JoeWeber

I was going to post the same but I need to lay off being such a downer even if there is no hope and the future seems more frightening by the minute and our leaders are conspiring against us and it won't be long before we're once again studying all night for answers and eating top ramen and struggling through the snow even in summer and with no place safe to go.

Yes, indeed. I'm happy with my outcome, too. I feel like it was my right way to go and I'm pretty sure I'd have been bored stiff at grade school soccer games. No going back, so there's that.

Sort of you are. No matter, you've chosen your journey because it suits you as did I. You like the idea of a paycheck and what that offers, I like the idea of what a paycheck does not offer. Your path was easy, mine was fraught with risk. We each have our results.

They also can't afford the rum or wine I drink. Don't be so pedestrian, I paid the illegal Colombian guy who washed and waxed my boat last week above market rate by a margin. You know, since a single gas station job I held for a week when I was sixteen, and after I was fired a 7-11 type job for a few weeks, I have never held a job for wages.So that mentality has never been with me, I just get after it. Maybe you can relate but I relate more to the guy who wants to open a taco truck somewhere.

Excellent point. We should have a national program to import as many double first quantum mechanics professors as possible, humorless or not, at any expense.

That’s my point, to your analysis every one who wants the best should go to America and that’s that.

Because we will sanction them if they don’t and support them if they do.

Costa Rica is not poor. Panama is not poor. https://www.wlrn.org/americas/2023-10-11/latin-america-panama-costa-rica-darien-gap

The Darien Gap crossing is serious. But it's not serious enough to stop anyone not a wealthy, self aggrandizing youtuber in search of clicks, apparently. I have no problem with Mexicans or Canadian Truckers crossing the border for better opportunities. But, when several countries conspire to accelerate the pipeline of immigrants through theirs and other countries to the US when those immigrants were already safe from persecution and there had better, if not world optimum, opportunities I call bullshit.

Economics and politics to the death were simpler then. Oh, and there wasn't the pox of social media infecting the nation.

Righto, but that was when it was only Mexicans. I remember when the Darien Gap was considered too treacherous unless you were a Navy Seal. Now the line through looks like an E Ticket ride at Disneyland. Now, I'll grant you that grimmie is a high value individual but were we told in advance 8 years ago that we were trading him for a half million central americans a year I think there might have been objections.

I think some people get the government they were born into or had shoved down their throats.

Thanks. I'll print that as a hand out to the guys who are washing my boat tomorrow.

I've spent several months on the ground in central America in the last year. I have met and hanged with a lot of people moving north for a better life. Good people and hardworking people in many cases but not all. Here in Panama, the gateway to the riches of the US there are a lot of Colombians and Venezuelans working not to get ahead but to move on. Talked to a guy tonight who works on our boat and is from Colombia. His life is better here than in Colombia but he wants more. That's the problem. In our country we have the right of free internal migration that we enjoy every time we cross a state line. But there is no internationally agreed to treaty of right of external migration. I am in no way opposed to bringing new people into the US especially if it reduces the average age of our citizens or residents. But country hopping north until you get the best deal seems not what we should encourage. And I should add that is even if the previous country get stuck with everyone they allowed to get to our border.

This has also aged very well. Now that our partisan and corrupt Supreme Court has, in their infinite wisdom, decided that we have a misogynistic and theocratic tricameral legislature, originalism and textualism be damned, I'd say the shit has already passed through the fan. I do have to say it was interesting to read that Evangelical twit Barrett's dissent where her only concern was scolding the liberal wing against "stridency" in their dissents. If that doesn't tell you where it's going I'm not sure what I can do to help.

It's awful, true, but at least now you know certainly what your neighbors are thinking.

Sure, but for a Trump card you can't beat ignorance.

LIfetime $300K a year jobs that are designed to shield them from the vagaries of the day and allow them the freedom to do the right thing based on the law alone. All praise our vaunted constitution and our brilliant founding banana farmers.

Agreed. But it is also not their job to save an individual from us. The Liberal Trio in their dissent laden concurrence argued that the Court was out of their lane and making rulings that would define later cases. They argued their task was only to answer if a state could make a section 3 determination, not to go further and state that only congress could. The SC could have ruled on the absolute immunity question when Smith requested in December, I think. They wanted the Appeals Court below to answer first. Then they slow walked their decision (on whether a President could order murder with immunity, mind you) and decided the question needed to be decided months from now. They took 3 days for Bush v. Gore. They are partisan hacks with their thumbs heavily on the scale, in my opinion.

Further, any wishful thinking that the Supreme Court is going to save the nation from the clear and present danger that is Trump needs to be cast aside. Only re-electing Biden can do that now.

Okay, thanks.

But is not der Tasche masculine? I'm probably missing an obvious point but lot's of languages have gender rules, Thai for example.

Thank you for this post. Suddenly I feel a bit less obtuse.

This aged very well. The SC has effectively ruled that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment will never be used except as a weapon by an opposing majority in Congress. What a banana republic.

So barely woke?