@Chantfire Kiyosaki was unsuccessful until he sold lots of books about how to get rich. That's where he got his money, not through businesses, real estate, other investing, or anything else he writes about. It doesn't surprise me that he would exhibit such tendencies.
@SeasonedRP Further evidence that you're going wayy off in the direction of cheering for and supporting corrupt law enforcement and militarization of police duties.
Prosecutors rather quietly dropped numerous felony charges against protesters at the event that "justified the need to send Federal troops to "protect" Los Angeles because local law enforcement was getting helplessly overrun."
Turns out that video and other evidence either doesn't support, or directly contradicts, officer claims and accounts of events leading to these arrests. One protester was charged with felonies for allegedly shoving a police officer. Video of the incident clearly showed the POLICE OFFICER shoving the protester unprovoked, then officers taking him down and arresting him. Another incident the officers claimed was part of this incident, turned out happened at a different time and location than the above. An officer, once again unprovoked, shoved a female protester. She raised her hand in defense, then got piled on and arrested by numerous officers in plentiful body armor. Her sister briefly touched the shoulder of one of the officers on top of the woman, and she was also taken down and arrested for obstruction and assault on an officer.
THIS... THIS is the kind of behavior you support, embolden, and amplify, when you passively accept the militarization of law enforcement, and side with the cops against what you probably assume are "leftist protesters."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/doj-la-protesters-false-claims
Read MoreWhat you fail to mention is that California refuses to cooperate with, and attempts to thwart, ICE, and ICE said ahead of time if you do that, we're taking in everyone we find. And they are. Good.
I'll mention it specifically, please try to address in good faith yourself.
California isn't so much "supporting the illegals " as "Upholding due process and rule of law" by openly not aiding and abetting ICE's bypassing and disregard of same.
You're proudly saying GOOD to normalizing militarization of law enforcement and tossing away of the very constitutional rights that made America stand out from authoritarian countries and ideologies. Only a fool thinks they are safe from these authoritarian forces even turning against themselves, and finding there exists no recourse after its far too late.
Read More@SeasonedRP in strictly economic terms, ICE raids amount to hacking at the downstream branches of economic evil, while leaving intact the ruling class economic roots.
One misses the big picture by focusing on Hurr durr get the illegals out. Economic exploitation and wealth transfer to upper classes forms a deeply entrenched vertical industry. This benefits the wealthiest class at every stage. From exploiting resources in foreign lands, which helps drive immigration to US, Which further enriches employers, and hedge fund owned rent prices, while driving down wages both domestically and in aforementioned foreign countries, which further gets exploited by capital and rent seeking classes. America is speed running towards Weimar Republic conditions, and our working classes only help that process by adopting ruling class values and scapegoating immigrants on an individual level, when they are as much pawns and victims of the same exploitation as American workers.
Be careful about taking the bait to punch down on powerless immigrants, but thus never punching UP at entities like hedge funds and large companies that exported jobs, drove down wages, and bought up much existing housing inventory.
Read More@SeasonedRP did you see video of the vote in question? Do you have any good explanation for the speaker's blatant attempt to reframe an obvious AYE consensus as The Nos have it"?
@MentORPHEUS You think Mike's really MAGA? He's uniparty. He'd know that DOJ likely doesn't have anything sensational on Epstein. It would be in some CIA operative's brain. People don't make files for things like that.
@MentORPHEUS They would hire Americans if there weren't a massive illegal population, unless the laws of supply and demand somehow don't apply in the labor market. What you fail to mention is that California refuses to cooperate with, and attempts to thwart, ICE, and ICE said ahead of time if you do that, we're taking in everyone we find. And they are. Good. Don't pretend to be some friend of the working man if you support flooding the labor market with illegals.
The racist angle doesn't work anymore. Say it all you want, no one cares.
Americans used to do all those jobs that illegals do now, but wages were better then too.
Let me know when stoop labor on farms, and grunt work in industries like construction and meat packing, actually starts paying "wages Americans are willing to work for" much less actually starts HIRING Americans lining up for these jobs.
Meanwhile, promises that "ICE is only going after the worst of the worst criminals" are not playing out in reality. The big Human Trafficking task force was recently broken up, to provide more agents to chase brown people on farms, swap meets, and Home Depot parking lots, and hold them in private equity money milking prisons without due process. Polls are increasingly returning numbers of "That's not what we voted for!" on these actual practices.
Read More@Typo-MAGAshiv Labor's share of gross national income has declined over the decades and is quite low now. It's not solely due to illegal immigration but that plays a substantial role. Slavery, the women's movement, and illegal immigration were all aimed at the same objective: keeping downward pressure on wages. Americans used to do all those jobs that illegals do now, but wages were better then too. When I was growing up, it was common for boys to work construction jobs in the summer and make good money. You don't see as much of that now.
