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Should be a wild four years.

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Something's popping off in Virginia right now

The FBI is raiding the office of one of Virginia's top Democrats. Nothing has been released yet but this could be something pretty big.

  • The FBI is executing search warrants at the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas as part of a corruption investigation.
  • Agents are also searching a nearby cannabis dispensary in connection with the probe.
  • Authorities have not disclosed details about the investigation or whether any charges have been filed.
 
I'm sure everyone will be relieved with more evidence that whatever happens to the rest of us because of this Iran disaster at least Trump's cronies will be comfortable.

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Yeah, it's totally impossible Iran would inform their friends ahead of time, it totally has to be "Trump's cronies" profiting off this.

Ted Turner died, he was 87. Waiting for Trump to rip him Reiner style or maybe he'll be soft since he was another billionaire from the halcyon days:

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It will also be interesting to see if CNN says good things about their founder or spit on the grave because of "muh struggles" or whatever gay liberal grievance.
All I remember about Turner is that Trump and Ted Turner were both combined into Daniel Clamp for Gremlins 2.

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Trump's just not getting the credit for sealing the border and having virtually zero immigration right now in any form. There's too many that have purity tests that think if ICE doesn't kick em all out immediately you might as well go for a Newsom or Porter that openly advocates replacement theory and says they need socialized medicine more than US citizens.
He really doesn't.

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People (mostly Groyper types) like to constantly bring up Obama's deportation record to bitch at Trump, but they really don't understand how deportations worked under Obama or how things have changed with Trump.

Obama's deportation record includes a lot of "Returns", albeit far fewer than Clinton or Bush, but when people talk about deporting illegals they really mean "Removals" and especially "Expedited" removals.

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(Returns are basically someone withdrawing an application for admission or voluntarily departing (usually turned away at the border), or foreign crew members who stay aboard their ships; Removals mean US Immigration agents forcibly deport the person, usually after an immigration judge ruling or in the case of Expedited Removals, they might just skip the court proceedings to save time. Returns can usually come back whenever they want, while Removals trigger 5-20 year bans of entry, or longer.)

In 2011 Obama started shifting focus to border crossers, with interior removals dropping greatly after 2011. About 70% of his Removals happened within 100 miles of the border. So mostly new Illegals, rather than people who had been here for any real length of time.

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And of the 2.5 million or so Removals under Obama, around 450,000 later returned to the US. That's about 18-20%. (Returns had a higher return rate, at about 30%.) [To be fair to Obama, this was a lower rate than under Clinton or Bush]

So Trump shutting down the border has basically forced a total shift in focus, with far more interior Removals now and closing off the border prevents this recidivism issue at the same time. As well as obviously reducing people entering in the first place. For the first time in forever, we're likely seeing an actual drop in the number of illegals in the US.

Another thing Trump doesn't get enough credit for:

Obama's Expedited Removals policy used to be limited to people picked up within 100 miles of the border. But on Trump's first day back in office last year he had DHS expand Expedited Removal authority to anywhere in the US. So they can grab illegals anywhere and remove them far quicker with less judicial headaches slowing the process down.

Also, while his total deportations were lower, Trump's first term Removals was generally in line with Obama's, at least until the Pandemic, which caused a lot of headaches with asylum claims and Title 42 expulsions (basically just Returns at the border). Before the Pandemic, he'd been shifting the focus more toward the interior already.

Trump's second term is far more focused on interior Removals, and though data is not readily available yet, he'll likely end up with more Removals than Obama (and possibly with more Returns as well as voluntary deportation is much higher now than with Biden).

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And finally, he doesn't get enough credit for a major increase in detention facilities/beds. Before Trump, ICE often had to release people from detention due to a lack of room, and even if ICE didn't release them, Immigration judges would grant them release on bond.

ICE now releases essentially no one before a final deportation decision, and Trump also made it much harder for the judges to release people on bond. Last July, ICE changed their rules such that anyone who entered the country without inspection at a port of entry was ineligible for bond, regardless of how long they had lived in the United States. The Board of Immigration Appeals a few months later agreed, binding immigration judges. There's been a ton of habeas corpus petitions and despite hundreds of judicial opinions finding the policy illegal, ICE and the immigration courts continue to apply the new rule.
 

