Alan Zweibel

In this case, oddly enough, you make a fair point. Some things are just too good to be true. Although given your belief in various deranged conspiracies, your comment about "all things democrat" is preposterous.

I'm sure you think a gaffe proves something. And in a way it does. It proves that you've got nothing.

In 19th century America the same kind of charges were leveled against the Irish. And, in fact, it was true that the rate of crimes, particularly violent crimes in the cities was disproportionately due to Irish immigrants: The famine-Irish in the United States committed A LOT of crime More than half of all the people arrested in New York in the 1850s were Irish-born. https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-united-states-commit-crime-fighting-dangerous-2004406-Mar2015/?utm_source=chatgpt.com "Finally, we find that the foreign born, especially the Irish, consistently have higher incarceration rates for violent crimes, but from 1850 to 1860 the natives largely closed the gap with the foreign born for property offenses." https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w16266/w16266.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com And, the Irish were also hated because of the fact that they were overwhelmingly Catholic. Just like what people claim to "know" about Islam, back then it was widely believed that being Catholics, the Irish would owe no allegiance to the United States. In fact, there was an aptly named political movement called the No-Nothings, which was based on opposition to Irish immigration.

Fantasy: "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN Biden shut down American energy production which hiked gas and electric prices where were your protests and now that prices are down NOW, SILENCE and protesting against TRUMP and his policies??? Reality: U.S. Energy Production Reached a Record High During 2024: EIA https://enerknol.com/u-s-energy-production-reached-a-record-high-during-2024-eia/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Nothing ad nauseam.

More nothing.

In other words, you've got nothing.

And you are apparently incapable of explaining exactly how what I wrote indicates confusion. So it's probably not in me that the confusion problem lies.

Here's a transcription and a link to both. “As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home.Good luck! We shared one thing… our love and caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to ‘grab snatch,’ whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair,” he continued, signing off “J. Epstein.” https://newrepublic.com/post/204724/epstein-trump-shared-love-young-girls-suicide-note-letter-larry-nassar?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily This comes from the second batch of files.

And it looks like the frothing from armagetiton also makes your day.

It's been an ongoing thing for over a century. Since the Mexican revolution. And America has never recovered. It's just a shell of what it once was.

I don't think lunatic exaggerations are okay.

I believe that this stuff about 300000 etc is QAnon dogma. Almost makes me feel nostalgic.

And who is this person and why should we care about what she (presumably) says. All I can find out is that she hosts a restricted facebook group with a total of 999 members https://www.facebook.com/groups/1643085472400665/ Whoever he or she is, they clearly inhabit the lunatic fringe. In a way, her comment about immigration is relatively uncontentious. At lease compared to stuff like this: WHERE WERE YOU WHEN Biden lost 300,000 illegal children that are being sex trafficked and used as child labor, BUT WHERE ARE YOU now congratulating Trump as he's FOUND and rescued over 62,000 of them???

I'll go with the experts. Especially give that ltheir numbers are quite similar. ■ Migration Policy Institute (MPI): Estimated roughly 6 million undocumented entries between Jan 2021 and April 2024 (distinct entries who actually arrived), excluding people who were turned away or deported. The Fulcrum ■ House Republican analysis: Suggested that from 2021 to late 2024, there were about 7.6 million illegal entries including “gotaways” — people observed crossing but not apprehended. House Judiciary Committee Republicans ■ Heritage Foundation analysis: Calculated roughly 6.7 million illegal entrants (crossed the border or entered without authorization) through 2023. The Heritage Foundation

So they were so incompetent that they couldn't get it right the first time? Twice?

You should bring up those point to the people doing this work? I'm sure that they haven't thought this through.

I would probably go with something like what Gemini AI offers: AI Overview The number of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. is estimated using the residual estimation method: researchers subtract the known number of legal foreign-born residents (from green card data, etc.) from the total foreign-born population estimated via large surveys like the American Community Survey (ACS), with adjustments for deaths and emigration, to find the remaining unauthorized population (F - L = U). Key organizations like Pew Research Center and the Migration Policy Institute use this approach with Census data, DHS records, and other sources to track changes over time. Key Steps in Estimation Estimate Total Foreign-Born Population (F): Use large-scale surveys like the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) or Current Population Survey (CPS) to find the total number of people living in the U.S. who were born abroad, notes The Conversation and the Center for Migration Studies of New York. Estimate Legal Foreign-Born Population (L): Use administrative data from agencies like U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) (for green cards, refugees, parolees) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (for lawful permanent residents). Calculate the Unauthorized Population (U): Subtract the legal population (L) from the total foreign-born population (F). Adjustments & Refinements: Researchers make adjustments for survey omissions and undercounts, deaths, and people who leave the country. Data from school enrollments, birth records, and tax data also help refine estimates, notes Pew Research Center. Who Does This? Pew Research Center: A leading non-partisan source, uses this residual method. Department of Homeland Security (DHS): The Office of Immigration Statistics provides official estimates. Migration Policy Institute (MPI): Another key research organization providing estimates. These methods provide consistent, though not exact, figures, with estimates often varying slightly between organizations.

What's called a wild ass guess? An estimate from someone who works at the Heritage Foundation? How would you know that that is a wild-ass guess? I'd bet that it was too high given the political orientation of the people who work there? But I wouldn't call it "wild-ass". Now 20 million that does sound like a wild ass guess. Where does it come from? Some government agency? Some demographic statiticians?

Clearly you don't understand the difference between educated guesswork and just plain guessing.

There's a difference between exactitude and wild speculation. Robert Rector of he heritage foundation estimated 6.7 million illegal aliens entered. https://www.heritage.org/border-security/report/the-biden-administration-has-brought-additional-67-million-illegal-aliens And given that it's the heritage foundation employee making that estimate, if anything, it's most likely to be too high.

Well, the text that the op posted claimed there were 20 million illegal aliens entering the United States during the biden administration WHERE WERE YOU WHEN JOE BIDEN allowed 20 MILLION ILLEGALS invade America from countries all over the world, bringing in childhood diseases that we had obliterated decades ago

No point in fact checking this piece of lunacy. Let's just hope that whoever ranted this is now back on their meds.

Let's just hope no one sabotages it by, say, having Donald Trump assist in the design.

What could be scarier than an investigation launched by Pam Bondi? For starters, any investigation based on facts.