The $100,000 Visa

Plus: Zohran Mamdani wanted to defund the police in 2022, fourth alleged narcotrafficking boat downed, and more...

The H-1B visa just got a whole helluvalot more expensive: During the pre-weekend Friday news dump, President Donald Trump made some major announcements about our system for skilled immigration.

Under his latest changes, you can essentially buy your way in. Foreigners (who are vetted) may pay $1 million for a "gold card" that will allow them U.S. residency; companies may pay $2 million for the corporate equivalent, which would allow them the ability to sponsor foreigners. "The main thing is we're going to have great people coming in and they're going to be paying," said the president. "We're going to take that money and we're going to be reducing taxes and we're going to be reducing debt."

But at the same time, a new annual fee of $100,000 will be levied on each H-1B visa applicant going forward, which will serve as a big deterrent. Some number of the roughly 500,000 people currently in the U.S. with H-1Bs—high-skill visas used by tech workers, medical workers, and other professionals working in the fields they received degrees in—would have been dissuaded from coming here had the new system been in place. For companies hiring new talent, this fee will be a huge barrier to sponsoring foreign workers—which appears to be the point.

"The company needs to decide…is the person valuable enough to have a $100,000-a-year payment to the government, or they should head home, and they should go hire an American," Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the press.

Indian nationals are currently the largest beneficiaries of the program. More than 70 percent of H-1Bs go to Indians, and 12 percent going to Chinese people. Roughly a quarter of the physicians working in the U.S. are foreign-born.

This will be absolutely devastating in the medical field.

~30% residents are international medical graduates & ~10k of 43k residency spots are filled by docs with H1-B visas.

Previously the h-1B fee was <$5,000.

No hospital will pay a $100k fee for a $55k resident salary. https://t.co/TVywuoBT18

— Nick Mark MD (@nickmmark) September 19, 2025

The Trump Administration's proclamation that slaps a $100,000 fee on H-1Bs cites a flawed study from the left wing Economic Policy Institute as justification.

The study claims that employers underpay their H-1B workers by 36% because it deliberately overlooks the fact that… pic.twitter.com/dPZywJ1yO3

— Sam Peak (@SpeakSamuel) September 20, 2025

Companies in many industries will probably respond to this shift by offshoring more of their workforces or relying on contract workers. (For the medical industry, this won't really work. Bigger shortages might just become a fact of life.) As with many Trump policies, the effects won't be felt immediately—existing visa holders are grandfathered in—but the medium-term effects will be, and it will be hard for firms to anticipate what hiring should look like in future. Will this policy, in fact, be reversed after Trump's term ends? Does this mean the pipeline will dry up between now and then, or will aspirants continue to bank on H-1Bs being available to them a few years from now? Is there in fact enough American demand—and skill—for roles in these industries?

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Scenes from New York: When running for state Assembly in 2022, mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said he wanted to reduce the New York Police Department (NYPD) "by 1,300 officers through attrition." He also called for "immediately" ending police overtime, freezing hiring, canceling new officer classes and "institut[ing] a moratorium on all new equipment purchases."

"We can't reform our way out of a racist police system that's working exactly as designed—as a means of control over Black & brown New Yorkers," he added. This all appeared under a "Defund the NYPD" heading.

"We need to dramatically curtail the power and presence of the NYPD. That means cutting $3 billion from the NYPD budget and reinvesting those savings in health, housing, and community services." The site's "queer liberation" section called for an end to "police harassment of queer people by decriminalizing sex work, defunding the NYPD, divesting from jails and prisons, and reinvesting those savings in appropriate social services."

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QUICK HITS

• "The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia officially recognized Palestine as a state Sunday, a significant shift in foreign policy and a step away from their alignment with the United States, with several other European nations and U.S. allies set to follow suit this week," reports NBC.
• "The Trump administration unveiled a new crackdown Friday on journalists at the Pentagon, saying it will require them to pledge they won't gather any information—even unclassified—that hasn't been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey," reports The Washington Post. "Under the policy, the Pentagon may revoke press passes for anyone it deems a security threat. Possessing confidential or unauthorized information, under the new rules, would be grounds for a journalist's press pass to be revoked."
• "I've had so many people ask, 'Do you feel anger toward this man? Like, do you want to seek the death penalty?'" said Erika Kirk, widow of the assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk, in an interview with The New York Times. "I'll be honest. I told our lawyer, I want the government to decide this. I do not want that man's blood on my ledger. Because when I get to heaven, and Jesus is like: 'Uh, eye for an eye? Is that how we do it?' And that keeps me from being in heaven, from being with Charlie?"
• Fourth boat attacked:

On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was…

— Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) September 19, 2025

Relatedly:

The clandestine deployment of elite U.S. Special Operations forces to the Caribbean suggests that strikes or commando raids inside Venezuela itself may be in the workshttps://t.co/YwtqjKBlrZ

— Eric Schmitt (@EricSchmittNYT) September 20, 2025

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The H-1B visa just got a whole helluvalot more expensive...

ARE YOU SAYING AMERICA IS NOT WORTH IT?

[Chumby]

For $100k per visa, the Statue of Liberty better have some damned good DSL. Heck, a former VP apparently excels at that.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Not sure why this is an issue as we already know corporations use H1-B for cheaper employment despite the law requiring to pay at local pay rates for job.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

But how else can we import people frome one of the lowest trust societies, where scrapping on the street is accepted?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

No, we’re just trying to keep shit off the streets and beaches.

[mad.casual]

This will be absolutely devastating in the medical field.

The '6 ft. of separation' and 'castrate the children for their own good' medical field? You promise?

[Zeb]

Occasionally they do serve a useful purpose.

[Dillinger]

people make for terrible batteries.

[sarcasmic]

Hey, I've got an idea! Let's throw out the baby with the bath water!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But first let's jab the baby with useless experimental drugs and cut off his nuts.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Those unprotected sex and drug using babies need the hep vaccine by day 2.

[Nelson]

Seriously? You’re against the Hep vaccines for babies now? And think that sex and drugs is the only way to get it?

You are truly one of the dumbest (or most brainwashed) fools on this site.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

No newborn needs a vaccine for a disease passed via intravenous drug use, using shared needles or is sexually transmitted.

From asking AI:

In the US, the most common ways hepatitis B (HBV) is transmitted are through sexual contact, the sharing of needles or injection equipment, and from an infected mother to her baby during birth. Exposure to blood, semen, or other body fluids from an infected person can lead to transmission.

And the mother is usually tested for hepatitis B during pregnancy. Thus, that route can be ruled out at birth.

Are you or someone you know fucking infants?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Nelson is one of the truly retarded here.

[Chumby]

Act Blue donor = conservative.

- Nelson

[Nelson]

Yeah, that’s Jesse’s lie. You fools keep trying to pin it on me, unsuccessfully. Or at least you are the only ones who believe it, no matter how often you repeat the lie.

All I ever said is that he espoused conservative beliefs to the people around him prior to the assassination attempt and listening to his words is probably the best way to determine what he believes.

But you fools don’t like such a logical way to think. You start with your preferred conclusion and find whatever half-assed reason you can to confirm your priors.

[Chumby]

Not even jeffsarc repeated your crap. Nor Tony. Congrats.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Nelson, take the ‘L’ and move on. I hear Slate, Vox, and Rolling Stone are compatible with a leftist moron, such as yourself.

You’re just going to get slapped around here.

[Nelson]

Any exposure to infected blood will risk infection. In 1991, when universal infant immunization began, 18,000 children were infected with Hep B before their 19th birthday, half of them as infants. One in four children infected with Hep B will die of cirrhosis or liver cancer.

So according to you, in 1991 18,000 infants were either having sex or using intravenous drugs?

Hep B infection rates dropped 95% when mandatory vaccination of infants was instituted. Ninety five fucking percent.

So, again according to your logic, those 18,000 infected children suddenly stopped having sex and doing drugs?

Or, just perhaps, infant immunization was a massively effective strategy to prevent a dangerous disease with almost no side effect? Maybe?

The biggest side effect of the vaccine? Pain at injection site. It is a very safe vaccine, used to prevent a damaging disease, with a three decade history of massive reduction in infant infection to justify the practice.

This is what good science and effective disease prevention looks like. I have no idea why you choose to believe that everything is about sex and drugs and therefore actual data should be ignored, but here we are.

I would note that your stats are probably for adults who contract Hep B.

