JimEverett

I hope you are wrong - he is going to be our next U.S. Senator in less than a year

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currently she lives in Switzerland with her Sri Lanka-born wife and their children.

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She is the leader of the nationalist party in Germany? weird.

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Germany neutered.

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It is absolutely crazy watching Germany completely destroy its industry. One of those "WTF are they thinking?" In that respect it is sort of akin to Biden letting 30 million invaders just walk right on in.

House is owned by fauci

Yeah, you are absolutely right.

Rubio said something different.

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How does being in the country illegally not involve Federal authority? I would thing the Feds could go get him whenever they wish.

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DHS is making a political point.
The Governor has no say on whether the Cook County Sheriff will honor an ICE detainer warrant.

My crystal ball, and I have thought something along these lines once this started is that a revolution/civil war.

At some point - at least after we get some degree of control over the Striaght, we cease/"pause" the campaign. WE declare our objectives met. We then wait for some type of anti-government activity to begin within Iran. Hopefully, those forces do emerge and hopefully the only powerful factions are fairly moderate, like say the Kurds and the pro-Shah people. We arm and help these forces and after a relatively short period the regime is defeated.

A lot of hopeful thinking in there. What seems more than possible though is that such a war will not be so easy. With our attacks it is eay to frame the battle as a nationalist and even religious war - which will attract people to the regime, or otherwise anti-American factions. You will have a protracted struggle that requires hundreds of billions to be spent on our part, a lot of refugees, instability crossing into other countries (iraq, for example).


Or, we could just go to the negotiation table - work out a cease-fire or peace agreement and let the regime claim victory and survive.

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Legal minds (not you SloMo), is this legal?

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My 2 cents

Congress could pass a law allowing President to do this. Lets see what basis the Administration uses to crackdown?

And would/could the law/basis apply to state chartered banks in addition to federal banks.

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Just get it back from Minnesota fraud. Case solved.

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If only the people who had the power and ability to do that weren't so preoccupied with something else.

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What Democrats would've supported the Save Act had we not attacked Iran?

Name one.

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Fetterman.

But you don't need Democrats to get to the talking filibuster You need 51 Senators and a will. If Trump wasn't so consumed with foreign policy he could set the legislative agenda and take some of the Senators to the woodshed and/or broker deals, just like Presidents in the past have. That is how real, long-term, and fundamental change happens in this country - not by EOs. Use the bully pulpit, get in the trenches and fight for legislation.
He does not operate that way, so Thune sets the agenda with hardly a peep from the Presdient.

The poblem is that these countries did not say they would help. What they said, exactly was:

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We express our readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait. We welcome the commitment of nations who are engaging in preparatory planning.

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I guess you can interpret that in a variety of ways. It seems to me that their position has not changed. They will help once certain conditions are met, like a ceasefire agreement - something along those lines.