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The FAA declared "national defense airspace" over El Paso, grounded every flight for 10 days, and authorized deadly force against any aircraft that enters the zone without offering an explanation.
That designation hasn't been used domestically since September 11, 2001, when the country was under active attack. This time, the federal government shut down a major American city's airspace and pointed weapons at the sky.
More than half the country is already exhausted by Trump's personal army of federal agents and his loyalist’s capricious, contradictory policies. This is exactly the kind of system shock that America and Americans don’t need during a time when Trump has threatened NATO, other allies, and holds another country’s president in a New York jail cell.
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Sebastopol140
varonicaED
#19 ICE agent: "provide proof of citizenship." Parent: "I can't, the government revoked my passport." ICE agent: "Illegal alien, shoot to kill!"
MyCommentsUsuallyHaveTypos
The El Paso thing soundy kinda icy.
piratecaptainwendy
I sure hope people will opt not to pay their taxes this year
L4dead2
Lets just say he won the 2020 election, declare him president and remove him since he cannot have a third term
nosnowyno
#12 Biased! #1 Not biased at all!
idrinkcheapbeer
I'm as straight as the day is long. Removing the Pride flag from Stonewall hurts.
PuzzledCompletely
"under new guidance from the Trump administration, only U.S. flags or ones authorized by Congress can fly at sites run by the National Parks Service." So can we get Congress to authorize it?
piratecaptainwendy
Also fuck Imgur Daddy
DRockchild
#8 What judge signed that warrant?
LazerSpacePirate
ANYBODY GOT EYES ON GHISLANE? HELLO!!?
LazerSpacePirate
Oops this was supposed to be a reply to #9
LazerSpacePirate
DidCatchABreak
Thank you, George. Every day a new
notsurewhattocallthis
#14 Grift, Grift, Grift, Grift. .... Grift, Grift, Grift, Grift... Griiiiift.. Griiiiift.......
sundaymondayhippyday
It is pretty much all of the numbers…. It is just GRIFT WITH EXTRA STEPS
100kr
#20 holy fuck
piratecaptainwendy
The coup is almost done and people still don't see. I don't get it.
Sebastopol140
1 The US govt is now at war with the democratic states. Cool. At war with the richest and more educated part of the country.
piratecaptainwendy
now?
CaptHayfever
If it helps, the reason the meeting was then cancelled entirely was some of the GOP governors not wanting to take part in it.
sundaymondayhippyday
Helps a little… just a tad.
They should have stood up to the #PedoSident as well as buggered off
DukePhelan
They tried that once already. It didn't work out well.
Boxingjedi
doesn't mean that they won't try again, 'ya can't fix stupid'
PuzzledCompletely
#14 Rachel Maddow had a segment on Project Salt Box on her show Monday. They have an interactive map of where ICE is buying warehouses. Of course now ICE is trying to hide their purchases, turns out people don't want warehouse prisons.
DukeDarkwood
So, if people don't want a thing, the solution is to... still have the thing, just hide it?
That sounds like a LOT of work, and expense, when it would be easier to... not make the thing.
sundaymondayhippyday
Of course she did she is awesome!
MurderousCoat
#5 How are they still toting this shit as a wonder drug!? It's for parasites but somehow it'll work on cancer?
LittleAzie
Maybe we are supposed to all take it so we can get rid of the parasites known as magats?
cytherians
Ivermectin is back?
WTAF... this is just so extremely absurd. How they could get enough people to pass this policy. It's RFK Jr. at it again, eh? https://imgur.com/gfQCgqM
PuzzledCompletely
There's a billboard advertising it "no prescription needed" in my city.
Maverickaura
19 ELON FIRST RIGHT?
sundaymondayhippyday
That or TRUMP FIRST https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJleDA5cHM5d3JvNXYxZzlqZ3BvZTdscGNndG94d3Nna3I0ZnkxZjVuaSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/SSIXmIlbfLFBRWHf7z/giphy.mp4
Wombatish
The El Paso shit was wild, and still doesn't feel like the full story. Wonderfully awful thing to go to sleep to (got hit similarly with Venezuela).
GeorgeBounacos
I'm still on the bit about CBP having access to laser weaponry
TheFastpaws
Mom leads the pack!
Kotarisu
So much leg!
GeorgeBounacos
Freddy. Freddddddyyyyy!
hey u guys wait 4 me!
bertchstudio
#14
I need addresses to illegally mail some flammable liquids to
sundaymondayhippyday
In minecraft..
IgnisInvictus
Number 19 is about the SAVE Act. They'll lower that limit and revoke passports for anyone who owes child support.
I also suspect this sets precedent to revoke passports for people who are behind on student loans.
deadlyJumper
What you allow the government to do against those you don't like will then be used against those you do like. And I don't like them being able to do this at all. Why do they need to revoke passports for this? It makes me wary they're gearing up to claw them away from anyone they want so they can't run away from the rising tyranny.
IgnisInvictus
Exactly. Voter disenfranchisement isn't the only thing they might be doing with this. I wonder how much longer it's going to be before people who NEED to run can't.
CaptHayfever
That seems odd; most of the people who owe child support are men, & a lot of what's going on with SAVE seems like it's targeting women.
IgnisInvictus
The goal is to disenfranchise Women, POC, and educated folks - people that by % of the population tend to vote Democrat.
