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According to Downey councilman Mario Trujillo, the man was working when he noticed ICE was at his job. He immediately started riding his bike toward the apartments. That's when one of the agents stopped him by grabbing one of the tires, causing him to fall to the ground.

WTAF

I've said often that the endgame here will be Trump making the US leave the G7, and form our own Friendship Union with Russia.

We can call it FU2....

They will also call them "Freedom Lumps" and sell collectors lumps for $47 each for MAGAs to put in their Christmas stockings

Hahahaha, he must be pissed off at the "Obama Phone" meme

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2017/07/a-short-history-of-the-obamaphone/?readmore=1

We must have lost that one somewhere along the way

Santos would make a perfect Secretary of State, not only is he a former Congressman but he is also heir to the Swedish Throne. He was also the only member of the College of Cardinals to vote for Trump as Pope, so he has that going for him.

I have the scoop of obtaining the first draft of Canada's official response, written by career diplomats Thomas and Moranis:

You are forgetting Romans 13:2.5 , in which Paul added

"Unless the government is full of Liberals, fuck those guys, amirite?"

I'm sure that's in the Trump Bible....

Isnt lying a requirement to work in this administration?

Right, but most modern cars have that communication built in, because they use it to update firmware remotely. You can't turn it off even if you wanted to. Many car companies justify it by saying it is needed to give your location to emergency services if you use their alert button.

I tend to agree (and also an EE). Airplane mode isn't a total panacea, though. It just disables the cellular radio. While it also disables the Wifi and Bluetooth, those can always be turned back on, even while Airplane Mode is active. A motivated state actor can absolutely track via Wifi or Bluetooth. (Possibly even NFC, but the range on that is so low that I think it would impossible to do without seeing what is tracking you).

Turning the phone off is the best solution if you want to keep rhe phone on your person. Guaranteed that all possible avenues for tracking is off, and also has the advantage that even if the phone is seized, the latest phone OSes require the passcode before doing anything at all when they first power up. Even the Police are limited in the data they can get off a phone that has just powered up and is asking for the passcode.

I hate that when guys like this who wear their faith on their sleeves get found out, it's all about "repentance and healing", privately, and never about actually paying the secular penalty for what they did. Ask for repentance not only from God, but from those people you harmed, by admitting what you did publicly and accepting the punishment. And part of healing is spending time in the slammer to reflect on what you've done.

I am one of those people who engaged in the sarcasm and mockery, particularly mocking American Exceptionalism. But you can argue that American position as an Indispensible Nation is (well, perhaps was) a real thing. But it's important to acknowledge that status was not accorded to us because we're special, but because we aligned our interests to many of the world's democracies. They didn't follow us because of any inherent birthright, they followed because we shared their values and interests.

John Kerry got skewered when he implied that American interests might be subject to a "global test", but he was 100% correct. Other countries backed us because we backed them. If looking to America for leadership is no longer in their best interest, they will shop somewhere else for leadership.

And that's what makes Trump so insidious. Generations of Americans (politicians, service people, etc.) put this country in a position of respect, and this guy is tossing it all out the window by being a pety asshole who doesn't listen.

So, basically this guy did what ICE does all the time

Haven't you heard? America is Exeptional, we are the Indispensible Nation. We never need help, because we perfected Democracy. Anyone who says otherwise will be sent to CECOT....

Yet many Catholics voted in line with the MAGA nuts, purely on abortion. The American Catholic Church has turned abortion into its defining political litmus test. Hopefully this new Pope can convince American bishops that there are other issues worth their attention.

Besides, the folks who run the US right now always need an enemy. Once they run through the immigrants, and LGBT people, who's next? It's entirely possible these christofascists start ostracizing Catholics. They never liked them anyway, they just liked their votes, and they probably think they won't need votes anymore to keep in power.

The goodest boy in Washington today

I feel no need to observe this in real time. I'll read about it after the fact.

I guess if the kids want to be safe they need to quit school and work on the farm

I'd love to see him run, and I hope he gets a meaningful debate in before the DNC stacks the deck for Newsom