According to the admin, 1.6m people have self deported or been deported. They also said they arrested more than 352,000 and deported more than 324,000. Not sure if the 324k is from the 352k, I think the 324k is included in the 1.6m.

200 days, 1.6m deported. 8,000 per day average. 2.92m per year, 11.68m over 4 years. 11m is the conservative estimate number of unlawful immigrants, Pew says 14m, but the upper estimate is over 21m.

So they claim they have hit 1m a year a while ago, but we would have to trust their numbers are accurate. There are indications that at least 600,000 have left the US, but that is pretty much based on vibes because concrete numbers are impossible to obtain.

Pretty much zero.

The Dems would need to have an actual platform other than orange man and couch fucker bad. They keep running on feelings and vibes without a concrete plan to improve things. Not that they will be able to accomplish anything of value, given the circumstances, which will not help in 2028. Then there is the 3rd parties that could form that really makes things worse.

Without a serious effort by the Dems, we are almost certainly going to have another 4 years of Republican Whitehouse in 2028 and the best hope is a slight majority in Congress.

She dropped out, still going with Bacerra.

An attack cassowary is a great addition to any domestic fowl pen. Make the egg laying spots accessible from outside containment, cassowary care not for peace with humans.

For someone to get to work on a government site, you have to pass a background check. Since Secret Service is involved, they will check social media as well.

Clark Construction is doing most of the building, outside of the engineering construction, and they are actually fairly good in the industry. They intentionally provide a starting point to get into trades with pre-apprenticeship employment, which is huge in construction trades. Wages and benefits are on par with national averages for non-union labor.

The lowest paid people are “helpers” and they fuck up plenty when they try not to and aren’t allowed to touch anything that could be of consequence. At most they could write a message on something nobody will see until the next renovation.

Maybe, I think a push for Hispanic representation will be a stronger force with the deportations and Baccera has better qualifications.

The last Hispanic governor of California was in like 1899, so that is a pretty strong bit of leverage in a state with a 40% Hispanic population.

I’m calling it for Bacerra as the new governor.

If Tesla can hit $35k with all crap they put in them, I am feeling optimistic about slate.

The kei truck popularity is enough of a display that we want tiny trucks, and with states trying to ban Kei trucks it presents a nice opportunity for the slate to do well.

Their configurator with max spec is like $30k. If they can hit under $30k at release on a base model, I am interested. A base model Civic is $25k MSRP, a model 3 is $35k, and a Nissan Leaf is $30k.

I would be glad to be an early adopter in the hopes they can come out with an extended cab AWD with 400 miles of range that I can later swap to.

Is that the “Oh, we, oh, wee yoh, yoh” one?

I think it worse than that. I don’t think Donny has had any real or close friends for most of his adult life stemming from his childhood relationships with others.

He seems to be distrustful of anyone and can only see them for their value to his goals. Once they stop being useful or compliant, he gets rid of them or distances from them. Look at Musk, seemed real close and Donny manipulated Musk’s autistic nature as a useful tool, only to cut him loose once Musk realized the reality and wasn’t on-board anymore.

His marriages may be evidence to support this as well. Melania was around 28 and working as a model, which is “too old” for that line of work, and she saw him as a viable means to keep her dwindling career alive. She eventually latches into him because of his connections and wealth. She was a model to hang on his arm and tolerant of his cheating enough to stick around because she had aged out of being a model and didn’t like other prospects. I suspect their marriage is open as a convenience and to avoid a divorce that would no end well for Melania and/or Trump. A marriage that is more a business partnership than a relationship of genuine love, as if Donny is even capable of genuine love.

He probably grew up with others like him, who learned from their parents, that people are only useful to have around until they aren’t. This mirrors business relationships. Allowing for personal relationships opens you up to weakness and leverage over you, which can’t be allowed if you are to be successful.

The business world probably reinforced his view of personal relationships. People you would consider friends may end up getting in the way of your next step, so you have to position yourself emotionally so you can cut their throat and not think twice. You may do things to better your situation that may screw over a friend directly or indirectly, can’t let your feelings get in the way of doing what must be done for your interests, if they won’t capitulate.

Epstein was probably very useful for whatever purpose he served to Donny due to the known connections Epstein had, but problematic enough to keep a distance from. So he got a birthday card, just to keep enough of a connection should his utility become needed. I think he knew what Epstein was up to very well, but probably didn’t partake because he was/is too distrustful of anyone to allow them to get such leverage over him.

If he has/had interests in Epstein’s products, it is more Donny’s style to use a power imbalance to get what he wanted; like getting the daughter of an illegal immigrant or a beauty pageant contestant(maybe via the overbearing mother of one living vicariously). Having Epstein arrange for something would expose Donny to manipulation and I think he would not allow for such a degree of trust in another person.

So yeah, I don’t think he was friends with Epstein because he isn’t friends with or close to anyone.

Not dismissing this:

A lot of people who are rich or deal with a lot of people, like Donny, have an assistant that deals with the tedious social crap like birthday letters. A great assistant would know to send an appropriate card for a given person. So a devote christian would get a card with something about Jesus and a sex-trafficker would get a lewd sexual card. How much oversight on the cards would depend on the person and a control freak like Donny would probably see the card, chuckle, and sign it.

So Donny sending a card doesn’t necessarily imply a close friendship like you would expect with a typical person.

All the same, release the client list and whoever gets nailed to a wall deserves it and it should be a bipartisan issue to keep harassing the admin until they release the names and people go to jail or some other fate.

That is the last type of lawyer you want for this case. You want a firm filled with experienced jaded amoral sociopaths that just want to get the win.

Both. If he loses, it can set precedent that would negatively impact others who wish to seek similar lawsuits, even if they have a stronger case.

Anyone wanting to go to court with the administration over deportation issues should expect it to be a drawn out and costly affair that has a considerable chance of failure. They want to set an example to discourage similar suits.

They way to actually win would be a class action and to settle in for years of judicial process, but you would have to have deep pockets funding that.

I don’t believe a word about him sharing the money with anybody until he does it.

Obviously Trump will fight this, so an apology won’t happen and no chance deporting policy will change willingly.

My question is if he will be able to afford the lawsuit for as long as it will be drawn out. It is a pretty risky gamble that he will be able to win and get the lawyers paid off the money awarded. There will be lawyers that will take it pro-bono or on contingency, but are they good enough to win against the government?

I honestly find it hard to believe that there is a meaningful difference in lifestyle if you make over $10m a year vs over $100m. So you can afford a bigger boat faster? Save and seethe on your new money dingy.

I fully support a unavoidable progressive tax that taxes every dollar above $10m in a year at 100% and nobody that hits that will suffer or be less motivated in the slightest.

Well only 83% of Dems are critical of it. So 54% means a decent amount of Reps are critical, which is more than I would think.

The AI face unlock can determine residency status and the GPS will ping your location every 5 seconds to DHS and ICE if you don’t have legal residency or citizenship.

Peanuts are legumes.

They are absolutely disconnected with their voters and alienate potential voters.

They can’t even see that Joe Rogan is their DNC Joe Rogan. He is a liberal that leans centrist. He is open to fair discussions with people he disagrees with, and the DNC hates that, the potential voters like that. He is manly and likes guy stuff, and that is considered toxic to the DNC, the potential voters like that. He has a broad sense of humor, and that is considered offensive to the DNC, the potential voters like that.

The DNC loses the male vote because they have a vocal distain for what the potential male voters like and that just pushes away the voters they need to actually win.

By playing hardball with Rogan on doing his podcast, all they did was give Vance a stage to himself and they once again threw away potential voters that would have made all the difference.