Maybe finding a reputable source and learning about a subject would be a better way to become leas ignorant than trusting the AI-generated blurb that your poorly-phrased question gave you.

[Nelson]

That’s supposed to be 10th birthday. Which reading the article would tell you.

[Nelson]

Well, shit. I didn’t paste the link.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-09-hepatitis-shot-newborns-childhood-infections.html

[NealAppeal]

Think of the Children...the victims of the pedophiles we support.

[Uilleam]

Evil idiot

[DesigNate]

I’ve got a crazy libertarian idea: get the government out of the way of citizens trying to become doctors and nurses.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Maybe do that first, before having the government further reduce the labor pool.

[Vernon Depner]

And how 'bout educating all our children so they don't arrive at adulthood dumb as rocks and untrainable for professions? We don't need as much immigration if we stop throwing our own children in the trash.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Under his latest changes, you can essentially buy your way in.

Now, I ain't saying Trump's a gold digger...

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Almost every country in the world has these investment visas.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

And I do not recall any libertarian premise that 'stuff' should be "free".
Is it now TISITAAFL?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Just feels like reasons analysis is one from ignorance.

[Chumby]

Can say that about most articles.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

It’s gotten bad. And their recent hires don’t auger well

[Nelson]

Well, Jesse, if the rest of the world does it we should definitely join them. I mean, why would we try to do things better than the rest of the world?

Also, I’ll point out that your “the rest of the world does it” is suspiciously absent from your principles when the subject is something you don’t like.

I’d call you a hypocrite, but it would be cruel to hypocrites to connect them to someone as empty of principles and integrity as you.

[Incunabulum]

Any other time and you're all 'we should be more like Europe111!!1' and 'culture is relative, you're just racist because you don't want to be enriched by beheadings, bombings, and shitting in the street!!11!'

And Nelson, we already have plenty of Americans that will gladly shit in the street - we don't need to import street-shitters.

[Chumby]

Kill All Rednecks’ Portland, Oregon (D) has a huge people feces in the street problem. Enough articles on it to say it is not a smear campaign.

“Put a turd on it”

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

“Put a turd on it”

You've summoned Pedo-Shrike

[Nelson]

“ Any other time and you're all 'we should be more like Europe”

I have literally never said anything like that. We are superior in most ways to Europe and they would benefit by learning from us, not the other way around. I have never been a supporter of us becoming more like Europe, who underperforms us economically and struggles with defending individual rights against the government.

Are all you cultural conservatives dedicated to taking insane talking points and pasting them on anyone who points out that you’re wrong?

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Look dickhead, this country is wallowing in debt. Thanks to you democrat filth, we can’t make meaningful spending cuts to balance the budget. So Trump, working with what he can, is trying to shore up the revenue side of the balance sheet. But no, you won’t even have that.

This kind of shit, plus all your party’s assassinations, riots, rebellion, and general evil behavior is why you’re all going to end up gone.

Be afraid.

[DesigNate]

We literally already do this through the EB-5 visa program. Goddamn man.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

So you have no argument against it. You just don’t like it ‘because Trump’.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...but he ain't lettin' in no broke applicant.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Kind of disappointed no one put that together. I'm working with a bunch of lame-o's here.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Are you saying the Reason comment crew needs more immigrants (H1B or not)?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

We need to mind the needful, saar.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Oh, I got it. I just thought “applicant” was a little clunky.

Not sure what I’d replace it with. When time is of the essence one can’t expect perfection.

Good effort. Maybe not an all-time fisty classic, but worth a chuckle, to be sure.

[TJJ2000]

Paying off the bills (i.e. National Debt) makes you a 'Gold digger'?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Some number of the roughly 500,000 people currently in the U.S. with H-1Bs—high-skill visas used by tech workers, medical workers, and other professionals working in the fields they received degrees in—would have been dissuaded from coming here...

Skynet's going to be handling all of that for us anyway.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

I’m too lazy

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

How do you say "Skynet" in Hindi?

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Why is it the only Indian to be deported in the last 10 years is apu

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Shitnet.

[Chumby]

You need to be a Playstation gift card then send the numbers on the back to Mike Wilson (Veejay Gupta) at tech support. Then you can login into your Skynet account.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

[damikesc]

Indians create nothing. They work the system and that is all.

[Nelson]

You hate Indians, too? Why am I not surprised?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Why, are you an Indian? Might explain a lot.

[damikesc]

Feel free to list their innovations.

I do not hate them. But to pretend they are the best and brightest is laughable.

India is India for a reason. If they were such amazingly hard workers, no offense, India would not LOOK like India now.

[Uilleam]

I hate the code they write and the circuits they design. They work for about a quarter of the going rate for engineers in whatever field, take over four times longer to complete the job, and everything they produce requires extensive debugging by a local team, which all in all costs way more then if we'd had that local team do the work in the first place. That's just one issue in the corporate environment.

[Nelson]

See, this is a substantive reply that talks about issues in a serious and detailed way. Thank you, Uilleam.

I have no idea if your complaints are accurate or just a result of your company trying to cheap out on coders, but your points are well taken.

My problem with H-1B visas is about the workaround of setting a salary so low that Americans won’t take the job, then going abroad to fill the post for that same salary. Technically, they didn’t break any rules or offer different salaries to the two groups, so they aren’t breaking the rules, just gaming the system.

Do you have any solutions in mind that might prevent such practices?

To be honest, I’m more concerned about healthcare than tech. I think it’s unfortunate that they are in the same category. We already have a shortage of GPs (but plenty of specialists) and the Baby Boomers are only going to keep increasing the demand for medical care.

Perhaps there should be more sub-categories for visas than on that puts tech coders and doctors in the same bucket?

[D-Pizzle]

"Do you have any solutions in mind that might prevent such practices?"

Oh I don't know...how about a $100k application fee? Just spitballing here.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia officially recognized Palestine as a state Sunday, a significant shift in foreign policy and a step away from their alignment with the United States, with several other European nations and U.S. allies set to follow suit this week,"

Well, at least they're not hiding their antisemitism under a bushel any longer. I wonder how their populations feel about it?

[Mickey Rat]

So, they have just rewarded Hamas for being intransigient on giving the hostages back. Exactly how does this encourage a peaceful solution?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...Exactly how does this encourage a peaceful solution?..."

Is there anyone who does?
Oh, and you mean the ones not yet murdered.

[mad.casual]

Along any axis/several axes. Like the Jews have been the ones groping and harassing women, forming rape gangs, grooming little girls...

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

This is giving the antisemites an excuse to be antisemitic.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/shop-owner-germany-goes-full-1930s-sign-banning-jews-entering

[Chumby]

JFree might approve.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

That reminds me…

We haven’t seen Herr Misek or Misconstrueman in a while.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

JohnZ.

[Mother's Lament]

Now that Sarcasmic has found out this bothers you, Jesse, I fully expect him to be blocking Jews from the restaurant he works at by the end of the week.

[Chumby]

He would purposely put pork on a sandwich served to a Jew if the Jew was wearing a MAGA hat.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

If only Sarc were so daring as to do that to a Muslim.

[Kungpowderfinger]

I remember the pearl clutching when OrangeHitler recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. These “first world” countries throwing their lot in with the towel heads should surprise no one.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05/middleeast/trump-jerusalem-explainer-intl

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

What demographic have the been importing for the last decade?
Animal muzzies

[Fats of Fury]

So will the New Palestinian state be in the United Kingdom, Canada or Australia?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

I thought that was already Londonistan?

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Do you think you can join a swanky country club without paying a fee?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

You could just buy Bushwood.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

And then kill all the golfers?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Gophers, ya great git! Not golfers! The little brown furry rodents!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Did I tell you about the time I caddied for the Dalai Lama?

[Ajsloss]

Gunga galunga.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

So we finish the eighteenth... and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know... for the effort, you know?" And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

If they don't want to pay to get into America they can build their own. Oh wait they can't, they don't have American engineers

[Chumby]

The fish only focuses on the bait, not the hook. This is how a psyop works.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Possessing confidential or unauthorized information, under the new rules, would be grounds for a journalist's press pass to be revoked."

Why would it not be that way?

[MollyGodiva]

Because of 1A. Punishing journalist because you don't like what they say is about as a bad of a violation as it gets.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

It’s a press pass, not jail time, Dr. Retard.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

False flag.

[damikesc]

Freedom of speech is not freedom of access.

