Alan Zweibel

But it's not about the legal definition. It's the fact that MAGA supporters repeatedly cite such cases to support calls for massive extradition. Why do they single out such criminals if the gravity of their crimes is irrelevant?

There's a difference between opinion polling and actual voting. But if you're correct, then the Republicans are really in trouble as far as the midterms go. And this is Rasmussen, which typically shows far greater support for Republican candidates than most other pollsters. I don't know how that full bore approach is going to work if, as currently seems likely, the Republicans lose control of the House. Unless, of course, the Trump administration decides to create a new form of government. Is that what assumed in your mention of a full-bore approach?

Well, they've mulled making a lowball offer for about $100,000 per greenlander. The total cost of that would come to about $6 billion. If they offered to make each greenlander a millionaire, the total cost would be about $60 billion. Still a bargain price.

Now, if you were using sonething called the internet, you could have looked that up for yourself. But here it is from the folks at Oxford: hei·nous /ˈhānəs/ https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/promos/20181204/pronunciation.svg adjective (of a person or wrongful act, especially a crime) utterly odious or wicked. https://www.google.com/search?q=heinous&oq=heinous&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDQ3NjdqMGo0qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 And given that you're such an ardent supporter of Trump, here's one from an American source: Key Meanings Extremely Evil/Wicked: Something that is fundamentally bad and morally reprehensible. Shockingly Offensive: So terrible that it causes great disgust or outrage. Abominable/Atrocious: Deserving of hatred or severe condemnation. https://www.google.com/search?q=definition+of+heinous+from+webster&oq=definition+of+heinous+from+webster&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDg2MzhqMGo5qAIAsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Even Rasmussen has Trump down by 9 points in its latest polling. https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating So maybe folks are actually seeing Trump and MAGA for what it really is?

I suppose that the argument will be made that these people were defending Maduro. But given that various military bases were bombed, I doubt that's entirely true. And given that Maduro was abducted on the grounds that this was a law enforcement operation, it begs the question about why other high-level members of the government who were similarly indicted were not only not targeted, but are now enjoying the favor of the Trump administration.

First of all, despite what rabid anti-EU partisans claim, the EU's authority over its member nations is limited. Greenland is not in the EU's sway to give away. Moreover, Denmark, which is still sovereign, is committed to letting Greenlanders decide for themselves what their national status should be. Maybe if the US offers serious bribe money to Greenlanders, and not what is currently on offer, they might persuade them to give up hopes of sovereignty.

You got me there. What I meant to write, was "Can you share with us what is the the percentage of apprehended illegal aliens who have committed heinous crimes out of all apprehended illegals?"

He also expressed confidence that his loyal base will support him after he ran on an “America First” platform. “MAGA loves it,” Trump said. “MAGA loves what I’m doing. MAGA loves everything I do. MAGA is me. MAGA loves everything I do, and I love everything I do, too.” https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/01/trump-lays-out-whats-next-for-venezuela-maga-loves-everything-i-do.html Trump gets almost everything wrong. But this time, he's got it almost exactly right.

No. It's about throwing a bone to the Christian right.

Can you share with us what is the the percentage of apprehended illegal aliens constitutes out of all apprehended illegals?

Because his chumminess with Trump is a surefire ticket to popularity with Democrats? Maybe you might want to get back in touch with reality before making such a claim: QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY PENNSYLVANIA POLL FINDS; DEMS SOUR ON FETTERMAN WHILE GOP VOTERS APPROVE OF HIM In today’s poll, Republicans 62 – 21 percent approve of the way Fetterman is handling his job, while Democrats 54 – 33 percent disapprove. Independents are evenly split, with 43 percent approving and 43 percent disapproving. https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/pa/pa10012025_piss74.pdf I doubt he'll run again.

What amazed me is how MAGA supporters denounced the neocons for lying America into the Iraq war but have no problem with the Trump administration lying its way into whatever this situation in Venezuela turns out to be. Clearly, the cocaine connection was merely a pretext. And why should it even be an issue that the Chinese get "control" of Venezuelan oil. What does "control' even mean in this context?