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Anyone Republican who was old enough to vote in '68 or '72 loved him. It was just the party flacks and commentariat that hated him.
Do they dislike Nixon for any genuine ideological reason or is it just because of the media circus that was made from the Watergate proceedings?
 
Burger flippers now make $60K!
Oh, but a burger now costs $25 to pay that $60K.
And gas is $12 a gallon.
And a small apartment costs $5K/month.

Gee, now $60K isn't a living wage.
The easiest example you can point to is Seattle, they implemented a minimum wage law in for food delivery drivers. The increased cost of food impacted by this actually made worker get less work, and wages are estimated to have decreased by 28% for drivers because people were ordering less food.
 
Something's popping off in Virginia right now

The FBI is raiding the office of one of Virginia's top Democrats. Nothing has been released yet but this could be something pretty big.

  • The FBI is executing search warrants at the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas as part of a corruption investigation.
  • Agents are also searching a nearby cannabis dispensary in connection with the probe.
  • Authorities have not disclosed details about the investigation or whether any charges have been filed.
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It's fascinating how the Democrats were so confident that they would always win that they went so balls deep on crime that if it wasn't for the fact their cronies controlled everything they would immediately start getting arrested.
 
Sadly I have to agree. Too many on the right are just as fair weather friendly only purity absolutists. Not as bad as the left, but some are pretty damn bad. I don't count Candace as one cause I think she just lost her mind over Kirk, more out of unrequited love and jealousy than politics. But I saw some types that used to say they were absolute MAGA (Hodgetwins notably) that basically shit all over Trump for being an Israel puppet over this Iran stuff.

"Woke Right" isn't really the term for them. Maybe just grifting frauds.
Said it before, and I’ll say it again; All these dipshit grifting hacks self-immolating because of Iran/Israel stuff has made this whole conflict over the strait one of the best things Trump has ever done just by itself.

Mark my words, one of the biggest threats the Right is going to face in the post-Trump political world is fake-ass snakes trying to ride his coattails into office. Shitty millennial politicians are going to glaze and name-drop Trump at every opportunity in the exact same way boomer neocons do with Reagan.
 
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If the Feds get the go ahead to start interviewing the Fulton county ballot niggers you know shit is going to go sideways and fast.
This right here is one of the big midterm plays. Having this play out over the summer and be fresh in people's mind in November. Trials probably won't be ready in time but will have indictments and their evidence of Georgia being stolen in 2020.

The literal Democratic platform in 2026 could be "just because Georgia was stolen doesn't mean Trump would of won"
 

§2381. Treason​

Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
 
Secret Service Officer Accused of Masturbating Naked in Miami Hotel Hallway After Following Guest to Her Room

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The alleged incident took place late Sunday night at the DoubleTree by Hilton Miami Airport & Convention Center, where deputies said they found Spillman naked and “masturbating at the end of the hallway” on the sixth floor.

A woman staying at the hotel told investigators that Spillman had followed her and other guests from the lobby to their floor, prompting them to quickly retreat to their room because she was “in fear for their lives,” according to the affidavit. She later saw him outside the room, the document states.

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Rubin is angry on main.

He's 100% right by the way. All these influencers, who used to say things like "ban Islam from the west!" are now gloating about their foreign and Muslim audience.

A great replacement is going on. These people are replacing their audience with Muslims.
 
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Rubin is angry on main.

He's 100% right by the way. All these influencers, who used to say things like "ban Islam from the west!" are now gloating about their foreign and Muslim audience.

A great replacement is going on. These people are replacing their audience with Muslims.
3rd world clicks are more profitable than an American audience. 180 million adult Americans max. Billions and billions of street shifters. For the retard right they assume that all the noise that the street shitters make online represents reality within the United States.
It's like when big corporations try to break into China and India for their billion population size but then they just get stolen from and scammed by the governments there left & right.
 