Again, you had years, Tony, to call out this stuff and did not. So shut up.

[SRG2]

Did any prior president attach such restrictive conditions on Pentagon journalists? And you may reasonably call out someone for their hypocrisy (if true) but that is no argument in favour of the new policy.

That policy is, basically, if you want to report on the government you can only report government-authorised information. Very Soviet.

[damikesc]

Obama sent investigators after reporters he did not like. He also sicced the IRS on civilians he did not like.

Trump is nothing next to him in this area.

And you're free to report anything. You just will have your access removed.

Free speech is not free access.

[HorseConch]

All of the people decrying Trump's fascist dictatoring seem to have completely missed the last two D administrations. Of course, the Obama admin was completely scandal free, just as Barack.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Remember, they were (D)ifferent.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Show me in the constitution where anyone is guaranteed access to press conferences.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

“ITS JUST LIKE NORTH KOREA!!!!”

Lol.

[DesigNate]

Having information you aren’t supposed to have is not them saying something you colossal fucking idiot.

[See.More]

Because of 1A.

The First Amendment says nothing about receiving and/or possessing "confidential or unauthorized" information.

[Randy Sax]

During the pre-weekend Friday news dumb,

Freudian slip?

[Longtobefree]

It identifies as a typo - - - - - - - -

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"B" is the new "P".

[Longtobefree]

Depends on how you look at it - - - -

[Fist of Etiquette]

She has a cold.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

The p transitioned to a b.

[Chumby]

Was at a baseball game and ended up tossing a few pitches.

[Chumby]

Two State Solution?

British Prime-Minister Keir Starmer, from Labour Party, announces that UK is recognizing Palestine as an Independent State and the Fatah/PLO-led Palestinian Authority as its legitimate Government.

-Qvinta Aetas

Canadian PM Carney followed suit. Just waiting until Canada also recognizes the UK as an Islamist state.

[Randy Sax]

Can we recognize Dearborn as an Islamist state?

[Chumby]

Would be funny seeing small rural towns in the US start doing that.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, not turning over sovereign territory, and your daughters, to invaders is racist.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

If we do, can Trump send in the military to liberate it from the Islamic hordes?

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

What did illian Omar's husband say when he requested a divorce?
Let's just be siblings

[Kungpowderfinger]

Too local?

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/texas-governor-greg-abbott-bans-sharia-law-after-cleric-asks-shopkeepers-not-to-sell-liquor-pork-9274846

To be fair, these useful idiots don’t exactly appear to be “immigrants”. Especially the next level clown who dyed his beard to match his fez.

[Incunabulum]

Those dudes are Black Muslims. Moderately less violent than the Arab ones but orders of magnitude crazier.

[Mother's Lament]

Carney also wants Canada recognize Canada as an Islamist state, but Canadian mullahs are far to few to run the place yet, so they asked him to give them a few more years to import.

The Middle East is going to run out of Muslims soon at the rate that our betters in the West want to import them.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But can they play hockey?

[Chumby]

Kurdistan Mikita was able to sheikh the belief that they couldn’t. Each time he scored three goals in a game, fans threw turbans onto the ice.

[Fats of Fury]

They tried but they kept drowning.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

We're supposedly staring in the face of a global mass die-off in the next 50 years, even in the Third World. It's expected that up to 2 billion of the world's population might end up getting reaped.

We'll see if it actually plays out, but if it does, all these socialist spending programs are going to collapse, too, because they depend on a population growth ponzi scheme to keep them running.

[Michael Ejercito]

Where would you get the idea that there will be a massive die-off?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

It's been coming up in various news and blogger sites for several months now, mostly because even Third World populations are having fewer children, while the Boomers are set to start dying off in greater numbers.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Die from mass die off or with mass die off?

[DesigNate]

Your mass die off protects me and my mass die off protects you.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

If they didn't have the approval of a 'major newspaper', how would they know being drama queen was just fine?:
"SHINING LIGHT ON HOW TEENS PASSED SUMMER"
"Grappling with AI, illness and Gaza while trying to have fun"
https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2025/bay-area-youth-summer/
'Global Warming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' seems to finally gotten enough honest coverage to have fallen off the 'existential angst' list.

[HorseConch]

It's almost like there's no consequence for brainwashing millions of impressionable teens to join whatever cause is en vogue at the time. There truly isn't for the ones pushing it, though, that's for the rest of us to bear.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

I think “the ones pushing it” will be out of power for a long time, so there is some consequences for their insanity. Just not the kind of consequences that Charlie Kirk and the kids at the catholic school got.

[Randy Sax]

This will be absolutely devastating in the medical field.

Stop arbitrarily limiting the number of medical licenses we can give to Americans.

[Idaho-Bob]

Stop teaching American med students that pharma solves everything.

I just read in a 70's med journal that doctors prescribed diet and exercise for their patients who were putting on weight. Now "just take a pill. For life."

[Longtobefree]

And watch my stock portfolio rise

[Randy Sax]

Was 211lbs 4ish months ago. Down to 182.2 as of yesterday.

[Kungpowderfinger]

Does anyone remember all the health issues that came with quickly loosing weight with Fen-Phen in the 90’s? I remember higher incidence of gall stones, for one.

Doesn’t seem to be a conversation that’s being had, hopefully people are discussing it with whomever is “prescribing” their weight loss pharmaceuticals.

*end of public health PSA*

[Randy Sax]

I'm not on anything. Diet and exercise.

[Ersatz]

Good for you! (really)

[Longtobefree]

How does that make any doctor or influencer rich?

[HorseConch]

That seems rather selfish of Randy unless he's using it to make himself rich. Health and wellness should always be about making people rich. I hope he's at least trying.

[Liberty_Belle]

A big one was that Fen-Phen somehow thickened your your heart valves causing them to warp and not seal properly. You would then suffer from bloodflow partially "backwashing" instead of being pumped properly. It killed quite a few folks.

[damikesc]

Was 280 on my wedding day 4 yrs ago. Now 223 with a 6 day a week gym habit.

If I gave a crap about my diet, would likely be closer to 200.

[Nelson]

Nice, Mike. Good for you, doing it the way that sets you up to keep it off.

[damikesc]

Thank you. I appreciate that.

[Nelson]

I’m pulling for you to get where you want to be and stay there. Fight the good fight!

[Nelson]

“ Was 211lbs 4ish months ago. Down to 182.2 as of yesterday.”

Congratulations, Randy. That’s a hard thing to do. I hope it continues until you hit your goal.

[Incunabulum]

The thing is - you have to prescribe something that the patient will actually do.

These mofo's are putting on weight because they eat too much and exercise too little - and they're not going to change. So its either pill or die fat.

Its not the way it would work in a perfect world, but in a perfect world they wouldn't be overeating in the first place.

[damikesc]

If you provide them some info, the patient will do it. The medical establishment has to disabuse people of the belief that there is a magic pill that fixes everything.

Exercising is just not that hard. Not eating McDonald's on the regular is not that hard,

A lot of people, sadly, want an easy fix --- falsely believing that the actual fix is grueling. And the side effects of any medication are something to closely examine and pay attention to. I'd rather go to the gym than risk shitting my pants on the regular.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Come on, man. In a perfect world, a bucket of chicken and ribs, a basket of fries, 3 beers, and a tub of ice cream would only contain 300 calories.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

What about a 55 gallon drum of Ben & Jerry’s? Asking for a fiend.

[Randy Sax]

On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans. The strike killed 3 male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel, which was in international waters. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!

Four boats in such a short time, why weren't we doing this earlier?

[Longtobefree]

President Otto Penn was against violence not directed at the right.

[Fats of Fury]

Crackhead son was expecting deliveries.

[MollyGodiva]

We were not doing it earlier because it is illegal in quite a few ways.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Cite, Dr. Retard?

[MollyGodiva]

MAGAs are the dumbest shits on the planet.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Kill yourself.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

So basically, no, you’re unwilling or unable to provide any such citations and/or links yourself. There’s no teaching assistant here to do that for you, Dr. Retard. You got to do that yourself.

[Liberty_Belle]

It can't be cited because Rump hasn't released what details he used to determine the justification for the strike.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/third-drug-boat-strike-00574331

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Your TDS is showing.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

I'm sorry your life makes it so you dont get access to a clearance. Can't blame them though.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

I’ve never seen Tony cite anything ever. He just hears stuff on PMS NOW and parrots it here.

