Wait....I drink a line by the gallon? Probably better if you don't try to use metaphors, buddy. You don't know how.

Trump's plan? Working? Which one?
His plan to start a depression and epidemic concurrently, making America less appealing?
Or his plan to deny entry to even unaccompanied minors, leaving them alone in Mexico, ripe for abuse with no protections?

You know Biden is continuing the rest of the Trump plan so far, only letting unaccompanied minors across into refugee camps....like Trump did until he caught flack for caging them and denying it....don't you? Probably not. OANN isn't telling you that, and you abdicated your ability to think for yourself long ago.
No one opened the border. You're being lied to again by the same asshats that convinced you of the election fraud fraud. Why do you keep begging them to mislead you? Why do you so enjoy being a misinformed idiot, Bob?

It's odd you aren't complaining about caging them in over crowded camps (which I see as an abject failure by Biden's administration)...perhaps you can foresee the ridicule you might get for complaining about the same thing you defended Trump over?

If Trump's failed fence worked at all, there wouldn't be any making it....but it doesn't work at all....it's usually less secure than what it replaced. It can be cut through in minutes with battery operated grinders and takes days to repair. Some fell down from wind. Almost any section can be pulled down with a car and a chain in seconds. He removed imperfect barriers in favor of useless fencing, making it easy to drive truckloads of anything across the border at will. Thanks Trump....great plan.

I would admit, Biden isn't doing better at preparing for the numbers of refugee children, and he hasn't changed policy much beyond not abandoning children to the cartel sex trade, but treating refugee children like refugee children and not like criminal lowlifes is a step in the right direction. Now we need the infrastructure to handle them. For the money wasted on Trump's legacy fence we could have built it already and could have a functioning immigration system, but Trump had to have that fence....that Mexico didn't pay for.

Note, the main reason people are coming is narco terrorism, created by the war on drugs and made exponentially worse when Trump cut international funding to fight it when his ass wasn't properly kissed by other country's leaders. End the failed war on drugs and use that money to fight organised crime in central America and the flood will be a trickle overnight. Of course, the right has no interest in that, and ignore the evidence of how well decriminalization works.

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I wonder if she could ever be considered for "right of asylum" considering what she is going through. It's very easy to me, with the Chinese connection (not only the laws, but the slavers too) to the whole, "...we don't want girls born here...", dilemma in the populace due too political laws enacted there--I mean just listen to her Father (just call back and get him documented) let alone the documented death threats that have been made against her. It seems like any decent lawyer could try to justify this as a political matter rather than just a sex-trade/slave-trade one. But I'm SURE their there are idiotic politicians willing to jump in front of a bus and tell them that there is no way it will be considered under the "right of asylum" act, because they aren't a nuclear scientist coming from Iran. Pathetic.

No matter the case this is obviously a case of leniency and JUSTICE. But, when is the last time you've TRULY seen justice being handed out on a daily basis--right now we are lucky if we win just ONE victory every so often--call me jaded.

>> ^Quboid:
I'm just back from a few days there. This video is utterly one sided as well and pretty pictures do nothing to dispel the claim that the drug and sex trades are run by criminals. In the seedier areas, I've wondered where my money ends up.

I hear a lot of guys who spend time getting high with hookers have a hard time tracking their cash.

I agree that showing happy people waving is not a legitimate approach to addressing the drug and sex trade issues. From what I've heard many of those girls are slaves who have been abducted by the Russian mafia.

Still I think they should legalize and tax it. I don't see doing this causing more problems than the issues we could address with the extra tax money. I say we test it out for several years. I would like to see how attached to that extra money we get. If we can shake our head to it after then it must not be worth it.

I'm just back from a few days there. This video is utterly one sided as well and pretty pictures do nothing to dispel the claim that the drug and sex trades are run by criminals. In the seedier areas, I've wondered where my money ends up.

Still, I love Amsterdam. This so-called experiment has worked, but naturally, it needs policed. Let's face it, buying the same stuff - be it sex or drugs - here in the UK (and they're not much harder to buy), I'd be asking myself the same question. I think the answer would be that significantly more ends up in exploiters' hands in the UK. As I see it, the UK and the rest of the world sweep under the carpet what the Netherlands attempts to address.

Governments can't beat drug dealers, but Capitalism can. If Tesco's sold Fair Trade Cannabis, drug dealers would be utterly screwed in no time. Plus, farmers in Columbia/Afghanistan/etc would have a legitimate market, which would erode the illegal market, in turn decimating FARC/Taliban/etc's income and ability to operate.

