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He hates competition.

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He doesn't watch movies, he doesn't read books, he doesn't listen to music. He probably heard one of the BCP guys refer to a border area as a sector.

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"By noon, he'll have ordered a missile strike on the judge's house."

I am not a doctor of rhetoric or anything else, but that sounds kind of threat-like to me. I like it.

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Courts are standing up, Congress needs to do better imo.

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and when this is all over and The Rule Of Law is restored Sally Quinn And The Ladies-That-Lunch will simply act as if the whole thing never happened.

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Oddly enough, our conservative politicians here in Australia are taking the same attitude. They don't say outright "We don't have the room," but they are behaving as if we don't, with high consistency -- towards asylum seekers anyway. Why, we don't even have room for detention centres on the Australian mainland and have to intern people in Sobibor, I mean the Pacific, Manus Island, Christmas Island, and Papua New Guinea, bribing those not too affluent nations for the purpose.Makes sense. Australia is the smallest continent on the planet, after all, and we have over TWENTY-FIVE MILLION PEOPLE already! Obviously we're crowded to an insane degree.I'm sick to the guts.

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Judge Flores better watch his ass. He's made a dangerous enemy in Donald J. Trump. Remember what he did to that Mexican judge in the Trump University case?

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Trump hires based on how much the person resembles a character in that job on a teevee show. Stephen Miller stays behind the scenes, because even Trump can see he looks like a pervy predator on Law and Order: SVU.

When Benson and Stabler find the entrance to the secret room in his house, you just know before they go through the door that it's going to be a torture chamber.

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I am with the Wonketeriat in general and I think we can take all the asylum seekers and ecomomic migrants into the US., The problem of filling the white space in the West is not room, but water. It is running out. All over the West population centers and ag are taking water from local areas or exhausting ancient aquifers that do not recharge quickly. The central valley in California where all the veggies are grown is sinking from having the water under it pumped out by ever-deeper wells. In the Antelope Valley, the Indian Wells Valley and the Owens Valley, alfalfa and pistachios are draing the aquifers. The Owens River goes to LA in the aqueduct. Similar conditons obtain in most of the US west of the Big Muddy, If we stop wasting water on alfalfa shipped to Saudi Arabia, snack foods and lawns in Bel Air, the West may have a future.

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"He just wants to separate families."

I've read Dante's Inferno and I swear to G-d, experiencing all the rings of hell plus the individual Bolgia at the same time is not enough punishment.

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I am writing a lawsplainer on the Flores Consent Agreement, with a sidebar on why there needs to be a new ring of hell created for this thing and its minions. Debating posting the link here, if allowed.

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He didn't, goddammit. He found a case that he couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt. I'm not trying to single you out, but the degree of black and white thinking I'm seeing on this issue just shits me.

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I have told many Trump cultists that I would happily drop their worthless fat asses in Tegucigalpa and take honest, hardworking families back on the helicopter. Just sayin'.

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One of my maternal great-uncles was a passenger. He made it to Britain, but oh, trust, my family remembers.

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Heaven doesn't want her, hell's afraid she'll take over

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I'd like to read it.

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