[Quicktown Brix]

The Several Ways in Which the Caribbean Strike Likely Was Unlawful

...1. The Absence of Domestic Law Authority...
...2. The Assassination Ban...
...3. Murder under Title 18 of the U.S. Code...
...4. The Murder Provision of the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
...5. Customary International Law...

https://www.justsecurity.org/120296/many-ways-caribbean-strike-unlawful/

[Mother's Lament]

That's an awful lot of special pleading in Lederman's article.

[Quicktown Brix]

How about Ron Paul?

High Crimes On The High Seas

[sarcasmic]

Oh yeah? Well you're a poopy-head and that makes everything you said wrong!

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

The sarcasmic argument from a position of authority. With a nod to the squirrel.

[sarcasmic]

Um, no. I was mocking you and the rest of the Trumpian shitheads who honestly believe that attacking people discredits their arguments.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

You only mock yourself, dork.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Good catch on the sarcasm, um, sarcasmic.

Was it the 'Magas are the dumbest shits on the planet' attack you were defending or the 'special pleading' rebuttal request to the argument you took as a personal slight to the poster?

[sarcasmic]

Wasn't defending anything. Just mocking you and your gang. I must have struck a nerve considering how angry you are.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

If by angry you mean laughing, you're right. Your perception skills are as honed as your arguments. Nice work, lobster boy.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

Oh, I see now. You were arbitrarily responding to try to mock the imaginary posters in your head, grey boxes all if I remember correctly, and with no relevance to the actual post.

Were you born in Egypt, Maine by chance?

[sarcasmic]

Not making an argument, lady. Just mocking you and the other fallacy fellators who can't help but to deep throat tu quoques and other ad hominems.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

If only you understood what all of those terms mean, Sarc.

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

And how mocking works. haha.

I literally showed up in this post to mock the imaginary posters in my head. And you're a dumb girl (sticks out tongue) - sarcasmic

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Policy’s fellators? You mean like what you do for cash at you local bus station’s men’s room gloryhole?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Forget to change socks from the retarded squirrel?

[Chumby]

SSarcasmic channeling SSqrlsy?

[MollyGodiva]

Those are too many big words for MAGAs. Their reasoning skills do not go past "Trump says, I agree."

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

And yet, you couldn’t post such information yourself, Dr. Retard.

[sarcasmic]

Once people are indoctrinated into a cult they become weapons-grade stupid.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Speaking for yourself, Sarc?

[Chumby]

Your TDS is more of a disease than a cult, but at least you recognize you have a problem.

[Mother's Lament]

"Now let us pray to Obama"

[Chumby]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HEPZGfmYs

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Kill yourself.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Suicide should be made compulsory for Marxists

[Incunabulum]

The absence of domestic law authority doesn't apply to the military.

Secondly, there is no assassination ban. We got rid of that back in at least 1986 when we tried to assassinate Quadaffi.

You could make an argument about that for the Coast Guard - but then you'd basically be making 80% of what the USCG has been doing for the last 50 years illegal.

Thirdly, the US Code doesn't apply outside the US.

And the murder code of the UCMJ doesn't apply to duly authorized military strikes. In addition its an *individual* charge, not a unit one - so you're going to have to find the person who gave the specific order to strike. Everyone else in the kill-chain is going to be clear because they would not have had the mens-rea to commit murder.

[Quicktown Brix]

The absence of domestic law authority doesn't apply to the military.

This is true and addressed in the linked article:

The Article II assertion here—without which there would clearly would have been no affirmative authority for the Caribbean strike—thus is, at a minimum, unprecedented, and its implications are alarming. But even if there were a plausible Article II theory with respect to the President’s affirmative authority to order the strike, that would not matter if, as discussed below, the killing itself (or conspiring to do it) violated the U.S. criminal code (or the Uniform Code of Miliary Justice). In that case, any conceivable Article II authority would be constrained by those statutes.

Secondly, there is no assassination ban.

This is also addressed by the linked article:

The Caribbean strike appears to have violated Section 2.11 of Executive Order 12333, which provides: “No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.”

Thirdly, the US Code doesn't apply outside the US.

This is also addressed by the linked article:

Section 1111(b) of Title 18 of the U.S. Code makes it a felony to commit murder—defined as “the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought”—within the “special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States,” which is defined to include the high seas (see 18 U.S.C. § 7(1)). See also 18 U.S.C. § 956(a)(1) (making it a felony to conspire within the United States “to commit at any place outside the United States an act that would constitute the offense of murder … if committed in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States” if “any of the conspirators commits an act within the jurisdiction of the United States to effect any object of the conspiracy”). Based upon the information that’s been made public thus far, there doesn’t appear to be any explanation for why the strike here, and the planning for it in the United States, did not violate these laws.

And the murder code of the UCMJ doesn't apply to duly authorized military strikes.

This is the weakest of the arguments I linked, but it might apply to the person who authorized the military strike. It is weakened by the words "without justification or excuse." I'll concede this point.

[DesigNate]

Not that I’m defending it per se, but I guarantee you that various drug war laws and the Patriot Act allows for this somehow.

[Quicktown Brix]

Hey DesigNate!

That could be. Either way it wouldn't be prosecuted.

Remember when the CIA (indirectly) shot down a Cessna killing a missionary and her baby? Nothing came of it, but therenwas an additional level of subterfuge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Peru_Cessna_185_shootdown

It's only a matter of time for this type of mistake to repeat.

[DesigNate]

Oh, I wouldn’t doubt that it could happen again. Hell, Obama murder droned Doctors Without Borders, and nothing else happened so it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.

[SRG2]

Possibly because Trump couldn't be sure that the cultists would approve of murder.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

The cultists have been approving of murder since September 10, in case you haven’t noticed. They shot one guy, killing him, and then they danced on his grave, bathing themselves in his blood.

[Nelson]

Do you make these stories up in your own head or do you plagiarize from some other credulous fool?

Apparently no one is allowed to use the Nazis from the Unite the Right rally (which organized by a Nazi) to say that conservatives are OK with Nazis, but using the psychos who cheered Kirk’s murder to accuse all non-Trumpists of approving of murder is just fine.

For those of you scoring at home, both of those things are strawmanning and lying.

[Incunabulum]

Nelson, *you* approve of murder of your ideological opponents.

[Nelson]

Absolutely not. I have constantly and repeatedly denounced the murder of Charlie Kirk. And any political violence, for that matter. Steve Scalise getting shot at the Congressional baseball game used to be #1 on my horrifying political violence list, but Charlie Kirk’s murder topped that by a mile.

You’re probably mistaking my constant reminders that Charlie Kirk was an awful human being with me supporting political murder. I’m hoping it’s an honest mistake on your part.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Yet you’re glad he’s dead, because CK was a good person, which is anathema to an extreme leftist, such as yourself.

[SRG2]

I see plenty of Kirksters claiming that many people approved of his murder, nay, cheered for it, but I've not seen much evidence that this is true. I do know that if one say one disapproves of Kirk's murder, some Kirksters will deny the sincerity of the claim, but that is not the same thing. I have also seen that when anyone posts something critical about Kirk, Kirksters insist that they are some how partly culpable for his murder.

It seems to me, too, that unless the first sentence of a Kirk post is "his murder was wrong", a post critical of Kirk - because he was a racist, bigot and anti-Semite, for example - Kirksters will also claim that indicates approval of his murder.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

You've been provided numerous examples shrike. Youre just intentionally blind and a liar.

[Chumby]

He yearns for the days before his one account got banned for posting a link to child pornography.

[DesigNate]

“but I've not seen much evidence that this is true.”

Willful ignorance is no way to go through life guvnah.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

He only watches DNC approved propaganda broadcasts.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

How about all the leftists that got arrested for vandalizing and disrupting CK memorials around the country? Or do you believe if PMS NOW doesn’t report it, then it didn’t happen?

[Mickey Rat]

The $100K for H1-B visas would be to discourage their use as a means to drive down the price of labor in the US market rather than as an emergency measure to relieve a supply shortage.

Maybe, this would not have happened if the program had not been abused past its stated purpose.

[Chumby]

That is the rub. It became a victim to the tragedy of commons.

[damikesc]

It's not like the companies were unaware of the issue. Having US employees train their H1B replacements was never not going to be a huge problem.

