Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Rasulis]

While the US is doing everything in their power to foster an atmosphere and fear among US foreign students.

How US immigration authorities tried to hunt down Indian student Ranjani Srinivasan and her escape to Canada

On the other hand, Canada is trying to figure out how to retain more of them.

Why Canada should do more to keep international students
They contribute billions to the economy every year and represent a much-needed highly skilled labour force for the future.

The girl is a Fulbright Scholar from India doing her PhD in Urban Planning. She is not a terrorist, nor a Hammas sympathizer.

The scholar came under scrutiny because of an incident last year when pro-Palestine protests gripped Columbia University. When protesters clashed with the police, she was arrested near the university grounds. She was not participating in the demonstration but was returning after spending the day with friends when she found herself in the middle of the commotion. She was detained along with close to 100 others.

“I was just trying to get back to my apartment,” Srinivasan was quoted as saying by The New York Times (NYT), distancing herself from the pro-Palestine protests. While she was issued two summonses – for obstructing traffic and refusing to disperse – her case was dismissed and did not result in a criminal record.

Srinivasan thought it was all behind her and did not disclose the summonses when she renewed her student visa as the case was dropped. Little did she know that months later, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would come after her.

According to Srinivasan’s attorneys, while she attended a handful of protests, she did not participate in a protest last year in which students occupied Hamilton Hall. On social media, she shared or liked posts on human rights violations in Gaza. In 2023, she signed an open letter published by the Society of Architectural Historians in support of “Palestinian liberation”.

[gondrin]

How US immigration authorities tried to hunt down Indian student Ranjani Srinivasan and her escape to Canada

And this is why it is never about deporting people. It is about silencing speech they don't like. The girl self-deported. But to this current administration, she is still a "dangerous person" because of her speech.

No Trump, her speech isn't dangerous to anyone outside of zealots who want to genocide the Palestinian people.

[Rasulis]

And this is why it is never about deporting people. It is about silencing speech they don't like. The girl self-deported. But to this current administration, she is still a "dangerous person" because of her speech.

No Trump, her speech isn't dangerous to anyone outside of zealots who want to genocide the Palestinian people.

Not sure why the government went after her in the first place. Her involvement, at best, was barely peripheral. A like in 2023 and signing an open letter, with God knows how many other signatories, published by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) do not constitute supporting Hamas.

SAH mission statement "The Society of Architectural Historians promotes the study, interpretation, and conservation of architecture, design, landscapes, and urbanism worldwide for the benefit of all."

[korijenkins]

Well, the other towns failed because they weren't run by a genius like they are
- their logic, most definitely

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This is why learning about taxes in school should be mandatory

There's a big reason conservative politicians have invested heavily in creating skepticism around education. The only people who would vote for policies that blatantly screw them are the biggest idiots in America. With the old Christian fart vote dying off, they've replaced them with the moron vote.

[gondrin]

Not sure why the government went after her in the first place. Her involvement, at best, was barely peripheral. A like in 2023 and signing an open letter, with God knows how many other signatories, published by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) do not constitute supporting Hamas.

SAH mission statement "The Society of Architectural Historians promotes the study, interpretation, and conservation of architecture, design, landscapes, and urbanism worldwide for the benefit of all."

To fascists, any speech they don't like, no matter how peripheral, is an affront to them. They also fear that someone may get "ideas" and they cannot have anyone have those.

You see that in cults and extremist religious groups.

[DarkTZeratul]

Not sure why the government went after her in the first place.

Because she's an easy target.

[Doomcookie]

1). We have always had free/fair elections. There has never been any evidence of wide-spread voting fraud that has affected elections. Ever. Like Obama/Biden said, "you can't just love your country when you win."

2). Unlikely at this point that the GOP lose anything for another decade+. The markets will recover after this correction, like they always do. Eggs will be cheaper. Gas is already cheaper. Mortgages are coming down. The lasting memory of the Democratic party will be them defending that a violent international gang "only" took over a handful of apartments in CO, and not as many as had originally been claimed. Among other things.

3). N/A

Then, why do you support a guy who lied about an election being stolen, then tried to overthrow the government?

I'p note there wasn't a single comment of yours that condemned him for either.

Why the lies and hypocrisy?

[Poopymonster]

Not sure why the government went after her in the first place. Her involvement, at best, was barely peripheral. A like in 2023 and signing an open letter, with God knows how many other signatories, published by the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) do not constitute supporting Hamas.

SAH mission statement "The Society of Architectural Historians promotes the study, interpretation, and conservation of architecture, design, landscapes, and urbanism worldwide for the benefit of all."

