Michigan has large migrant populations for farm work. Normally they’d go home during this time of year, but with the uncertainty around what’s happening with the border, more may be deciding to stay even if there’s not much work for them over the winter.

Bro, ad blockers are a thing.

Yes, and that was probably the single biggest mistake we made domestically with regards to the War on Terror. Terrorists didn’t take over planes because they got nail clippers and box cutters on board. They took over planes because we didn’t have policy to keep the cockpit door locked and because prevailing wisdom at…

The point is, the money isn’t coming from the Feds like you alluded to for the operation of airports. The mechanism is already in place. If a regional airport authority wants to raise rents or charge new fees, of course they can! The operation of the airport is their sole purpose for existing!

The ones specifically mentioned in this story, I believe, lost in the general election to Republican candidates. So they already beat out any progressive challengers to their left. That’s different than AOC beating Crowley in the primary in a virtually guaranteed Democratic seat in the heart of NYC. Running to the…

You’re presuming that their livelihoods are any better or worse based on saddling themselves with debt getting a degree they may or may not even need or use. Making college “free” won’t help with that. It certainly won’t change the trend of requiring a four year degree in fields that don’t need it. It will just create…

Yes, but the fix for that isn’t continuing to create a glut of people with degrees. They’re using degrees as barriers to entry to narrow their candidate pool because it’s an easy thing to do, and we’ve made it easy for them by telling everyone to go get a degree.

Isn’t this sort of the danger of imposing our modern day ideas of sexual orientation and the agency that comes with it upon what, while admittedly a fictional narrative, ultimately has to exist within the framework of a wildly different culture? For most of human history, even if you were gay, you probably ended up…

It’s almost as if free money with no way to get out of it and no mechanism to make colleges keep costs down causes serious problems! Making college “free” doesn’t fix this. Mainly because, of course it’s not fucking free! Say what it really is: Taxpayer funded. There’s no free lunch.

What’s funny is, aside from the TSA and air traffic controllers, this is already how most airports work! So really those are the only two areas that would need to be subsidized from somewhere other than the Federal government!

I’m gonna lift David E Davids Rides Again’s reply to another commenter:

Nobody questions the methods when it’s their guy doing it.

You mean besides the fact that Maduro excluded his competition and threatened his citizenry with further starvation if they didn’t vote?

So, a couple of possibilities: If the airports themselves were private, they would fund them directly with the revenue generated by the airport. No need for government money there. Or, the airlines at the airport could be charged fees to support security operations. Again, no need for the Feds to pay for it, so also…

Because Latin American dictators have never been known to stuff ballot boxes or exclude competition... 

Umm, if they were employed by and paid directly from airport revenues, why the fuck wouldn’t they be getting paid? And what exactly is the TSA doing to ensure your safety now when they routinely fail 90% of the time when they simulate sneaking shit through? Do you really feel safer getting your balls fondled before…

You’re assuming TomatoFace isn’t actually a troll account for someone who is currently employed as or known to the writers. How else could he/she constantly get ungrayed and post M-F from 9-5?

We could do far worse. God forbid we get non-shitty candidates who aren’t old as balls who want to move things incrementally.

Well, good thing it’s all security theater anyway and the TSA routinely misses 90% of things they’re supposed to catch, so you won’t actually, you know, be any less safe.

Or both of those agencies will be replaced with people hired by private firms contracted to provide those services, kinda like how they used to be, at least in the case of the TSA. God, imagine the pearl clutching if this shutdown led to less Federal employees just so we don’t have to worry about this happening on a…