This is true. When I was a young salesman, I once took offense at a British client referring to the program I was selling as a scheme. My boss had to explain to me that he meant no offense, the meaning is slightly different outside of the US, where it is simply a synonyn for a program or plan, and doesn’t carry the same American nuance as being nefarious.

Nostrovya!

One of the main problems the Dems have had over the last 30-40 years is that they let the Conservative Propaganda Machine frame ALL political messaging in this country, and they’ve gone along with it 100%, and definitions are a major part of it.

For instane, the accepted party definitions are that Republicans are the party of smaller government, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility, family values (even if they are the opposite of all that), and Dems are just the “Tax & Spend” party, and I never hear Dems deny it. There have been a million other examples.

It’s finally starting to change, now that things are so obvious. With President Skum throwing up celebratory Nazi gang signs on national TV, its kind of hard to deny being called Nazis. Actually, they kind of like it because they respect the Nazis, and it instills a visceral fear in most people.

We need to keep taking back the messaging. Tariffs should be called taxes because many people dont understand tariffs, especially since the Conservative Propaganda Machine is deliberately muddying the definitions to confuse their morons. But they also spent decades making their morons despise every tax for any reason, and they have a very deep hatred toward taxes. The MAGA Morons are very clear on their hatred for taxes of ANY kind. Dems should tap into that deep set hatred, and turn it against MAGA. Tariffs should be referred to as Trade Taxes.

MAGA is another big one. There is no Republican Party anymore. There are only two parties - Democrats and MAGA. The Republican party is a 3rd party, at best, if they even exist at all. All Democratic politicians should just refer to the MAGA Party, the same way they like to call it the Democrat Party. Make them defend their very name and identity. Force them to differentiate between the two. It will make them sound weak and defensive. Relegate the word Republican to the political dumpster, and when MAGA finally crashes like all fascist goverments eventually do, they will be forced to dig the Republican party out of the dumpster and try to clean it up and revive it, but the stains will never fade.

90% of politics is marketing, and the Dems have to actively control their marketing by taking back the definitions and messaging. Dont use their terms, force them to use ours, or defend themselves.

I’m getting pretty old now, and throughout my life, whenever ive met people who were immigrants, I’ve asked them about their immigration story. Why did they come here? Some were escaping a bad place, a bad government, war, etc. Others were chasing a dream. Some were just trying to make enough money to keep their family alive back home.

The main reason ive asked, is because i could never be that motivated to leave America I might visit other places, but not only could i not summon the kind of courage it would take to go live in a foreign place, i wouldnt want to. Ive loved America, and it’s history, even with all of its ugly chapters.

But now that’s changed profoundly. My family has been having serious talks about leaving. My wife has been seriously researching potential countries to move to.

Frankly, i doubt anyone would take us. There will soon be a flood of Americans begging to get into any other country who will take them, and countries will be cherry-picking the most useful, and tossing back the rest. I have a small business that i could easily transfer to anywhere in the world, but we aren’t rich, and we don’t have special skills that are in demand. We probably wouldn’t make the cut.

And if we could get to another country, we’d likely be treated by their citizens the way immigrants are treated here - discriminated against, taken advantage of, abused by the authorities, employers, landlords, etc.

Might as well just stay here, and ride it out. At my age, I’ve been wrapping my head around the idea that my story is going to have a twist ending, and is going to go down a path I never expected. I can be passive, and let the MAGA Nazis choose my path, or i can be proactive, and choose a path that defies them.

If I’m going down, I’m going down swinging.

Which is why if i were a foreign tourist, i would avoid America completely.

I suspect we’ll still see some foreign tourists this summer, because they’ve already bought tickets and made reservations, and every place else is booked now, and it will be difficult to make last minute changes.

There will still be a drop in foreign visitors this summer, but next summer? Foreign tourists will be almost non-existent. All we will get are those wierdos who specifically seek out dangerous places to visit, as if we are war zone.

Who knows? Maybe by next summer we will be.

Trafficked is a catchall term used by the government to justify abuses, same as terrorism. They like to accuse Abrego Garcia of “human trafficking,” which conjures images of evil men smuggling frightened young women into forced prostitution, when in reality, Garcia’s “human trafficking” accusation stems from being pulled over while driving a van of men to a construction site for work.

In the old days, the goverment used to frighten citizens with warnings about “white slavery.” They just updated the phrase, but the meaning and its intent are the same.

“He is no longer welcome to be alive”

And

“We are Luigi. We Are One.”

This guy is innocent of all charges, but whoever wrote that has a way with words.

I once met a guy who was in sales for a shipping container company. He said it was the easiest, most lucrative sales job in the world. There really wasn’t any sales at all, he just processed the orders that flowed in all day long. He got a fat commission on each one, and earned several commissions every single day. He was making BANK. He said it was nearly impossible to get a job doing that, it would require somebody to die to get their position.

I guess he’s going to have a bad year, for a change.

I help my elderly parents fill out their mail-in ballots, but they are always sitting with me, and I read off each vote, and we discuss it, and I check it off for them. If any of us don’t understand something (like the issues and judge votes), I Google it and we figure it out.

We dont always agree, but I always out down the vote they want, because I have ethics, and respect the voting process.

If he is filling out her mail-in ballot, then when she signs it, it should indicate that she’s voting with her own free will, under penalty of perjury and ballot fraud.