[HorseConch]

The same will be an issue with AI and robots. No doubt that they will push things forward, but there will always be a need for humans to program, supervise, and operate. We'll need less grunts, but it may be hard to train them without the years of doing the lesser tasks on the job.

[Fist of Etiquette]

We need to dramatically curtail the power and presence of the NYPD.

It's the poor socialist that does away with the enforcement arm of his central plans.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Just wait for the NYKVD.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia officially recognized Palestine as a state...

Like that's going to save you.

[Longtobefree]

Please show me on the map where "Palestine" is.

[Fist of Etiquette]

In between the river and the sea?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Between the Grand Islamic Caliphate and Mordor?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Isn’t that the Hindu Kush Mountains in Afghanistan?

[Mike Parsons]

*leftist draws out border to Israel perfectly*

[Nelson]

Here you go:

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index-to-villages-and-settlements-in-palestine

This is the most relevant, since it was Palestine right before the State of Israel was created, based on the UN’s plan to convert part of Palestine into a Jewish State.

Pretending Palestine isn’t real is such a transparent idiocy. You don’t have to erase Palestine from existence to justify the existence of Israel.

Although I guess you do if you want to steal the rest of Palestinian land and give it to Israel.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Should we place you in the same category as J(ew)free, misconstrueman, and Misek?

[Nelson]

Since I’m not antisemitic and have repeatedly posted that way, no.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

You’re a democrat who supports the DNC. Therefore by extension you are an antisemite.

[mad.casual]

You had me at "Get rid of the UN".

[Fist of Etiquette]

...it will require them to pledge they won't gather any information—even unclassified—that hasn't been expressly authorized for release...

They should probably think about outlawing the leaking of classified information in the first place.

[Nelson]

Donald Trump would veto it. He already has plans for after he leaves office.

[Fist of Etiquette]

And that keeps me from being in heaven, from being with Charlie?

No need to soft-pedal charity and grace.

[Nelson]

Yeah, I thought Kirk’s wife was the definition if class and decency. The contrast to our President was … jarring.

[Fist of Etiquette]

On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike...

He's finally presidential... again.

[SRG2]

You approve of murder, therefore.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Not to anywhere the degree democrats approve of murder. A large percentage of you approved, and even celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

If you really don’t approve of murder, then renounce the democrat party right now.

[Nelson]

Well, people just won’t stop talking about his pal Epstein, so what’s a guy gonna do?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

A presentation at a World Athletics panel in Tokyo on Friday revealed that 50 to 60 athletes with male biological advantages have been finalists in the female category at global and continental championships since 2000.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/sex-tests-expose-dozens-athletes-male-advantages-competed-womens-world-athletics-finals-since-2000

[Chumby]

Tranny pole vaulters have an unfair competitive advantage.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

The third leg?

[Mike Parsons]

ya, the pole

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Dudes are just better at stuff.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Including being chicks

[Nelson]

I agree that trans women shouldn’t be allowed to compete against biological women.

The culture war hatred from the right is total garbage, but if a person went through puberty with male hormones, they shouldn’t be allowed to compete as a woman. The advantages, structurally, that male puberty conveys is far too much of an advantage.

[Incunabulum]

You think the reason the Right opposes men competing in women's categories is because of 'culture war' but when you believe it its a totally rational belief founded entirely in 'the science'?

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Haha. Lots o’ retarded takes on what constitutes a “culture war issue” around here lately. Mostly from chemjeff but nelson is cut from the same retarded cloth.

[Nelson]

You mean the parts where it is pointed out that the bullshit about grooming and pedophilia and mental illness is complete nonsense? Yes, that is all culture war issues and all horseshit.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Not to anywhere the degree democrats approve of murder. A large percentage of you approved, and even celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

If you really don’t approve of murder, then renounce the democrat party right now.like the bullshit where you democrats are publicly obsessed with exposing children to trannies and drag queens?

[Nelson]

“ You think the reason the Right opposes men competing in women's categories is because of 'culture war”

No, I think that virtually every other thing that cultural conservatives claim is total garbage, but preventing trans women from competing in women’s sports if they went through puberty with male hormones (natural or not, it doesn’t make a difference to me) is the one place where they are correct.

And yes, the reason I oppose it isn’t some misbegotten false narrative driven by some weird combination of fascination, religious beliefs, anger, and hatred (self- and otherwise) like the cultural conservative position. It’s because scientifically it creates an unfair advantage including bone density, muscle density, and muscle/ligament/tendon strength, and lung capacity, just to name a few.

Science, not bigotry, drives my opinion. You should try to approach the world that way, too.

[VinniUSMC]

Sure Nelson. You're so principled.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

California has been committing ACA fraud.

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/doj-sues-health-plan-got-almost-35-billion-feds

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Laws are racist!

[Mother's Lament]

Laws only work in the Democratic Party's favor.

[Chumby]

If a law that was previously used against a team red person is then used against a team blue person, sarcles must exclaim, “ThE DeMs DiD iT fIrSt!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: The Democrat Party Booth at the Ashland County, Ohio Fair was just KICKED OUT after displaying buttons with “8647” and “is he dead yet” in reference to kiIIing Trump.

Democrats just can’t help themselves. They constantly promote violence.

Any comment
@OHDems
??
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1968836810169098457

[Anti_collectivist]

That's why the Dems have lost every state wide election in OH for years.

[Chumby]

It won’t fly at the Ashland County Fair and unlikely to do so at The Ohio State Fair.

[Mother's Lament]

It's because their parents never spanked them and they were protected by teachers from bullying at school.

They think that they're tough, and one day their near constant violence against the plebs is finally going to go one step too far and they will find out otherwise.

TLDR (D) FAFO

[Mike Parsons]

"Charlie Kirk was spreading hate"

also

"Assassinate more people I disagree with"

[damikesc]

It is truly baffling that the Left has no beefs with slandering Kirk --- but they will possibly murder you if you point out Floyd's "colorful" history.

[Nelson]

Well, pointing out he was an awful person who spewed misogynistic, bigoted, and theocratic nonsense isn’t slander, it’s quoting the man himself.

And to think the first 6 years or so of TPUSA it was focused on promoting capitalism and free trade, and it was Charlie Kirk advocating for the separation of church and state.

I wonder what made him turn away from good and embrace evil?

[VinniUSMC]

Another "hot take" from a retarded shit-eater. Thanks Nelson.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia officially recognized Palestine as a state Sunday, a significant shift in foreign policy and a step away from their alignment with the United States, with several other European nations and U.S. allies set to follow suit this week"

Will that Palestine state be located on land formerly part of the UK, Canada, or Australia?

[Randy Sax]

UK. Canada's sacred cow is eskimos, Australia's is people with bones through their noses.

[Mother's Lament]

Last year, Trudeau issued an apology to Canada’s black community for reasons that remain unclear to most Canadians including Canadian blacks.

Canada never had institutionalized slavery after putting a stop to the practice among some First Nations. This country was the end of the Underground Railroad — a safe haven. Black Canadians were so few in number that you could practically count them on one hand.

Discrimination against blacks was virtually nonexistent in early Canada because they were so rare. In the 1920s, a black man walking down the street in a Canadian city would more likely be invited into a restaurant out of sheer curiosity in his exotic appearance than be turned away.

The first notable influx of black Canadians after the Underground Railroad settlements in Nova Scotia came in the 1960s, when Western Canada began recruiting doctors from Africa and teachers from the Caribbean. For many Canadians, this was their first exposure to blacks — as professionals. Urbane, respected men and women with rhythmic accents, addressed as “Doctor” or “Sir.”

The next significant wave arrived in the early 2000s, primarily Nigerians, most of them university-educated professionals: lawyers, bankers, and accountants.

In Canada, the group historically facing systemic discrimination and marginalization has always been Indigenous people, not blacks.

Yet Trudeau decided we had to apologize to the black community, for "historic wrongs". In reality it was so he could import the rhetoric and political tactics of the American Democrats, whether or not they made sense in the Canadian context.

[Chumby]

Rob Ford even adopted a Jamaican patois while he was high.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

I was gonna run the province until I got high.
I was gonna bid out some infrastructure improvements, but then I got high.
My province is still fucked up, and I know why.

‘Cause I got high, because I got high, because I got high.

[Chumby]

Imagine a PM Rob Ford while DJT is potus. Jeffsarc would be even more broken.

[Marshal]

In reality it was so he could import the rhetoric and political tactics of the American Democrats, whether or not they made sense in the Canadian context.

