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  • On the post: The Media Still Can’t Figure Out That Trump Says Things That Aren’t True

    Dan ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2026 @ 10:29am

    They do...

    They do know he's lying. They just don't want to deal with the 'presidential lawsuit' that would arise, if they called him on it.

  • On the post: DHS Expands Immigration Ban, Ensuring The Only Way An African Can Come To The US Is If We Bring Slavery Back

    Dan ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2026 @ 06:41pm

    It's a long road...

    It will take decades to re-build this. Greenland is getting European troops to be more prepared. From who? My guess is that they are unsure themselves.

  • On the post: DHS Expands Immigration Ban, Ensuring The Only Way An African Can Come To The US Is If We Bring Slavery Back

    Dan ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2026 @ 06:33pm

    Agreed...

    Removing the incentive is definately part of the goal. It is working, in that regard. I am a bit more than upset that that government doesn't care about collateral damage among its citizens. The tally grows... The money waste also bothers me. Illegal immigrants as a % of pop in MN is not as high as in several red states. Sure, it's not partisan revenge... /sarc Send ICE to TX and FL first.

  • On the post: DHS Expands Immigration Ban, Ensuring The Only Way An African Can Come To The US Is If We Bring Slavery Back

    Dan ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2026 @ 06:17pm

    Right?!

    I heard ICE might start going door-to-door. Any white man named Muhammad Smith will have to tape a photocopy of his driver's license to his front door just to save time with the daily visits.

  • On the post: DHS Expands Immigration Ban, Ensuring The Only Way An African Can Come To The US Is If We Bring Slavery Back

    Dan ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2026 @ 06:11pm

    You shouldn't

    'Why should I care which patch of dirt someone’s parents fucked on?' You shouldn't. I have seen nothing that indicates that violent criminality amoung immigrants is any higher or lower that the base poulation they came from. Illegal immagration is a statutory crime, not violent. So much for Trump's "They're all killers, rapists..." crap.

  • On the post: DHS Expands Immigration Ban, Ensuring The Only Way An African Can Come To The US Is If We Bring Slavery Back

    Dan ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2026 @ 06:03pm

    That's another good point

    When the border with Mexico was open, the Mexicans crossing were mostly seasonal workers. They went back home when the season was over. Now MAGA complains that we are stuck with them year-round. Who would'a guessed...

  • On the post: DHS Expands Immigration Ban, Ensuring The Only Way An African Can Come To The US Is If We Bring Slavery Back

    Dan ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2026 @ 05:57pm

    Exactly my point...

    If all those H1-Bs would have had to wait in line, Silicon Valley would have given politicians donations to champion picking up the pace. Politicians do what the donors want. From 30 years to say, 3 years to get through the backlog.

  • On the post: DHS Expands Immigration Ban, Ensuring The Only Way An African Can Come To The US Is If We Bring Slavery Back

    Dan ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2026 @ 01:22pm

    In my opinion, the U.S. isn't serious about immigration to start with, and never was...

    DISCLAIMER: I may sound like a trump supporter, but I'm not... {Independent} I don't think that the U.S has ever been serious about immigration to start with. I mean, a 30 year wait unless you can get in with an H1-B, or any number of other exceptions (being a foreign actor included…). Really? How is that, in any way, ever been serious about letting anyone into the country? I know Mike and others have written about the economic benefits of H1-B visa program for technical skills. And I get it. But you carve out exceptions for this and that over the years and here we are, the inevitable conclusion. I say cut the bullshit. (Sorry Mike…) If the U.S. eliminated the H1-B’s and all the exceptions (Trump himself uses at least one of the others for his own organization), that would force some things: 1) American businesses would apply political pressure to resolve the 30-year wait problem. 2) Force America to stop belittling science and education and groom the workers we need. 3) Illegal immigration would be less necessary. One could get in before retirement. I see all of those as benefits. After cutting off the fast pipelines, some of those business people wearing red hats would wake up and go in the direction of the alleged “left”. Less bitching about illegals, a proper emphasis on education, and realizing the stark realities of “no easy answers” for immigration issues. They may even lobby to fix a few. Politics has always profited off illegals (both sides), recently literally, so the desire to fix it has never been there, by either side of the aisle.

  • On the post: We Found More Than 40 Cases Of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds And Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

    Dan ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2026 @ 04:14pm

    More of the same...

    Like that's [surprising] news...

  • On the post: Light Pollution From Elon Musk’s Starlink Continues To Harm Astronomy

    Dan ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2025 @ 04:36am

    JWST

    And now you know why they put the JWST where they did. Somone saw this coming long ago.

  • On the post: Ignorant And Paranoid MAGA Politics Kept Texas Republicans From Spending ARPA Money On Weather Warning Systems

    Dan ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2025 @ 09:21am

    Let me access...

    We have a federal government that wants to let the states handle more of their own shit, and state residents that don't trust federal money for fear of strings attached. So be it. Seems like a marriage made in hillbilly heaven. Heartless, but if that is the way a state wants to play it, who am I from another state to argue. On a DOGE note, having 50 states all doing the same things for themselves seems incredibly "inefficient".

