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Originally posted by sdy:
my guess about the bit coin EO

Remember when Canada froze the bank accounts of the truckers ? But they couldn't get to the bit coin accounts. Maybe the biden administration wanted to "fix" that problem for their future plans

And those words of "equity" and "disparate impacts" usually lead to DEM discrimination in favor of their most loyal voters

I think that only works for public exchange held wallets. If you did what they all tell you to do and take your stuff off the public exchange you should be fine. My very limited understanding.

You are correct. Funds held in private wallets off the exchanges are protected from compromise. Only those funds left on the exchanges (which all crypto groups strongly recommend against) are subject to government 'theft'.

“Biden is begging Saudi Arabia to pump more oil”

The Saudi’s turned Chester the molester down, but the UAE is getting opec to open the taps- there’s talk of the price of oil dropping sharply already.

Here’s the big question; will the gas prices go down right away? It only seems fair since the fuckers raise them at the first hint of production problems. I have doubts the door swings equally the other way.

I'm shocked the WashPost printed something that reflects badly on Biden.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...deporations-arrests/

ICE report shows sharp drop in deportations, immigration arrests under Biden

By Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti
Today at 10:37 a.m. EST

Deportations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fell sharply last year under President Biden to the lowest levels in the agency’s history despite record-high border crossings, according to statistics released Friday in an annual report.

During the 2021 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, ICE recorded 59,011 deportations, down from 185,884 in 2020. The lower numbers were partly the result of enforcement changes triggered by the coronavirus pandemic that have allowed U.S. agents to rapidly expel unlawful border crossers under the Title 42 public health code, a procedure that does not count as a formal deportation.

But another gauge of ICE enforcement activity — immigration arrests in the U.S. interior — also showed a significant drop relative to historic averages. Officers working for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) made about 74,082 administrative arrests during the 2021 fiscal year, down from 104,000 during fiscal 2020 and an average of 148,000 annually from 2017 through 2019.

Biden administration officials said the figure reflects the administration’s efforts to emphasize “quality over quantity” by directing ICE to prioritize immigrants who pose public safety and national security threats.

The report said ICE arrested 12,025 individuals last year with aggravated felony convictions, nearly double the 2020 total. The agency highlighted a targeted operation that arrested 495 “noncitizen sex offenders” from 54 different countries, more than double the number taken into custody in 2020.

“As the annual report’s data reflects, ICE’s officers and special agents focused on cases that delivered the greatest law enforcement impact in communities across the country while upholding our values as a nation,” Tae Johnson, the agency’s acting director, said in a statement.

The 59,011 deportations that ICE reported last year were the lowest total since 1995, according to Department of Homeland Security statistics. ICE, created in 2003, has more than 20,000 employees in its civil, criminal and legal operations and an annual budget of approximately $8 billion.

Biden campaigned for president promising a break with his predecessor’s aggressive enforcement approach and unabashed enthusiasm for mass immigration arrests. After taking office, Biden ordered a “pause” on deportations that upended the agency’s operations and left officers grumbling that their agency had been eliminated by administrative means.

Since then, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has issued new guidance to officers instructing them to prioritize national security and public safety threats as well as recent border-crossers, an approach the administration says has allowed it to better focus resources on serious criminals.

Mayorkas has also met personally with teams of ICE officers to urge them to use more discretion before making an arrest and adopt a more sympathetic approach toward immigrants who are not serious criminals and have been living for years in the United States.

Republicans have hammered the Biden administration over the decline in interior immigration arrests and deportations, and blamed the surge of new arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border on his more lenient policies. U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained 1.7 million border-crossers during the 2021 fiscal year, an all-time high.

States such as Texas, Louisiana and Arizona have sued over the new enforcement priorities and are awaiting court rulings that could overturn them.

Mayorkas has also stopped detaining families and withdrew ICE from two county detention facilities in Massachusetts and Georgia that he said did not meet his standards. He also told Congress last year that he was concerned about the “overuse” of detention.

ICE holds growing numbers of immigrants at private facilities despite Biden’s campaign promise to end the practice.

