So Biden was right, yet again.

BPPLEE said:

Biden Total/Avg. (through 2024)

~8.1 million / ~2 million

~11 million total encounters over 4 years; ~4.4 million repatriations (including 3 million Title 42 expulsions).

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Yep. No "humanitarian crisis." No "overwhelmed capacities."
Biden was right, yet again.

Trump hates 60 Minutes, but he just had to tune in to see his jilted ex-whatever on the show.

Bradskii said:

So you are advocating the execution of drug dealers wherever the person is found. So in Louisiana for example. The authorities can just shoot people if those people are positively identified dealing drugs. You must agree with that. It's literally what you just said.

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No, because that person would be under the jurisdiction of law enforcement, not the military. Even if Osama Bin Laden was found in Louisiana, he could only be arrested. You understood nothing about what I said.topic?

Under the law of armed conflict, soldiers may lawfully engage certain individuals at any time based on their status. Civilians may be targeted based on their conduct, specifically while they are directly participating in hostilities. The conduct that qualifies as direct participation in hostilities is not defined in the relevant treaties that refer to civilians losing their protection from attack—Additional Protocols I and II. And, the exact scope of the term remains the source of disagreement (see here and here).

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Jan001 said:

I had not considered your interpretation of these verses. Thank you for sharing your viewpoint.

I have always believed it was Paul. I think he was privileged to participate in a vision, and that he received revelations personally from Jesus Christ. These revelations were given to him because of his calling, and not because of anything he did to deserve them.

2 Corinthians 1-10
I must boast; there is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. 3 And I know that this man was caught up into Paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— 4 and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. 5 On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. 6 Though if I wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for I shall be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 7 And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated. 8 Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me; 9 but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

We know that Paul received his instructions personally from Jesus Christ. He received them because he was called to preach to the Gentiles before he was born!

Galatians 1:11-17
For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not man’s gospel. 12 For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it; 14 and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace, 16 was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned to Damascus.

It seems to me that Paul did not know if he received this revelation while he was bodily on earth or if he received it by actually bodily entering into heaven. It overwhelmed his senses.

Since only the pure of heart can literally enter into heaven after death, my guess is that Paul participated in a vison of the third heaven while he was still physically on earth. Matthew 5:8

The apostles, Peter, James, and John, participated in a heavenly vision with Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. Matthew 17:1-4

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Yes I believe it was Paul now, and can not be referring to someone else.
Claudius was known to kick people out (Acts 18 2), and exile people (Slavonic Josephus). Nero was known to kill people. One of those churches in Revelation (the rich one) was hit with a big earthquake 60 AD although they recovered by their own finances without need of government aid (Tacitus), and they would of rebuilt quickly by the sound of it. I want to date Revelation as early as possible because chapter 1-12 was about to come on the whole world (of first century Israel- Judea, Samaria, Galilee although mainly Judea), and those first Christians needed time to read the book, and understand ch 1-12 was about them. So I believe it was written 41-49 AD. Nero is too late I feel.

Hans Blaster said:

Steve, I know that you are a middle-aged Australian. But if I didn't, I would be forced to conclude that you were a 19-year-old homeschooled MAGA Trump superfan who went 5 years ago to the Capitol riot with his father (who stopped watching Fox News because it was "too woke" after firing Tucker Carlson) and is now aggrieved that his boss at the Piggly Wiggly won't let him wear his red MAGA cap while bagging groceries and who only recently learned that throughout his primary (home) schooling Pres. Obama had been ordering drone strikes in Afghanistan.

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Not only is your idea of me warped but your idea and steroetypes of Trump supporters is also twisted and strange. My info and view comes from expert analysis and not MAGA.

Hans Blaster said:

Even the most ardent American Trump defender here (and I have tangled with them all) have a far better awareness than you do and are not nearly so into the "deranged level of bias" (to quote you immediately below this) that you are. They have a lot better idea what America is like.

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I disagree because I am basing this off the politicians and expert political commentators. How is it deranged when its truth lol.

Hans Blaster said:

They know our history a lot better. They experienced the news coverage of strikes under earlier presidents.

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They are the ones who said it lol. Where do you think I got this. I have also been following this for years. I actually got caught in the first Iraqi war in Kwait. I think you underestimate my knowledge and experience.

Hans Blaster said:

They've watched the "drug war" for decades. They had to decide who to support in the 2016 election that first brought Trjmp to power. And I think more importantly, they know which of the conservative media and political figures who are concerned by these events have backed Trump in the past. (Even I don't know that one all that well.)

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But I do so I am more informed than you.

