American Politics: Now Let Them Enforce It...But Lame

[Necroghastia]

DOJ doubles (triples?) down on its "b-but he's in another country and there's nothing at all we can dooooooooo" BS; also argues terms of deal with Bukele are classified.

[Danternoust]

We used to have a constitution.
https://www.wola.org/2025/04/weekly-u-s ... portation/

Citing media reports, attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man wrongfully sent to the CECOT whose case is discussed below, described conditions in the mega-prison:

Each of the 256 cells is intended to hold approximately 80 inmates but often holds nearly double. The cramped cells are equipped with tiered metal bunks without mattresses, two basins for washing, and two open toilets. There are no windows, fans, or air conditioning, despite the region’s warm and humid climate.

Inmates in CECOT are confined to their cells for 23.5 hours daily and cannot go outdoors. They are denied access to reading materials, including even letters from friends or family. Inmates are prohibited from receiving visits from family and friends. Meals are provided through the bars, and the facility enforces strict regulations to maintain order.

[Tarsonis]

Any way, they caught the guy who set fire to Shapiro's house

[Uiiop]

Any way, they caught the guy who set fire to Shapiro's house

Who was the jackass?

[Tarsonis]

Any way, they caught the guy who set fire to Shapiro's house

Who was the jackass?

Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg. Not much more info than that.

[Ifreann]

DOJ doubles (triples?) down on its "b-but he's in another country and there's nothing at all we can dooooooooo" BS; also argues terms of deal with Bukele are classified.

A judge really needs to just bar the federal government from sending anyone to El Salvador.

[Uiiop]

Who was the jackass?

Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg. Not much more info than that.

Local papers are reporting he had a big criminal record but nothing on motive. So i don't blame you for not including that.

[Dasi Dasi]

We used to have a constitution.
https://www.wola.org/2025/04/weekly-u-s ... portation/

Citing media reports, attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man wrongfully sent to the CECOT whose case is discussed below, described conditions in the mega-prison:

Each of the 256 cells is intended to hold approximately 80 inmates but often holds nearly double. The cramped cells are equipped with tiered metal bunks without mattresses, two basins for washing, and two open toilets. There are no windows, fans, or air conditioning, despite the region’s warm and humid climate.

Inmates in CECOT are confined to their cells for 23.5 hours daily and cannot go outdoors. They are denied access to reading materials, including even letters from friends or family. Inmates are prohibited from receiving visits from family and friends. Meals are provided through the bars, and the facility enforces strict regulations to maintain order.

Hmm...I wonder what this reminds me of?

[Rusozak]

We used to have a constitution.
https://www.wola.org/2025/04/weekly-u-s ... portation/

Citing media reports, attorneys for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man wrongfully sent to the CECOT whose case is discussed below, described conditions in the mega-prison:

Each of the 256 cells is intended to hold approximately 80 inmates but often holds nearly double. The cramped cells are equipped with tiered metal bunks without mattresses, two basins for washing, and two open toilets. There are no windows, fans, or air conditioning, despite the region’s warm and humid climate.

Inmates in CECOT are confined to their cells for 23.5 hours daily and cannot go outdoors. They are denied access to reading materials, including even letters from friends or family. Inmates are prohibited from receiving visits from family and friends. Meals are provided through the bars, and the facility enforces strict regulations to maintain order.

Screw the Hague, this entire administration needs to be tried in Nuremberg and sentenced accordingly.

[Nea Skotia]

Screw the Hague, this entire administration needs to be tried in Nuremberg and sentenced accordingly.

I don't think I'm allowed to say what I really think should happen.

[San Lumen]

We used to have a constitution.
https://www.wola.org/2025/04/weekly-u-s ... portation/

Screw the Hague, this entire administration needs to be tried in Nuremberg and sentenced accordingly.

if he goes to Europe he should be arrested by the ICC.

[San Lumen]

Any way, they caught the guy who set fire to Shapiro's house

This was very likely an assassination attempt.

[San Lumen]

DOJ doubles (triples?) down on its "b-but he's in another country and there's nothing at all we can dooooooooo" BS; also argues terms of deal with Bukele are classified.

A judge really needs to just bar the federal government from sending anyone to El Salvador.

thats probably coming soon.

[The Black Forrest]

Because...? What will replace it? I'm in no way against political violence in specific cases, or a revolution against the US honestly; but again: why Pennsylvania specifically?

Any state that has their state police use NSA information at fusion centers is eligible for overthrow under my criteria, yes.

Ehhh?…..unless something changed…that’s not true. The PSP does not collaborate with the NSA. They work with federal agencies like the FBI through networks like CLEAN(Commonwealth Law Enforcement Assistance Network) which allows access to databases like the FBI’s National Crime Information Center. For enforcement purposes only….

[The Black Forrest]

Any way, they caught the guy who set fire to Shapiro's house

This was very likely an assassination attempt.

Sounds like it. Though I will wait for the police report for motivation. Could be a crazy. Could be a maga brown shirt……

[Ifreann]

Cody Balmer, 38, of Harrisburg. Not much more info than that.

Local papers are reporting he had a big criminal record but nothing on motive. So i don't blame you for not including that.

Apparently he's a Yang Gang guy.

