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You are correct, this sort of thing has been happening for a while now. Who was POTUS Oct, 2016? It's an issue now because Orange Man bad. In October 2016, CBP airport agents denied Canadian photojournalist Ed Ouentry into the country, after detaining him for over six hours and seizing his three cell phones. According to Mr. Ou’s ACLU attorney, “When the officers returned the phones to him several hours later, it was evident that their SIM cards had been temporarily removed because tamper tape covering the cards had been destroyed or altered.” Similarly, in July, CBP airport agents detained U.S. citizen and Wall Street Journal reporter Maria Abi-Habib for an hour and a half. When they asked for her cell phones, she refused and referred them to the newspaper’s lawyers. Fortunately, the agents eventually released her without seizing or searching her devices. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/law-enforcement-uses-border-search-exception-fourth-amendment-loophole Here is what the Obama DOJ wrote in 2014 https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao/legacy/2014/11/14/usab6206.pdf

The country needs this: another activist who will never hold a real job, trying to run things.

Devout Muslims don't drink.

It's always good to hate poor people trying to scratch out a living.

Most of these people don't understand the drivers of the debt.

Debt happens when you build a government you can't afford.

The USA does not use a 40% for the poverty rate. Back in 1963–64, economist Mollie Orshansky developed the original poverty line using this idea: So, basically: Poverty line=Cost of food budget×3Poverty line=Cost of food budget×3 That number became the baseline poverty threshold. This is another casue of you not doing your homework.

Yet, Germany has a higher poverty rate than the USA.

<removed> drives some people crazy.

At risk of poverty or social exclusion, abbreviated as AROPE, corresponds to the sum of persons who are either at risk of poverty, or severely materially and socially deprived or living in a household with a very low work intensity. People are included only once even if they are in more than one of the situations mentioned above. The AROPE rate is the share of the total population which is at risk of poverty or social exclusion. It is the main indicator to monitor the EU 2030 target on poverty and social exclusion and was the headline indicator to monitor the EU 2020 Strategy poverty target. This does not sound rosy for 21% of the population.

I feel sorry for you. You can't accept that Europe is irrelevant.

Lowest GDP in the USA, but close to the Germans. What does that tell you?

BTW..Speaking of poor states in the USA. Mississippi, the poorest state in the United States, is close to surpassing Europe's largest economy Germany's GDP per capita. Euronews Business compares US states with European countries. https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/01/03/the-poorest-us-state-rivals-germany-gdp-per-capita-in-the-us-and-europe

You are lying about the child poverty rate in the USA. It's easy to look these things up. As of 2023, approximately 24.8% of children under 18 in the European Union (EU) were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, equating to about 20 million children across the 27 EU member states. Shall we compare the poverty rates of the USA and Europe? Poverty rate USA 11.1% Poverty rate Europe 21.4%

Not really. Taiwan is an independent nation.

I read the book The Rape of Nanking, and I'm currently reading Retribution. Retribution describes the horrors the Japanese inflicted on the people of the Philippines. The people of the Philippines let the past go, but Chian can't seem to get over it.

European Allies Appeal to the US to avert Shock Troop Reduction. Reading is fundamental.

Yes, we are better than Europe.

I don't see what you mean. Explain yourself.

You are 100% wrong.

Where did I say posters. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-09/european-allies-appeal-to-us-to-avert-a-shock-troop-reduction?embedded-checkout=true https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence/news/four-reasons-europe-cant-trust-the-us-to-protect-it-anymore/

It's an invasion.

How so? We have many people from Europe who feel the US needs to continue to defend Europe at a considerable cost to the US taxpayers. They also think the US soldiers should be willing to die for Europe for a third time.

Did this happen before or after the invasion?