It's way worse than that because what's on the line here is the ability of the GestapoICE to wait for immigrants in courts, effectively depriving them of due process. Because who's going to show up in court when they know they'll be arrested and sent off to a Salvadorian concentration camp?
The judge didn't need to be cuffed and stuffed. This was a show to warn other judges that this shit is coming to their courthouse too.
Answering a question other than the one that was asked is a common avoidance technique used by politicians. It allows then to simulate a conversation and fill the air without actually saying anything.
Paying a modicum of attention to the actual content of what a politician says and rating how relevant what they say is to the matter being discussed is a very effective way to quickly determine whether you're watching a guy with real convictions you want to vote for or a con artist.
I don't find Poilievre's performance wild so much as depressingly common.
Dictatorships always end badly. But it can take decades.
In the case of the US, the closest analog - the Third Reich - lasted 12 years. I'm hoping the American Reich won't last nearly as long but I'm bracing for about a decade.
When this madness is over, the next administration should outlaw the Heritage Foundation somehow. They clearly have proven to be actively working against the interests of the American people.
Latinos who voted for Trump deserve everything they get: Trump's "comedian* openly spat in their faces with Trump's full support and they still voted for him.
Pendejos...
I'm not and I'm nearing the end of my professional career. Even if I get the sack tomorrow, I've had a very good run. And I have other skills that simply can't be replaced by AI or robots, so I'm not really worried. Concerned, yes. But not worried.
But I know I won't have any retirement, that's for damn sure. Still, it beats not having any professional prospects from the get-go.
All new technologies eventually displace obsolete jobs. But crucially, they usually do it slowly enough that the workers whose jobs are being obsoleted aren't all sacked virtually overnight (i.e. society has the time to evolve relatively peacefully) and more of the new and better paying jobs are created for newer generations.
The internet is no different. My Grandpa was a telegraph operator. My Father worked for AT&T installing landlines and I'm a computer guy. Both their jobs are virtually gone and mine will be soon. But I did manage to make a career out of it.
The first real, violent disruption is happening now however: AI is on the verge of obsoleting a MAJORITY of all jobs within a few years, and no new jobs are really created to replace them. Society will be deeply uprooted and won't have time to prepare for the shift. A lot of people will lose their jobs with no alternatives to put food on the table. That's a recipe for war.
This new trend of using "slam", "blast" and "torch" in each and every headline in a cheap effort to make it more sensational annoys the living shit out of me. It's like English for toddlers...
It's way worse than that because what's on the line here is the ability of the
GestapoICE to wait for immigrants in courts, effectively depriving them of due process. Because who's going to show up in court when they know they'll be arrested and sent off to a Salvadorian concentration camp?The judge didn't need to be cuffed and stuffed. This was a show to warn other judges that this shit is coming to their courthouse too.