@JesseKellyDC Good grief, immigration was never frozen for 50 years. Where do you come up with this nonsense??
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MonadsRUs
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No. Freeze all immigration for 50-100 years. We did this before in this country and we can do it again.
Legal immigration is just as damaging as illegal immigration.
It’s time to close America.
Chuck Steele@ChuckSteeleSr
@JesseKellyDC We need a freeze on all migration until we get a handle on the illegals and the fraud Especially if you want a 1/2 trillion dollars more for defense..
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IMO everyone is overlooking "reside". If you asked those Turkish women where they reside...where is their permanent residence...they would not say the US, they would say Turkey. You can't get in-state tuition from a university just by visiting that state and staying in a hotel room. You have to reside there and prove it.
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The Supreme Court is about to tell you this is constitutional and that’s just what the 14th amendment means.
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes
It turns out the over 100 women from Turkey who flew over to America to have their babies then signed up for Medicaid So not only did their kids get birthright citizenship but then the American taxpayer had to pay for the procedure and follow up care End Birthright Citizenship
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@LouSmorrels @redsteeze Translation: We're going to get really upset cause you stopped being our sugar daddy.
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@redsteeze Perhaps it would be wise if America started paying attention to what people in the rest of the world are saying.
Its not a good idea to piss off your friends....
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Well when you put a rocket into space in Australia we'll start to consider your opinion on things.
Susan Park 👹🤘@Susan16Park
I don’t think the average American has any clue the amount of pain and destruction their country has caused the rest of the world.
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IMO they will split the baby by defining "reside". The primary residence of a tourist isn't the country they are visiting, it is the country they came from. You don't get in-state tuition by visiting the state for 5 min, you have to establish residence...ie where you reside. The same test can be used to establish residence for birthright citizenship. That will end birthright tourism but allow immigrant families who actually live in the US to be subject to birthright citizenship, the mechanism of which will be determined by Congress. That's the way out of this mess.
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I believe I am almost alone in holding the following two opinions:
1. 14/A is clear, if you're born here and your parents weren't diplomats or in an occupying army, you are a citizen.
2. In today's world, it is unfortunate the birthright provision was written so expansively.
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IMO they will split the baby over the term reside. Residence in terms of establishing in-state tuition doesn't mean visiting said state for an hour and establishing residence, it means living there permanently and proving it. Foreign tourists reside in their country of origin and would not be eligible.
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I attended today's oral argument and while I'm not sure how it will go, it seemed to me the justices engaged seriously with Sauer's arguments. I'd be surprised if they said the 14th Amendment or Kim Wong Ark support today's radical birthright citizenship regime.
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His overall strategy is to get rid of imperialist, empirical control...ie globalist control masquerading as "free market"...and replace it with true balanced free trade between sovereign nations. He is picking off the chokepoints of that system one by one which reduces their power and creates US leverage. Iran, Abraham Accords, Board of Peace, cartel boats, Venezuela, Cuba, tariffs, Development Finance Corp, Gaza deal, unmasking NATO/EU, dissolving NAFTA, etc. It's all part of a plan to undermine their power and empower the US vision of free trade.....while simultaneously boxing in China with energy leverage to force them to the table and negotiating with Russia to become an economic partner (see expansion of icebreaker fleet)...which ultimately will end the Ukraine conflict.
Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Most don't though because they are stuck in Great Game binary thinking, not from a win-win Art of the Deal POV. How do you convey that strategy and should you?
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Is DJT’s speech persuading any skeptics? He still hasn’t linked all the tactical victories to a real strategy, which has all been the missing piece.
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@TheHistoryOfTh2 Where is the diplomat/occupying army cutout? Everyone keeps saying that, but I don't see it.
The number of kids is apparently about 250k a year which is meh. Get rid of the anchor baby practice and cap immigration at a number that includes birthright babies, problem solved.
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It did extreme damage to Trump among apolitical men under 40 who believed he was The Guy who would finally blow the system up. The war in Iran (and the perception it was waged at Israel’s behest) was the nail in the political coffin for those voters.
Democrats understood this dynamic immediately, which is why they jumped in so quickly (and cravenly, given their own long histories with Epstein) to capitalize on the error.
Cernovich@Cernovich
Epstein files cover up hurt Trump more than the war.
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@CheeseForEvery1 @ClayTravis 1st and 2nd were natural rights. 14 is government process. Big difference.
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@ClayTravis They couldn’t have conceived of TV or the internet, either, and yet the First Amendment applies. Likewise, the Second Amendment applies to guns they didn’t conceive of, either.
This is not a productive road to go down.
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The Supreme Court’s debate today: What did people who have been dead for 150 years intend for their law to mean for a modern situation they never conceived could ever occur?
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To the contrary, the quagmires in the Middle East over the last 30 years were caused by (1) the balance of power doctrines...ie the so called "Grant Chessboard" policy of Brzezinski...which prevented taking anyone completely out (Bush stopping in Iraq) and Arab coalition building and (2) the existence of a nation hell bent on undermining everything..ie Iran..preventing peace. If you're paying attention, Trump is avoiding all of that because of what happened the past 30 years and with a vision of the future. He apparently learned more than you.