I'm not sure what the metrics are, but I'm betting what they're going for are men of color who owe back child support along with setting a prescient for student loans.
sundaymondayhippyday
Such a shit PresidPedoPhile
elten
#9 seems rather unusual, any theories around for that one?
LordofGoats
T**** has repeatedly said he wants to send the US military into Mexico to attack the cartels. Mexico has repeatedly rejected the suggestion. I suspect the administration plans to do it anyway, again committing an act of war not sanctioned by Congress, this time against an ally, that they will then claim isn't an act of war because of some flimsy excuse that it's actually meant as a precedent for taking up arms against an allied nation. Fun times.
TheReluctantSeaGoat
You know, I've read a couple of novels and a few short stories about El Paso becoming a city-state border nightmare DMZ thing without any real reason or notice... hmm...
And it sure seems like life is imitating art a lot more lately.
ArchMagos
I did some research and last year it averaged a little over 10.5K passengers in/outbound a day, so thats a lot of money being lost for no reason. For this particular location I can only think of a couple reasons this would be done, and neither of them are good, my guess is either nukes or immigration shenanigans.
idrinkcheapbeer
they said "whoops" and walked it back. https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/faa-grounds-all-flights-to-and-from-el-paso-until-feb-20 what a shitshow.
sundaymondayhippyday
Mexican Cartel Drone?
That’s the excuse? Should have said Alien Drones…. God
TheReluctantSeaGoat
NOT SUS AT ALL, GUYSSSSSS.
idrinkcheapbeer
oh and that "Mexican cartel drone breach" explanation is complete and utter horseshit. that's not the way things work.
noReallyIamPrincessBob
Probably just some local flying a drone around. They have to make it sound important -drug cartel drone- so that they don’t seem quite so idiotic.
‘We are doing our patriotic duty to protect you from drugs! And cartels! And….stuff!’
idrinkcheapbeer
No, the way these things work are breach, alert, response. you don't respond, rescind and explain it as a breach. at best its incompetent. but Im not believing the best here.
notsurewhattocallthis
#9 Military deportation zone?
kit99aLucentum
They're going to send troops into Mexico.
xFlenserx
Maybe... el paso is home to fort bliss and air defense artillery... soooooooo I dunno.... maybe a mobilization? Deport zone works too.... the shit they do makes no sense sometimes
notsurewhattocallthis
See also, kakistocracy.
sundaymondayhippyday
Mexican cartel drone apparently
sundaymondayhippyday
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/faa-grounds-all-flights-to-and-from-el-paso-until-feb-20
HashMaster9k
sqow
Thank you, OP.
The news is all bad, but I'm trying my best to stay in the figurative fight. I hope you aren't being buried under all of this. Cheers.
PuzzledCompletely
We're a choir, breathe when you need to, together we can hold the note as long as we need to.
sqow
I like this. Thank you.
sundaymondayhippyday
I love that!
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Science facts are neat!
Stay Well- Breathe -
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CaptHayfever
7, 13, & 21 are good.
sqow
That's fair and the outcomes are (currently) good, but the fact that these are newsworthy issues is bad in my opinion. I know that's a pessimistic view, but I am struggling to be optimistic these days for very understandable reasons.
Cayowin
So is 19, as a start - i believe the number should be far lower than 100K
PuzzledCompletely
Good as long as it is applied fairly. My hopes aren't high.
Tulayne
It's really not. The child support system is totally broken and corrupt. I know someone still paying his debt down. All his children are in their 20s. His ex wife lied about not having a job, even though she had a full time job with benefits. He had custody of 2 of 3 kids; he was still ordered to pay a high amount. They just do whatever they want over there.
Cayowin
So that's a broken situation that needs to be fixed. That can be done by allowing family court access to Tax info, and general stricter application of employer tax compliance combined with the same online tax systems other countries use.
Maybe even allowing family judges to view bank data.
Tulayne
I hear what you're saying, but the court did have access to her records. They were biased in her favor as these courts often are. It's easy to believe bad things said about men, but harder to believe bad things about women. So they often assume she is the one telling the truth, and that's what happened here. The brokenness goes all the way up and down the system. I could go into nauseating detail lol
CaptHayfever
19 is them taking away an ID that can be used for voting.
Cayowin
Why should you need ID in America? Move to wholesale write in voting and be done with it.
CaptHayfever
Now say that to the GOP & watch how they react.
deadlyJumper
Why is that one okay? They're just paving the way to revoke passports from anyone they want that has a debt and that should be extremely alarming considering how much of the US has one type of debt or another. What we approve of them doing today will be used in ways we don't approve tomorrow.
Cayowin
I never go for the slippery slope argument. Its like saying "It can be said that if we ban murder they will next ban killing for self defense".
You are arguing against a real problem by proposing some future hypothetical that may or may not even happen. When it comes time to pass legislation for debtors, then that has to get legislated on its merits. Like we should do for every single law.
deadlyJumper
Except that is EXACTLY what the US government does. How many times have they even before Trump passed something that sounds good and was okay with the public and then pushed it further and further to abuse it? All the laws they pushed forward post-911 taking advantage to take away rights and privacy under excuses of safety? They literally want to abuse their power and shove in laws so they can expand them to who they really want to hit. This regime is not here for our good, I do not trust them.