You can pry the name off the building but you can't abolish the mission. We abolish the cruelty and the violence if we professionalize the force and hold leaders accountable. But we get nothing without a coherent immigration policy. Republicans use that chaos to keep power. We have to win elections.

I hate ICE, but Patriot only combined existing agencies. It enabled bigotry, yes, but ICE shit has been going on forever. Delete ICE and we'll just have to whack that racist mole again under a different name later. We have no policy. That enables bigots. A policy must have an enforcement arm.

By name, yes. But INS and BP have been doing ICE shit forever. Read on Operation Wetback. They do it because the political leverage is baked in. The Right runs on that fear because it wins...until people see it in action. Right now we can get a political solution that may--yeah, I know, may--last.

Yeah it was a good one

least electable candidate since Lyndon Larouche.

see, there it is. Nothing I've said could remotely be construed as defending those assholes, but it's suddenly a pure dichotomy. I get it--anger's joy, when you need it--but come on. Fight the right people.

Prosecuted for what? If you knew they'd get acquitted would you still indict? That's what Bondi's doing and she's getting her ass kicked in grand juries. 'under color of law' cases are hard to win. the shooters, yeah. but carefully. A loss is worse than nothing--look at that twerp Rittenhouse.

You fire their asses, and prosecute those you can, and humiliate the politicians to the extent possible, and curtail funding and confine them to the border and all of that. Thing is, 'abolish' means you can do nothing because you can't get elected. Same with 'defund.' Got to get elected first.

Somebody explained it to him and he stopped listening about five syllables in so he just fakes it. That's what happens every time. It's astonishing. It's obvious. Crazy.

yeah they got A's in it and he had to drop because he kept saying 'Jean-tics.'

that's mainstream Alabama, right there. Duke's Louisiana.

Shutting somebody down because they don't have ready solutions is a logical fallacy too. Making 'abolish ICE' a core policy argument is fine as long as it's not 'abolish or I'll abstain.' We're pretty aligned here, seems to me.

Harris had tons of policy papers and platform information--so much she was criticized for going overboard. Democrats are nerds, man. Trump ran on resentment and anger, so yeah, Harris ran on joy, I guess. I'm ok with that, just don't vote for Jill STein or whatever because Harris had a weird laugh.

i repeat. go easy. We're all on the same side. We need that kind of enthusiasm even if it does get strident. Just have to keep them voting, that's it. And they get to yell at us a little since we (I speak for myself and the olds) did kind of let this shit happen.

go easy. We're all on the same side. We need that kind of enthusiasm even if it does get strident. Just have to keep them voting, that's it.

It's cool, don't fret. We mainline Democrats are frustrated by people who vote third party or stay home when we agree on a lot. I'd ask one thing: notice that 'abolish' and other hard-left talking points are often Republican propaganda or foreign bots. They can't win on ideas so they splinter us.

At Agincourt (according to Shakespeare) the English were winning and a lot of them had captured rich French knights for ransom (a way soldiering was profitable). Then the French attacked the camp and killed all the boys so Hal declared 'no quarter' and the English all killed their prisoners.

It's explicit in Shakespeare. It means you have to kill your prisoners

he's the puncher. Love him.

he's sure enough munching that Penguinius or whatever his bioname is.

Oh, he's famous to us.

Does it matter that Mandelson is gay?

ICE is just the modern iteration of the INS/Customs enforcement arm. There has been a cadre of militarized border patrol for a hundred years and they've been committing crimes, including murder, since then. That bill made it worse and freed them to be more political, but it didn't create them.

That photo shows the injustice of detaining farm workers. Those ICE agents are going unpicked and will just rot in the fields because the skilled laborers are gone. It's a tragedy.

That AI humpback is being controlled by a harbor seal. I think that's the real reason.

Commute her sentence when she has three days left. Not until.

They wanted polio. They didn't know it. Well, maybe Q knew it, but they didn't.

Yes! And I'll bounce right back once I've recovered from the compound-fractured femur I suffered when I hit myself in the thigh with a splitting maul in order to show my friends how tough I am. You see, people just don't understand these things.

oil, diamonds, and nuclear waste. Three things we don't need.

North wind today. The strong odor at Reagan is blowing down from Capitol Hill.