles of impeachment for Pete Hegseth.
@gbs Trump's Postal Service caper is out. Hard right republicans are running as Green Party candidates, hoping to split the dem vote, and they've been met with dems running as Libertarian candidates, hoping to split the Republican vote.
What is next in their bag of tricks?
They are barred from sending military to the polls. And there are lawsuits barring ICE from the polls.
I have sensed a long list of vote-stopping ideas, going all the way to post election refusals to concede, refusals to seat dem winners. I don't see either of those winning.
As for where the voting stands, I keep feeling the country turning more towards the dems. I see people hell bent and determined to make their vote count. They will vote, come hell or high water.