Is legalising drugs the answer to peace on earth?!

I think making any argument for or against pornography right now requires that you make a lot of assumptions about the psychological impact that working in the sex trade has on people. For instance, I'm pretty sure I'd be emotionally scarred if I had to slaughter cows for a living but that doesn't mean the emotional impact would be the same for everyone else. I deal with this by not getting a job that requires me to kill cows. For the record, I don't even like cows.

The point is, there's a lot that needs to be carefully considered and we don't have answers to most of the major questions. It's likely that any gut emotional instinct you have for either side of the argument is probably somewhat incorrect.

Try taking a step back from your preconceived ideas on this issue and consider carefully how well founded your arguments are. As soon as I'm personally no longer being sodomized daily by coporate America to earn a paycheck I plan to really think about this issue myself.

So, let me get this straight... a woman who thought that the sex trade business was a good idea is now going to tell me about the magical guy who lives in the sky?

I think "Hookers for Astrophysics" would have been more of a shock for me...

Incredibly so, definitely worth the promote. Hope it helps

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Thanks. I was kind of surprised when no one liked it at all. I think it is quite powerful.


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Jesus christ, that is some kind of ad. Fair play to Emma T, love that woman

Thanks. I was kind of surprised when no one liked it at all. I think it is quite powerful.


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Jesus christ, that is some kind of ad. Fair play to Emma T, love that woman

Wow, that was a jump. I believe that the expression I used was "baffles" not "outrages." I am not in the least bit outraged by this because I understand that you (and I) hate Bush. I got it. But in addition to being Chief Executive and Commander in Chief, Bush is also our Ceremonial Head of State and Chief Diplomat. I know that he screwed this up royally, but to find joy in seeing him treated this way by a journalist is all backward. I'm sad that it has come to this. I am sad that he messed up. I grieve for the lives that have been and are being lost. But it is narrow-minded to throw around superlatives claiming that Bush has done absolutely no good whatsoever at all ever in the Middle East, that he has not improved national security and is pure dag-nasty evil, doesn't care about anyone, and that he is a cold-blooded murderer. I do not believe that Bush is just a mass-murderer maniac who wanted to kill people. He was not the only person (or party) who saw reasons for going to war. You are certainly lacking moderation. Sucky president? Yes. The devil? No.

WAR SUCKS. The question is not whether or not war sucks, but whether or not the things we are fighting for are worth the bloodshed. You might agree that war is sometimes worthwhile. Not ideal, but better than becoming part of the Third Reich or allowing genocide or attacks on our soil, certainly. Do you really know what the world would have been like had this war not happened? No, you don't. But I do because I'm psychic and a genius.

Never tell me that I don't care about the lives over in Iraq. You don't know me. I'm just making a comment, not asking for personal attacks.

>> ^volumptuous:
>> ^thepinky:
I agree that this occurence is interesting and note-worthy, even amusing. I don't mind the upvotes for that reason. But the jubilation that some are expressing at having someone throw shoes at our president just...baffles me.

Personally, I wish it were a lot more than just a fucking shoe thrown at him.
You are talking about someone who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Someone who is responsible for pushing 1.2 million Iraqi children into the sex trade.
And you're outraged at a fucking shoe?
For someone who is soooo pro-life, you certainly don't give a shit about those lives over in Iraq.

>> ^volumptuous:
>> ^thepinky:
I agree that this occurence is interesting and note-worthy, even amusing. I don't mind the upvotes for that reason. But the jubilation that some are expressing at having someone throw shoes at our president just...baffles me.

Personally, I wish it were a lot more than just a fucking shoe thrown at him.
You are talking about someone who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Someone who is responsible for pushing 1.2 million Iraqi children into the sex trade.
And you're outraged at a fucking shoe?
For someone who is soooo pro-life, you certainly don't give a shit about those lives over in Iraq.


Ya, I bet Iraqis miss the walks out to the middle of the desert to dig those long shallow graves, followed by lining up next to them, and being shot into them or just buried alive. Methinks you need to watch the history channel.

>> ^thepinky:
I agree that this occurence is interesting and note-worthy, even amusing. I don't mind the upvotes for that reason. But the jubilation that some are expressing at having someone throw shoes at our president just...baffles me.


Personally, I wish it were a lot more than just a fucking shoe thrown at him.

You are talking about someone who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people. Someone who is responsible for pushing 1.2 million Iraqi children into the sex trade.

And you're outraged at a fucking shoe?

For someone who is soooo pro-life, you certainly don't give a shit about those lives over in Iraq.