[Uiiop]

Local papers are reporting he had a big criminal record but nothing on motive. So i don't blame you for not including that.

Apparently he's a Yang Gang guy.

It won't surprise me to see the swing voter streak continue. I still prefer waiting.

[Elwher]

Screw the Hague, this entire administration needs to be tried in Nuremberg and sentenced accordingly.

if he goes to Europe he should be arrested by the ICC.

Under what indictment? I must have missed their issuing one.

[The Black Forrest]

Elizabeth Warren…love her or hate her….she has summed up the tariff wars.

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren described the confusion about shifting tariff rates and how smartphones and computers were spared from reciprocal tariffs as “chaos and corruption.”

“Investors will not invest in the United States when Donald Trump is playing ‘red light, green light’ with tariffs and saying, ‘Oh, and for my special donors, you get a special exemption,’” Warren said.

Analysts at Wedbush Securities on Saturday had called the tariff exemptions on electronics “the best news possible for tech investors” and that “firms like Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft and the broader tech industry can breathe a huge sigh of relief this weekend into Monday.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-of ... 44453.html

[Uiiop]

Elizabeth Warren…love her or hate her….she has summed up the tariff wars.

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren described the confusion about shifting tariff rates and how smartphones and computers were spared from reciprocal tariffs as “chaos and corruption.”

“Investors will not invest in the United States when Donald Trump is playing ‘red light, green light’ with tariffs and saying, ‘Oh, and for my special donors, you get a special exemption,’” Warren said.

Analysts at Wedbush Securities on Saturday had called the tariff exemptions on electronics “the best news possible for tech investors” and that “firms like Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft and the broader tech industry can breathe a huge sigh of relief this weekend into Monday.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-of ... 44453.html

As someone who vote-switched 5 years ago her centrist haters are acting more weird than her. Good for her.

[Dacarbatia]

Any way, they caught the guy who set fire to Shapiro's house

This was very likely an assassination attempt.

Trump's supporters or even Trump himself are too powerful to be eradicated as time goes by.

[Gravlen]

"I'm citing a paper that has no way for laypersons to check my work." ain't that much better than the baseless assertion you correctly mocked.

Especially when there is public websites that uses the GTD.It agrees with Gravlen that 2015 was zero at least on deaths.

Gravlen's own sources don't agree with him.

They do. You might notice that 2015 and 2016 are two different numbers.

The 2016 Global Terrorism Index says "In 2015 Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden and Turkey recorded the most deaths from terrorism in a single year since 2000" on page 17.

That wasn't my source, mind. My source was Europol.

But good, let's talk about the 2016 Global Terrorism Index, because what it says about 2015 is interesting:

Like Belgium, Germany has not had a history of high levels of terrorism in the last two decades. 2015 was the first year since 2007 that Germany experienced a death from terrorism.
There were three fatal terrorist attacks in 2015 which killed six people. Two of these attacks targeted refugee shelters or buildings with fire, killing five people.

So using this definition of terrorism, the majority of deaths and attacks come from terrorism directed at asylum seekers and refugees. Which again shows the problems with your cute graphs, and belies the conclusion in your original claim that the influx of asylum seekers from certain countries leads to a higher risk of terrorism.

When more foreigners go to Germany, regardless of country of origin, the danger of terrorism against them increases. Which is not to say that they are the cause of it. That has to be placed at the feet of the anti-immigrant groups and people responsible for the attacks.

And those people are natural born citizens, so immigration as a whole probably does increase the risk of terrorism from this segment. However, fear of terrorism from citizens against immigrants is not a good argument against immigration.

Meanwhile, on the Global Terrorism Index 2015:

Of the ten countries which host the most refugees only one country, Pakistan, had among the highest levels of terrorism. Turkey, Lebanon and Iran are all impacted by regional conflict and yet had fewer terrorismrelated fatalities than many countries which do not host large numbers of refugees. Germany, the country with the second largest refugee intake in Europe, has not had a death from terrorism since 2007.

This is from a page discussing 2014.

That is true, but it's directly adressing your claim concerning correlation, so I figured it would be interesting.

"The GTD defines a terrorist attack as the threat or use of violence to achieve a political, economic, religious, or social goal through intimidation or coercion by a non-state actor."

If people don't bother reading their own sources I'm not going to spend an hour uploading PDFs and spreadsheets for mine, sorry. JSTOR only costs $19.50 a month.

Save your excuses, it's not like you were ever going to provide sources under any circumstances.

[Gravlen]

Screw the Hague, this entire administration needs to be tried in Nuremberg and sentenced accordingly.

if he goes to Europe he should be arrested by the ICC.

So given the complementary nature of the ICC, you believe that the US justice system and US court is currently unable to deal with the situation?

Doesn't that fly in the face of your previous assertions that the courts will hold it together and not allow the administration to destroy the democratic and constitutional safeguards?

[Emotional Support Crocodile]

Xi Jinping is touring Southeast Asia; Trump has handed him an easy way to increase China's power and influence.

[Rusozak]

Xi Jinping is touring Southeast Asia; Trump has handed him an easy way to increase China's power and influence.

He's inspecting his latest and future acquisitions, courtesy of comrade Trump.