Trump is losing the billionaire vote.
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Elon Musk calls for a US-Europe free-trade zone
You might be a little late with that suggestion, sparky.
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Lie detector tests are very far from reliable. Proven to be so, many times.
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“Let’s invite them all to dinner.” 
Sometimes Doonesbury knocks it out of the park.
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Something they can fake and use as a justification is all they need.
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unexpected multimillion dollar bill if the ship hits port at the wrong moment.
The inevitable clusterfuck at customs means that perishable and time sensitive shipments are fucked.
Above my pay grade to extrapolate from anecdote, but there are lots of stories of shipments just stopping for now.
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Cue looking to invade Canada to replace those Chinese sources.
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It’s weird to me. Government agencies, including the FBI, have long required lie detector tests for their own employees. And, because it’s a condition of their employment, they can’t decline unless they want to get fired. But polygraph results are not admissible in any court because they’ve never been shown to be reliable enough. They are, in fact, pseudoscience. And sociopaths, pscychopaths, and people who believe their own lies are immune to the things. They’re most effective against the dumb and terminally honest.
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Better than average SNL/“Weekend Update (Che/Jost)” bit than usual …maybe - as it’s nearly all anti-trump. i did actually splutter into my coffee at: “RFKjr seen here smiling while watching a chicken sneeze on a child” …oy, whatatimeline
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My Psych 101 course had a lecture on how to beat them, with a chance for people to try.
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On the subject of lie detector tests, I would like to remind everyone about this documentary.
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TAPPER: You’re imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands entirely populated by penguins?
ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I’ve ever worked with.
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I’m sure I’ve recommended this book here at Elsewhere before, but it’s particularly on point right now:
Thanks to Archive you don’t have to go far to read it:
Long story short, we NEED these raw materials, all of which are only available in one or at most a couple of locations in the entire world.
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Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ Is Impossible—and It’ll Make Defense Companies a Ton of Money
Everything old is new again.
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Memorandum opinion in the district court. It’s been appealed.
More fundamentally, Defendants do not dispute that their placement of Abrego Garcia at CECOT invites this very harm. Defendants effectuated his detention in one of the most notoriously inhumane and dangerous prisons in the world. Defendants even embrace that reality as part of its well-orchestrated mission to use CECOT as a form of punishment and deterrence. ECF No. 10-5 at 4 (Defendant Noem announcing while standing in front of caged prisoners at CECOT “if an immigrant commits a crime, this is one of the consequences you could face . . . . You will be removed and you will be prosecuted.”).
But particular to Abrego Garcia, the risk of harm shocks the conscience. Defendants have forcibly put him in a facility that intentionally mixes rival gang members without any regard for protecting the detainees from “harm at the hands of the gangs.” ECF No. 10-3 at 15. Even worse, Defendants have claimed—without any evidence—that Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 and then housed him among the chief rival gang, Barrio 18. Not to mention that Barrio 18 is the very gang whose years’ long persecution of Abrego Garcia resulted in his withholding from removal to El Salvador. To be sure, Abrego Garcia will suffer irreparably were he not accorded his requested relief. He has satisfied the second Winter factor.
Defendants seized Abrego Garcia without any lawful authority; held him in three separate domestic detention centers without legal basis; failed to present him to any immigration judge or officer; and forcibly transported him to El Salvador in direct contravention of the INA. Once there, U.S. officials secured his detention in a facility that, by design, deprives its detainees of adequate food, water, and shelter, fosters routine violence; and places him with his persecutors, Barrio 18. In short, the public interest and companion equities favor the requested injunctive relief.19
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Maybe it’s to force the scientists who collect inconvenient facts to pay customs duties.
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