FreddieChainsaw

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Just to be contrarian,

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You live in one of the legal states, don’t you?

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NY and California both have an underrated amount of hicks outside of their major cities, but the elitists are prob motivated to keep the bloodline pure (like the Targaryens).

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I think you stumbled on something sinister, and I don’t think Alabama, Georgia, and Florida are all innocent either.
Ah, you want to know about the thing, don’t you? The thing that’s been quietly simmering beneath the surface for decades, possibly centuries, a carefully orchestrated chain of events so finely tuned that even the most astute observer would miss it, if they weren’t looking very closely. So, you see, the connection is clear: California, Colorado, New Mexico, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, New York, Massachusetts. They’re all linked by this unseen force, this heat that arises from friction. It’s not just a matter of geography or culture, no—it’s about something much more fundamental. Each of these states is part of a larger, more carefully crafted system, one that’s been in place for far longer than you might imagine. But they’re not the only players. There’s more. Much more. But that’s a story for another time. Keep watching. Keep paying attention.

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But even worse is that very outdated decor.

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I guess as a 70s kid, I kinda like the decor.

He had a nice cellar though.

How is this not about the Attack of the Swamp Bunny?

I have heard speculation that chicken processing plant owners and the like will be fighting hard to carve out exceptions that will either keep their illegal workers in the country or significantly delay deportation for as long as possible, as well as other chicanery to carve special exceptions for Red state business interests.

Do you expect the Feds/ICE to provide detailed, granular geographic information on apprehensions and deportations to the public so we can keep them honest or will we have to fight them tooth and nail to get the details?

To be fair, what would the payout be on Val Kilmer now? I have to remind myself often he is even still alive.

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Gave us the Dept of Indoctrination

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I take it you are referring to the Department of Education.

It ackshully existed long prior to 1979. President Eisenhower signed into law the formation of the Department of Health, Welfare, and Education.

All Carter did was split the departments into the separate HHS and Department of Education.

Maybe that caused a consequential change in the federal interaction with education in and of itself, but student loans, the Higher Education Act, and Title IX were all signed into law by Eisenhower, LBJ, and Nixon respectively. So the federal government was already regulating education under the auspices of a cabinet level federal department long before 79.

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He deregulated airlines. He deregulated trucking. He deregulated micro brewing. He finally appointed Paul Volcker.

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He also submitted increased defense spending in his final two budget proposals to Congress (including authorization of development of the B2 stealth bomber), and he tried to work out a tax cut with the Democratically controlled Congress (nothing as big as what Reagan got accomplished, but he did try to push for some level of tax relief).

In all honesty, he was the probably to the right of even Bill Clinton as a Democrat. He was elected as a pro-business and government reform candidate in Georgia and had some success.

The problem is that he could not bend the will of the Democrats in Congress to get anything accomplished that would have benefitted the American people quicker.

But he did set in motion business deregulation, increased defense spending, and stricter Federal Reserve policy (the last of which cost him dearly because he knew the only way out was for the economy to take some bad tasting medicine (higher interest rates) which made home buyers angry, even though inflation actually started with Nixon).

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Clinton Bush would have had it hands down if he had a 2nd term

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So many movies during Clinton's presidency that featured presidents that didn't even try to be like him.

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First Term movies: lots of cinematic presidents who were basically in projections for what liberal filmmakers wanted Clinton to be (Ivan Reitman for Dave and Rob Reiner/Sorkin for the American President). Culminated with Whitmore/ID4 in 1996, who was essentially Emmerich just hoping he could be faithful to his wife until death.

Second Term: F it. Let’s elect the proto-Obama to deal with the looming threat of a comet.