"China isn’t stupid, and has been working for years to increase its influence on the African continent. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is . . . stupid, mind numbingly stupid." FIFY
It's not just the participants in the events that should be worried. What about the fans? Any brown/black fans, doing crimes - like waving a "foreign" flag - are all going to be scooped up by ICE. It's going to be the perfect opportunity for them to hit their quotas.
I don't know the make up of LA's city government, but it would be interesting if they get to the point that they tell the Trump administration that if they don't knock this shit off they are going to tell the Olympics that they are officially declining to hold the games in their city in 2028 and Trump isn't going to get to use it as the platform he so dearly wants it to be.
And then World Cup might just decide that, you know what?, the US doesn't get to host any of THEIR games, either. What with it being so hostile to basically everyone, but especially foreign visitors.
Donald is apparently paying back what the private prisons gave him for his campaign by snatching Black and brown people off the streets to fill THOSE prisons (you remember how POTUS Joe wrote an executive order banning them but Donald revoked it?) and using your tax dollars to do it ...
... so that those private prisons can profit and make their money back that they donated to his campaign
Texbook quid pro quo corruption - and Mary Trump has a full report
When you pledge to get rid of 12 million undocumented rapists and murderers, and you realize that's hard, because there aren't nearly that many of them, and you don't want to admit there are proportionally more white, native ones anyway, you just make the numbers by going to where the brown people are and picking them all up.
Tl;dr - we're governed by a lazy, incompetent bunch of chickenshit Chads.
Also harder when you have reports of Miller yelling at people to NOT go looking for the "rapists and murderers" and just go where they can kidnap people easily. Especially the ones who haven't done anything wrong because they aren't in hiding like the handful that are actually committing crimes.
This is a terrifying addendum to what you just said
Donald is apparently paying back what the private prisons gave him for his campaign by snatching Black and brown people off the streets to fill THOSE prisons (you remember how POTUS Joe wrote an executive order banning them but Donald revoked it?) and using your tax dollars to do it ...
... so that those private prisons can profit and make their money back that they donated to his campaign
Texbook quid pro quo corruption - and Mary Trump has a full report
Here's a serious question: Who are all these ICE Nazis? Are they new hires? Are they contractors? Have they been infesting Federal departments all along? There are some serious cleanups that need to happen.
I'd say many of them are JanSixers who lost their jobs, trump-humpin' loyalists, and probably Kyle Rittenhouse somewhere in there because he can't get a job and no college will take him.
This comment is not about the Dodgers, but about the Miller/Trump banning of Senegalese athletes and Senegal's turn to China in response.
From spring 1974 through the end of 1979 — including 2 years during a time of famine, pestilence and drought when my primary residence was a thatch-roofed mud hut in a small village far from electricity or running water and my main food was porridge made of sorghum and field corn from USAID — the main focus of my life was rural and agricultural development in Senegal. My M.S. in agricultural economics is on smallholder farming systems in the Senegal River Valley. I was once reasonably fluent in Pulaar and had a working command of Wolof. My oldest daughter is named after a little girl I knew there.
In addition to living & working among traditional farmers, I got to know Senegalese agronomists who had studied in France or the USA and who were now working at agricultural research stations. At those stations you could find, in addition to the Senegalese, of course, specialists from France, the Netherlands, England, USA -- with the occasional visitor from exotic Asia or South America. Everybody blended in. We were all working to use proven methods to increase agricultural output and improve the lives of the people of the Senegal River Valley region.
Everybody except the Chinese that is, who had their own research station and refused to mix with anybody else. The upper echelon politicians in Senegal dealt with the Chinese, but the people on the ground out in the remote regions of the country thought they were aloof, weird, and a bit scary. The Chinese, in those years, were frankly, a laughing stock.
One of my proudest moments came when I overheard one Senegalese peasant farmer say this about Americans to another Senegalese farmer (in Pulaar): "Ehbay nyam ko yimbay nyam; ehbay halla ko yimbay halla." They eat what the people eat; they speak [the language] the people speak.
