Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 3)

and he mangles that!

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Just be glad youve not seen the video of him playing a piano, guitar and drums :grimacing:

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Oh, this was not a joke. I actually thought it was…

I didn’t realise it was factual when I saw it yesterday. I suppose I found it too implausible. But it was toally plausible, so egg on my face.

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  • Garcia was deported without due process and in violation of a standing court order that he not be allowed to be sent back to El Salvador.
  • After detainment and before his deportation the court again reiterated the government was not allowed to do it, but they did. And then laughed about it. As in publicly mocking that they had ignored the courts
  • The government then made up a case for why he was a criminal but did not pursue it in the courts, it was all rhetorical.
  • They only later pursued a criminal case against him, after he had already been illegally deported, claiming he was a gang member involved in human trafficking and put this case together with only the say so of a currently incarcerated Salvadorian gang member who had been found guilty of trafficking.
  • They then started parole proceedings for the actual gang member as a thank you for his cooperation.
  • A judge laughed the government’s case out of court arguing the accusations were implausible enough to be physically impossible
  • At some point a government lawyer was axed for acknowledging Garcia was deported by mistake rather than him being the subject of a well enacted “make america safe again” policy.
  • The government now officially admits it was all a big mistake.
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This, if true, would be INCREDIBLY illegal, to the point that when whispered last week legal experts waved it away as something Ellison would be insane to get involved in.

" U.S. President Donald Trump had the combat sports world doing a double take late Thursday when he said he’s considering holding a UFC event on the grounds of the White House in Washington, D.C., in 2026 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American independence.

Former two-weight UFC champion Conor McGregor expressed a desire to compete at the hypothetical event with a series of social media posts Friday.

“Excited with President Trump announcing a UFC fight event at the White House,” McGregor wrote in a Happy 4th of July message. “I would be honoured! Count me in!”

The UFC has not made any official announcement about a White House card and the logistics of such an event would be complicated, however both UFC president Dana White and the organization reposted a video clip of Trump saying there’s available land to use and that it would be a “full fight” with 20,000 to 25,000 people attending.

McGregor shared several images on social media, one was a photo of him and Trump in the Oval Office, another was an AI generated image of him facing off with Michael Chandler on the White House lawn. McGregor and Chandler were previously scheduled to fight one another at UFC 303 in 2024 before an injury forced McGregor to withdraw from the matchup."

What a surprise!

This thread is the perfect example of how your typical anti-immigrant MAGA voter has absolutely no idea how our immigration system actually works

https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1942209099321524658

Almost every comment to him is based on a factual misunderstanding.

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“They have been here for 20 years and havent bothered to get citizenship. That means they dont want to be American and should be sent home”

Buddy, that sounds like you support a pathway to citizenship. May I interest you in the Democratic party?

“I work with people who were here on visas and used it to get their citizenship. These people just dont want it”

No they didn’t. Being here on a visa already has absolutely no bearing on a subsequent qualification for citizenship. You are just using words without knowing what any of them mean. But the fact they ultimately got citizenship demonstrates a path to getting it was available to them in a way that is much more limited for people here on TPS.

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Are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable.

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This gobby nutcase is gonna get everyone killed !!

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Further proof , if any was needed , that this guy is an inveterate liar. Watch now for the familiar refrain ; Fake News ! (Even having the audio won’t prevent them , they will probably say it’s AI generated.

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Following on the news of Twitter’s AI going full Nazi yesterday, calling itself MechaHitler, after Musk dewokified it, we now get this news

https://x.com/OSINTNW/status/1942725549790507115

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