Yup, she can be part of a caucus of 4.  Bonus points for pissing off the woman in charge.  That district in Queens/Bronx really hit a home run with her. First, she helps change tens of thousands of high paying jobs out of her district.  Next, she pisses off the most powerful woman in US politics, who can (and will!)…

It’s because all the screaming about ‘concentration camps’ comes across as hysterical hyperbole.  Pelosi understands this, AOC doesn’t.

Another perspective on this phenomena, which I’m familiar with from being of a certain age and watching millenials come into the workplace is... guess what AOC and fellow travelers? Nancy Pelosi and her team have been in place for a loooooooooong time and know how things work in Congress. You come in with your fierce…

So they did a check but got all the facts wrong except the presence of an orange?  phew, I feel much safer now

Yeah, i mean, you’re not wrong.  The whole thing with TSA after 9/11 is just security theater. 

Huh. I was surprised at how simple it was, and how utterly unrelated to anything having anything to do with security it was. I did have a fed security clearance in the past, not sure if that makes a difference, but I dont remember seeing a place to put that on the application anyways.

“Bloggers” is the word you’re looking for.

Yeah commies love to talk shit about economic warfare.  The great thing is, they’re only good at committing it on the people forced to live under communism.  Remind me again why the Berlin wall was built?  Surely to keep Westerners out of the paradise that was East Germany!

There’s exactly zero requirement that they be housed in the US, at taxpayer expense, while their claim is being vetted, however. It’s all kabuki theater anyways because the bulk of them are simply walking in to the US and disappearing. Now that the Vanguard have declared that we should decriminalize that behavior…

You know what else is fun about immigration and asylum law? There’s no asylum for purely economic reasons. Everyone gets the charade here, to the point that lots of asylum seekers are saying the exact same words, almost like they were coached.

TSA precheck has nothing to do with security, fyi.  It’s another Government grift.  I have it, all I had to do is go to some office (not a government office, same place does piss tests for DOT) and show my passport.  No references, no background check, just a check for $85 or whatever it was. 

So, AOC and her fellow travelers want to decriminalize illegal border crossings, eliminate ICE and presumably DHS as well because toxic masculinity or something. It’s almost like she doesn’t believe that we should enforce our border, or even have them. And the whacky Splinterkidz called me a nazi for saying dems want…

Right. The people that control multilateral institutions like UNESCO and the UNHRC are often from the worst of the worst places wrt freedom of speech. If the transexual demiqueer otherkins of GMG think that some UN based social media is going to allow them to fly their freak flags freely, they’re in for an unpleasant…

“Any limitations to free expression should be in line with international human rights norms.”

Well written. In an ideal world (ie, one better than the one we’ve built for ourselves), individuals would all be comfortable and taken care of. We’ll get there one day in a post-scarcity society, but we’re not there yet. In the mean time, we’re stuck with the imperfect mechanisms of a market economy. In our current…

My brain can only fit in the shape of my head, so I’ll thank you not to make fun.

I mean, that basically encompasses most of the world and virtually all of the people. The typical Splinter commenters dont have much of a grasp of history before 2016, which while a tragedy for our civilization, isn’t really your fault.

Steyer is a classic case of a guy who got really really rich and suffers from expertise fallacy; all of his ideas are just as good as what he did at Farrallon.   Love or hate Trump, he is pretty good at Reality TV, which (to the great undoing of the Republic) is more important now than having a website full of wonkish…

Right.  Steyer isn’t stealing any Trump voters, but just might steal some blue dog dems.  It’s a game of inches.