Left wingers only have one card in their hand, they're always going to play it.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Can’t our “leaders” just make a blanket apology for western civilization, capitalism and white people and just be done with it?

The last thing they want is for us to get along.

[Ska]

Depends on whether they build an embassy?

[Longtobefree]

We could possibly make a case for 'two sectarian issues with no stones' by exchanging either the Protestants or the Catholics from Ireland for the Islamic State from "Palestine" (aka militant Islamic Arabs).
Just flip a coin for who leaves Ireland.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Rosie O’Donnell is there to make sure the transition goes smooth. Lol.

[Longtobefree]

"with H-1Bs—high-skill visas used by tech workers, medical workers, and other professionals"

Like grunt level programmers "hired" by contracting firms to be rented out at dirt cheap rates while the contracting firm holds their visa, and sometimes even their passport.

[Zeb]

Also like proper engineers working real jobs. I'm sure what you describe happens, but that can also be done in India (or wherever). And I'm sure the program is abused. But don't imagine that's the whole story. I work with a lot of excellent H1B engineers from India. I'm sure reform is warranted, but it would really fuck things up for a lot of people to lose those people (Which I don't think is what is likely to ultimately happen, but a lot of people are nervous right now).

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Ive had the opposite experience with H1B engineers. Their code is generally mangled, they dont understand testing procedures, and we had to up our code review and testing time to compensate.

[Zeb]

I'm sure that happens too. I just don't want to overgeneralize.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'When running for state Assembly in 2022, mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said he wanted to reduce the New York Police Department (NYPD) "by 1,300 officers through attrition." He also called for "immediately" ending police overtime, freezing hiring, canceling new officer classes and "institut[ing] a moratorium on all new equipment purchases."'

Mamdani, in 2025: "Just kidding." ("Or am I?")

[creech]

Does the mayor of NYC have unilateral power to do this?

[Longtobefree]

What difference, at his point, does it make?

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

“NYC is so safe we don’t even need cops”.

>charliehall

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

How the left spread the groyper conspiracy theory that sarc, shrike, and jeff fell for.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/media/how-conspiracy-about-charlie-kirk-shooter-being-rightwing-spread-online-kimmel

[Jerry B.]

https://babylonbee.com/news/msnbc-lincoln-shot-by-union-soldier-celebrating

[Stuck in California]

Haven't been to the bee in a while -- they sure did spike the football on Jimmy Kimmel, didn't they? Sort of a "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about" tough love.

I guess some jokes write themselves. Good for the Bee.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Well this is awkward for the narrative.

https://pagesix.com/2025/09/18/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-future-at-abc-was-up-in-air-before-charlie-kirk-uproar/?utm_campaign=pagesix&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

The show was a piece of shit. Unoriginal, uninspired. The only thing that saved it was this guy here.

[Chumby]

No! Carr and Trump cancelled him!! Arrrggghhh!!!

[damikesc]

That Variety reports that ABC is trying to cave to Kimmel (sorry, "negotiate") further decimates it.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/report-visa-programs-are-over-crowded-lower-wages

The Economic Policy Institute found that the H-2B program expanded to 169,177 people in 2024 despite having a statutory cap of 66,000 per year designated by Congress.

The Department of Homeland Security can approve supplemental H-2B visas based on demand in a given year. The report found DHS approved 64,716 supplemental visas in addition to the statutory cap of 66,000.

[Zeb]

It's almost like congress shouldn't be giving so much power and discretion away to the executive.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Article doesn't truly say what the cause is. The deep state has largely ignored the statutory caps for 2 decades, ignoring them under W.

[Zeb]

Was thinking of this part (though I don't know what the law says exactly):
The Department of Homeland Security can approve supplemental H-2B visas based on demand in a given year.

If you can say there's an emergency that requires tariffs right now, you can say there's an emergency that requires more foreign skilled workers.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Considering the statistics of unemployment for engineers out of college, dont think you can. Last I checked, double the average unemployment rate.

Even a significant number of H1B dont work in the fields their H1B was filed for.

[Zeb]

I think you miss the point of my comment. I'm not saying it's a valid conclusion necessarily. Only that it is within the powers of the executive to make that judgement and say there is an emergency requiring the special exceptions. As you know I'm not as convinced on the necessity and urgency of tariffs as you are and I think there is a valid debate (at the very least) as to whether it is an appropriate use of emergency/exceptional executive powers.

[BYODB]

I agree with you Zeb. It IS a bad idea to empower the executive in these ways.

I recognize that it's been like this for a while though, so Trump isn't out of bounds historically, but at the same time I'm in favor of removing those things from the executive since those were never intended to be part of their job duties in the first place.

Congress has fucked up for going on two centuries now in that regard, so it's nothing new but the fix seems obvious. Stop doing that.

[Quicktown Brix]

It would be nice to limit emergencies to something like 2 weeks, i.e. long enough to give congress a chance to do something if it wants to.

[MollyGodiva]

If is sad how much we just expect that Trumps illegal actions will have zero consequences. The visa fee is specified in the Cigars and Trump can not change that via EO.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Cite, Dr. Retard?

[MollyGodiva]

Fuck you dumb ass MAGAs is the citation.

[Chumby]

^ World heavyweight champion. Nobody is taking the title from Tony.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

More informed than sarcs arguments.

Same tenor though. Just half assertions from ignorance.

[Chumby]

Big John Dudd has the belt and won’t easily relinquish it.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

So you don’t have a citation with a link? If you make an assertion, Dr. Retard, YOU must provide the evidence here, dip, otherwise, you’re just making an ass of yourself.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Hell, a link isn't even needed. These agreements have a specific title and date. That's easy enough to cite and for us to look up the document.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...otherwise, you’re just making an ass of yourself..."
Again.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Fuck you with a barb-wire-wrapped broomstick if you believe that

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Kill yourself.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Do you know who else liked to play with cigars?

[Chumby]

Fidel Castro?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Hannibal?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Churchill!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

That guy who liked chubby interns?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

A willie slick comment.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

Had to go to the fat shaming huh?

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

The devil in the blue dress.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

That white stain ain’t Caesar salad dressing.

[Chumby]

It is blue dress cheesing…I mean blue cheese dressing.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

As a friend of mine said at the time, "If the President of the United States can't get a blow job in the Oval Office, why bother trying to save this country."

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

It is sad that no matter how many times youre proven wrong by appeals courts and scotus, you think screaming illegal is an argument.

[MollyGodiva]

The only thing SCOTUS is proving is how partisan they are.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Maybe it's a false flag.

[Fats of Fury]

Tony's a false fag.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Then is he a false libertarian?

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

False flag.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Just because the decisions aren’t to your partisan liking doesn’t mean they’re partisan.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

The only thing MG is proving is that MG is a slimy pile of TDS-addled lying shit.

[damikesc]

You've proven that your retardation is even worse than expected over the last week or so, Tony.

You, above all, do not get to claim things without some evidence behind it.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Foreigners (who are vetted) may pay $1 million for a "gold card" that will allow them U.S. residency'

Yeah, but does the US Gold Card also get you into the executive lounge at the airport?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

What about Reason cocktail parties? It's a job Americans don't want to do.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Indian nationals are currently the largest beneficiaries of the program. More than 70 percent of H-1Bs go to Indians, and 12 percent going to Chinese people. Roughly a quarter of the physicians working in the U.S. are foreign-born.

Liz, are you aware that these businesses act in a racist manner, only hiring their country men to fill staffing spots?

[Doug Heffernan]

The Secretary of Homeland Security has the discretion to waive the 100K fee, which will surely happen for companies that show sufficient fealty to the administration. It's not that hard, just lots of compliments and maybe having the CEO making a personal appeal interspersed with plenty of flattery, compliments, and maybe some gift of gold bars or some other form of gold.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...which will surely happen for companies that show sufficient fealty to the administration..."

This from a lying, slimy pile of TDS-addled shit.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

More arguments through imagination. All the retard left does.

Meanwhile they screamed when USAID and government spending was shut down.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

For your pleasure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4RsnEk8lY

[Quicktown Brix]

From the executive order:

(c) The restriction imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to any individual alien, all aliens working for a company, or all aliens working in an industry, if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in the Secretary’s discretion, that the hiring of such aliens to be employed as H-1B specialty occupation workers is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Do you think that proves retard Doug's assertions?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Prolly not (not real shmart), but he hopes to provide misdirection. He's highly degreed in bullshit!

