Poet, Raconteur, Bon Vivant. Amateur Political Economist. Flawed Christian. Sitting out the looming dollar collapse/race war in sunny, serene, safe Salt Lake.
Memorial Day, Chicago
Downtown is packed, a mass of marching feet.
Stacked chicks patrol along Division Street.
The Hancock tower, a tall block stretching dark,
Shades shoppers trooping up each avenue,
And weekend chefs from every yard imbue
The air with a pungent haze of barbecue.
On the Eisenhower, traffic’s fully crammed in.
From the West on Washington, the South on Cannon,
In squads, where Lincoln guards his general’s park,
Stream flip-flopped families, armed with chairs and bug spray.
With beetled brow he sternly approves their day
Of beaches, picnics, concerts, food, and play.
The lakefront’s long and calm with gulls and bikes.
None hark to distant guns or scan for air strikes;
Instead boys watch babes and moms their tykes—
The sun and fun our soldiers bled and died for.
Today, at least, let’s pray we don’t ignore
Our lives of playful peace were bought with war.
Repeal, repeal, repeal FISA 702. And then repeal it again.
Extraordinary, extreme, egregiously unConstitutional violations MAY authorize warrants for citizens. But only after exhaustive judicial review. And only after incontrovertible proof of foreign interference and infiltration.
Then, after expelling said foreign influences, we may proceed, with interrogation and rehabilitation.
@BasedMikeLee Amen, brother. Citizen warrants only with extensively documented Constitutional violations.
For non-citizens? Warrants for anything. Warrants at will. If we want to survive.
The voting being mostly a state issue is probably true under our Constitution. Unfortunately, SCOTUS has repeatedly refused to hear cases brought by states against other states, particularly lawsuits regarding election fraud. So now States have no legal recourse against other States for potential harms. When legal recourse ends, typically that's where secessions and Civil Wars begin.
@FredMar46756151@visegrad24 Exceptions can be made for early Renaissance siege weapons. Though yeeting them into the channel with catapults might be more entertaining. Yeet a couple rafts after them, give them a sporting chance.
@realMaalouf It's very telling that no one seems to have the slightest idea what they're even rioting about. The end stage of Islamic immigration: Rioting just to riot, destroying just to destroy.
Nonsensical racist fearmongering from the left, trying to piggyback off legitimate illegal and H1-b concerns:
--Black farmers in the town "owned their own land in 1887."
--"Today, residents say they're being pushed out of their jobs." How can farmers be "pushed out of their jobs" if their jobs of farming are performed on land they themselves own? More likely they were so incompetent at farming that they had to sell their land to someone else, and then get hired back on as workers.
--"they're paying the Afrikaners more than they pay us. That doesn't make any sense economically." No, if you as a worker are crappy at farming, it makes perfect sense that the farm owner would pay more for a better worker.
And notice the ominous music, the insinuations of racism, the centrality of Trump meant to trigger leftist TDS. Pure propaganda. The attempt to set up a false equivalency between H1-b slave labor with fake credentials paid less than native Americans to pad the corporate bottom line, to legitimate refugees with generations of farming expertise, paid more because they're the superior workforce. Gotta love the propaganda.
This is no new thing
Remember, this OJ Simpson juror admitted that the jury thought OJ was guilty, but they refused to convict him because they didn't want to lock up a black guy
They wanted to let a black guy get away with murdering a white woman because they wanted payback for racism, as she admits proudly here
However much I may quibble with Trump's decisions and the execution of his policies, every day I discover new reasons to be grateful the Cackler-in-Chief is not in charge.
Face fact: It's not cope, it's hatred. She herself became an open borders virtue signaler, which she learned from trying to please her daddy. But he hated that her youth and prettiness gave her more virtue-signaling cred than he had.
He hated his daughter for exceeding him in virtue-signaling, and was happy when she was murdered, since now his "Taco Tuesday" virtue signaling could now supersede hers. Some parents are evil, that's all.
@BasedMikeLee We'd have 15 million more illegals by now and would be in an '80s style stagflation crisis because of it. Elon Musk would have been arrested for wrongthink, and so would all the rest of us here.
Welcome to fractional reserve banking, AKA legalized fraud. Every bank is only legally required to have a small percentage of their total assets available for withdrawal, typically in the low single digit percentage. A few large withdrawals at once would render them technically insolvent, and potentially expose the smoke and mirrors show that every bank, essentially, is. Hence the delaying tactics you witnessed.
Everyone screams about the fiat dollar and ending the Fed, but if the Fed was shut down tomorrow and all of a sudden the dollar was 100% gold backed, but fractional reserve banking remained, we would still have banking crises.