From AI: 1. The Photographic Technology (Film Type)In the 1930s, photographers were transitioning between two types of black-and-white film: Orthochromatic Film: This older style of film was sensitive to blue and green light but almost completely "blind" to red and yellow tones. Because blonde hair has yellow/golden undertones, this film would often underexpose those colors, making them appear much darker—even black—in the final print. Lighting and Exposure: Even with newer Panchromatic film (which "saw" all colors), studio lighting at the time often used heavy shadows to create depth. If a baby had "strawberry blonde" or "honey blonde" hair, the warm tones would lack the "brightness" needed to look white on film unless the hair was platinum or white-blonde.

Hessy Levinsons Taft, who as an infant appeared on the cover of a Nazi magazine in Germany promoting her as the ideal Aryan baby, a distinction complicated by the fact that she was Jewish and had been exploited as part of a dangerous hoax, died on Jan. 1 at her home in San Francisco... Her death was confirmed by her family. Terrifying at first, the story eventually became a source of pride for Mrs. Taft and her parents for the way it neatly illustrated the absurd pseudoscience underlying Adolf Hitler’s racial ideology. https://archive.ph/3TpVS

This looks like a nice piece of political jujitsu on the part of the Democrats: Democrats say Venezuelans with TPS face deportation to ‘unstable’ homeland — despite Maduro’s ouster Dozens of Democratic House members, including all eight Florida Democrats, are asking the Trump administration to restore Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants in the wake of last Saturday’s U.S. military strikes on the country. “Conditions in the country are deeply unstable and dangerous, and the still-intact Venezuelan regime, emboldened by support from the President of the United States, has doubled down on repression and brutality since taking power,” the Democratic lawmakers wrote in their letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem... “The great news for those who are here from Venezuela on temporary protected status is that now they can go home with hope for their country — a country that they love — that there is going to be peace, prosperity and stability,” Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told Fox News last Sunday." https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2026-01-09/venezuelan-tps-maduro-deportation-democrats First of all, she lied. Most Venezuelans in America no longer enjoy Temporary Protected Status. As for their prospects in Venezuela...so these corrupt, Marxist drug kingpins are going to preside over a country blessed with peace, prosperity and stability. Therefore returning Venezuelans have nothing to fear? Venezuela orders nationwide manhunt for supporters after Maduro's arrest by US forces An emergency decree targets anyone who supported military operation that led to drug trafficking charges against former president https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuela-orders-nationwide-manhunt-supporters-after-maduros-arrest-us-forces Is the government is going to greet with open arms the people who fled their misrule and celebrated Maduro's abduction?

Next he'll be saying what business does China or other countires have buying various natural resources from Brazil or other South American nations.

I didn't see your post until after I posted mine. I also posted a fuller explanation previously in another thread. Anyway, the article I linked to offers an excellent and full explanation of what's going on. I am confident Impulse will read it and emerge from the experience a wiser person.

That's what's called a statistical artefact. Not connected to reality. In fact, not even the White House denies it. Just offers bluster instead Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born. The data doesn’t show it. In fact, data shows that U.S.-born workers are doing moderately worse under Trump than they were under President Joe Biden because the labor market has we kened — partly due to a sharp slowdown in immigration. “The unemployment rate has been rising for both native-born and foreign-born adults,” said Jed Kolko, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a former Commerce Department economist. Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement to The Washington Post that “mindless nitpicking doesn’t change the simple fact that President Trump has done more for American workers than any president in history by cracking down on visa program abuses, successfully negotiating new trade deals, securing our border, and carrying out the largest mass deportation of illegal aliens.” https://archive.ph/LwCQF#selection-559.0-575.397 The graph above shows that the percentage of employed native born Americans working vs the entire population of native born Americans is actually falling. What's more the total number of native born Americans of working age is also falling. So, how does that translate into 2 million more employed native Americans? It doesn't.

At the rate costs for that have escalated, the might be enough for just one.

Making it personal means you've got nothing.

You mean the video created by that highly prestigious organization known as The SCIF? https://x.com/intent/follow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2004015862093627542%7Ctwgr%5E4dc8a503805e14de3f02cdd08aac488825dd14a2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Faseannow.com%2Findex.php%3Fapp%3Dcoremodule%3Dsystemcontroller%3Dembedurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FTheSCIF%2Fstatus%2F2004015862093627542&screen_name=TheSCIF

an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/insurrection

Actually, the figure I've seen now is up to $185 billion.

What it has led to here is what is technically known as a nothingburger. Where's the crime? If you've never seen anything like this that must be because you are not a viewer of Fox News or a reader of The New York Post. Their reporters apparently live in a near constant state of hysteria.