For those in the U.S., how do you feel about food stampes (SNAP?)

[sdp]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

No it's not. She came on a fiancee visa. She got married on it. After 2 years of staying married on a fiancee visa you're a permanent resident. That'a the way this works. And I was born after like 5 years of them being married anyway. Then, around 1990 she got her citizenship not because she had to, but because she wanted to.



Coming here completely illegally or even overstaying a visa and having a kid here is a radically different thing. I understand now that seeing these kinds of distinctions is somehow beyond your ability, but there it is.

nICE but..

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Originally Posted by sdp

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ICEe what you did there!

[CyberCubed]

Tbh I wonder how many of those videos of ICE agents dragging people out on the streets and into paddy wagons are real, and how much is staged. While there's no doubt in my mind it IS happening, but I wonder how common it is. We're reading stories of ICE bursting into public schools and abducting children right out of their classes, even arresting teachers (!) because the kids are undocumented.

Then we see the videos online of ICE raiding houses and grabbing an entire family, while throwing tear gas and onlookers or protestors in the crowds. While I know this is very real, sometimes I wonder how much of it is.

I live in New York so obviously there are hispanics EVERYWHERE here, and I've never seen it in broad daylight.

[Mayhem]

Andrew isn’t an anchor baby because his dad was a citizen at the time of birth. He’s in exactly the same situation as Trump actually, his mother also wasn’t a US citizen when he was born.

Speaking of Trump… they are keeping it quiet obviously, but increasingly believing based on evidence that he’s getting monthly infusions to slow his Alzheimer’s (hence the periodic bruising on his right hand) which is what the second recent yearly medical may also have been for, to check how well the treatment was working. Aside from having a stroke, the adult diapers, the leg attached urinary bag, the now labelling parts of the White House so Trump knows where he is, the standing in silence when that staffer had a medical issue (and RFK jr ****ed off stage), falling asleep for long periods…

If Maga tore into the Dems for hiding Biden’s decline (with good reason), then Maga are hiding Trump’s decline and turning the dials up to 11 in the process… there’s a decent chance he will die in office.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Mayhem

If Maga tore into the Dems for hiding Biden’s decline (with good reason), then Maga are hiding Trump’s decline and turning the dials up to 11 in the process… there’s a decent chance he will die in office.

I mean, you guys can always hope. And no doubt, he's OLD. Anything can happen anytime, you're not wrong on that front. He's an old guy probably dealing with old guy stuff that we'll never know about. But he gets in front of a camera and he's 600% more engaged than Biden. And he's talking to the press nonstop. Within that, there's many flubs and weirdness. But that's as opposed to Biden just hiding and only talking to the press in super prepared engagements once a week, vs. like 200 times a day, everywhere (with Trump).

Now, I've been clear on here. Trump was NOT my pick for president. I think we're getting way too old in these ways for picks. You can smack me over the head about it all you want, but I think DeSANTIMONIOUS would have been the guy.

[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I mean, you guys can always hope. And no doubt, he's OLD. Anything can happen anytime, you're not wrong on that front. He's an old guy probably dealing with old guy stuff that we'll never know about. But he gets in front of a camera and he's 600% more engaged than Biden. And he's talking to the press nonstop. Within that, there's many flubs and weirdness. But that's as opposed to Biden just hiding and only talking to the press in super prepared engagements once a week, vs. like 200 times a day, everywhere (with Trump).

He had a STUTTER you bastard!

Now, I've been clear on here. Trump was NOT my pick for president. I think we're getting way too old in these ways for picks. You can smack me over the head about it all you want, but I think DeSANTIMONIOUS would have been the guy.

Too short!

[Mayhem]

The problem is, becoming increasingly evident to me that GoP used Trump as a focal point to get back into power, but since he was sworn in, everyone else has been running the show (Miller etc) and Trump has been led to believe he’s doing “work” and “tweeting” what he’s told to said, without full understanding of what he’s actually doing. So Trump’s death would not actually change the direction the US is going, he was there to allow them to start enacting Project 2025. Vance takes over and nothing is different.

They know as soon as Trump snuffs it, that’s part of their voter base gone, and are working to now not give up power once that happens. Keeping him alive long enough to get past the midterms so Vance can try for ten years in power.