U.S. Politics

[Richard Smith]

Question for Richard Smith and Royell Storing

I am a 70 year old male with white hair and green eyes. In my youth I had dark blonde hair. I was born in the U. S. and both parents, four of four grandparents and five of eight great grandparents were born in the U. S. And back about eight (?) generations ago lived a Joseph Elliott in Western Massachusetts in 1775 who I am descended from.

Question:

Can ICE seize me, determine that I am an illegal immigrant and fly me off to a prison in El Salvador?

Or do I have to be given due process, appear in court, have a chance to present my birth certificate and passport, and have a judge determine if I am an illegal immigrant or not?

If your answer is, an illegal immigrant or a legal immigrant (like Garcia) can be seized but a true American citizen can not, what is to prevent ICE from seizing me at a Tesla Takedown Protest rally, dishonestly declare that they believe that I am an illegal immigrant, and fly me to an El Salvador prison, beyond the reach of any American court?

Question:

If I don't stand up for Abrego Garcia, who will stand up for me?

Not Richard Smith or Royell Storing, I suspect.

Such a stupid but predictable response.  The individual sent to El Salvador was not a US citizen.  He was an illegal alien who beat his wife.  He had ties to violent, terrorist gangs with a deportation order.  You think a law-abiding US citizen is at similar risk of deportation?   LOL.  That just shows a lack of seriousness and profound brainwashing.  No American wants violent illegal criminals to be in this country.  If that is your message to voters, be prepared for decades of election landslides.  How about displaying the American flag instead of that of a foreign country?

[Royell Storing]

  This is why Trump had the Federales stopping these Illegals on the other side of the border. Biden? He waives them in and flies them in. And their drugs too. 10% for "the big guy".

[Richard Smith]

Democracy is still alive in America. The government is still, to a certain extent, beholden to the people. China, in contrast, is not. China can chose a hard course for its people and make it stick.

So, what if the U.S. decided to drop its high tariff against China but China does not decide to drop its high tariff against the U. S. After all, China can still sell to the rest of the world with no tariffs and if hardships befall the Chinese people, it doesn't matter. Then China says it will get rid of the tariffs, when China invades Taiwan and the U. S. Navy steps aside. If that were to happen, Taiwan would have no chance.

Question: What will Trump do if this happens and the only way to have any kind of control over Congress after January 2027 is if he gives in the China's demands? And that he might get impeached in the Democrats win huge in November 2026 and the remaining Republicans are done with him. What would Trump do?

China is sitting on a powder keg of people who have been oppressed for decades by a criminal government.  In the 1980s it was unthinkable that the Soviet Union and commie bloc states would be overthrown, then it happened overnight.  China is just waiting for the spark that set off the revolution.  The money flowing into the country from US has kept that from happening but they can't let the dissent begin or it will become a tidal wave. 

[Joe Elliott]

Such a stupid but predictable response.  The individual sent to El Salvador was not a US citizen.  He was an illegal alien who beat his wife.  He had ties to violent, terrorist gangs with a deportation order.  You think a law-abiding US citizen is at similar risk of deportation?   LOL.  That just shows a lack of seriousness and profound brainwashing.  No American wants violent illegal criminals to be in this country.  If that is your message to voters, be prepared for decades of election landslides.  How about displaying the American flag instead of that of a foreign country?

Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-wants-deport-some-us-citizens-el-salvador-2025-04-14/

President Donald Trump said on Monday he wants to deport some violent criminals who are U.S. citizens to Salvadoran prisons, a move that experts said would violate U.S. law.

Trump said he would deport American citizens to El Salvador. Clearly intended to cower us. But I am still showing up at protests.

So Trump can have me seized by the police and declare me to be a violent criminal and fly me to El Salvador. Or if they wouldn't do that, ICE could seize me, declare that I am clearly an illegal alien and fly me to EL Salvador. But I and others will continue to protest.

I will display the American flag when we have a proper President again.

[Richard Smith]

Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-wants-deport-some-us-citizens-el-salvador-2025-04-14/

Trump said he would deport American citizens to El Salvador. Clearly intended to cower us. But I am still showing up at protests.

So Trump can have me seized by the police and declare me to be a violent criminal and fly me to El Salvador. Or if they wouldn't do that, ICE could seize me, declare that I am clearly an illegal alien and fly me to EL Salvador. But I and others will continue to protest.

I will display the American flag when we have a proper President again.

Of course that isn't what Trump said.  He did not say that he was going to round up political opponents and deport them to El Salvador.  LOL.  What a fantasy world that you live in.  More misinformation and fear mongering.  He speculated about the possibility of sending convicted criminals to El Salvador if that was legal.  He was deferring to the legal system on whether the worst of American criminals might be sent there.  Why always go too far?  There was no due process used by the Biden administration in bypassing the federal immigration laws to allow tens of millions of unknown people to illegally enter the country but you want trials and multiple appeals to expel wife beating criminals?  That would only take a thousand years to process.   It doesn't surprise me that you are ashamed to display the American flag.  America first is not exactly your mantra.

[Royell Storing]

  Yeah, these guys are inside the Echo Chamber so much, they start thinking what they hear in there 24/7 is being said by Trump. Brainwashed =  TDS

[Tom Graves]

Yeah, these guys are inside the Echo Chamber so much, they start thinking what they hear in there 24/7 is being said by Trump. Brainwashed =  TDS

How ironic, coming from a brainwashed by sixty-six years of KGB* disinformation, "active measures," and "mole"-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations MAGAT.

*Today's SVR and FSB

[Lance Payette]

How ironic, coming from a brainwashed by sixty-six years of KGB* disinformation, "active measures," and "mole"-based strategic deception counterintelligence operations MAGAT.

*Today's SVR and FSB

With the godlike powers that you seem to attribute to the KGB, enquiring minds wonder why the USSR fell apart and Russia has been pretty much of a clown show ever since? My wife lived in the USSR from 1954 until it's collapse and then in the Soviet-style Republic of Belarus until 2008, so she does know whereof she speaks. She joined me just as Obama was elected. Especially under Joe and Kamala, her most frequent refrain was "My God, this is just like the Soviet Union! This is exactly what they did!" She was an almost embarrassingly enthusiastic Trump supporter and remains enthusiastic except for his abandonment of Ukraine. All of these meta-narratives that attempt to explain 60+ years of U.S. history in terms of some simplistic cause like KGB manipulation strike me as unrealistic and, to borrow your characterization of me, as "naive."