The people of Senegal that I knew in those days were emphatically pro-America. The government was too, so far as I was able to tell. In any event they welcomed US Navy ships to Dakar, one of the very few deep water ports on the entire continent.
Senegal is a small, poor country, but that is not so say it doesn't have anything of value to offer the US other than access to a deep water port. The cultures of Senegal and France have strongly interacted with each other, and Senegalese culture (and Franco-Senegalese culture) has worldwide influence. The visual artists, novelists, filmmakers, philosophers, musicians, athletes, and cooks of Senegal, among others, are the equal of their counterparts from anywhere else on our planet. Senegal poses no threat to the USA, nor do Senegalese people pose any greater threat than people from anywhere else. I thus conclude that the reason for the Miller/Trump regime to gratuitously insult Senegal is simply racism and Islamophobia.
It's hard to overstate how much goodwill that the Senegalese people bear towards the people of the USA is being pissed away by the obscene, racist actions of the Miller/Trump administration. Goodwill which I did my tiny part to grow, at no small cost to myself, I dare to add.
To see Senegal now turning to China instead of the USA infuriates me, frankly. But more than that it breaks my heart.
To follow on to the pissing away of goodwill, it is the height of idiocy to start threatening to start another war in the Middle East while simultaneously fucking over the people who immigrated here after helping the US in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Trump is ensuring that NO ONE local will ever assist the US in the Middle East for at least a decade and likely much longer. Because who wants to help a nation that promises it will keep you safe from retaliation afterward, only to renege on that promise?
I know that if I were a Middle Eastern local, I'd think "yeah I may not like my government, but I'm not going to help these Americans and get myself and my family tortured and killed when they either leave me behind or send me back here afterward"
When I arrived in Senegal to begin my training as a Peace Corps Volunteer I was given a grade of 4 out of 5 in French on the FSI ('Foreign Service Institute') scale: "Fluent; non native." A couple of years later I ran into a lost French guy on the streets of Dakar and was able to provide instructions to where he was trying to go. It turned out somehow he knew some people I knew, and word got back to me about what he said of our encounter: "I met this American guy who gave me directions. He understood me perfectly and spoke French really well. With the most horrible Senegalese accent you can imagine."
Incidentally, it was because I was already pretty much fluent in French that I was given instruction in both Wolof and Pulaar. Most American Peace Corps Volunteers didn't know French, so they were given instruction in French and Wolof. Because I already knew French I was able to pick up 2 African languages, not just the typical one (which, in Senegal, is Wolof).
Good Lord. That means we'll get "The American Games".
Foot and base balls, mostly. Maybe basketball, but, you know..
No swimmin' or dancin' or vollyballin' guys,
but they'll make up some sweaty gladiator sports to stretch it to three days.
Lots of spangles.
I swear Trump's goons are not ready for the shitstorm they will unleash upon themselves if they fuck up Hololive night on July 5th.
"China isn’t stupid, and has been working for years to increase its influence on the African continent. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is . . . stupid, mind numbingly stupid." FIFY
can someone adopt a Granddaughter? cause I would like to adopt this brave singer!
"We would be completely unsurprised if either the Olympics or the World Cup get pulled from the US. We wouldn’t even deny that we deserve it."
And I would say this should absolutely happen. The athletes (and their fans) will not be safe here.
Sports. Sports? Sports!
https://youtu.be/QjL7D33xpS4?si=Zh-fz4mgeNKhG9V_
It's not just the participants in the events that should be worried. What about the fans? Any brown/black fans, doing crimes - like waving a "foreign" flag - are all going to be scooped up by ICE. It's going to be the perfect opportunity for them to hit their quotas.
And the people who work the concession stands/restaurants.
"And leave those damn vuvuzelas at home!"