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Mike can't change.

[Chumby]

Mike Laursen needs a coloring book version of Reason.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Great. Now we can add Toddler Reason to Teen Reason, Ladies Home Reason, Cosmo Reason, and Reason for Authoritarians.

[Chumby]

Could call it ReReason.

Still apt to refer to the collection as Dicked magazine.

[Quicktown Brix]

Do you think that proves retard Doug's assertions?

It proves part of his assertions. The rest is a safe bet based on his prior behavior.

[Doug Heffernan]

That was my primary assertion. That the 100K fee shall not apply if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that it shouldn't.

Since someone can waive the fee, it seems likely that at least some companies will be angling to get it waived. That was the basis of the rest of my post. Do you expect that such "waiver angling" will not happen?

[I, Woodchipper]

this is a carve out for Boeing and Lockheed.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

They are under ITAR, EXIM. They cant hire the folks foe the majority of their work. Boeing can for domestic airline type work, but not defense.

[Nelson]

Of course Boeing has that whole “can’t build a decent airplane” problem it can’t seem to solve. How wonderful it is that they’re making things our military needs to function properly.

[sarcasmic]

In other words, all immigrant workers are by default threats to national security until deemed otherwise. Guilty until proven innocent. Sounds about right for this administration and its defenders.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Yawn, Strawcasmic.

[Mother's Lament]

Do you know what ITAR is, you retard?

Your stupidity and rank ignorance never ceases to astound me.

[mamabug]

No, it is assuming that the H1-B visa program itself is not in the national interest. The waiver gives the government leeway to prevent true shortages while penalizing the many, many, MANY companies that use this program for cheap, entry-level labor. (One of my jobs I sat in a room with 20 H1-B visa holders who literally did nothing but push a button to start a server tear-down, push another one to start the build, and logged any bugs the script spat out).

I have mixed feelings about this. I work with a lot of visa holders and see the abuses this system perpetrates. I would much prefer we get rid of it entirely and establish a points-based immigration system that would put many of the existing visa holders at the front of the line. As a whole, they are young, family-oriented, educated, hard-working, risk-taking, law-abiding, and already assimilated into American culture.

OTOH, after watching his actions this year, I am finally getting a sense of what Trump is trying to do economically. He is working to shut off the 'wealth pump' that has caused most of the productivity gain from the digital revolution and globalization to funnel directly to the top income groups. Essentially, he is trying to reverse or ease popular immiseration, one of the key drivers of civil unrest. I don't know whether any of the actions will work, but I hope so since I would really like to avoid the pending civil war.

[sarcasmic]

In other words the same arguments that have been made against immigrants from China, Italy, Ireland, Germany...

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

In other words, no. Your glittering generalities once again fall short.

[Quicktown Brix]

In other words, the same arguments that have been used by the governments from China Italy and Germany to plan the economy.

[mad.casual]

Still better and more coherent than specifically hiring someone who doesn't know our country's laws and doesn't have to in order to participate in the vaccination and castration progroms being run out of federally-ACA/EMTALA-funded ERs for a nominal $5K fee.

[Longtobefree]

I am out of gold right now, can I use one of Hunter's paintings?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"The clandestine deployment of elite U.S. Special Operations forces to the Caribbean suggests that strikes or commando raids inside Venezuela itself may be in the works"

DID YOU HEAR WHAT TRUMP SAID?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Fuck odd and die, asswipe.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

The Trump Administration's proclamation that slaps a $100,000 fee on H-1Bs cites a flawed study from the left wing Economic Policy Institute as justification.

"Whenever possible, a campaign should utilize the enemy's resources"--Sun Tzu

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

The funniest part of the Jimmy Kimmel saga is that it motivated the remaining 20-30% of their pre-COVID audience to cancel their Disney+ subscriptions. These people are getting absolutely dunked on in various YouTube comments for how amusingly reactionary they are.

Remember kids, this ALL started because a woman wanted to get good reviews on her shitty video game.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

There's a lot of ink about how 'Trump lost his court case!!!!!!!!!!', and very little a week or so later:
"Trump Wins Stay from Supreme Court"
I guess he's 'court shopping' but lucky enough not to get Boasberg.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

And it’s been fairly consistent. District court claims Trump is violating a law. Appeals court or SCOTUS overturns said district court ruling.

[Chumby]

Reason editors ignore the scotus rulings or indicate “they got it wrong.”

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Also too local.

[JFree]

Wotta surprise.

The agreement now about TikTok is that Oracle will now take control of the algorithm that is used to display what users see in their feed.

Confirming the blindingly obvious, that this was NEVER some national security issue about Chinese stealing user data but was always about ensuring that the yoots of America would remain firmly inside the control of the ad-driven mass-manipulation propaganda mindset that American social media reinforces. Can't have them questioning what their grandparents (in charge of politics/governance) support doing (and forcing those yoots to pay for).

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Wotta surprise.

TDS-addled shit angry at and lying about Trump.
Fuck off and die, shitstain.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

In jewfrees retarded mind, 2 things cant be true at the same time.

[BYODB]

Look, the 'shortage' of Doctor's in the United States is a self inflicted wound and bandaging over it with foreign M.D. was always pretty retarded.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

And back-filling with DEI was very retarded.

[BYODB]

It's telling that Congress legislated to ensure there isn't a 'surplus' of Doctor's in the U.S. then promptly forgot they did that even as we ended up with a shortage.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

No kidding. You're staring in the face of an aging Boomer population that's living well in to their 70s now, and probably won't start dropping substantially for another 10 years. And these idiots' big-brained idea was to LIMIT the number of doctors?

This is the same logic that says not building housing to save the environment, while mass importing the entire fucking Third World into your country, won't affect housing costs.

[BYODB]

There's also the fact that if American medical education and regulation are so necessary for the protection of the populace, going around all that to bring in foreign M.D. is by their own measure dangerous and idiotic.

I don't necessarily agree with any of that, of course, despite my decade plus of being in the medical industry myself but that is what the left seems to believe. I suppose it's true that if it weren't for double standards many of the left would have none at all.

[Michael Ejercito]

Here is an interesting quote from a National Review article.

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/a-senate-story-about-first-amendment-lawfare/

But that doesn’t answer the question of what the party in power now is likely to do under existing rules laid down by the left. The left built a machine to go after the right — and only the right — yet now the right is in control of that machine. The right can’t destroy that machine on its own, only turn it off. It’s hard to fault those in charge for not wanting to do that, letting it collect dust until Democrats, in charge again, turn the machine back on.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

That's the primary argument here. Castigating the right for using the same powers the left established. They only want the left to abuse government powers.

[damikesc]

As many of us here said --- they will hate their rules when applied to them.

[Marshal]

The right can’t destroy that machine on its own,

I don't agree with this piece, I think they can. Use the Civl Rights Acts to prosecute anyone involved in denying Americans their Civl Rights. I've advocated this for a decade toward those who weaponized Title IX, but there's no reason we can't prosecute government officials and their private industry cronies for conspiring to violate the First Amendment rights of their targets.

I suspect putting people in jail and barring them from employment by any business that receives federal funds would put a stop to weaponized government. All these people depend on government for their livelihoods.

[Quicktown Brix]

The right can’t destroy that machine on its own, only turn it off. It’s hard to fault those in charge for not wanting to do that, letting it collect dust until Democrats, in charge again, turn the machine back on.

Once you put on the ring, it takes control of you and Trump is no Frodo.

[BYODB]

Trump has actually tried to roll some things back, which is a noticeable improvement over Democrats who believe the rachet only goes in one direction.

Sure, Trump does some dumb shit too but it's still less idiotic than the alternative. Maybe not a glowing endorsement, but I think we all know what a Mitt Romney would have been like if they were elected.

I have to admit, I prefer a Trump style politician over a Romney style politician. At least Trump fights back, even if he's a grandstanding asshole. That's still better than a milquetoast that would roll over and do everything the left wants to 'get along'. We had decades of that, and we see exactly where it led to.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Mike has been against all the rollback, especially the gold bars off the titanic.

[Mike Parsons]

"The $100,000 Visa"

My wife presumes, based on her spending, that is the Chase card in her wallet.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

When did she Discover it?

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Hey, give her some credit.

[Chumby]

Sounds like she has a lot of interest.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

She needs one Mastercard to rule them all.