She is brown.
She is not a citizen.
She was near something Trump didn't like.

[fwc577]

Company towns are not new they have been tried several times to the point where they had their own currency. All of them ended in complete and utter disasters apparently not learning from history these guys want to do that again.

I mean the ketamine junkie went out and sig heiled twice on stage. You know these fucking retards don't learn from history. Just wish we'd be able to skip to the stage where their leader an heroes himself and the good guys come in and hang the rest.

[Poopymonster]

I mean the ketamine junkie went out and sig heiled twice on stage. You know these fucking retards don't learn from history. Just wish we'd be able to skip to the stage where their leader an heroes himself and the good guys come in and hang the rest.

Correction, they did learn from history.
The just learned the wrong lesson.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

Not sure why the government went after her in the first place.

A picture is worth 1000 words.

[Xath]

And once again, these would be on federal lands. And unless they can ship in everything by air(good luck with much larger things), the states themselves can easily block their ability to generate anything resembling resources to come into those cities. Remember, most actual national lands aren't good for farming so they will need food. Most of them don't have major sources of water so water would have to be shipped in. And the states themselves can say you cannot come through our territory.

Company towns were a legit thing a long time ago. They died off also a long time ago because the only people that lived there were people who worked there. And libertarians also tried this in recent times too.

Want to know what happened?

Bears took over the town.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-polit...ngoltz-hetling

I swear, people forget that the States within the United States are still sovereign entities with their own laws, their own constitutions and the like.

And unless these techobros are going to kidnap a bunch of people, there won't be enough people to actually work for these people like there isn't now.

I never said these people were smart however here's what you aren't factoring in. Small family run farms are dying and a lot of them rely on illegal labor. When these farms have to sell off they are being bought up by megacorps. If the megacorps stop supplying small towns or even cities and only supply "freedumb cities" you have major problem and the question is will the public act like sheep or revolt.

[SAY HER NAME]

Trumps attempt at vacating an order and invoking war time powers got denied. He will be having a court hearing about the issue. Trump is fast approaching the Rubicon. Lets see if he crosses it.

[Xath]

A picture is worth 1000 words.

It's not even that German white dude who has been here for over a decade married etc was detained as well recently.

[Endus]

I never said these people were smart however here's what you aren't factoring in. Small family run farms are dying and a lot of them rely on illegal labor.

Then they should die. Their deaths should be accelerated so the unlawful activity comes to an end as rapidly as possible.

It isn't the public's responsibility to protect your failed business venture. The root problem they're facing is their own terrible business practices and inability to adapt to changing conditions.

[gondrin]

I never said these people were smart however here's what you aren't factoring in. Small family run farms are dying and a lot of them rely on illegal labor. When these farms have to sell off they are being bought up by megacorps. If the megacorps stop supplying small towns or even cities and only supply "freedumb cities" you have major problem and the question is will the public act like sheep or revolt.

I live in an area with a LOT of small farms. They do a good amount of business with the local stores and the typical supermarket like Walmart that, for all intents and purposes, these "freedom cities" wouldn't get much of much headway.

The biggest thing to remember is, the megacorp farms can try to dictate who they can sell to but the states themselves can force them to sell to people within their state or shut down the farms. Seeing as, well, farms cannot be moved and still need to use local infrastructure, which is supplied by those same small and local cities. Which, once again, if those municipalities found out that those farms refused to sell goods in those areas, could refuse to allow those farms to use the local infrastructure which means their goods could not leave said farms to begin with.

So yes, I am factoring this in. There is a main reason why federal land, as it sits now, isn't developed outside of some mining or natural resource development like oil drilling. Because a LARGE part of it isn't able to be turned into farmland. A lot of it has bad soil and has not a lot of actual natural amounts of fresh water. For all intents and purposes, a large part of federal lands is mountain, desert/very arid or other lands typically uninhabitable. All desirable lands that would be able to actively host a city at large has pretty much been developed.

EDIT: I want to add this to make it really clear who owns what land in the US. Yes, there is private ownership of land. However, outside of Native Reservations, it is on a contingency basis meaning if you don't pay your local property tax or there is some major infrastructure development happening, your property can be taken by force by your local jurisdiction. Either through a tax lien or eminent domain seizure. And the local jurisdiction could also use the justification of condemning the property for whatever reason.

[Roneth]

The Gridiron Club is one of the oldest and most selective journalist groups in the USA. For 140 years, they've had an annual dinner, similar to the WH Correspondent's Dinner in its humorous tone. Every President in the last 140 years (except Cleveland) has attended at least once.