Hit and *surpass* their quotas! Then ICE Barbie can go on the teevee to brag about what a bumper crop of "illegals" they'd harvested.
I don't know the make up of LA's city government, but it would be interesting if they get to the point that they tell the Trump administration that if they don't knock this shit off they are going to tell the Olympics that they are officially declining to hold the games in their city in 2028 and Trump isn't going to get to use it as the platform he so dearly wants it to be.
And then World Cup might just decide that, you know what?, the US doesn't get to host any of THEIR games, either. What with it being so hostile to basically everyone, but especially foreign visitors.
FIFA could release a statement they were pulling the World Cup because Chump's too corrupt for them.
Day-um!
And if President Golfcart McChucklefuck (thank you, Jeff Tiedrich) is too corrupt for FIFA, of all things, that's, uh...eyebrow-raising.
MAGA is really trying to make everyone hate America as much as they do.
We wouldn’t even deny that we deserve it.
How do we campaign _for_ it?
"Clay Travis calls for an ICE raid at Dodger Stadium:
"Could you imagine if they did an ICE raid in the parking lot of the LA Dodgers stadium... That would be kind of amazing.""
Hands OVER the table, Clay!
I love sports and international competition, but I think other countries' athletes should absolutely not come to the US for the World Cup or Olympics.
Athletes? What about the fans? I couldn’t imagine any of them would feel safe.
I am hoping hard that we lose the World Cup and Olympics.
That's gonna be a pretty boring Olympics...
So this is horrible
Donald is apparently paying back what the private prisons gave him for his campaign by snatching Black and brown people off the streets to fill THOSE prisons (you remember how POTUS Joe wrote an executive order banning them but Donald revoked it?) and using your tax dollars to do it ...
... so that those private prisons can profit and make their money back that they donated to his campaign
Texbook quid pro quo corruption - and Mary Trump has a full report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gOywBo1xPo
𝐏𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐄 - everyone needs to know about this
PREACH!
When you pledge to get rid of 12 million undocumented rapists and murderers, and you realize that's hard, because there aren't nearly that many of them, and you don't want to admit there are proportionally more white, native ones anyway, you just make the numbers by going to where the brown people are and picking them all up.
Tl;dr - we're governed by a lazy, incompetent bunch of chickenshit Chads.
Also harder when you have reports of Miller yelling at people to NOT go looking for the "rapists and murderers" and just go where they can kidnap people easily. Especially the ones who haven't done anything wrong because they aren't in hiding like the handful that are actually committing crimes.
This is a terrifying addendum to what you just said
Donald is apparently paying back what the private prisons gave him for his campaign by snatching Black and brown people off the streets to fill THOSE prisons (you remember how POTUS Joe wrote an executive order banning them but Donald revoked it?) and using your tax dollars to do it ...
... so that those private prisons can profit and make their money back that they donated to his campaign
Texbook quid pro quo corruption - and Mary Trump has a full report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gOywBo1xPo
Here's a serious question: Who are all these ICE Nazis? Are they new hires? Are they contractors? Have they been infesting Federal departments all along? There are some serious cleanups that need to happen.
I'd say many of them are JanSixers who lost their jobs, trump-humpin' loyalists, and probably Kyle Rittenhouse somewhere in there because he can't get a job and no college will take him.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h91ZAOg4Z1Q
This comment is not about the Dodgers, but about the Miller/Trump banning of Senegalese athletes and Senegal's turn to China in response.
From spring 1974 through the end of 1979 — including 2 years during a time of famine, pestilence and drought when my primary residence was a thatch-roofed mud hut in a small village far from electricity or running water and my main food was porridge made of sorghum and field corn from USAID — the main focus of my life was rural and agricultural development in Senegal. My M.S. in agricultural economics is on smallholder farming systems in the Senegal River Valley. I was once reasonably fluent in Pulaar and had a working command of Wolof. My oldest daughter is named after a little girl I knew there.
