Extreme Commanders

My investments sure love all this winning.

@DCGoldPants wrote: Mon Mar 17, 2025 2:06 pm

CobraCommander wrote: Mon Mar 17, 2025 11:06 am

Fundamentally switching from a consumer economy to a manufacturing economy is not like flipping a light switch.
Everything will still cost more because our wages are higher. This will never even itself out. The only thing you can do to lower the costs will be to subsidize things made in the US vs other countries.

100% true. Just because they say "it's easy" doesn't make that accurate at all. Like the drill baby drill nonsense. Yeah, and then what? You just ship what your drilled to my car? Oh wait....you need more refineries to process. And those who own the refineries don't have a need to build more because that wouldn't raise their profit enough to justify the spent.

Here is an idea, tax breaks for those who build here, and hire here.....once they do it. Not as a FoxConn style promise to get the tax breaks. It's the reward ONCE you complete that deal.

Tax breaks don’t work imo because the owners just pocket them and keep charging higher prices. Subsidizing products means savings for the American people.

'Neighbors are gone': New Mexico community shaken as dozens 'forcibly disappeared' by ICE

In the first week of March, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it arrested four dozen New Mexico residents as part of immigration raids in Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Roswell.

Now those people are unaccounted for, according to an American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico civil rights complaint filed Sunday, which alleges all 48 “have been forcibly disappeared.”

“What we know is people in our community are gone, workers are gone, family members are gone, our neighbors are gone,” said Marcela Díaz, founding executive director of Somos un Pueblo Unido.


According to ICE’s own announcement, it arrested most of those people not for criminal convictions, but for violations of civil immigration law, such as illegal entry or re-entry after deportation. Díaz said Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Roswell’s mayors told members of her organization that they didn’t know the arrests would happen, and that ICE had assured them they would only be going after people with criminal convictions.

According to the complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, ICE hasn’t identified any of the 48 people they arrested, nor indicated where or in what conditions they’re being detained, whether they have access to attorneys or which agency is holding them.

“We don’t know what’s happened to these four dozen New Mexicans. They’ve effectively disappeared. They’re gone,” said Becca Sheff, senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, during a Monday news conference at the New Mexico Legislature.

The complaint states that neither ACLU-NM nor any other legal service providers have made contact with any of the people arrested. ICE’s online detainee locator only allows people to be located by their names, dates of birth, countries of origin or numbers assigned to them by DHS, it states.

Attorneys who help people held New Mexico’s three ICE detention facilities – the Otero County Processing Center, the Cibola County Correctional Center and the Torrance County Detention Facility – are typically only able to conduct pre-representation or representation legal visits with detainees if they are able to identify them beforehand, the complaint states.

The complaint also notes that arbitrary and enforced disappearance is unlawful under the U.S. Constitution and international human rights law.

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Wait 'til MAGA farm owners and ranchers suddenly realize they can't pay American citizens $10 an hour for the work they need to get done.

A little update from my friend who has to deal with copper, he also deals with the scrap. So, no only is it costing him extra per foot, not only is it taking weeks to get here, but he's getting way less for the scrap as well. The last scrap haul I went with him on, was a two person job, hundreds of pounds. He has to call the scrapyard a day in advance to make sure they have enough money for him. He went last week, he said what should've been about $3,400 ended up only being about $2,300. Doesn't sound like much, but now he's losing on all ends. I guess the price gets passed along, right?

This is painful to watch, I think Schumer is officially done. Time won't cure this one...

Judge Finds Musk’s Role in Dismantling Aid Agency Likely Violated Constitution

A federal judge found on Tuesday that efforts by Elon Musk and his team to permanently shutter the United States Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution “in multiple ways” and robbed Congress of its authority to oversee the dissolution of an agency it created.

The ruling by Judge Theodore D. Chuang of U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland appeared to be the first time a judge has moved to rein in Mr. Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency directly. It was based on the finding that Mr. Musk has acted as an officer of the United States without being properly appointed to that role by President Trump.

Judge Chuang wrote that a group of unnamed aid workers who had sued to stop the demolition of U.S.A.I.D. and its programs were likely to succeed in the lawsuit. He agreed with their contention that Mr. Musk’s rapid assertion of power over executive agencies was likely in violation of the Constitution’s appointments clause.

The judge also ordered that agency operations be partially restored — though that reprieve is likely temporary. He ordered Mr. Musk’s team to reinstate email access to all current U.S.A.I.D. employees, including those on paid leave. He also ordered them to submit a plan for employees to reoccupy a federal office from which they were evicted last month, and he barred Mr. Musk's team from engaging in any further work “related to the shutdown of U.S.A.I.D.”

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Democrats fear 'backroom agreement' between DOGE and USPS' Louis DeJoy

A group of House Democrats is demanding that the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform conduct a public hearing on the Trump administration and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency's plans for the U.S. Postal Service, in light of recent reporting that U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says he signed an agreement with DOGE to assist the nation's mail service "in identifying and achieving further efficiencies."

The news follows Washington Post coverage from February, when the outlet reported that U.S. President Donald Trump is considering putting the Postal Service under the control of the Commerce Department. In December, the Post also reported that Trump was eyeing privatizing the Postal Service. Elon Musk, a GOP megadonor who is playing a core role in Trump's efforts to slash federal spending and personnel, has also said the Postal Service should be privatized.

Postal workers unions are fiercely opposed to any effort to privatize the Postal Service.

"The Trump administration... is now subjecting the USPS, America's most trusted federal institution, to the chainsaw approach of Elon Musk and DOGE. This broad assault on the independence of the USPS demands congressional oversight, especially from the committee with jurisdiction over the USPS," according to the letter, which was signed by 20 House Democrats.

In a March 13 letter to congressional leaders, U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy told Congress he signed an agreement with representatives from Elon Musk's DOGE and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) so that DOGE could help the U.S. Postal Service, which has experienced billions in financial losses in recent years, work to address "big problems."

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TDS author arrested for soliciting sex with 16 year old. Aka attempted rape.