Chris Thomas

Dad, political writer, software engineer, manager, cook, photographer, geek, gamer, and cancer survivor.

[Chris Thomas @tgkillfile]

@US_taxpayer @geoffmprice @marwilliamson Cities are just saying "we're not going to use our cops to round people up for immigration crimes because, if we do, immigrants won't trust our cops."

Policing requires trust. If immigrants don't think they can trust cops it will be impossible to police immigrant neighborhoods.

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@2aHistory @Skywatcher1138 @marwilliamson Republicans: Government is terrible and can never do anything right.

Also Republicans: Surely government policing and bureaucratizing a 2000 mile long border will be a well oiled machine.

Watch, a year from now we'll find that at least 20% of the "deported" are US citizens.

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@kellerg2 @Angry_Staffer Even if we assume that every dime we're going to cut is waste and grift, the fact remains that a large chunk of our economy depends on that spending. If you cut it off cold-turkey the economic shocks will go much further than the govt checks did.

Ya gotta ease back on it.

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@briantylercohen That is LITERALLY WHAT YOU MAGA ASSHATS WANT HER TO DO!!!!

If you take a trans-woman and tell her that she can't use the lady's room, where the hell else do you think she's going to pee?

(Sorry, Brian, I'm not yelling at you)

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@Angry_Staffer Sure, but that doesn't matter because now we're back to "go get a judge to tell Trump what to do." And even if that judge isn't in his pocket, until there's a ruling, Gaetz is effectively AG.

Congress and the Judiciary need to reclaim their power from the executive.

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@HugoVale_ @JoJoFromJerz Hugo over here is convinced that Red-State America is subsistence farms as far as the eye can see like it's the 1920s or something.

My dude, fully half of the "food" grown in red states is animal feed. The other half is a gazillion acres of seed-patented monocrops.

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@Angry_Staffer I'm primarily over on🦋 but still check in here from time to time to drop facts on MAGA cultists.

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@ramthebladeship @Is_Not_Brian "More likely" doesn't mean "would" and we have no idea how many of those surveyed were already going to vote for Harris.

Anyone who didn't vote for her based on her position on Gaza got played in the most morally and intellectually humiliating fashion imaginable.

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@lindawg @memetazaa I would bet you ANYTHING it was an intro-level class. Possibly one without any math prerequisites.

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@ConcernedBuyGME @juneiper68 @SxarletRed Except they *literally* voted for genocide. What's going on in Gaza right now is best described as Ethnic Cleansing which is terrible but it's not genocide.

What is ABOUT to go down in Gaza and the West Bank though? Buckle up. We're about to learn about the Rome Statute.

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@The_Acumen Those protections are all that stands between us and the Trump administration doing whatever it wants. Trump may well brush them aside and the fear you're seeing is of exactly that.

"American democracy is the predisposition to view as virtuous an incomplete conquest."

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@The_Acumen Any victory in a democratic system is temporary unless you're willing to use that victory to end the democratic system.

Dems could have packed the court, codified Roe, and passed universal healthcare but they'd have had to remove all of the protections for the minority to do it.

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Vivek and Elon's first target? Veterans healthcare. Wow.

65% of veterans voted for Trump. That's a hell of a way to repay them.

Active duty military: you might want to remember this moment in the event that you're asked to place any one individual over the Constitution.

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@dynoNFL @PirateWires @lexfridman Federal employees are overwhelmingly likely to be liberals on account of the fact that to be liberal is to believe that government can do good.

This is identity politics. They hate Democrats and want to hurt them.

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@PirateWires @lexfridman The US government spent ~$6.1 Trillion in 2023. Of that $271 Billion was on civilian salaries.

That is 4%. If you fired literally EVERY federal employee and other spending stayed the same the average American would get a little over $400 back on their taxes.

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@briantylercohen Protip: a TDAP vaccine will last 10 years (only 5 for tetanus immunity though). Get 'em while they're still legal.

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@RonFilipkowski I'm thinking a line of Trump branded baby-sized coffins might be 2025s hottest business opportunity.

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@LarrySabato Bold of you to assume Robert "Anti-Vax" Kennedy won't condemn us all to death by Russian super-tuberculous by insisting that we only test people with a dousing rod.

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@JackDawKlaxon @hasanthehun Not just no progress in Gaza: a very high likelihood of a WORSENING of the situation in Gaza.

Somehow these folks saw the moral dilemma of the Trolley Problem and said "how can I find a third option that does even more harm to even more people?