Hans Blaster said:

In the last few days (including since the post I am responding to) you have invoked "Russiagate", "Epstein", Trump's legal issues, "FBI investigations in to GOP members of Congress", Larry Summers, "Bill Clinton and Epstein", Soros, Fraud in minnesota, the "deplorables" comment, and so on and so forth with the MSM and leftists and "anti-Christian bias".

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Which is real.

Hans Blaster said:

(The last I can only assume is because some of us arguing with you or against the strikes are non-Christians.)

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There you go. You jump into my posts and don't even know what your complaining about. It was in response to the one sided moral claims about the Narco boats.

I used those examples to show how they are bias and have no moral ground. You don;t need to know a detailed history of American politics or Trump to know this as its quite plain to see. Even the Australian commentators say the same.

Hans Blaster said:

None of this has a single thing to do with this CURRENT EVENTS topic. At this point, I can only conclude that the concept of "on topic" is incomprehensible to you.

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They do when people are making bias moral claims. The perfect rebuff is to show how they have no moral ground to stand on and they have allowed the same and it was quite ok then. But not now because its Trump.

I don’t like politicizing my savior. Right or left, I don’t care. It just feels so, so wrong. IMO

samaus123456789 said:

2 Corinthians 11 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
So Paul boasts about his weaknesses being a "fool", and his thorn in the flesh whatever it was. Having a heavenly experience is not a weakness. Paul is talking about the author of Revelation, and not himself in 2 Cor 12.

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I had not considered your interpretation of these verses. Thank you for sharing your viewpoint.

I have always believed it was Paul. I think he was privileged to participate in a vision, and that he received revelations personally from Jesus Christ. These revelations were given to him because of his calling, and not because of anything he did to deserve them.

2 Corinthians 1-10
I must boast; there is nothing to be gained by it, but I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. 3 And I know that this man was caught up into Paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— 4 and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter. 5 On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. 6 Though if I wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for I shall be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. 7 And to keep me from being too elated by the abundance of revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too elated. 8 Three times I besought the Lord about this, that it should leave me; 9 but he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” I will all the more gladly boast of my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

We know that Paul received his instructions personally from Jesus Christ. He received them because he was called to preach to the Gentiles before he was born!

Galatians 1:11-17
For I would have you know, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not man’s gospel. 12 For I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through a revelation of Jesus Christ. 13 For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it; 14 and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers. 15 But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and had called me through his grace, 16 was pleased to reveal his Son to me, in order that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with flesh and blood, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned to Damascus.

It seems to me that Paul did not know if he received this revelation while he was bodily on earth or if he received it by actually bodily entering into heaven. It overwhelmed his senses.

Since only the pure of heart can literally enter into heaven after death, my guess is that Paul participated in a vison of the third heaven while he was still physically on earth. Matthew 5:8

The apostles, Peter, James, and John, participated in a heavenly vision with Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. Matthew 17:1-4

Oompa Loompa said:

If you are referring to ANTIFA, they are considered domestic terrorists.

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Only by this fascist administration. Who else would see anti-fascists as terrorists?

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But because they are on US soil, they fall under the jurisdiction of law enforcement, not the military.

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Goodie!

Oompa Loompa said:

So what is your point?

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That this administration likes to play fast and loose with terms like "terrorist" and given the recent defenses of extrajudicial killings of people merely accused of being terrorists, I'm even you can see where the concern starts to set in.

essentialsaltes said:

Judge to address how he'll proceed with contempt inquiry into AEA deportations​

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, in a hearing Wednesday, is set to address how he will proceed with the early stages of contempt proceedings into whether Trump administration officials violated a court order by deporting hundreds of men to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act in March.

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Judge orders top DOJ attorney to testify about Alien Enemies Act deportations​

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered Drew Ensign -- Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Immigration Litigation of the Civil Division -- to testify during a hearing on Dec. 16.

He also ordered testimony on Dec. 15 from Erez Reuveni, a former DOJ attorney who alleged the Trump administration evaded court orders.

He wrote that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's brief sworn declaration recently submitted in the case did "not provide enough information for the Court to determine whether her decision was a willful violation of the Court's Order."

On Friday, January 22, 1999, the ABC news program 20/20 ran a report on the adverse events of Hep B vaccination. It's worth watching the ~11 minutes, if for no other reason than to see how the mainstream media used to cover vaccine controversy vs. how it's covered today.

The people interviewed in this repot are not anti-vaxxers. They were simply doing what they believed was best for themselves and/or their child and faced devastating consequences as a result.

