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Trump is just applying common sense to this case. Everyone knows that committing fraud while being a Republican isn't really a crime.

Actually a lot of stuff is insignifiant like minor traffic infractions. Just excuses to go after foreign students for reasons that seem to be mainly xenophobic.

One more instance to show that among Trump fans, in the Maga movement cruelty is a feature, not a bug.

Is the West a "we" anymore. Ya think all the countries in the west that Trump now treats like adversaries are going to cooperate with him?

And because Musk says that's what he's doing then he must really be doing it? Because he's a model of honesty?

As noted in another topic, foreign students are a big plus for the US as far as the trade balance goes. The reasons that they are going after these students are mostly trivial or repressive.

"We make use of uniquely comprehensive arrest data from the Texas Department of Public Safety to compare the criminality of undocumented immigrants to legal immigrants and native-born US citizens between 2012 and 2018. We find that undocumented immigrants have substantially lower crime rates than native-born citizens and legal immigrants across a range of felony offenses. Relative to undocumented immigrants, US-born citizens are over 2 times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5 times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and over 4 times more likely to be arrested for property crimes." https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117

I hate to defend riclag about anything but this is the political soapbox which is a subforum of the world forum where it would be Thai stories that didn't belong.

He's a product of the corrupt Republican party machine in Nassau County, NY.

By denying the easily certifiable facts via reports from these sources it certainly does look like you're an anti-semite. If it walks like a duck...

Ya want some links to about different corrupt Republican political machines? Here ya go: Nassau County Republican Political Machine: https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/07/nassau-county-gop-corrupt-party-machine-crushes-challengers/ https://museumofpoliticalcorruption.org/conkling-platt-machine/ https://museumofpoliticalcorruption.org/barnes-machine/ https://seventy.org/our-history/republican-bosses-and-machines?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Ring?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://seventy.org/our-history/republican-bosses-and-machines?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Kuehnle?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Kuehnle?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/07/31/holy-toledo-3?utm_source=chatgpt.com

You claimed it was the always the fount of corruption and that it couldn't be shown otherwise I offered you a a very strong piece of counter-evidence and a link to a huge amount of evidence. I don't understand how you could be so ignorant of American history.

"The Democratic Party has always been the fount of corruption in US history and I defy any of the Trump deranged to debate that with me lol. They will just leave emojis "

What makes it worse is all the evidence that backs up those claims. Almost too perfect, if you know what I mean.

Sure, I'm the one making myself look silly by believing against all actual evidence that Trump understands what deficits really signify. And you're the one making yourself look serious by invoking evidence that's invisible. And that's why no one ever ridiculed Donald Rumsfeld for claiming that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

These mines don't provide much. As I understand it Australia's output is exported to customers elsewhere. And China still controls most refining. In the meantime that leaves the USA in a very poor position.

How can you not be aware of Trump's fabled and capacious ignorance? As for Navarro's work being one of Trump's favorites...as his aides have repeatedly said, Trump doesn't like to read. For issues he wants short pithy summaries and lots of graph,. Just because he likes Navarro's conclusions, doesn't mean he has actually read the book. And since all the actual existing evidence supports the belief that Trump hasn't a clue about trade deficits (it's not clear the most Trump supporters here do either), basically all you're offering is a statement of faith. The faith of a true believer.

My mistake. I can see that you did. But of course, that makes your case worse. As I've noted before you don't note the element of Time. How long before these crucial resources can be developed or acquired from elsewhere in sufficient quantities? What is the USA going to do in the meantime while other economies enjoy access? How much will it be left behind?

We can be sure why? Because there is still no evidence to support that belief? And a huge amount of current evidence to the contrary? And you claim not to be in the bag for Trump. It is to laugh.

Of course, the reason that all these billions are being donated to the political parties is that the conservatives on the Supreme Court ruled that giving money is just a form of free speech and should be protected. Roberts said he didn't believe it would make much difference to the political scene in America. Roberts is either a fool or very disingenuous. Republicans applauded the decision. Hmmm...I wonder why...

Are you claiming that the Guardian story is false? What's your point? To tell you the truth, my Chinese masters aren't too happy with me lately. They found out I called out the Chinese for their disgraceful treatment of Muslim citizens. I'm sure you are as upset about that as I am. I have also condemned their Belt & Road program., And pointed out how the government has hurt the economy by favoring government enterprises over private one. And the damage wrought by their massive over-reliance on real estate. And their aggressive claims and actions re the South China Sea And their aggressive towards other neighbors And their mishandling of the Covid pandemic And there's other stuff too. In fact, I want to thank you. I send them comments of yours like the one I'm replying to and because of them they think I'm still doing God's work...make that Mao's work. You're the best! I expect a big "thank you" emoji in return.

Here's what you wrote "The Democratic Party has always been the fount of corruption in US history and I defy any of the Trump deranged to debate that with me lol. They will just leave emojis " And now you're trying to wriggle out of your claim. Here for a start is a list of scandals in the federal govt. It doesn't look to me like it's only or mainly composed of democrat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_scandals_in_the_United_States And what is it with your weird obsession with emojis? I can't recall anyone else in this forum showing any concern about emojis targeting them.

More nonsense from you. The fact is that those payments were repayments for a loan. What does alleged senility have to do with that?

Anybody who wants to know where this is coming from should read this comment from jas007. "How am I supposed to find evidence of something that's so fundamental that it goes without saying? It's like asking me for evidence that Trump is well aware that 2 + 2 =4. Everyone who knows anything about world trade and the world reserve currency knows how it works." In it, and I'm not making this up, he asserts that the proof that Donald Trump understands the real reason why trade deficits exist and that they aren't necessarily a bad thing is that he never ever talks about those reasons. jas007 completely ignores the fact there is copious evidence from Trump's own mouth and tweets that he ardently believes quite the opposite. jas007 goes even farther than Donald Rumsfeld did when he wrote that "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence". In this case we have huge quantities of evidence to the contrary and yet jas007 ignores it. Actually what we have in this case is the equivalent of Trump denying that 2+2=4. And I'm the one who should be embarrassed? Actually, you have the advantage of me here. Anyone who writes the kind of tripe you did defending Trump most likely is shameless.

Are you saying that Kristallnacht wasn't about attacking Jewish business and Jewish people by the SS and SA but rather about attacking socialism? And thanks for likening ICE and police activity to the practices of the SS and SA.