I think that translates to Bazinga or Bajinga? I’m a little rusty.

Ford CEO drives a Xiaomi EV instead of a Ford and loves it. That article was from last year but he’s still impressed in this article from a few days ago.

I ate crickets a few times in traditional Mexican restaurants. They were great dry roasted like seasoned peanuts, but I liked them less braised or streamed. I really needed them to have the crunch to be palatable. I’d try other bugs, for sure.

Soccer diehards team up with Argentine retirees to protest pension reform (2025)

I guess we’ll have this to look forward to when they eventually gut the whole thing.

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Adding on to that: Filled with a bunch of fearful America hating traitors. Afraid of slavery being abolished and hating America for even considering not expanding slavery to the territories in process of becoming states.

Here’s some fun history: In Maryland and Virginia, reparations were paid by the federal government… to former slave owner for loss of their “property.” “Property” being freed slaves. Those recently freed people got exactly what you think they got. Nothing.

If only. That comes out to nearly all Republicans and around a third of Democrats. I could totally see 30% of Democrats being in favor of mass deportations.

First line of the article

Most U.S. adults (9 in 10 Republicans and close to half of Democrats) say they support mass deportations of immigrants living in the country illegally

You gotta remember that the “They’re taking our jobs” and “They’re getting our tax money” propaganda has been pervasive in America for decades. And they don’t, actively or passively, want to know about the realities of the lives of undocumented immigrants in the US. They don’t want to read the studies or know the data. Feelings don’t care about the facts.

That’s exactly what I’m expecting. They’ll just make a whole lotta new things illegal and jailable then apply the laws in a specific way such that only “particular peoples” are incarcerated and used as prison slaves. We saw this in post-Reconstruction South, during Jim Crow, and over the course of the War on Drugs. My favorite was suddenly people just standing on sidewalks being arrested, charged, and convicted as vagrants then being forced to do legally allowed slave labor for the state under threat of punishment (beatings, torture, solitary confinement). America said “We’re banning slavery (except for this one case)” then immediately said “Let’s increase the number of people who can be exceptions.” This is a re-run. Or better yet, a remake of an old movie or show.

I’m fleeing Texas in the next couple of months because of this and possibly getting caught up in mass deportations even though I’m a citizen. I’m Hispanic, my wife is white. I’m leaving my wife behind because she doesn’t want to go. All I can think is ‘Thank goodness we don’t have kids.’ I’m so lucky I’ve got friends and family in freedom loving states and I feel for those who don’t.

Just you wait, they’ll follow a playbook that has been used for a long time. First they’re gonna say that the official death toll, around 46,000 identified people, is incorrect. ‘Many of them were Hamas’ or ‘Hamas is inflating the death count.’

Once they realize the evidence overwhelmingly shows that the official death toll is an undercount, they’re going to say it’s not more than the official death toll, it can’t be more than the identified deaths. ‘It can’t be more than 46,000, there’s no evidence that it’s more than those already counted’ or ‘I won’t believe a higher number without a name and a body.’

Then, once they can’t away from the higher estimate, they’ll switch to exclusively justifying it. ‘It doesn’t matter, they all deserved it for supporting Hamas.’

They’re banking masks now because only ‘criminal antifa’ use masks. Some of the bans have exceptions for health reasons, a lot don’t. So, screw people with compromised immune systems, I guess.

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We both know there’s gonna be separate standards for the in group (them) and the out group (all the rest of us). Hell, here’s an in group member who got 10 weekends in jail for that exact crime earlier this year. But, they’ll arrest us for providing food to people who need it. (Dayton 2024) (Houston 2023) The laws are already there in some cities, why not make it federal law and make the punishment severe.

Goddamnit! They’re trying to monopolize mayonnaise now?! They can take my more delicious Mexican and Japanese mayonnaises when they pry 'em from my cold dead hands!

Even though I live in the US, it is kinda nice to see this country finally get its comeuppance for a century of ruining the homes of my brethren. 'Oh, your democratically elected government or leader is to the left of Ronald [the Fucker] Reagan? You get a coup. You get an assassination. All of you get a fascist murderous right wing military dictatorship that will kill, torture, SA, and steal the children of tens of thousands of people, set back the economy and lower the standard of living for generations. We will feel just a fraction of the pain caused by our government and the people who supported, and still support, its policies.

Wikipedia list of foreign interventions

It’s like they all learned the wrong lessons from Kent State. It’s only a matter of time before paramilitaries “accidentally” kill demonstrators for the highest crime of being on the right side of history.

Alabama tried this in the early 2010’s and the results were great for the state. Fields were left with crops rotting because they weren’t harvested, home building slowed, meat processing slowed, people stopped cooperating with police, they arrested a Mercedes Benz exec and a Japanese Toyota employee for not having a driver’s license which I’m sure encouraged those manufacturers to expand factories in the state. Business leaders, churches, and so many others hated it.

Did they learn? Apparently fucking not. Buckle up because they’re taking it nationwide and the ride is gonna be awful. I’ve already bought 200lbs of rice and beans and a bunch of shelf stable items because I fully expect food costs to skyrocket. I advise everyone do the same because undocumented people do so much that can’t easily be seen.

Alabama immigration: crops rot as workers vanish to avoid crackdown

How America’s harshest immigration law failed

That was a great article! I’m not shocked to see it’s been known for decades. And adding an extra layer of fucked up, keeping schools segregated (private religious ones anyway) is also tied to the anti-choice movement and the rise of the religious right. Here’s an article for more information.

Gotta love how most bad things in America can be directly attributed to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, racism, or a combination of them.

We need to bring back tarring and feathering for leeches like the ones in the article.

My hope for the future is that the Trump administration and his choices for leadership positions will be so incompetent, will be such a failure, that it fails in supplying Israel with assistance (weapons, diplomatic cover internationally, and political cover domestically) allowing Gazans to finally have peace and the space rebuild along with consequences for Israel (sanctions, isolation, arrest of leaders and war criminals).

That’s what these private schools have always been about. We’ve known this for a while. Here’s an article from 2021.