[JesseAz (RIP CK)]

Her wallet is gay? Does sarc know?

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

An award we should have in the commentariat.

https://x.com/ifindretards/status/1970097352741638386?s=46&t=qeA47-JjK6vq0pfnxg60dA

Congrats to Destiny on a truly massive week of retardation.

I can name some candidates right now, starting with Molly/Tony.

[Ska]

My turn to say good thing I have no fucking idea who this person is.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

It’s probably better that way. Destiny is, how shall we say, quite the unsavory individual.

[damikesc]

Possibly the most famous cuck in the country.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

I would’ve called him “infamous” instead of “famous”. He’s also a pedo right after Shrike’s dark heart.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

Why is an ugly dude have a stripper name?

[Mother's Lament]

Fucking blue hair on a middle aged man who looks like an anemic Captain Haddock.

SMH

[Michael Ejercito]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1nn3o3m/california_bans_most_law_enforcement_officers/

California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill that was signed Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and swiftly denounced by Trump administration officials.

The ban is a direct response to recent immigration raids in Los Angeles, where federal agents wore masks while making mass arrests. The raids prompted days of protest and led President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard troops and Marines to the area.

Newsom said at a news conference in Los Angeles, where he signed the bill flanked by state lawmakers, education leaders and immigrant community members, that California is unique in that 27% of its residents are foreign born.

“We celebrate that diversity. It’s what makes California great. It’s what makes America great. It is under assault,” he said.

The instant a police officer tries to arrest an ICE agent for wearing a mask while on the job, Trump should declare martial law in California, and suspend civil authority.

Firing on Fort Sumter did not work out too well fort South Carolina.

[Chumby]

Female Muslim ICE officers to be transferred to Cali.

[BYODB]

That would be an epic troll on par with Abbott bussing illegal immigrants to places like Martha's Vineyard.

That said, I wonder if there are any female Muslim ICE agents to deploy and even if there are how many of them are devout enough to wear their religious garb.

Like, how many Khalsa Sikh ICE agents are there and do they carry their kirpan?

[BYODB]

LOL, leave it to California not to understand that ICE doesn't fall under their jurisdiction thus they cannot legislate on what ICE can or cannot do in their territory.

If California can get away with that, just wait and see what Texas does.

[Michael Ejercito]

That is why it has to be nipped in the bud.

The last time this happened, President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Little Rock Central High School.

[BYODB]

And the time before that, it resulted in a civil war.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

He's clearly trying to set himself up to be ragdolled when he shows up to try and put them under arrest. Watch him run the "states rights" angle as part of it, you know it's going to happen. Marxists operate on the assumption that provocations will bring their dialectic to fruition.

[AReasonableMan]

"During the pre-weekend Friday news dump"

I think I liked it better before it was edited from "news dumb".

[Incunabulum]

>Some number of the roughly 500,000 people currently in the U.S. with H-1Bs—high-skill visas used by tech workers, medical workers, and other professionals working in the fields they received degrees in—would have been dissuaded from coming here had the new system been in place.

Yes.

That is the point.

Either these people are so important to the business that they're creating more than 100k in value for the company they work for or they're not. And if they're not - I bet an American exists that could do the job just as well.

The problem is that currently you would find it difficult for a high-value American to do that job for minimum wage plus the 5k H1-B fee while the company rakes in hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit off their work.

Remember - we need a permanent underclass who can be exploited in order to maintain our standard of living!

[damikesc]

So, Kimmel is back tomorrow. Being unfunny as per usual.

So, uh, Reason --- you said the FCC had him removed. So, what happened? Is your "journalism" as shit as always?

[Chumby]

They nailed covid, tariffs, and Russsiagate so cut them some slack.

[Mother's Lament]

Don't forget their stellar journalistic investigative work on the Twitter files.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

The hilarious part is that the dipwads on the left are saying "we did it!", as if the remaining 20% of Disney's audience had any sort of impact on such a short term agreement.

Guarantee most of this was based on the fact that Kimmel's staff at the show aren't getting paid, and they needed to come to an agreement to get those people back to work.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

I’m surprised Sinclair and Nextar are letting Kimmel back. I’ll wager that it’s a mere matter of months before they revolt again and demand a replacement. Kimmel doesn’t sell ad space.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I suspect they'll just let the contract expire as long as Kimmel behaves himself and leaves the Charlie Kirk thing alone. The guy's been bitching about Trump for over a decade now so that's not going to change, but the reality is that those ratings aren't coming back once the post-"watch Kimmel to own the chuds" burst dies down in about a month or less.

[BYODB]

A month? These morons will forget about it in a week since they don't watch Kimmel either. Apparently no one does.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Turns out, I was wrong. Sinclair and Nexstar already issued statements that Kimmel will be preempted by other news programs on their ABC stations. They revolted against the ABC mothership faster than I suspected.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I guess they're basically daring Disney to either pick Kimmel or them. Probably doesn't matter either way, since the show is already losing money hand over fist and the ratings are in the toilet.

[Dillinger]

>>as a means of control over Black & brown New Yorkers

why is one capitalized and the other not?

[Neutral not Neutered]

Doesn't surprise me Canada would join in the recognizing Palestine crowd. They signed the waiver to allow the WHO to take over if the WHO deems another pandemic arrived.

And of course many other horrible policies implemented by progressive liberals.

[Dillinger]

>>The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia officially recognized Palestine as a state Sunday

did you ask any of them where it is on a map?

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

A "just so" story from Reddit:

Got called a ‘Ni**er’ in capitol hill last week and no one said anything

was pumping gas in capitol hill last week and this white woman drives by, rolls her window down, and literally screams “ni**er” at me. like that was it. no buildup, no road rage, nothing. just saw me and let it rip.

i was the only black person in the lot and there were like 3 or 4 white people around who definitely heard it. they all looked right at me and just stared. not one person said anything. no “yo what the fuck” or “are you okay” or even just a look of shock. everyone just went back to what they were doing like that kind of thing is normal.

i got in my car and cried like ugly cried. and immediately started thinking about moving back home to new york. i’ve been in colorado for 3 years now and i’ve had my moments here where i’ve had white people yell the n-word at me during road rage incidents and i always tried to justify it like “okay they were having a bad day but would never act like this otherwise” or “i must’ve done something to piss them off and they snapped.” not that it made it okay but at least there was some kind of explanation in my head. this time though? there was no excuse. no interaction. i was literally just standing there not doing anything remotely “ni**erish” or bothering anyone lmao just existing.

LOL, come the fuck on. I'm really supposed to believe that some white Karen in Capitol Hill, of all places, decided to randomly drop an N-bomb at someone pumping their gas at the 7-11? I guess claiming that she said "This is MAGA country" would have made it too obvious.

Assuming even part of it is true, I suspect the road rage incidents were probably Hispanics. You know how all those light skins look alike.

[Dillinger]

pics or it didn't happen, bro ~~2010

[Chumby]

Any chance she was yelling “Dinger”? We know that can be confusing.

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Sounds like a Reddit story that never happened.

[Chumby]

Still would like to believe this one was true:

https://reason.com/2025/07/15/will-trump-actually-close-the-education-department/?comments=true#comments

[Marshal]

Capitol Hill, that's MAGA country!

[InsaneTrollLogic (smarter than The Average Dude)]

Just like Chicago. Ask Jusse Smolett.

[BYODB]

I mean, I won't say it's impossible that it happened...but the person claiming it's happened repeatedly makes me think it didn't.

The line where they want to go back to New York, home of the stop and frisk, is a bit rich too.

I drive on 25 every day, with all the bullshit that entails, and never once have I seen anyone shout anything at anyone else even if they damn well deserved it.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I mean, people honk at each other on there every day without getting shot, although road rage certainly happens. You're more likely to get smacked by a drunk driver or get hassled by a homeless drug addict than hear some white woman use the hard R in one of the bluest neighborhoods in the Denver metro.

[BYODB]

Yeah, no shit. Denver is a Progressive bastion, there is just about zero chance multiple people said this.

It's the reverse of a 'and then everyone clapped' story.

If anyone saw something like that happen in Denver, there would be a news article on it. In fact, the media are so retarded I'm surprised there isn't such a story based on nothing more than a claim on Reddit.

[TJJ2000]

AWESOME... This is the best possible way of proving an immigrant will be an 'asset' instead of a 'liability'. Separating the EARN what you want from the 'I'm entitled' mentality right at the door.