The Biden administration was detaining more than 19,000 immigrants as of Wednesday, most of them apprehended at the southwest border, records show.

The average daily number of ICE detainees plunged to about 19,200 during the 2021 fiscal year, the lowest level since 1999, according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.

Approximately 11 million undocumented immigrants reside in the United States, and the vast majority have been here for more than a decade, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Congressional Democrats have attempted to pass a bill that would make them permanent residents, but their efforts have stalled in the narrowly divided Senate.

Advocates for immigrants said they welcomed many of the Biden administration’s early changes, such as ending the travel ban and increasing the number of refugees allowed into the United States. But they said the most recent spending bill increases funding for immigration enforcement and complained that Biden has not kept his campaign promise to end privately run detention, which accounts for the majority of the ICE system.

“We really want to see some shifts,” said Silky Shah, executive director of the Detention Watch Network. U.S. officials “don’t need to put people seeking asylum in detention, period,” she added.

Shah said the government should stop detaining people for civil immigration violations, especially those who have already served their time for criminal offenses. “We don’t believe anybody should be detained,” she said. “What we need to do is reduce the system.”

ICE also deported 34 “known or suspected terrorists,” according to the report. But agency officials said during a briefing with reporters that they did not have additional information about the known or suspected terrorists, nor where they were taken into custody.

In the WaPo reality, that article isn't critical

Kamala strikes out, again

video at

https://twitter.com/i/status/1502301540962476032


"Now, to be fair to the vice president, the RNC’s clip is edited in a way that cuts off the reporter’s first question, which was specifically addressed to President Iohannis. Naturally, the reporter was expecting Harris to answer the question that was addressed to her, which was about inflation and gas prices.

Yet, instead of just answering it, Harris appeared to blank out for a moment until Iohannis motioned for her to speak. She then proceeded to ramble for several minutes in a painfully paced way about the Black Sea and discussions with Romania, topics which had nothing to do with the question that had been directed to her.

Eventually, she then moved into another “dog ate my homework” moment, an all too common occurrence for Harris, where she tried to sound really profound while stating that “there is a price to pay for democracy.” I guess she thought that was a good substitute for actually addressing the issue of Americans suffering under massive inflation?"


what a zero

Reading over the Twitter responses to the RNC Cameltoe video. One of the best:

"With leadership like this, we will be speaking Russian before the year's end"

Biden:

“I’m SICK of this stuff!”

Joe Biden is furious that Americans blame inflation on his government spending.

video at:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1502364235816443907

what a liar biden is.


Jim Jordan: Democrats want Americans to buy $50,000 electric vehicles, even though they can't afford $5 gas.

No no no what she meant to say was "there is a price to pay for electing democrats"

And you are seeing what that price is every day at the gas pumps and the grocery stores, and the Ukrainians are seeing it as Russian troops bomb their cities and kill their friends and family members, and the parents of the marines killed in the botched Afghanistan withdrawal feel it every day in the loss they have experienced

Fuck Cameldung and her idiotic replies to simple questions

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Originally posted by sdy:
Kamala strikes out, again

video at

https://twitter.com/i/status/1502301540962476032


"Now, to be fair to the vice president, the RNC’s clip is edited in a way that cuts off the reporter’s first question, which was specifically addressed to President Iohannis. Naturally, the reporter was expecting Harris to answer the question that was addressed to her, which was about inflation and gas prices.

Yet, instead of just answering it, Harris appeared to blank out for a moment until Iohannis motioned for her to speak. She then proceeded to ramble for several minutes in a painfully paced way about the Black Sea and discussions with Romania, topics which had nothing to do with the question that had been directed to her.

Eventually, she then moved into another “dog ate my homework” moment, an all too common occurrence for Harris, where she tried to sound really profound while stating that “there is a price to pay for democracy.” I guess she thought that was a good substitute for actually addressing the issue of Americans suffering under massive inflation?"


what a zero

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Originally posted by sdy:
Kamala strikes out, again
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what a zero

Next, she will be telling the world that "...U.S. Americans uh, people out there in our nation don't have maps and, uh...