Part 1: ABC News 20-20 1999 Hep B part 1 : NVICstandup : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Part 2: ABC News 20-20 1999 Hep B part 2 : NVICstandup : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

ThatRobGuy said:

What, is that not true?

Given that we average 2,240 naturalizations per day, any policy change or new restriction is always going to be "cruel timing" for somebody. No matter which day you pick, and no matter how far out you pick it, there's always going to be some people who just barely missed the cutoff when they thought they were in the home stretch.

If policy changes could never be disruptive to people who were at the final phase of the process, then there would never be any policy changes, because there are perpetually always people at the final phase of the process.

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I just find constantly playing devil's advocate and seeing people's real problems as purely hypothetical exercises in logic to be getting very tiresome. You don't have to try and rationalize everything this administration does, you know.

The Barbarian said:

But it didn't.
President Biden’s immigration record from 2021–2025 combined an early shift to prosecutorial discretion and humanitarian programs with later, tighter asylum limits and accelerated removals: the administration issued prosecutorial-discretion priorities in September 2021 and carried out roughly 1.1–1.5 million deportations/returns through early 2024 while focusing removals on recent border crossers and public-safety risks [1] [2]. After Title 42 ended, the administration layered tools — CBP One, a “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways” rule, a June 2024 executive order setting deportation triggers, and limits on asylum between ports of entry — that substantially narrowed access to asylum and increased removals [3] [1] [4] [5].

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/biden-immigration-asylum-deportations-2021-2025-a4ec51

So Biden was right, yet again.

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Again you cite the EO he issued after 3 and a half years of telling us it was out of his reach.
It lowered crossings by 40% it was just 3 and a half years too late.
The border was a disaster under Biden

prodromos said:

Only in your febrile imagination.

In other words, you have no response. You recognise that the flights cannot be rationalised with the only flat earth map that has ever been presented, so you have to create some fantasy map that you imagine you might (some day, which will never come) be able to work with. It seems you have not even begun to plumb the depths of your delusion.

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I am under no obligation to take into account what you consider an accurate flat earth map or not.

Let's get back to the real Charlie Kirk...

Charlie Kirk Did Not Like Black People. He Called MLK “Awful” and George Floyd a “Scumbag”​

Nationwide — Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder who was shot and killed Wednesday during an appearance at Utah Valley University, repeatedly made remarks that revealed deep hostility toward Black people and toward civil rights progress in America.

In early 2024, Kirk drew heavy backlash for saying, “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.’” He made the comment during a podcast conversation about airline diversity hiring practices, sparking outrage online. Many saw the remark as promoting a harmful stereotype—that Black professionals are inherently less competent—and as a clear example of the racial undertones that defined his commentary. Critics argued it showed exactly how Kirk used race to stoke division among his largely white, conservative audience.

We're all sinners; we all have our own struggles with evil. This was Charlie Kirk's. He wasn't a devil; he wasn't an angel. He was just a guy struggling with his own demons.

Like the rest of us.

prodromos said:

What a ridiculous map. What is that land mass between Australia and South America supposed to be, seeing as no such continent exists. I thought Jerry Pinochet was retarded.

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It might be under water, or we have fake maps. Who knows.

GoldenBoy89 said:

We also had this administration label car keying vandals as “terrorists” just a few months ago so forgive me if I find their designations of terrorism to be sorely lacking.

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If you are referring to ANTIFA, they are considered domestic terrorists. But because they are on US soil, they fall under the jurisdiction of law enforcement, not the military. So what is your point?

Yarddog said:

Our laws do not call for the death penalty for drug traffickers.

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The laws of armed combat says that lethal force can be authorized against an enemy combatant once the enemy target has be confirmed and is not surrendering. Nothing more. Just another reminder, we are not talking about criminals, we are talking about designated terrorists and combatants in the global war of terror. No different than ISIS.

BPPLEE said:

“A potential surge could create chaos and a humanitarian crisis, overwhelm processing capacities and imperil the agenda of the new administration,” Biden’s advisers wrote.

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But it didn't.
President Biden’s immigration record from 2021–2025 combined an early shift to prosecutorial discretion and humanitarian programs with later, tighter asylum limits and accelerated removals: the administration issued prosecutorial-discretion priorities in September 2021 and carried out roughly 1.1–1.5 million deportations/returns through early 2024 while focusing removals on recent border crossers and public-safety risks [1] [2]. After Title 42 ended, the administration layered tools — CBP One, a “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways” rule, a June 2024 executive order setting deportation triggers, and limits on asylum between ports of entry — that substantially narrowed access to asylum and increased removals [3] [1] [4] [5].

So Biden was right, yet again.