Especially with who’s still in charge of the USPS, and them purposefully delaying mail right now to set the precedent for November.

The time to do that and have significant public support behind them, has passed. Like I said, they shouldn’t have passed that $75 billion in the first place and kept the government shut down until every item they wanted was included, AND they had the public support to do so!

Now? Republicans will hammer them for not funding FEMA when there’s a massive snow storm getting ready to hit 3/4 of the country, or whatever bullshit they’re scheming up this round. When other crap is loaded into a bill, their public support for not supporting it faulters, i wish this wasn’t the case.

I want Democrats to win, and i don’t think this is the battle to do so. Safe Dems can vocally opposed this all they want, but until we start seeing immigration polls swinging 20-30+ instead of 5-10, Southern Dems in tight races will continue playing that “Middle”.

Fuck yeah, rip it top shelf bud.

To preface, i want ICE fully defunded.

That being said, this is a damned if you do, damned if you don’t. ICE already received that $75 billion which will allow them to operate for years. This $10 billion comes with some “restrictions” like body cameras, and reallocates some money towards oversight of holding facilities. Another chunk will need to go to other underfunded agencies like the Coast Guard, FEMA, and CIS.

Democratic leadership hasn’t indicated if they will whip house Dems into voting no, because it will depend on those running in tight districts.

The message needs to be sent via primaries. They should have never received that $75 billion in the first place.

And even that would require a software layer log that wouldn’t kick in until the software is fully booted. There would have to be a hardware layer controller logging spin up via firmware for that to work.

If they threw this into a cloaner, there’s really no way to tell.

But they wouldn’t even need to do all that, they would just shop around for a trump appointment judge in a nearby district, and then convince them to retroactively rubber stamp a warrant based on some flimsy probable cause, exactly like the Patriot Act was written for. No need to parallel construct.

We also dont know the situation that led up to them resigning and getting fired. They very well could have been trying to drag their feet but were already under immense pressure to file charges immediately. No amount of feet dragging can help if the Nazis are literally hovering over you as you fill out the paperwork.

I only say somewhat because he doesn’t actually support (or voted for) this admin. He only voted for him in 16, and quickly realized how stupid he is. He has voted Democrat the last few elections, but differs in how we actually fix things.

So basically your average centrist right now.

What’s strange is that he was a huge Bernie supporter back in 16, and that was the reason he flipped to R that election. So it’s odd he’s deepthroating billionaire propaganda now. He also doesn’t watch any news outlets, and mostly gets his info from TikTok, which his feed is probably all Joe Rogan clips at this point.

My somewhat conservative brother told me the other day that if we tax billionaires, they will be forced to lay off employees.

I just don’t have enough time and dry erase markers to break down how to effectively setup a BETTER economy where we can tax billionaires and still have a low unemployment rate, and not be beholden to fake job creators who were going to do layoffs anyways because line needs to always go up.