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Rubin is angry on main.

He's 100% right by the way. All these influencers, who used to say things like "ban Islam from the west!" are now gloating about their foreign and Muslim audience.

A great replacement is going on. These people are replacing their audience with Muslims.
I think it also ties in a lot with the Middle East's pivot to be the Big Money behind things like Entertainment and Tourism as a pivot away from being the global leader in energy production. It's something they've been doing for a while, they've always had a sense of the oil game not being forever. However as US has ramped up our own production, I think they've started to accelerate.
 
I'm not sure if this is slightly off-topic or not, but this is all about people who have been in our political pundit sphere for a while now. I'm sure you're all familiar with Candace Owens and her desire to destroy the Daily Wire, Ben Shapiro, Erika Kirk, and the legacy Charlie left behind. Well, apparently, there's more!
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https://x.com/RealCandaceO/status/2051859086178689269?s=20 | https://archive.ph/vw1dT
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Candace shows off thit report in one of the tweets, an affadavit, which is not in any way proof that a crime took place or that the police investigated a crime. It just means that you came and reported something you believe was happening. In it, there are some allegations which I have no ability to verify the veracity of myself, but if are true, damn this zachary individual.

But who IS Zachary/Zak Lewis? As far as I can tell, he worked at a studio the Daily Wire hired to do some stupid kid's programming. The affadavit that was filed at some point during that guy's employment. This guy also got into a car accident apparently due to severe rain at that time, and totally not because he was jorkin' his hog while driving, and a "Ben Shapiro" donated to the gofundme.
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However, this is the last donation made, and it's from an account that doesn't seem to actually exist, it was just an anonymous donation with the name Ben Shapiro attached, meaning it could literally have been anyone, including someone trying to associate Benny Boy and his hidden yarmulke with the predophile here.
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Even the arrest warrant part of that affadavit wasn't actually signed, it was just printed out. This looks like a copy of the sworn affadavit given to whoever made the complaint to me, but I could be wrong. Affadavit language and the way these documents are written changes per district, let alone through states. Just seems to me like this is more of Candace being a bitter bitch about the tiny hat gang having a media company that isn't catering exclusively to retarded alien conspiracists and Charlie Kirk Hebrew Headshot believers.

Candace in the comments doing what grifters like her do best, stringing along retards to believe she has any intention of doing anything with the money they give her.
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I thought it was interesting to take a peek into the life of one of the most notorious grifters in the pundit sphere today. There's some crazy shit going on in the world of Lizard Men.
 
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Rubin is angry on main.

He's 100% right by the way. All these influencers, who used to say things like "ban Islam from the west!" are now gloating about their foreign and Muslim audience.

A great replacement is going on. These people are replacing their audience with Muslims.
It's the money. It always comes down to money for these grifting faggots. Between AIPAC, the camel fuckers and the chinks it's hard to find any "big" names who actually want to conserve America anymore and aren't just whoring themselves out for a retirement package. It's another reason why I really, genuinely believe the only hope America has is another civil conflict which allows for a radical shift and a purge of these puppets for outside interests - such a happening is unlikely and always carries the risk of the demons winning, but if we are ever to actually have a chance to purge these anti American scumbags, commies and traitors from our nation that's the only way it'll ever get done.
 
But these elite rich white hollywood types don't seem to care, it's worth it to lose money to shit on the 'bad white people' that's not them.
>Hollywood
>White

Pull the other one.
3rd world clicks are more profitable than an American audience.
Indistinguishable from the exact brand of diaspora fuckery they claim to detest. The picosecond they figure out browns have lower impulse control and will shell out more readily, suddenly an existential cultural threat becomes (((based))) because they can suck up ad revenue and neetbux.
 
It remains funny as fuck that Republican gerrymandering is just making districts giant blobs and Democrat gerrymandering is forming erratic squiggles and hieroglyphics across half the state
The only silver lining to letting democrats get away with extreme gerrymandering for many years is that you can now dip into a mere fraction of their efforts, pick up some seats and still look like the more honest party in a side by side comparison.
 
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