  • On the post: GOP Budget Bill Includes Massive Spectrum Handout To Large Wireless Carriers, Hurting WiFi Speeds

    Dan ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2025 @ 10:38pm

    Wired vs. wireless techs

    I called around a few years ago, to get an additional CAT6 run down the length of my house. One quote was for $600.00 {nope} and another would only offer to install a mesh network. ("Sorry buddy, but I can read a manual for myself, if I wanted mesh.") It was really a joke to get someone who wanted to work for a living. Finally a guy I called dropped one, exactly where I wanted it, for about $150.00. All my non-portable media devices use wired.

  • On the post: GOP Budget Bill Includes Massive Spectrum Handout To Large Wireless Carriers, Hurting WiFi Speeds

    Dan ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2025 @ 10:27pm

    A new band to help neighbor interference?! LOL!

    Adjusting the router wireless channel[s] and adjusting your router's power to cover only what it needs to, would do a lot more to eliminate neighbor interference than another band would, considering the blockage issues. That isn't a reason for a new band.

  • On the post: GOP Budget Bill Includes Massive Spectrum Handout To Large Wireless Carriers, Hurting WiFi Speeds

    Dan ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2025 @ 09:10am

    Totally agree with "Vote them all out"

    For context, I'm an independent voter... Most people's opinions boil down to two, and only two, things. "Which political party wants it", and "Is that my party?". Don't ever give them the luxury of being "clueless" (aka. ignorant of the facts, their resulting tax numbers, etc.). They're not. People have made a purposeful choice with their eyes wide open. "We don't care what happens, as long as our guy won". That is not going to change until enough of them get "bit" and decide for themselves that party is not the end all to be all. The swing voters who get "bit" will examine their next choice before the next election cycle. "Some" of the more partisan voters will also. Most partisan voters just don't care regardless. They honestly don't care if something is against their own self-interest.

  • On the post: GOP Budget Bill Includes Massive Spectrum Handout To Large Wireless Carriers, Hurting WiFi Speeds

    Dan ( profile ), 04 Jul, 2025 @ 09:02am

    Slightly skeptical on how much this will "hurt" Wi-fi

    Assuming that higher frequencies are more easily blocked by just about everything, I question the ultimate usability of the spectrum for both Wifi and cell phones. Sure, the spectrum shoudn't have been given to the phone companies, in lieu of wifi use, but I wonder if it will end up being a nothing burger in the end for both. Wireless [home] network situations vary, but having a duel band router in my house hasn't fundamentally chanhged my life. I doubt a (tri-band??) would either.

  • On the post: DOJ Deportation Memo Pretends The Fourth Amendment Doesn’t Exist

    Dan ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2025 @ 03:27pm

    None of them [Amendments] do,anymore.

    Trump said two things pre-election that stuck in my mind. 1) I wanna be a dictator. 2) You will never have to worry about voting again. Congress is already out of their role. Both houses, both parties. The Executive Branch isn't lisening to the Courts. The Courts have no enforcement ability, and they have already arrested one. There is no other branch of government. Step 1) is already accomplished in the practical sense. Dictator... Seeing that he has done step 1) effectively, I have lost all doubt that he meant Step 2) literally as well, and is quite capable of doing it. I'm waiting to see what form, Step 2) will take.

  • On the post: RIP John Roberts’s Summer Vacation

    Dan ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2025 @ 11:58am

    Agree with the dissent in theory, but not in this case

    While I agree with the nature of Justice Alito's dissent, we have never had an administration with the attitude of, "Let's do this quick, before the courts rule against us." They literally have the power to kick anyone out of the country, even citizens. Revoked citizenship (i.e. Snowden), and off to a foreign prison you go.

  • On the post: Step Aside, Schumer. The Nation Can’t Survive With You In Charge.

    Dan ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2025 @ 01:08pm

    Gotta give you that one...

    Koby, I gotta give you that one. Trump did take over the GOP and taught them a whole new method of politics. I have refered to it before as the "P. T. Barnum method".

  • On the post: Step Aside, Schumer. The Nation Can’t Survive With You In Charge.

    Dan ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2025 @ 01:00pm

    It would be another vector to "Blame the Dems"

    It is also true that if the Dems would have "walked away", the GOP would have said, "all this bad is the Dems doing, they walked out". (Not being a justification for them not doing it, just putting it out there.) The indoctrinated MAGA would of course, believe it. Not that they wouldn't believe anything Trump or Elon says at this point. "Look the sky is green!" "So at is, Trump. So it is..."

  • On the post: Step Aside, Schumer. The Nation Can’t Survive With You In Charge.

    Dan ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2025 @ 09:55am

    Yes... but...

    I heard Schumer's rationale on a TV interview. [paraphasing] ... if we don't cooperate now, our lack of cooperation opens the door for Trump to do much worse...{emergency powers, etc.} In some way it makes sense, but... If you give the GOP an inch they will always take a mile, AKA history. For what it's worth, perhaps the Dems should have walked out and allow things to get as bad as possible. If it did, maybe some of the voters out there would smarten up just a tad and not put a sociopath in the Oval Office just for the sake of the economy (or so is the excuse anyway).

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