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What’s really to keep states with ports from just taking over Customs, especially with doge firing and closing federal agencies? If the states control their ports they control what gets tagged for tariffs, or am I wrong?

No shit, Kim K would be an improvement over 99% of the current pics.

No, cause then Mike Johnson. And he is definitely gonna rename it to Gulf of Gilead.

Do you have some links to the California cases? Not doubting you, just curious about the details you came across.

Don’t states have extradition with each other? Or is that just on TV shows?

Me too

I hope I help stop it if/when I see it happen and don’t freeze up. But right now, I’m not where this is happening because I can’t drop everything and travel out of state.

I write and call my representatives. My social group is trying to stay aware and not ignore what’s going on.

When we traveled out of the country for the 1st admin, we got treated with suspicion until we said truthfully we voted for the Democratic Party options.

To be clear: People were great until they (usually) guessed we were Canadian, then we’d get side-eye when they found out we weren’t.

The difference in land border crossing experience into Canada got more overall hostile the further into 2018-19.

We haven’t traveled like that since Covid. But I imagine voicing your distaste for fascism is required in polite circles now. Saying you voted Kamala and for the Dems is a good short-hand, even if you recognize they aren’t anywhere close to Perfect-Good.

Ha, true! I burn easy, I hate missing a spot when applying sunscreen. For her sake, I hope it’s both.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn Grok is a cell of unpaid prisone… interns typing out responses.

Yeah, she really really pale, or coated in sunscreen.

Someone commented somewhere that I can’t find now… Trump as Plague (covid, firing bird flu, ebola teams), Putin as War, and Netanyahu as Death. With Doge also trying to end USAid, Snap, contracts and programs our farmers rely on, and Social Security… that tracks well for Famine.

I don’t believe in it, but the idea haunts me that people are trying to force it to happen.

I think they are counting on 2024 being our last elections.

Question: IF he were to surrender, would he be deported to the UK or to a South American prison?

If it’s the latter, can he cross into Canada and just go home for his safety?

I’m not saying he should, I’m asking what his options are.

For anyone else reading this phrase for the first time: “Stochastic terrorism is a form of political violence instigated by hostile public rhetoric directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism, stochastic terrorism is accomplished with indirect, vague or coded language, which grants the instigator plausible deniability for any associated violence.[1] A key element of stochastic terrorism is the use of media for propagation, where the person carrying out the violence may not have direct connection to any other users of violent rhetoric.” - Wikipedia

While I agree public transport would be better in most places. And wholeheartedly believe Elon is not the solution and is instead actively harming untold millions directly and indirectly…

I can’t help but be reminded of a conversation I had with my Dad years ago. He thought Tesla’s time frame of having charging stations across the US within 5 years to support cross country driving was impossible. And that Tesla would go under and the other car makers would ignore EV. I believed it would happen, that pure EVs would become normal, all of the car companies woyld make them, and be easier to charge. We agreed to disagree.

Now, there are EV F150 pickup trucks and a ton more charging stations. I thought there would be more hybrids first because oil is profitable. And the Prius was gaining a little foothold.

My point is that there has been a huge shift away from depending totally on gas based cars in a relatively short period of time. And small groups of people can make a positive difference. In this case Elon was the face of this change at it’s height.

My city has electric buses now, in the South. People finally started believing EVs could be viable.

However… helping EVs by encouraging the EV idea isn’t going to be what Elon will be remembered for - it’ll all the hubris,> damage, and needless death.

Unless we lose our country and history is rewritten.

I really wish he’d just stuck to talking up Tesla instead of becoming a badly written Bond Villain.

Too much chin to generation no chin

If they know something we don’t then whatever that is needs sunlight poured on it. Keeping it in the dark only undermines the fight for the Constitution and does more harm.

Either tell the truth and fight in the light. Or suck it up and fight for what’s right - even if the person you are fighting for isn’t perfect.

What if you have one fat cat and one skinny cat? …oh wait, the fat one rules us all… must go give her a treat in penance for forgetting that for a moment.

OMG - that’s the same printer we have… it’s the only one that still works!!

Some of the plastic pieces have gotten brittle and broken - I’ve been trying to figure out how to 3-D print replacements. (they broke before 3D printing was a thing and I don’t have the broken bits anymore)

I’ve replaced the rollers once and serviced it myself over the years.

It’s valuable enough to fight over it when my Last Will and Testament is read… If there’s a fire, save the people, save the cats, save that 1998 printer - the rest can burn and be replaced.