The Political Thread

[Chris]

You know when people are fairly quiet about politics but whenever an illegal immigrant murders a US citizen it becomes their whole personality for a few days to say how we can't have that happen and act like liberals are cheering for it? This is what they're saying we should allow to happen as a necessary evil to prevent that. This is our world, you have to decide if you want brown kids abused or white women murdered, not allowed to be upset about both.

A 14-year-old girl described being zip-tied during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics

A 14-year-old girl said she was "crying" and "struggling to breathe" when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Barry Poppins]

I've said multiple times now that the issues facing America have never been immigrants, whether they come legally or illegally. The issues facing the People come from billionaires and corporations who undercut US citizens with unlivable wages, outsourcing manufacturing to other countries, random layoffs to save money and earn more profit, and paying immigrants on work visas much lower wages to save that multitude of profit.

The only way we can solve some of these issues is by holding corporations accountable, removing tax loopholes, and reversing to the 1964 tax standard of 80+% Tax for the richest wealth classes. I'd go so far as to even say there should be an inheritance tax over a certain threshold of wealth, high carbon taxes, and a larger corporate tax.

A good solution to the outsourcing problem thusly would be to tariff goods imported by American companies who use foreign factories to manufacture their goods. Additionally, have tax credits and grants and subsidies for those who build new factories or re-open said same on US Soil. To counteract companies just raising their prices, you institute a price freeze on all goods, raise minimum wage, end at-will employment, and ban layoffs for companies who are not in debt or have higher expenditures than revenue.

Finally, strengthen unions, allow federal workers unions, build affordable housing by purchasing land, banning corporations from purchasing residential real estate, enact strict landlord policies, up to and including rent freezes for tenants who live in substandard housing, fining a portion of landlord income for failure to upkeep their rental spaces.

Sadly, this will never happen.

 

[Looji Nagata]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/11/us/faa-el-paso-flights-airport#faa-el-paso-flight-restrictions

No flights are allowed to or from the airport until Feb. 20 under a flight restriction order that cited unspecified “special security reasons.”

When reached by phone early Wednesday, Representative Joaquin Castro, a Democrat who represents San Antonio, said he did not know more about the closure. Vincent Perez, a Texas State representative from El Paso, was similarly unsure.

“I have never heard of an American airspace being shutdown for 10 days, absent a major emergency,” Mr. Perez said.

The airport said in a statement that the restriction had been issued “on short notice” and that it was waiting for additional guidance from the F.A.A. In a notice, the F.A.A. said the federal government “may use deadly force” if an aircraft violating the airspace is determined to pose “an imminent security threat.” The F.A.A. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Shortly before 3 a.m. at the airport, yellow gates blocked the elevators and escalators, prohibiting anyone from riding up to the second level, which is where people walk through Transportation Security Administration checkpoint lines to board flights.

Veronica Escobar, a congresswoman who represents El Paso, said the move by the F.A.A. to shut down the El Paso airport for 10 days was “unprecedented.”

“From what my office and I have been able to gather overnight and early this morning, there is no immediate threat to the community or surrounding areas,” she said in a statement. “We have urged the F.A.A. to lift the Temporary Flight Restrictions placed on the El Paso area. I will continue to make information public as I learn it.”

...this is all very strange.

 

[Chris]

It's already been lifted hours into the 10 day closure. They said it was bc of drug cartel drones

 

[Barry Poppins]

 

[Barry Poppins]

Oh and of course Bondi refuses to apologize to victims of the Epstein list.

 

[Chris]

El Paso thing actually seems much worse than I expected

 

[Barry Poppins]

 

[Y2Jayne]

Tumbler Ridge school shooting: police identify suspect in Canada attack as 18-year-old local resident – as it happened

Dwayne McDonald, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, names suspect as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, a resident of Tumbler Ridge

www.theguardian.com

 

[Tommy Shelby]

It happens here in England.

Farage EU. Leave and the official leave group said an extra £350m when we leave Europe. Well Now Farage knows it was a smokescreen as we got over £100 billion a year in imports and exports . Now we aren’t part it makes it more difficult with all the red tape now we’re not in E.U.

Immigration is just a smokescreen by the elites . It’s been nearly 90 years for WWII and history has a way of repeating itself. Ie: IMMIGRATION isn’t the issue.

 

[camdudetenger9]

Tumbler Ridge school shooting: police identify suspect in Canada attack as 18-year-old local resident – as it happened

Dwayne McDonald, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, names suspect as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, a resident of Tumbler Ridge

www.theguardian.com

its like what the heck

 

[Tommy Shelby]

its like what the heck

Sending a lot of Love and Prayers to all the victims and their families.

 

[Looji Nagata]

British International Investment suspends all future investments with DP World after their CEO Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was revealed to have maintained close ties with convicted American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including an exchange in 2009 in which he was revealed as the recipient of an email saying "I loved the torture video" from Epstein.

Second firm ends DP World investments over CEO’s Epstein ties

LONDON: A second financial firm has axed future investments in Dubai logistics giant DP World after emails surfaced revealing close ties between its CEO and Jeffrey Epstein, Bloomberg reported. British International Investment, a $13.6 billion UK government-owned development finance institution...

www.arabnews.pk

“We are shocked by the allegations emerging in the Epstein files regarding (DP World CEO) Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem,” a BII spokesman said in a statement.

“In light of the allegations, we will not be making any new investments with DP World until the required actions have been taken by the company.”

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Second firm ends DP World investments over CEO’s Epstein ties

LONDON: A second financial firm has axed future investments in Dubai logistics giant DP World after emails surfaced revealing close ties between its CEO and Jeffrey Epstein, Bloomberg reported. British International Investment, a $13.6 billion UK government-owned development finance institution...

www.arabnews.pk

Fucking disgusting that mate. Glad he’s been outed as Wrong one . Sultan of Depravity

 

[Looji Nagata]

Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens

About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

www.nbcnews.com

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday against federal, state and local law enforcement agencies following an October immigration raid at a racetrack in Idaho. About 400 people, including U.S. citizens and children, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

“The facts haven’t changed: ICE helped dismantle an illegal horse-racing, animal fighting, and a gambling enterprise operation out of a property known as [La Catedral] Arena in Wilder, Idaho and lawfully arrested more than 105 illegal aliens,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “ICE didn’t zip tie, restrain, or arrest any children. Plaintiff’s lawsuit is just another attempt to obstruct President Trump from delivering on the American people’s mandate for mass deportations of illegal aliens.”

The FBI said it declines to comment on potential or pending litigation. An FBI spokesperson initially said no restraints or rubber bullets were used on children but later amended that statement, replacing “children” with “young children,” according to The Associated Press.

Juana Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen born in Idaho, said she was among those detained. The ACLU said in its news release that her 3-year-old son cried as officers told him to hold on to her pocket.

Rodriguez said their family outing became a “nightmare,” according to the ACLU.

“My toddler was forced to witness an incredible amount of violence against people he loves and hear racial slurs about Latinos, experiences that no child should ever be exposed to,” she said in a statement. “I’ll never forget hearing his little voice pleading with me to give him food and water for hours on end. As a parent, nothing is more heartbreaking than hearing your child cry out in fear and being told you cannot hold or comfort them.”

She said she joined the lawsuit “because I know what happened to me was wrong and because no family should be treated this way again.”