The Many Faces of US Politics...

[PadraicHenryPearse]

More similar to what Yeman and the Houtis did imo but not the same reaction unsurprisingly.

[johnnycool]

https://x.com/i/status/1999217389813268606

An interesting video on why the US is so interested in Venezuela's oil even when they're drilling like never before in the US.

You'd normally just ask, why not buy the crude on the open market from Venezuela like you are from Canada, but that is a  very simplistic and naive outlook from me.

[Milltown Row2]

https://x.com/i/status/1999217389813268606

An interesting video on why the US is so interested in Venezuela's oil even when they're drilling like never before in the US.

You'd normally just ask, why not buy the crude on the open market from Venezuela like you are from Canada, but that is a  very simplistic and naive outlook from me.

Where do you get your oil based products Johnny?

[J70]

I'd say the Hispanic voters for Trump are regretting now with his Gestapo/ICE agents rounding up everyone with brown skin they can find..

Are they aye.

Yeah, they are.

Stephen Miller has quotas he needs met, and they're just going out and chancing their arm a lot of the time, questioning anyone brown who happens to cross their path. God help you if you don't your papers.

And anyone planning to visit the US in the coming months and years, they're talking about searching your online history and social media before allowing you in.

If you have a Trump or Vance meme on your phone or Facebook, you might be shit out of luck.

Should help attendances at the World Cup next year.

So looking back in the cold light of day, was 4 years of open borders under Biden  worth it?

Were sanctuary policies worth it? where rapists and murderers we're let walk free and not handed over to law enforcement

Was it worth it for the media to lie to the American people and gaslight them for 4 years about what Biden and Kamala were doing?

We have discussed this many times here before and you know where I stand-enforce the border and get the 10M+ who are already here undocumented on a
Pathway to citizenship

Rapists and murderers are/were let walk free in sanctuary cities?

Obviously some of Biden's immigration policies were a huge mistake.

Yes

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/10/17/ice-arrests-violent-illegal-alien-child-rapist-released-richmonds-sanctuary

Sorry, I thought you meant they were released without trial or conviction.

But yeah, if that's true (it's not like bald-faced lying isn't the major part of Tricia McLoughlin's job), that's fucked up and something I do not support. And ultimately self-defeating, politically, to give its basest analysis.

You can have some sanctuary city policies that encourage cooperation and engagement with the law and justice system without going to the extreme of witholding someone like that from immigration authorities.

https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-arrests-violent-gang-member-guilty-murder-after-maximum-security-prison-releases

I really don't understand it

If I was a regular Democrats I would be absolutely furious with the likes of Pritzker

This is why Trump is sending ICE out into the neighborhoods-to find these guys

Ok, that's one thing for sure.

However, the large majority of those being rounded up without any due process, literally being randomly abducted off the streets and out of their family's lives without warning, have no criminal record and are simply being targeted due to their skin colour and Miller's quotas. In some cases, some of them are actual citizens. They made up lies annd disobeyed court orders about a bunch of the Venezuelans and others they shipped off to the horrific gulag in El Salvador.

In other more non-random cases, they were DACA "dreamers" who've been in the country since they were young kids, but had some non-criminal struggles e.g. the mother of the nephew of that weapon of a press secretary where the Leavitt family appear to want her out of the picture. And in yet others, they're sweeping up people who've been in the country for literally decades, have served the country in combat and been awarded military medals for their service e.g. the fellow who was deported to Korea and whose case appears to have caught Noem lying to Congress yesterday (one wonders if she'll be brought up on charges like Comey was?).

Nothing the Dems did or didn't do justifies the fascist tactics and the sadistic glorying in terrorizing these people that Trump and his MAGA minions and hordes are currently inflicting on the country.