Yeppers, anytime someone doesn’t agree with you ideologically or that maybe a perceived threat in that regard - slaughter 'em all in their sleep, or fight in the open, whatever works - that seems to be the style of non-reasoning folks.
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I have a feeling Trish considers the Civil War the nation’s darkest time because the Confederates lost.
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A very interesting listen from beginning to end.
The headline is misleading. He didn’t help set up Cambridge Analytica, he helped to set up the original company that was trying to defuse chaos. Then Steve Bannon and Mercer money bought the company, and used its tools to sow chaos.
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I didn’t know where to put this, here or the so-called POTUS thread; this was higher up, lol - I didn’t feel like scrolling down.
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I’m hearing…Peter Lorre. But I just watched a documentary on him, so…who do YOU hear?
LOL, Trevor Noah’s impression of the POTUS sounds like Jerry Lewis, which cracks me up every time.
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I’m having a hard time wrapping my brain around that not being satire.
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WE’RE COMING FOR YOU, TRISH…
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The family’s attorney, Bridget Cambria, of Aldea - the People’s Justice Center, said the couple were driving in the Vancouver area on 3 October when they took a detour to avoid an animal on the road.
The family say they did not realise they had strayed over the US border.
They were pulled over by a police officer who did not read them their rights, nor allow them to “simply turn around” and go back to Canada, according to the complaint.
The following morning they say they were driven to the airport, which raised their hopes that they were being flown back to Canada or the UK.
They were taken on 5 October to Berks Family Residential Center (BFRC), one of three immigration detention centres in the US that can accommodate families.
A spokesman for the agency told the BBC that BFRC “provides a safe and humane environment for families as they go through the immigration process”.
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Incidents like these drive me bonkers, because they ignore the detained people’s stated and demonstrated wish not to go through the immigration process.
Like, just reject them already and let them go back.
A lot of these cross-border roads were set up in more friendly times. If the border guards are supposed to act like this, set up damn barriers so people can’t enter the country by accident. It’s not like this was the first time.
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I have some clarification there. Having driven along Boundary Road/0 Ave in that area of Canada I am at a loss as to how they could have done that as there are no connecting/cross roads and there is a big mofo of a ditch to get over to cross the border.
ETA also I know from reading about a BandB on the US side near the Blaine crossing that the border along the road is seriously watched now as they warn all guests not to step across the ditch for the coffee house just a block away. You will quickly attract the attention of Canadian border patrol and be in for a major hassle.
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It would have been simpler to run the border down the middle of the Columbia River
like the Brits wanted in the first place
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Weel it gets weirder.
They said the vehicle was captured on video “slowly and deliberately” driving through a ditch to enter the US.
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Even if it’s true or mostly true, it still smells of the “but they sold drugs!” defence employed when police shoot an unarmed POC.
We’re supposed to believe this couple with a 3 month old baby from the UK were already legally in Canada, but were sooo desperate to live in the USA illegally they tried driving over the border without the proper paperwork.
I’m just not buying it. And (sorry UKers) I’ve talked to too many British people who were not completely aware the US and Canada are separate countries with a not entirely open border. Ask anyone who lives near Niagara Falls.
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That would be the only way to cross that ditch with a vehicle and not end up needing to get it towed out. Seriously they had to know exactly what they were doing and I have learned over the years those bits of road are heavily monitored so while it looks all quiet and easy to cross you are not going to get away with it.
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They did get released. And it sounds like it was more than just three of them:
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Going waaaaay back in the nazification of America here, but this video had a lot of interesting details about Lincoln and his assassination that I hadn’t heard before.
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In the tweet, Mr Drake said he planned to buy an assault rifle “because if you impeach MY PRESIDENT this way, YOU WILL HAVE ANOTHER CIVAL (sic) WAR!!! #MAGA2020”, according to a copy seen by ESPN.
It reportedly followed another tweet that read: “You can’t do an impeachment inquiry from the basement of Capital (sic) Hill without even a vote! What is going on in this country?”
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Nothing like failing civics twice in two tweets.
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No. 54-40 or fight!
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