They’re mostly concerned about putting up arrest numbers and funneling tax dollars to the private prison companies for whom these policies are an immense and largely unmonitored windfall. 

They’re randomly setting up roadblocks all over west Texas and New Mexico, conducting warrantless searches (I’m pretty sure no illegal immigrants would fit in my glove compartment), and harassing Spanish-speaking people whose families have been LEGAL residents of the area for a century. And then they want to act all…

Everybody knows that only Mexican wresting is real. Lucha libre!

I don’t think a wall is going to keep these dope dealers out of the country.

That graphic could only be meaningful if you changed ‘days’ to ‘hours’ or ‘minutes’.

Isn’t this straight out of the dictator playbook-- declaring an emergency and using the military, or in this case the military budget, to implement policy he can’t accomplish through a legitimate legislative process?

The action may be real but the outcomes are usually predetermined in order to further an ongoing storyline. I have been having this discussion with wrestling fans for decades, and my go-to position is simply this— if it wasn’t orchestrated there would be a line on it in Vegas.

And you wonder why people think you’re an idiot. 

The $25 billion they’d bring in... based on the best-case projections of Amazon’s hired consultants. ‘Nobody is handing anyone a $3 billion check’ is a meaningless deflection . 

Hard to see any way in which the ability to form opinions has been of any benefit in big-picture terms. 

Absolute genius writer. Sadly it looks like we’re far more interested in clinging to our primitive traits like tribalism and superstition. I suspect there will have to be a prolonged and grim interval of conflict before we can even visualize, let alone achieve, anything resembling The Culture.

New Yorkers rank very near the bottom of the list of people whose opinions I give a shit about, ranking above only... well, you.

I didn’t say I didn’t like it here. I’m just a realist, capable of objective observation. Now go on and dismiss this comment too.

You’re absolutely right, because those are the only people the deal was ever intended to benefit. Amazon’s entire business model is utterly dependent on replacing human employees with automation, sooner rather than later. The idea that there are ever going to be 25,000 jobs ( except maybe for the people who take care…

The trolls are thick out here today.

Don’t waste your time with the troll. He dismisses you with one hand and fondles himself with the other.

The dismiss button is for gutless cowards and the intellectually disarmed. Think about that while you’re burning.

Well, we’re very pro-life, so long as the life isn’t brown or poor.

Ah, yes... the entirely predictable reaction of the ill-informed troll— flailing away with non sequiters, then dismissing any effort at a civil reply because you’re too angry and closed-minded to respond with anything but Breitbart-level talking points. Sorry your life choices have made you so angry, miserable, and…

First off the tax revenue NYC would take in is speculative. There is a long and well-documented history of these corporate giveaways failing to generate anywhere close to the benefits they were proposed to deliver. Second of all the proposed benefits fail to account for the extent to which an already overburdened…