Republicans warn Democrats' ICE reform push is cover to defund border enforcement

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and congressional Democrats unveiled their revamped list of demands for DHS funding, but Senate Republicans aren't taking many of the asks seriously.

Source: Republicans warn Democrats' ICE reform push is cover to defund border enforcement

Quote from: Garraty_47 on February 06, 2026, 08:28:50 PMThat's by design.
For only one of many instances: Cuba has been blockaded and heavily sanctioned by the USA and its vassals for literally generations. We initiated multiple assassination attempts on Fidel Castro. The USA invaded and still illegally occupies a portion of Cuba (Gitmo) where we've conducted and no doubt still conduct heinous human rights abuses. Despite all of that compare Cuba's literacy rate, infant mortality rate, average life expectancy, etc. to the USA.

'Murica is like a brat who intentionally breaks a toy then complains that the manufacturer's brand sucks because the toy doesn't work.

/shrug

Embargos have nothing to do with it. Until the dissolution of the USSR Havana lived off welfare from the Kremlin. They did not want private investment and competitive industries. The collapse of  the Soviet Union forced Cuba to open it's economy and build real industry and it started with Canadian investors building the tourism industry.

Now that Cuba allows some free eneterprise, let's look at life expectancy of Cubans who work for British and Canadian resorts with Cubans who work in backwards state owned enterprises. Guess which ones enjoy a higher quality of life and longer life expectancy.

My folks defected from Ukraine USSR in 1964 through Hungary and Austria and eventually to Canada. They couldn't believe how much better Hungarians lived because Budapest allowed some free enterprise.

Communism has never worked anywhere and never will. Hundreds of millions of East Europeans, Chinks, and Vietnamese will think you West European types are crazy for not learning from history.

Quote from: Reggie Essent on February 06, 2026, 04:03:28 PMIt's just I've never seen a collectivist state or a non-market, non-capitalist economy work anywhere it's been tried.

That's by design.
For only one of many instances: Cuba has been blockaded and heavily sanctioned by the USA and its vassals for literally generations. We initiated multiple assassination attempts on Fidel Castro. The USA invaded and still illegally occupies a portion of Cuba (Gitmo) where we've conducted and no doubt still conduct heinous human rights abuses. Despite all of that compare Cuba's literacy rate, infant mortality rate, average life expectancy, etc. to the USA.

'Murica is like a brat who intentionally breaks a toy then complains that the manufacturer's brand sucks because the toy doesn't work.

/shrug

now just imagine sewer major and/or that drooling hyena X attempting to inject themselves into this conversational flow between Garraty_47 and Reggie Essent? The multi syllables in the word choices alone would have those two turnips exploding like claymores  -- let alone try to understand conceptually what these two are on about? 

Quote from: Garraty_47 on February 06, 2026, 02:40:31 AMI strongly disagree and decline to argue about it.
It's neither my job nor my inclination to disabuse individuals of their various delusions about capitalism, collectivism, or any other ideology. I ain't mad about it... different people have different opinions and I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with that.

I ain't trying to argue with you. It's just sometimes I feel the need to expound universal and unassailable truths. You are perfectly free to believe in collectivist fairytales.  It's just I've never seen a collectivist state or a non-market, non-capitalist economy work anywhere it's been tried.  But hey, if at first you don't succeed, right?

There is some truth in your jibes regarding the undue influence of corporatism in our political system as well as your ideas regarding a "uniparty" where there's no essential difference between the established political parties. Though that idea seems a bit dated since the Tea Party morphed into the rise of Trump.

Quote from: Marvin on February 06, 2026, 03:23:27 PMhis best friends and teachers off/online the last 20 years have been/are Dilf and Weeg. Need I say any more?

both of which are capable wordsmiths and luminaries by comparison to this drooling troglodyte

Quote from: Lokmar on February 06, 2026, 03:11:39 PMThe fukin idiocy is astounding.

his best friends and teachers off/online the last 20 years have been/are Dilf and Weeg. Need I say any more?

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on February 06, 2026, 03:02:19 PMisn't it just amazing? how this stunted area rug will try to tell you what it is that you see and don't see with your own two eyes?

As if you are bound by universal law to give yourself a frontal lobotomy just so that you can see the world from his point of view.

Watching this guy drone on about Jews is literally tantamount to watching a rape in progress where the victim is yelling out in a frantic tone about the fallacies of the moon landing   -- it defies even the most basic common sense

The fukin idiocy is astounding.

Quote from: Lokmar on February 06, 2026, 01:17:49 PMYea, and I'm sure my dads dad told me nothing but whoppers from when he was island hopping all over the S. Pacific, witnessing the brutality of the fukin japs. 

Your gaslighting skills are the absolute worst.

isn't it just amazing? how this stunted area rug will try to tell you what it is that you see and don't see with your own two eyes?

As if you are bound by universal law to give yourself a frontal lobotomy just so that you can see the world from his point of view.

Watching this guy drone on about Jews is literally tantamount to watching a rape in progress where the victim is yelling out in a frantic tone about the fallacies of the moon landing   -- it defies even the most basic common sense

Quote from: Aryan on February 06, 2026, 12:46:08 PMSeething Smiles, you really are living upto that new nickname of yours. 

So, now you're claiming that England is a "sorry excuse of a nation"? That's funny, coming from a Mestizo. Everyone knows that south America is glorious and definitely not third world tier! LOL

You aren't making any sense. What does "do something" actually mean, if you aren't alluding to going rogue and using unconventional methods to fight globohomo? The ballot box is not going to stop their replacement agenda, Brexit taught us that.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt here and pretend that it doesn't seem like you're using the tired old kike diversionary tactic of slurring anyone who has a problem with jews as being jealous of their "success", most of which has been achieved through chronic nepotism and other underhand tactics, I might add.

No Ma'am, I am doing more than simply claiming that England has become a "sorry excuse of a nation" I am announcing the type of observable reality which anyone with an IQ of 70 or higher can see with their own eyes that seems to consistently float comfortably above your teepee shaped head.

Once upon a time perhaps, your countrymen may have been a tribe of valor, gumption and grit, but those days have long since past and you are now but a distant and hollow shell of your former selves. there may be 1 in 1000 that have what your forefathers boasted about -- if I am being generous. You know it, I know it and the greater community knows it, But most importantly, the goat fucking heathens who still fight with world war II era weaponry know it and have sought to make you clowns the target of their next conquest.

Hence my reference to the brave sailors on the HMS Hood turning over in their graves at the mice you sorry saps have become.

ouch.

There is a difference between what I am saying and what you think you are reading. Maybe It's too subtle for retards and perhaps far too nuanced for someone with your lower order brain power to grasp but the difference is there,  is very pronounced and if you happened to not be a stunted, brain damaged mutant suffering from generations of ancestral inbreeding perhaps you would get it.

This point is especially driven home when the best you can offer as a rebuttal to all of my salient points  is to pin your hopes on a happenstance that isn't even happening in an area of the world I have no ancestral ties to whatsoever.

And if you truly believe otherwise and have the facts to support it -- AND if you are not too preoccupied washing BF's underwear or swapping out the urinal cakes with your teeth you might feel inclined to regale all of us with some inspiring commentary on which south American country exactly is it that is eagerly assuming a position on all fours to allow arab invaders unfetted access their corn-holes the way you girly men across the pond are doing in your own sorry excuse for a nation