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
I'm shocked the WashPost printed something that reflects badly on Biden.

Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon and, while no longer in charge of operations, is still the major shareholder there.

Headline on the bottom right-hand corner of the front page of today's Wall Street Journal:
"Amazon Wins Few Friends In Biden Era; The tech-and-retail giant faces a multifront battle in Washington". (see pages A1, A15)
- Biden named a critic of Amazon to head the Federal Trade Commission, and the FTC's pissed because Amazon doesn't share enough information about its buisness practices with the government
- Antitrust issues at Amazon have been kicked around since the Trump Administration, and Amazon ain't cooperating
- Amazon is still fighting unionization as best it can

We may be in for more criticism of Biden et al in the Washington Post over the next few years.

'I'm sick of this stuff': Biden tears into people blaming HIM for inflation and warns Democrats he will 'only have a veto pen' if they lose to Republicans in the midterms

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...n-lose-Congress.html

President Joe Biden warned House Democrats Friday in Philadelphia that he'll have far less power next year if they lose Congress

'This off-year election, in my view, may be the most important off-year election in modern history,' he said

Biden added, 'The only thing I'll have then is a veto pen,' if Republicans take control of the House and Senate

Biden used his appearanced to lay out his latest thinking on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, defend his record and swat away some recent Republican attacks

The president even brought props along - holding up a stack of printed news clips, which contained favorable headlines

'Make no mistake, inflation is largely the fault of Putin,' Biden said.

High gas prices too, he suggested.

'I love Republicans saying ... Biden's going to stop the Keystone Pipeline. And I did. And that's the reason prices went up. Folks, let's get something straight here: The Keystone Pipeline was two years away and had been 2 per cent finished,' he continued.

More at link

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
'I'm sick of this stuff': Biden tears into people blaming HIM for inflation and warns Democrats he will 'only have a veto pen' if they lose to Republicans in the midterms

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...n-lose-Congress.html

President Joe Biden warned House Democrats Friday in Philadelphia that he'll have far less power next year if they lose Congress

'This off-year election, in my view, may be the most important off-year election in modern history,' he said

Biden added, 'The only thing I'll have then is a veto pen,' if Republicans take control of the House and Senate

Biden used his appearanced to lay out his latest thinking on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, defend his record and swat away some recent Republican attacks

The president even brought props along - holding up a stack of printed news clips, which contained favorable headlines

'Make no mistake, inflation is largely the fault of Putin,' Biden said.

High gas prices too, he suggested.

'I love Republicans saying ... Biden's going to stop the Keystone Pipeline. And I did. And that's the reason prices went up. Folks, let's get something straight here: The Keystone Pipeline was two years away and had been 2 per cent finished,' he continued.

More at link

Thanks for rubbing salt in the wound Biden. We could be 10 months away from increased supply had he not stopped it 14 months ago.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:

High gas prices too, he suggested.

'I love Republicans saying ... Biden's going to stop the Keystone Pipeline. And I did. And that's the reason prices went up. Folks, let's get something straight here: The Keystone Pipeline was two years away and had been 2 per cent finished,' he continued.

More at link

Asshole. You're directly responsible for everything going on right now, especially high gas prices.

These economic ignoramuses i suppose never considered long term speculation and futures contracts and how that might affect the price at the pump.

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Originally posted by Sigmund:
I'm shocked the WashPost printed something that reflects badly on Biden.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...deporations-arrests/

ICE report shows sharp drop in deportations, immigration arrests under Biden

Don't worry Dem's fight to get rid of tool slowing onslaught of illegal immigrants. I find the huge disparity between the two articles alarming. Why are their figures so different? Also Only 11 million illegals still? That was the number stated years ago, but we had 2 million apprehensions in the last year that 1/2 or less were turned away. Not including the ones that were not captured or turned themselves in and simply slipped through in the darkness of night.

The lies these people tell to get as many illegals in the country they can is astounding. I wonder if any of the Dems believe the words coming out of their pie holes?

