That means Democrats will finally stop chasing rich donors for money and just run on reigning in corruption and corporate power, right?

Countries have different immigration streams, and skilled people that have matching language skills are put way in front of refugees in every country. Countries like Australia and New Zealand will be jumping at the chance to get scientists and health care professionals from the US. They’re already picking off everyone they can find in the UK.

They have 6 justices that are happy to interpret the constitution in any way Republicans like already.

Allow them to work and they can fund their stay anywhere. Anyway, like like all that’s moot now, Trump is going to be going with the government accommodation model.

He’s planning to fire a ton of government employees unless they bend the knee, and if he starts messing with universities a bunch of scientists would be pressured to say the ‘right’ things as well. If that happens, those people would leave. Plus, in those other countries, health care isn’t tied to your employment.

There’s no guarantee all 4 of those states would be red tho.

The ones leaving are the best educated ones. It’s basically a brain drain, similar to what happens to a lot of developing countries. Once the process starts, it’s hard to reverse because it’s a self reinforcing cycle.

But they got the Cheneys!

People have been saying it for 40 years, and the Democrats just kept moving right instead. They won’t learn because the people that run the campaigns get paid regardless, and they get paid more if the campaign can raise billionaire donor money.

Or you could just not lock them up, allow them a temporary stay until their case is heard, etc. It’s a lot cheaper to do it this way too.

In fact, you could allow people to make their asylum claim in the country of origin or a third country so they don’t have to make this dangerous trip to the border while funding organised crime on the way.

Maybe it’s got the effect to externalise any of the sources of whatever is wrong in your life. Fox gives you easy answers for all your problems, and it’s always some ‘other’. You don’t have to change or work on yourself to improve things, you just have to vote for the guys that will deport/jail the ones holding you back.

Florida hasn’t been a swing state in years, and it’s not like Cuban Americans are ever going to vote Democrat regardless.

Yeah, I just didn’t really know about it before, I agree that that was always the project.

Yeah, I used to think a two state solution was eventually workable, but now I see this whole project needs to be stopped.

That’s why they evacuated it, they know Israel would bomb it. They’ve targeted hospitals and abundances in Lebanon before (and Gaza as well, of course).

The witnesses said the car appeared to reverse after hitting the cyclist for a second time before moving forward again, over the man’s body. The driver’s teenage daughter was also in the car at the time, witnesses said.

That’s straight up murder, should be prison time. People shouldn’t be getting away with murder because they happened to be sitting in a metal box at the time.

I mean, it’s probably some sort of autoimmune thing, where the infection causes the immune system to go haywire and attacks your own body.

Yeah, would be hard to prove unless people started routinely testing themselves for a broad array of viruses every time they fall ill.

But hopefully with the influx of long COVID patients more research will be done, and people with CFS, fibromyalgia and similar diseases will at least be believed, because all of those are typically dismissed because you can’t really see it.

Seems like it generally just gets triggered by a viral infection, but obviously it’s hard to find conclusive evidence for that as people get viral infections all the time and usually recover fine. In a way COVID was a useful ‘experiment’ where we got a lot of cases of people getting long COVID right after a confirmed infection (because everyone was getting tested, which you typically wouldn’t do for your average viral infection).

Creating a whole new chain seems unnecessary since chains are just public ledgers anyway. It’s always been trivial to trace trades with most currencies.