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These people learned nothing from the last 30 years. Nothing. It’s genuinely shocking.
Mark R. Levin@marklevinshow
ARM THE IRANIAN PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY! I've been calling for this for weeks on radio. One thing we can do, which Reagan did in Afghanistan, Angola, and Nicaragua, is ARM THE PEOPLE in Iran so they are no longer butchered by these monsters without the ability to fight back! They will rise up as a real fighting force, but they need weapons! And it must be done IMMEDIATELY, especially if we are talking about ending our military operation in a few weeks!
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@TheHistoryOfTh2 In other words MMT....pushed by the left and globalists today...which is wall street focused. The neo-liberal policies could be called "main street" focused, which is what Trump favors.
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Friendly reminder on consumer price inflation during the 1970s, which apparently is largely unknown on this website. It is good to avoid policies that lead to this, which include loose money and fiscal irresponsibility.
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You piled on typical air travel issues which aren't a crisis...and tried to make them a crisis...during the DHS debate which legitimately impacted air travel and was a crisis. Trying to make a legit problem worse isn't solving the problem, it's doomer behavior....that is politically undercutting Trump, the one guy that has done more for what you want than any president since Reagan. No one understands why anyone would do that. Its.....
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There are people claiming that I’m only complaining about air travel because I’m being “blackmailed.” By who exactly? The rental car industry? Enterprise is forcing me to denigrate air travel. Yes that must be it.
The level of retardation on this site has reached apocalyptic proportions. People are so unbelievably retarded here. It’s astounding. I just sit and marvel at it. I can’t even be mad about it. I’m fascinated.
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@TheHistoryOfTh2 So universal, it's hard to tell if it's another Marxist rally or a celebration of the 250th anniversary.
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I'm not a big believer in the political potency of demonstrations on beautiful spring afternoons. I think they persuade almost nobody.
That said, I do think "No Kings" is much more clever branding than has been typical of left-wing protests in recent years.
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@TheHistoryOfTh2 At this time last year, having a recession due to tariffs last fall was way higher than a Dem sweep.....and it came in at 3% growth.
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The prediction market outlook for the GOP in the midterms is pretty ugly, with a Dem sweep now the front-running outcome.
polymarket.com/event/balance-…
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When the left turned big government into an unaccountable bureaucratic state, you lost your right to self-governance...and basically all other rights with it. Gone....way more infringing than anything Trump has done. That control is how Dems can side on the low side of 80-20 issues. That could not happen if politicians truly represented the people.
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@QuietLion @MonadsRUs He’s doing a massive amount of that too, just a bit less than Harris would have done. To me it is government infringing on our rights. Trump isn’t necessarily worse than the alternative, depending on your POV, but he’s second after Biden for post LBJ presidents.
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I'd argue that MAGA voters are drawn to Trump because the culture-shapers, who almost all identify as Democrats, say or imply they are insecure, angry, stupid, ignorant and racist.
(They're probably OK with "uneducated," which is why DJT says he likes "uneducated" people.)
Jamie Bonkiewicz@JamieBonkiewicz
MAGA aren’t drawn to Trump because he is smart, competent, or “Christian”. They are drawn to him because he tells uneducated, insecure, angry people that their stupidity, ignorance, and racism are actually strengths.
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@redsteeze Didn't Bush intentionally mispronounce Saddam's name like Sodom?
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None of that means he likes or loves big intrusive government, it means he's using the power available to promote his vision.....power that has been used and insanely abused by the left for decades for the same purposes on their side. If the intrusiveness is there legally so be it. He's not conducting thousands of illegal NSA database searches on political opponents like Obama did....or .
MAGA/Trump wants government to function as fair and equitable representative government, not a bureaucratic state full of fraud and corruption with no oversight managed by Uniparty politicians (both sides) pushing globalist elite control and agendas.....which is what exists now and is clearly the vision of the left. For 40 years, the right has really just been controlled opposition.....the Washington Generals. That has to end.
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Threatening to pull broadcast licenses to leverage media he doesn’t like is quite something. The Anthropic thing is unprecedented. The barring of law firms who had represented people he didn’t like from working for government contractors. The shakedowns of big universities. The list is very long and astonishing.
Now it happens he picks his enemies well. I and also his fans don’t much like many of the outfits he goes against. But he *loves* big government as long as it is in his own service.
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Trump wants effective efficient limited common sense government. That he uses government to get there doesn't mean he loves big government.
He hasn't deployed the power of the government any more than any other recent president. "Intrusively" is very subjective. Intentionally flying in immigrants was more intrusive than any of the anti-immigration measures he's undertaken....you just didn't see it on CNN.
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@MonadsRUs Except Trump loves big government. Yes, he’s cut some headcount, but he’s deployed federal power very intrusively.
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