3452

On a personal level, I can see this being tough. Many/most of these guys have been BP for years. Was they gestapo under Obama? Under Bush or Clinton? The role of BP has changed so dramatically in few short years. I can’t imagine it’s easy to just up and quit now, with the economic realities of that.

Now, any one who signs up for BP, today, I’d say is more likely than gestapo-esque.

3453

I mean, yes, lol

3454

I’d say it’s been trending that way for years, decades even. But the worst is still ICE, but since 9/11 they have pointed in this direction.

However they had some restraint, or at least were not so open about the cruelty. However Trump has unleashed the worst in them. What may have been held back, or done quietly, before is now done with glee in the open.

3455
3456

We’re the shining city on the hill behind the shitty fence.

3457

But it will keep out the truly evil, the mothers and children.

3458

Good segment by John Oliver. I wish every Trump supporter had to watch this.

Fun fact: The Indian women doing the interview worked with me at Intel.

3459

I really should watch him more often.

One of the challenges with immigration is there are a lot of people that believe that anyone, anyone who comes into this country takes things from other people. I do not largely believe this, but when Disney comes out with their stories of forcing their IT staff to train workers brought in to do their jobs while they’re being told they don’t have skills Disney wants to pay for, it create an almost permanent dislike for that entire system that the Democrats largely… ignore, and the Republicans use to do as they’ve been doing. That is clearly the employment piece, not the family and the refugee/humanitarian options.

3460

Better than schools for veteran’s kids for sure.

3461
3462

Oh wow, with some GOP Senators defecting, is the dam starting to crack?

3463

Is a simple majority vote sufficient?

3464
3465

So McConnell made a meaningless, political gesture so a handful of threatened Republican senators can say to their constituents, “See? I stood up to Trump! That one time.”

3466

I would hope that after this shit storm of presidency. There would a bipartisan call to rewrite all of the powers that Congress has given to the executive branch to require Congressional approval not disapproval.

President want to send troop somewhere or a bomb another country. That’s within the President’s power but after 30 or 90 day, you have come back to Congress to get explicit approval. Same thing with putting on tariffs, declaring a national emergency to fund a stupid ass wall or host of other things.

I just don’t understand how Trump is able to veto something like spending that is so clearly within the Congress congressional power.

3467

And most importantly: the President of the US can be indicted for crimes committed before or during his/her Presidency.

3468

I can’t imagine there being anything bipartisan after this shitstorm of a Presidency. Actually, yes, the Democrats will start trusting and believing what their Republican cohorts say again and those GOP politicians will keep lying and fucking this country up.

3469

I’m less pessimistic. After Nixon there was rare retrenchment in the power of the Imperial Presidency. This should be a bipartisan effort reflect the powers of their institutions, having seen how badly the checks and balance failed.

3470

That requires them to admit that checks and balances failed, though – and that the downfall of the grafter-in-chief was something other than a deep state takeover.

I just don’t have any faith in that. These people are not going to crawl back under the rock.

3471

I think the Republican just have to be able to read the polls, and realize these constrains against them Presidency are very likely to apply to Democratic presidency first. I worry about how to get the Democrats on board.