In addition to living & working among traditional farmers, I got to know Senegalese agronomists who had studied in France or the USA and who were now working at agricultural research stations. At those stations you could find, in addition to the Senegalese, of course, specialists from France, the Netherlands, England, USA -- with the occasional visitor from exotic Asia or South America. Everybody blended in. We were all working to use proven methods to increase agricultural output and improve the lives of the people of the Senegal River Valley region.
Everybody except the Chinese that is, who had their own research station and refused to mix with anybody else. The upper echelon politicians in Senegal dealt with the Chinese, but the people on the ground out in the remote regions of the country thought they were aloof, weird, and a bit scary. The Chinese, in those years, were frankly, a laughing stock.
One of my proudest moments came when I overheard one Senegalese peasant farmer say this about Americans to another Senegalese farmer (in Pulaar): "Ehbay nyam ko yimbay nyam; ehbay halla ko yimbay halla." They eat what the people eat; they speak [the language] the people speak.
The people of Senegal that I knew in those days were emphatically pro-America. The government was too, so far as I was able to tell. In any event they welcomed US Navy ships to Dakar, one of the very few deep water ports on the entire continent.
Senegal is a small, poor country, but that is not so say it doesn't have anything of value to offer the US other than access to a deep water port. The cultures of Senegal and France have strongly interacted with each other, and Senegalese culture (and Franco-Senegalese culture) has worldwide influence. The visual artists, novelists, filmmakers, philosophers, musicians, athletes, and cooks of Senegal, among others, are the equal of their counterparts from anywhere else on our planet. Senegal poses no threat to the USA, nor do Senegalese people pose any greater threat than people from anywhere else. I thus conclude that the reason for the Miller/Trump regime to gratuitously insult Senegal is simply racism and Islamophobia.
It's hard to overstate how much goodwill that the Senegalese people bear towards the people of the USA is being pissed away by the obscene, racist actions of the Miller/Trump administration. Goodwill which I did my tiny part to grow, at no small cost to myself, I dare to add.
To see Senegal now turning to China instead of the USA infuriates me, frankly. But more than that it breaks my heart.
For any who may be interested, here's an essay about one extraordinary experience I had when I was living in that small village in Senegal so long ago: https://open.substack.com/pub/johnsundman/p/the-dark-side-of-the-hut-50-years?r=38b5x&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Fascinating travelogue, thanks.
To follow on to the pissing away of goodwill, it is the height of idiocy to start threatening to start another war in the Middle East while simultaneously fucking over the people who immigrated here after helping the US in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Trump is ensuring that NO ONE local will ever assist the US in the Middle East for at least a decade and likely much longer. Because who wants to help a nation that promises it will keep you safe from retaliation afterward, only to renege on that promise?
I know that if I were a Middle Eastern local, I'd think "yeah I may not like my government, but I'm not going to help these Americans and get myself and my family tortured and killed when they either leave me behind or send me back here afterward"
talking to immigrants from Senegal is one of very few times i was able to make use of taking French in high school.
When I arrived in Senegal to begin my training as a Peace Corps Volunteer I was given a grade of 4 out of 5 in French on the FSI ('Foreign Service Institute') scale: "Fluent; non native." A couple of years later I ran into a lost French guy on the streets of Dakar and was able to provide instructions to where he was trying to go. It turned out somehow he knew some people I knew, and word got back to me about what he said of our encounter: "I met this American guy who gave me directions. He understood me perfectly and spoke French really well. With the most horrible Senegalese accent you can imagine."
i became briefly acquainted with a guy named Bienvenu. never had the courage to ask him how he spelled it.
Incidentally, it was because I was already pretty much fluent in French that I was given instruction in both Wolof and Pulaar. Most American Peace Corps Volunteers didn't know French, so they were given instruction in French and Wolof. Because I already knew French I was able to pick up 2 African languages, not just the typical one (which, in Senegal, is Wolof).
This post should get more likes.
It makes me literally grind my teeth to read this.