Later, if it’s determined that he coerced her into signing a ballot that he filled out, he can be charged with fraud, and she can be charged with perjury.

And then prosecute every single instance of it. The real problem in America is that too many people think that everything is legal unless they arrest you for it. It is the core philosophy of MAGA.

Yeah he’s making great progress on 10 years of working on the greatest, most perfect health care plan of all time. Last I heard, he actually had progressed to having “concepts of a plan.”

From what I understand, according to an ex-congressman Alan Grayson, the concept of the Republican health care plan is:

1. Don’t get sick

2. If you get sick, die quickly.

The hang up now is working on ways to make #2 more efficient.

I get it. Frankly, i was surprised that ALL my Muslim clients, who also came from India, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, South Africa, and other countries, didn’t have problems of their own. I also had people from many other countries luke Vietnam, Phillipines, Russia, Serbia, England, etc. None got hassled at all. This one guy just won the Border Patrol Lottery. Yay!

The closest I saw was when one got pulled over by a local cop, who kept asking him over and over “Who else is in the car?”, when it was easy to see that the guy was all alone in the vehicle. The only thing i could think of was that in order to get from my shop to his hotel, he had to travel through a small zone that is known for prostitution, and a lone brown guy in a car tickled that cop’s lizard brain. That area is also a MAJOR tourist/ convention zone, so its not the only reason to be there. 99.99% of the people going through are there for perfectly legitimate reasons, including just getting from here to there. My client didn’t even know about the prostitution angle, and was horrified when i told him.

I used to teach a unique culinary technique, and had clients visit me from all around the world for training, including several Muslim countries. Only one client had a serious problem at the border, a young Muslim guy from India. His dad was a major Bollywood director, and was fairly wealthy.

He had gone to college in America, so he was using this trip to both visit me for a few days for his training, then going on to Miami to meet up with his American college friends.

His visa said he was here on a pleasure trip, but for some reason he was pulled aside for grilling. They demanded his phone, and looked through his texts, where they found messages between him and I, making arrangements for his training.

That lit them up, and they started claiming he was coming here for work, not pleasure. He explained that he wasnt being paid, he was paying me, and it wasn’t work. It was educational, if anything. It was really just an expensive experiential vacation adventure for a rich kid, which was something I’d experienced before. Some clients really wanted to learn this technique to expand their culinary portfolio, while others just wanted to try it out for fun, and had the time and money to do it. If you came to America to learn to scuba dive, or surf, would it be considered work, or even educational?

The fact that he was here for education or work wasn’t the point, the point was that the visa was for pleasure, so they were claiming it was a violation, even though most of the trip was with his friends (3 days with me, 2 weeks with his buddies).

Then they focused on his money. He was carrying about $2600, and they acted like that was an outrageous amount of cash for a rich young man to carry on an international trip. They demanded he tell them exactly how much cash was in his wallet, which they were holding, and had searched. He told them the exact amount, because he had counted his money on the plane, after they had landed. They told him he was lucky he knew the exact amount, or they would have kept his money and sent him home.

Eventually, they grudgingly allowed him to leave, and he got his training, and visited his friends, but he went home with a very negative view of the US government.

This all happened during the first MAGA administration.

Where did you get that information? Because all it said in the article was:

Officials became suspicious of potential illegal work intentions after learning the teens had not booked accommodation for their entire five-week stay in Hawaii,

How not booking hotels for their entire trip equates to “potential work intentions” escapes me. If you were planning on working for five weeks, wouldn’t you book a hotel near where you were planning to work? Was there a job lined up? Are we supposed to believe that in the middle of a round-the-world graduation trip, these girls wanted to spend 5 weeks working?

Alternate explanations:

• the “work” they were doing was shooting video of their adventures and posting it on YouTube in the hopes of establishing a career as travel influencers, so they can travel the world for a living. Basically, this trip was an investment in their future.

• border agents got pissed off and jealous of two rich girls traveling the world, and decided to fuck with them

• the girls became indignant at being treated like common illegal immigrants, and mouthed off, and agents decided to teach them a lesson.

Frankly, the real story is probably a combination of all three.

Yep, nobody would suspect a thing if he suddenly dropped dead. The perfect crime.

Thats not what happened. We pay rent on that land.

Seriously? It’s in Cuba, there is no US soil.

There are no coincidences in politicas, and the fact that he died immediately after meeting with Vance is highly suspicious. Vance killed him, or someone in his entourage did.

HitlerPig will now demand the Vatican choose his hand-picked candidate, some conservative troll from Wisconsin. Mark my words, soon HitlerPig will be threatening the Catholic Church with removing their tax-exemot status if they don’t install his choice.

Vance is too stupid, he’d fuck it up.

Remember this?

He’d end up putting the Iocaine powder in his own tea.

Someone else in his entourage did something nefarious.

Great post. Holding the leash on the next Pope would be a huge strategic coup for the MAGA Nazis, and too much of a temptation to resist. There are no coincidences in politics, and dropping dead immediately after Couchfucker’s visit is to close to not be suspicious.

I expect a full court press by the MAGA Nazis to have their hand-picked creep as the next Pope, and they will make all sorts of threats to accomplish it. In the end, if the Vatican chooses someone other than the MAGA Nazi candidate, Catholics will suddenly become one more persecuted political democraphic in America.