Biden had an opportunity to be the second most successful president in American history.

All he had to do was leave everything Trump did alone and sit back and watch everything improve.

Instead he is going to make Jimmy Carter look like a Rhodes Scholar and a Nobel Laureate.

His the architect of his own downfall and unfortunately he has dragged the entire country along with him.

If anything goes bad,
just blame Vlad.

-Biden Administration Plan 2022

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The most nonsensical answer of all time.

Biden Administration Officially Ends Title 42 Expulsion of Illegal Immigrant Children

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...GVLX2l0zGQw5nWuF%2FB

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), terminated the public health order known as Title 42 with respect to youth who arrive at the border without a responsible adult, a group known as unaccompanied children.

Title 42, imposed during the Trump administration, enabled immigration authorities to expel illegal immigrants because of fears they posed a health threat amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Soon after Biden took office in 2021, the government stopped expelling unaccompanied children, alleging doing so was cruel and inhumane.

But U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, a Trump nominee, ruled on March 4 that the administration could no longer exempt unaccompanied youth from Title 42.

The children “spend, on average, more than a day clustered at a DHS facility, where they can expose other detainees, DHS personnel, and American citizens and residents to whatever viruses they are carrying,” Pittman said.

The government has been taking care of thousands of unaccompanied children while trying to locate a parent or another responsible adult who can take charge of them. As of March 10, there were about 600 such children in the custody of Customs and Border Protection, which runs facilities at or near the border, and some 9,800 in the care of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS), which manages facilities around the country, according to a government statement. Over 159,000 have been released into the U.S. interior since January 2021.

In its order (pdf) terminating Title 42 with respect to unaccompanied children, Walensky said she found “that there is no longer a serious danger of the introduction, transmission, and spread of COVID-19 into the United States as a result of entry of [the children] and that a suspension of the introduction of [the children] is not required in the interest of public health.”

The termination was based in part on how COVID-19 metrics have plunged in the United States in recent weeks and an assessment that mitigation measures at facilities holding the children have helped reduce transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19, known as SARS-CoV-2 or the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.

The termination took effect immediately; it came just as Pittman’s order would have taken effect.

The CDC is keeping Title 42 in place for other populations, including single adults.

The office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who had asked Pittman to make the government expel illegal immigrant children because of concerns about the spread of the CCP virus, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mark Krikorian, executive director for the Center for Immigration Studies, wrote on social media that the decision didn’t make sense since Title 42 will still be applied to illegal immigrants other than unaccompanied children.

“Also, if ‘current public health conditions and recent developments’ warrant lifting Title 42 for UACs, then *all* COVID restrictions need to be lifted. You can’t pretend that illegal-alien teenagers are magically different,” he said.

On the other hand, Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, said the decision was justified but called on the administration to “immediately end” Title 42 for families and adults as well.

The CDC’s move came about a month after officials at the agency said they’d decided to keep Title 42 in place, alleging it was necessary due to current pandemic conditions.

It also came after the administration revealed in a report (pdf) that deportations of illegal immigrants reached a record-low in fiscal year 2021, dropping from 185,844 the previous fiscal year to just 59,011. Deportations are counted separately from expulsions.

Under Biden, the United States set records for the number of illegal immigrant apprehensions at the southern border for both a fiscal year and calendar year, including a record number of unaccompanied children.

not sure what is going on, but there are videos being posted that rockets have been fired at Erbil, Iraq

https://twitter.com/search?q=E...lick&vertical=trends

Lots of confusion

reuters:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...ate-media/ar-AAUZqeZ

Multiple rockets fell in Erbil, capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on Sunday, the state news agency said quoting Erbil's governor.

"No victims or casualties after Erbil blasts," Saman Barzanji, health minister in Iraq's Kurdistan Province, was cited as saying by state television.

Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Twitter: "Erbil is under fire... as if Kurds were not Iraqis".


more here:

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2...ion-possible-n535267

from the numerous reports it would appear some sort of attack occurred. But not clear who fired and what they hit