herfiehandbag

In the words of a (fellow?) Scouser: "Eh, eh, eh, calm down, calm down!" Your posts are beginning to sound more and more like Julius Streicher's editorials!

Sorry about the multiple copies - I am not sure what happened there!

I watched an interesting "dissection" of the concept of mass deportation of illegals last night. Granted it was on MSNBC, and it was presented by Lawrence O'Donnell, so it was the work of the antichrist (the horns and forked tail were well disguised though. Some interesting statistics though: 11 million estimated for deportation, some 800,000 "law enforcement officers" of every shape size and agency in the USA. 13 illegals to be tracked down per policeman! Estimated cost $300 billion, annual budget of the entire department of justice 50 billion! So call out the National Guard ( take them away from their civilian occupations - a huge economic cost) but you would have to pay them. Nothing on this scale has ever been attempted before, anywhere. Even Germany ( leaving aside any political commentary) only managed to round up and expel 6 million, and that took them the best part of a decade, and consumed massive resources. Even if you assume that only 1% of cases involve some sort of miscarriage of justice that is still over 110,000 cases! Wouldn't half get in the way of the golf! Sorry about the multiple copies - I am not sure what happened there!

On the one hand, the allegation is that they have committed a criminal act by entering the USA illegally, on the other hand we reduced the burden of proof needed. An interesting and thought provoking approach to justice!

If you are going to totally misunderstand my point, and try to turn it it into an insult, you might at least spell it correctly!

Besides, they're black.

You would have to appoint large numbers of judges very quickly, and find lots of lawyers to staff the courts. A judge will have to weigh the evidence - proving the evidence submitted by the claimants would be difficult, yet it is no secret that gangsterism and intimidation is rife in the countries they are fleeing. Summary justice dispensed "from the saddle", followed by immediate punishment without appeal or mercy makes for good cowboy drama, not such good modern government.

Since the golden age of MAGA isn't ushered in for just over two months ( to be portended no doubt by the bigliest crowd ever seen in Washington but that is another matter) this "stellar pick" is rather on hold.

I wonder what will happen to all the unpaid bills for security and so forth raised by those cities /counties who provided venues for his campaign rallies? Will they just get "stiffed", as so many have been before, or will the taxpayer pick up the tab?

He will probably try, and then demonize any individual or organisation which takes up their case. It will end up going nowhere.

"Uncle Herman" certainly knew about things that made you fat!

Now hears a radically perhaps dangerous idea. Why not busts of both Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King? Both were great orators, great leaders and did great things for their countries. Their shades would probably appreciate them being together! Together they could take the piss out of Trump - worth listening to! Incidentally, don't take too much notice of Rory Stewart - he talks vapid <deleted> much of the time!

He does, perhaps, resemble the chap you fervently hope doesn't come and sit next to you on a bus!

The idea initially involved putting "Sandwich" where the station name would go on the cross bar; defeated my photo manipulation skills!

⁷Sandwich Underground - as in London underground/subway. https://images.app.goo.gl/Za2RPTZSzYy66rYA9

Of course you do!

Umh, it is not the Catholic Church, it is the Church of England. They broke from the Catholic Church some 480 years ago. You can tell the difference, they are the ones with the better frocks, and who are not so certain that they believe in God anymore!

We'll have to wait and see - perhaps until the 6 January "political prisoners" are pardoned and released - that might embolden (and reinforce) certain groups...

An impressive piece of forensic psychoanalysis! Tell me, as a sideline, have you considered selling snake oil? I believe that it is very lucrative once you have identified a suitably gullible audience!

Do you seriously believe that a small, niche, expatriate discussion forum, with at most what, 500 active posters on political matters (and that's a very generous estimate) has paid posters?

Guns and butter eh? Now who said that?

Yet another suggestion of "faux" mental illness. There have been many umh, "unsavoury" aspects to the posting on this thread, perpetrated by both sides; but the worst, in my opinion, has been the deliberate and sustained attempts to portray other members, with whom one disagreed, as suffering from mental disabilities, mental diseases and a variety of invented fictional "syndromes". I will go out on a limb here, perhaps risking the wrath of the powers that be, but may I suggest that the moderating team put a stop to It. It has little if any bearing on political discussion, but is simply thinly disguised personal abuse. Back in the day I only once got "the cane" at school. It was for refering to a disabled boy as a "spaz". My father compounded the punishment by "grounding me" for a month. It was richly deserved.