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People being unwilling to loan you more. Which, at present, seems quite a ways off still.
Hold that thought.
How long? I remember folks freaking out about $5T when I was in middle school.
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My stance (and I have interacted with Commonwealth LEO's, lawyers, and prosecutors about this very question) is this was a failure of training and procedure. Forget this "last mile" analysis where you're looking at a crowd of agents about a car in slow motion and an officer standing in front with an already drawn weapon. Less than a minute earlier that vehicle was motionless and parked up. Everything that followed ha…
Honestly, I am not sure and tbh most of us will hopefully never have to find out. That said, I can tell you what I did when the raids were happening in Chicagoland. I stayed home and when I did go out, I took papers with. Why? Because there is one sure way to not get oneself in trouble: not being where trouble are. That is why my first question is: why was she there to begin with? I won't lie. It is a concern. Look a…
> That is why my first question is: why was she there to begin with?
It's my understanding she and the other onlookers live there in that city.
Unlike the masked bandits airdropped in from elsewhere.
Further, IIRC, there was a note on Letters from an American to the effect that the woman had registered herself and had some minimal credentials at least as Constitutional Observer (?) and was there to watch and record the ICE activity.
That seems like an admirable patriotic concerned active citizen thing to do.
Again, that hardly matters - from a wide angle and looking at the footage from minutes before the shooting occured, she was set upon by masked thugs who were eager to kick doors, breach windows, and shoot fellow citizens at the drop of a hat for kicks.
It's a flawed country that allows that to happen.
> Look at the bright side, if there is a chance to limit some of the police powers at federal level
That sounds so last year, TBH - the US has deeper problems now that the veneer of safeguards, checks, balances has been thoroughly ripped open .. if I were a citizen there I'd be looking for some wider deeper constitutional reforms and restructuring - just as Benjamin Franklin advised when he signed off on the first draft as being a decent draft and sufficient until a despot ignores it.
We run a Washminster system, it has it's issues, but it was built upon looking at both the US and the UK systems and tweaking them; it's a lot easier to swap out the active head of state here if they're not serving the broad interests of the majority and grifting hard.
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Hold that thought.
How long? I remember folks freaking out about $5T when I was in middle school.
I reckon the coming war, no elections and then civil war ought to get it done.
Three years, tops.
Watching the two new ICE shootings, could be next week though.
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#124America was likely forced to pay the bill for these elitist organizations. Good riddance
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#125Good riddance. American taxpayers were likely funding the bill for these elitist organizations. The world has moved on.
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He will likely run again. Already signalled that
In my opinion he doesn't stand a chance a 3rd time around. Also he's too old for that, he'd be 83 yo and by the end of his 3rd term would be 87.
His age or mental capacity never seemed to be a dealbreaker for his supporters previously. I'm not sure how or why that would change. Obviously number go up but if they still trust him it doesn't really matter. They will handwave and talk about advances in medicine & health
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#127actual list https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/with... any way to update url in submission ?
Thank you!
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Let’s Call a Murder a Murder - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547612 - January 2026
You know what? Fine. Lets play. Define murder friend.
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#130An organization that is contrary to the interests of the US: that's exactly the sort of thing you want no American representatives in. Ideally, you don't even want second-hand information about what they are talking about and what decisions they are making.
Reminds me of Brexit: let’s leave Europe; we’re still going to be affected by its laws because they’re our closest and biggest neighbours, but now we don’t even have a seat at the table to further our interests. Welcome the era of political own goals.
Britain distinctly claims part ownership of a foreign county, which had complicated trade with said country and its trade union.