Many places also use the US military as a deterrent in lieu of having their own defense. Poland just requested a large US base to deter Russian invasion. South Korea would certainly be in trouble if we left.

Seasonal agricultural workers are a whole other set of exploitation, it’s true. It’s got a long racist history predating most of the southwestern US gaining statehood. I was talking more about permanent residents.

Long?

On his podcast, Job Favreau (the former Obama speechwriter) revealed that he was mistakenly invited to the event because they thought he was Jon Favreau the actor. They didn’t realize their mistake until he submitted his ID for a background check. Lol

They pay undocumented immigrants less. Documented immigrants can’t be paid under the table the same way. It’s also important how much immigrants raise demand. They need houses, clothes, food, etc.

Which is incidentally why immigration is good for the economy too.

I used to have to drive past this fucking thing on my way to work. We banning those too?

The way it’s always worked is the president can’t unilaterally declare war. Let’s not pretend we are still bound by precedent or rules anymore.

The Dalai Lama goes up to a hot dog vendor and says make me one with everything.

Edit: The Dalai Lama pays for the hot dog with a $20 bill, but the vendor doesn’t give him any money back. The Lama asks for his change. The vendor says change must come from within.

How many impressionists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two. One to paint the giraffe blue and the other to fill the bath tub with ping pong balls.

I like to look at parking solar more like balcony solar. It’s free real estate. Throw a few solar panels up here and there. Put a few on the existing light poles on the parking lot and/or around the perimeter. It’s more about integrating small additive power generation to existing infrastructure than trying to extract maximum Kwh per square foot like field solar.

So it’s 100% certain now that he is going to declare the election invalid to keep Republican majority control.

The volcano on Kauai is classed as extinct, which means it has not erupted in the last 10,000 years. You are right there. My point is that there are plenty of documented cases of extinct volcanoes reactivating. Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia and Fourpeaked in Alaska are both examples.

Hot spots are by nature in constant flux. Kauai isn’t nearly far enough from the main plume to say for absolute certainty that a flare in the mantle couldn’t cause the dormant volcano there to reactivate. At the very least there are seismic events to consider. There was a 6.0 quake about a week ago just outside of Kona. That is plenty to potentially cause a landslide of cave-in on Kauai. These could also cause tsunamis which could cause all sorts of issues for a bunker.

It’s exactly the same with Hillbilly Elegy and JD Vance. He hates the same system that got him to where he is. He needs to believe that he was a special snowflake and that he succeeded through his own superiority.

Build an underground bunker on an active volcano. I see no possible problem with this plan.

Okay, they have the right to vote, but HOW do they vote? If my mom wants to vote, I can’t go vote in her place as a proxy, so a person couldn’t vote in proxy for a corp. Does a company have to be 18 years old to vote? In Delaware you need a state ID or a social security number to vote. Can they get those? So many nonsensical leaps in logic have to be made to make this possible.

I love how most of the replies here are people spitballing ideas for fixing the government, as if there weren’t a bunch of nations who have already solved these problems which we could take inspiration from. Basically every democracy that was founded after us has looked at our mistakes and fixed them in one way or another.

I think it is fear, not hate. They fear trans people, Muslims, and immigrants. The left tells them this fear is their problem and they have to change. Trump tells them that not only is their fear justified, but that he can protect them from what they fear.

Ministry of silly walks artillery division