Nightwingdragon

Here's a question I have never understood about this. I understand all of this if you are planning on returning to living in the US at some point. But if you've moved to a foreign country with no plans on returning to the US, why are you still paying taxes? What is stopping you from telling the US government to go pound sand?

I'm not meaning to sound sarcastic. It's a legit question. I don't know how any of this works and the issues surrounding it. Because I would think that if I lived in a foreign country I'd be telling Uncle Sam where he can stick his tax bill. That's kinda the whole point of leaving. What prevents people from doing this, especially if they don't plan to return to the US?

Here's the list:

• All of them.

Cowards. Our media are fucking cowards.

So is every other institution.

• Upenn recently caved.
• Harvard put up a fight for a while, but ultimately bent the knee.
• Even Canada blinked, and ultimately pulled a digital services tax in order to appease Trump. Again.

I have literally never understood it from day one of Trump's descent down that ladder. From day one, people have played Trump's games by Trump's rules, then wonder why they keep losing. It's not just our colleges and media centers. It's been our businesses, our tech industry, our legal system -- both civil and criminal, and even other world leaders. For some reason, in the end, they all blink and just give Trump whatever he wants. I don't know if it's out of fear, a sense of appeasement, or whatever. But not one of them has learned yet that appeasement DOES. NOT. FUCKING. WORK. All it does is make him come back for more. Appeasing him just makes him believe that whatever he wanted in the first place is his by divine birthright.

Negotiating with this man DOES. NOT. FUCKING. WORK. He has openly admitted that he doesn't honor his side of agreements, believing that he can use even that as a negotiating tactic, on the belief that you'll return to the negotiating table if you want to receive even a part of what you were promised in the first place. He believes that conceding anything is an admission that you knew he was right about everything in the first place, or you wouldn't be negotiating at all.

You can't give this man chances. One judge already gave him ten fucking chances, and it still didn't change his behavior. Then the judge went on and proceeded to do fuck all about it, and wondered why Trump just amped up the rhetoric. Why shouldn't he? The judge blinked and proved he had a whole lot of nothing. And so has every judge who has ultimately sat on the bench with a stupid look on their face when Trump all but said "Fuck you, what are you going to do about it?". Why should Trump respect them when their answer so far has been "Nothing."?

If you're going to go on TV and denounce Trump, then go from the podium right to the negotiating table to give Trump exactly what he wants, you can't be surprised that this is the end result.

Can you do something about it? Because if you can't, Trump won't care about whether you "accept" it at all. As far as he's concerned, he'll just stuff your ass into the first plane heading out to whatever 3rd world country he struck a deal with. The rest is your problem.

By "Bad", he means "Brown". At least, that's where it'll start.

"[The administration] can’t, on their own, denaturalize people, they still have to go to a federal district court,” said Chisthi.

"Wanna bet?"

-- Trump.

Cause it’s not about the one person you are arguing with but the hundreds of thousands who won’t say anything and vote against all that anyways. That one person didn’t allow trump to come to power they just raised a voice for why they believe all the silent voters are voting the way they do and standing up for it to be heard by someone that will hopefully listen.

So? All this means is that there are a whole bunch of people who refuse to answer how allowing Trump to return to power advances their position.

Racist and sexist because you believe other people are doesn’t make you any less.

I'm not the one who has to dig up a whole bunch of flimsy reasons why I didn't vote for Harris.

Did you pay any attention to the last time Musk tried this? It was only a couple of weeks ago that he threatened virtually the same thing: To make an anti-Trump conservative party in order to take him on. And the entire GOP basically laughed in his face, many of them openly to the press. Lose the backhanded sarcasm, it's neither funny nor impressive.

The problem is that as of right now, he gets to be. That shouldn't make you laugh. It should scare the shit out of you. He is literally planning on disappearing US citizens, making them stateless, and shipping them off to third world countries. He has already proven that he has people who are more than willing to wear masks and just kidnap people off the street on Trump's orders, and has already shipped people out of the country without due process or even access to the legal system. If you happen to be caught up in it, good luck ever finding someone who speaks English again, let alone being able to contact your family or get legal representation.

This should absolutely scare the fuck out of you.

Why do the press act as if Trump's self-imposed "deadline" actually matters?

They're going to get their way. They always were. There is no chance Mike Johnson is going to allow the House to stray too far away from Trump's dick. There will be a few hems and haws from some token Republicans allowed to pretend to be concerned, but the bill will likely pass with little to no real opposition.

From design to implementation, we'd still be talking about years. The chances of it happening before the end of his term are almost nonexistent just because of the logistics alone.

He made very similar threats a few weeks ago and then almost immediately backed down when he realized that literally none of them were taking his side.