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You’re forgetting the part where the government is supposed to facilitate the release of Abrego from El Salvador and then continue the case against him.
The more I argued with them, the better I came to know their dialectic. First they counted on the stupidity of their adversary, and then, when there was no other way out, they themselves simply played stupid. If all this didn't help, they pretended not to understand, or, if challenged, they changed the subject in a hurry, quoted platitudes which, if you accepted them, they immediately related to entirely different matters, and then, if again attacked, gave ground and pretended not to know exactly what you were talking about. Whenever you tried to attack one of these apostles, your hand closed on a jelly-like slime which divided up and poured through your fingers, but in the next moment collected again. But if you really struck one of these fellows so telling a blow that, observed by the audience, he couldn't help but agree, and if you believed that this had taken you at least one step forward, your amazement was great the next day. The Jew had not the slightest recollection of the day before, he rattled off his same old nonsense as though nothing at all had happened, and, if indignantly challenged, affected amazement; he couldn't remember a thing, except that he had proved the correctness of his assertions the previous day. Sometimes I stood there thunderstruck. I didn't know what to be more amazed at: the agility of their tongues or their virtuosity at lying. Gradually I began to hate them.
 
The more I argued with them, the better I came to know their dialectic. First they counted on the stupidity of their adversary, and then, when there was no other way out, they themselves simply played stupid. If all this didn't help, they pretended not to understand, or, if challenged, they changed the subject in a hurry, quoted platitudes which, if you accepted them, they immediately related to entirely different matters, and then, if again attacked, gave ground and pretended not to know exactly what you were talking about. Whenever you tried to attack one of these apostles, your hand closed on a jelly-like slime which divided up and poured through your fingers, but in the next moment collected again. But if you really struck one of these fellows so telling a blow that, observed by the audience, he couldn't help but agree, and if you believed that this had taken you at least one step forward, your amazement was great the next day. The Jew had not the slightest recollection of the day before, he rattled off his same old nonsense as though nothing at all had happened, and, if indignantly challenged, affected amazement; he couldn't remember a thing, except that he had proved the correctness of his assertions the previous day. Sometimes I stood there thunderstruck. I didn't know what to be more amazed at: the agility of their tongues or their virtuosity at lying. Gradually I began to hate them.
Are you at a gas station?
 
The more I argued with them, the better I came to know their dialectic. First they counted on the stupidity of their adversary, and then, when there was no other way out, they themselves simply played stupid. If all this didn't help, they pretended not to understand, or, if challenged, they changed the subject in a hurry, quoted platitudes which, if you accepted them, they immediately related to entirely different matters, and then, if again attacked, gave ground and pretended not to know exactly what you were talking about. Whenever you tried to attack one of these apostles, your hand closed on a jelly-like slime which divided up and poured through your fingers, but in the next moment collected again. But if you really struck one of these fellows so telling a blow that, observed by the audience, he couldn't help but agree, and if you believed that this had taken you at least one step forward, your amazement was great the next day. The Jew had not the slightest recollection of the day before, he rattled off his same old nonsense as though nothing at all had happened, and, if indignantly challenged, affected amazement; he couldn't remember a thing, except that he had proved the correctness of his assertions the previous day. Sometimes I stood there thunderstruck. I didn't know what to be more amazed at: the agility of their tongues or their virtuosity at lying. Gradually I began to hate them.
stop calling me out!
 
A little anecdotal but it's my impression that people are doing jaunts to the USA less now because they're travelling less and preferring shorter and cheaper trips. Also, I knew people who would make the whole thing into a shopping trip - flying to New York for two days to go round all the shops and such. That is out for many people now.

This reply is for @Hey Johnny Bravo too. I think both might be ascribing too much of a political motive to just people either having less money or feeling financially less certain. Of course if holidays to Tokyo are up the same amount weekends in New York are down, I'll stand corrected but this is my impression.
From what I've heard through the grapevine educational conference attendance (for reference these can be 300-1000 dollar tickets depending on audience, E.g. professional or layperson) and flights are both down over the past 6 months or more and that was before the tariffs went into effect.
That suggests it is probably because people are having a tough financial time right now, or as you said are feeling uncertain, more than anything I think.
 
That, and we're the third most self-sufficient economy in the world. Nobody of any importance depends on trade less than we do.
The more we trade, the more retards decide they’re going to “make their own business” that consists of buying shit from China and passing it off on their fellow Americans while calling themselves an “American business”.
To add to the collection, here’s an ancestral portrait of Baron Chudwick Von Brunfaust the First, signatory of the Declaration of Mexican Putrescence
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Don't agree entirely, the Constitution and BOR list certain entitlements that the Founders hold to be self-evident and inviolable, thus implicitly "human rights".
The issue is that they never included anything that required the labor of others. "Human rights" are now held to include things like food, water, shelter, medical care, doodoo corpse-skin man-gina surgery, etc, which require the labor or property of others. While someone should never be prevented from obtaining food, water, shelter, and life-saving (lel or "life-affirming") medical care, they are not and should never be entitled to your belongings or labor. Creating this entitlement may help a few more people get food/water/shelter etc, but it essentially just shortens the path of least resistance and creates a gigantic burden on those few (read: white) people who don't continuously seek the path of least resistance in life. Essentially legally robbing them en masse.
A lot of influential political treatises (Lock, Rousseau, etc) were based around the idea of human action in the state of nature. That is, if we imagine the state of a human being in a primeval, pre-society setting, what does that tell us about things like inequality, labor, property, and human relations?

If we stick to that principle, it’s pretty obvious what is a “human right” and what is not. If I collect apples with my labor and effort, then they become mine and I can protect them. I can say whatever I want without punishment from an organized societal structure. I can believe what I want, religiously. I can protect myself from others committing violence and I can wield arms to that end. I can go about without being detained for no good reason. I can make agreements with others. I can raise my kids how I would like. And so on. These are all things antecedent to any organized society at all. They are fundamental, human rights because they do not depend on any particular form of governance or society.

But it makes no sense to say that I, in a state of nature, am entitled to housing. How would I obtain a house? Who would make it? In our imagined state of nature, it makes no sense to think that I would wake up with the sunrise and suddenly be confronted with a free tenement to live in. Same with healthcare. How would I get medical treatment from somebody else that does not want to give it to me? What if there’s nobody else to treat me? How can I consider something a human right when it’s not even likely that I could receive it in such a scenario? Same with food, tranny operations, or any other nonsense they bandy about as human rights.

A human right is something that exists outside society’s existence. It is personal and does not depend on another person being forced to do something. It remains the same whether we are living in the world of Star Trek or as cavemen. That is why freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and bearing arms are human rights. And it’s why it’s laughable to claim you have a right to force others to build houses for you, treat your medical issues, and give you good food.
 
The EPA is going after climate scientists for polluting the atmosphere:
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I wouldn’t necessarily call those guys climate scientists any more than people running bitcoin miners.

I followed them years ago out of interest after Neal Stephenson wrote a novel based around the same geoengineering technique.

The 20-30% reduction in shipping as a result of tariffs will dwarf whatever impact they had by orders of magnitude (in the other direction though, making it hotter).

They appeared on Bloomberg last week which I suspect got them more attention than they bargained for.


(Skip to 7:30 for a laugh)
 
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