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Should be a wild four years.

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Just like how they say Americans don't want to work farm jobs, or construction jobs, or home repair jobs. No, Americans just don't want to work any job that doesn't pay slave labor wages. This is just another case of "If all the slaves are gone who will clean toilets". I work a manufacturing job and make 40$ an hour, it's the only reason I stay. It's fucking gross and my body is dying but I stay because I want to have money that isn't cashier wages. Laptop caste really is a correct term.

Please stop stopping at "slave labor wages."

We DO NOT want these jobs:

* With zero health/dental/vision insurance--especially the kind you have to wait 90 days to even get (but you are PAYING FOR IT)
* With zero EAP
* With zero PTO, or bullshitass 3 PTO days with expectation of severe ass kissing the employer
* With zero vacation time
* With negligible, or zero holidays--while the office people make GODDAMN SURE they will not be working
* With zero 401K option

It's not just the insultingly low pay--it's the absence of benefits and dignity too.
 
from the elon musk lolcow thread. idk how accurate this is. might just be a claim and not an outright fact.
I can believe the Russians being able to break in the same way the Chinese did to the Treasury last year.
Compromised 3rd party software.

If they're trying to log in that fast after account creation then the Russians have been in the system for a while already.
 
They are definitely off the rails, but one point is not clear to me - what is he entitled to in regard to being determined MS-13?
As an illegal alien, he was entitled to a hearing with representation before an immigration judge. At this hearing, it was found that he was a member of MS-13, this is known as a judicial finding of fact. This was a finding by the immigration judge supported by sufficient evidence, was able to be challenged by Garica/his attorney, was appealed to the relevant court, and that determination was upheld. The docket is listed here, you'll find these documents attached as part of the initial finding.
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The process that is due to an illegal alien was given to him, and appropriate to the context.
 
What exactly happens if the Supreme Court orders Trump to return the guy and El Salvador just says no as they almost certainly will?
They burn their political capital, pushing themselves to further irrelevance. Best thing for the courts is to get completely nuked, rebuilt from the ground up and ban any foreigner, or dual citizen from being a judge. Certain lawyers and others are hesitant but I say fuck it fire the Halo Ring, the judiciary has fucked around long enough to the detriment of regular people
 
They burn their political capital, pushing themselves to further irrelevance. Best thing for the courts is to get completely nuked, rebuilt from the ground up and ban any foreigner, or dual citizen from being a judge. Certain lawyers and others are hesitant but I say fuck it fire the Halo Ring, the judiciary has fucked around long enough to the detriment of regular people
Technically, the only judge not under the authority of Congress, is the Chief Justice.
 
Has anyone else noticed a slew of journoschlock articles saying Americans don't want factory and manufacturing jobs? I don't know about you but I think any young American being able to see the higher than retail wages regardless of if they didn't win big on the college education gamble and don't have a job to match the degree or if they decided to not fall for the college debt trap. Regardless it reeks of consensus manufacturing to say Americans don't want "dirty" industrial jobs
They are right in that no American will do it for the wages that these companies have gotten used to paying out to slave labor both domestic and abroad. It seems unlikely, short of serious government interventionism and a sustained push on tariffs across the World, that this will change. Companies are legally obligated, via Supreme Court precedence, to put shareholder profits above all else. It is literally illegal for corps to do anything except maximize shareholder value.

In the end, though, as I said on the other thread, onshoring/return of manufacturing doesn't appear to be the goal of this trade policy push, even if that is the messaging being spoken by intermediaries and by the Administration itself at times.
 
What exactly happens if the Supreme Court orders Trump to return the guy and El Salvador just says no as they almost certainly will?
Trump asks congress for a declaration of war against El Salvador to get him back and if Congress refuses to vote for it then the judge orders them to.
 
Oh man. I considered myself agnostic for a while, but then on the internet, apparently they classify agnostic as a form of weak atheism that just means you don’t care enough to actually think it through.

I was pissed that atheists essentially colonized agnosticism. When I use the term to apply to myself, I mean weak theism, not weak atheism. Like I believe in God but I grew up secular and from my position it’s really awkward to try to say for example “aha Calvinists are the truly enlightened”
Calvinists are never the truly enlightened. They are a historical example of what happens when you let a group of midwits organize.
 
Name one competent woman in the Trump administration.
Susan wiles has been one of the most competent republican political operatives this century. She was instrumental in turning Florida from the 50/50 swing state that wrecked havoc in 2000 to the most solidly republican state in the entire country. Trumps Campaign in 2024 was markedly more professional and responsive than in 2020 under her and the presidents direction .She is now Chief of Staff.
 
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