For the first time ever ever, they toasted the 1st Amendment and not the President.

Incidentally, both Trump and his press secretary have already publicly committed to missing the WHCD, hosted by an intelligent African American woman.

I like how the posts are always slanted on this board. In your post above did you point out that Trump had attended before? The Presidents don't always attend since you had to write "at least once".

Incidentally, Trump has never attended the whcd events because he boycotts them. I guess most of this post is irrelevant. Except for one part. Why did you feel it was relevant to post that the whcd was being hosted by an african American woman. Seems rather odd to include. Can you give a reason why you had to include that? Just race bating? Were you trying to say it was because of her race and denying the fact that he boycotts it every year? There has to be a reason you included that. That has to be relevant since you HAD to post it.


Feel free to talk about this week's CNN poll that has democrats approval at it's lowest of all time.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/polit...ats/index.html

The Democratic Party’s favorability rating among Americans stands at a record low, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, fueled in part by dimming views from its own frustrated supporters.

Among the American public overall, the Democratic Party’s favorability rating stands at just 29% – a record low in CNN’s polling dating back to 1992 and a drop of 20 points since January 2021, when Trump exited his first term under the shadow of the January 6 attack at on Capitol. The Republican Party’s rating currently stands at 36%.

Actual news, at least relevant.

[gondrin]

Then they should die. Their deaths should be accelerated so the unlawful activity comes to an end as rapidly as possible.

It isn't the public's responsibility to protect your failed business venture. The root problem they're facing is their own terrible business practices and inability to adapt to changing conditions.

A lot of what is being said cannot happen with how societies work anymore. Anything larger than a handful of people(talking about 1000 or more people) requires a lot more resources to sustain than any of these "freedom cities" could ever hope to generate. Power? Sure, if they could have a local power plant built. But food, water and everything else would require outside sources. And food doesn't instantly grow, it has to be grown in multiple places at multiple times a year or you get what happened during the Dust Bowl era(aka, dead farmland). Meat takes time to grow(months for chickens, cattle and other forms of meat to grow in size), crops take months to grow to enough to be consumed, and so on and so on.

It is the typical Ayn Rand fantasy where the industrialists decide to create their own society and pretty much be self-sufficient forgetting that, as I said above, anything larger than a certain amount of people, you pretty much run into massive roadblocks with actual resources that are pretty much vital to human life.

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I like how the posts are always slanted on this board. In your post above did you point out that Trump had attended before? The Presidents don't always attend since you had to write "at least once".

Incidentally, Trump has never attended the whcd events because he boycotts them. I guess most of this post is irrelevant. Except for one part. Why did you feel it was relevant to post that the whcd was being hosted by an african American woman. Seems rather odd to include. Can you give a reason why you had to include that? Just race bating? Were you trying to say it was because of her race and denying the fact that he boycotts it every year? There has to be a reason you included that. That has to be relevant since you HAD to post it.


Feel free to talk about this week's CNN poll that has democrats approval at it's lowest of all time.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/polit...ats/index.html



Actual news, at least relevant.

Talking about slanting and don't state why Trump is boycotting them(I thought boycotts were illegal per Trump). Trump doesn't like to be ridiculed which would happen at events like this.

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Well, so much for "The Most Competent Administration Ever".

Granted, technical difficulties happen to everyone at any type of event. However, you cannot claim that and then have basic microphone issues. It is literally a plug that goes into the microphone which then goes to a control box that then goes off to whatever sources that need it. It isn't debugging code or something of that nature. It is literally a "plug and play" type thing.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...3c81572f&ei=11

Yes, at one point, I have helped setup this type of stuff. It isn't complicated in any meaningful way.

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So, Conor McGregor is at the White House today for St. Patrick's Day and is complaining how Ireland, due to immigration, is losing its "Irishness". I'm part Irish. He really needs to define "Irishness". Because outside of drinking too much, red hair and other things that would be typically stereotypes that are based around it, there is no such thing as "Irishness".

The best part is he was saying this while wearing a green suit. Might as well as dressed up in a top hat with a 4-leaf clover and stated that someone was going to steal his luck charms. Might as well go all the way.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...403b5ac48&ei=7

[Somewhatconcerned]

It appears there was more to this story than first reported.

And I believe a visa can be revoked for any reason.

https://thehill.com/homenews/educati...ral-terrorist/

[gondrin]

It appears there was more to this story than first reported.

And I believe a visa can be revoked for any reason.

https://thehill.com/homenews/educati...ral-terrorist/

Yes, it was revoked and yes, they can be revoked for any reason. That was already reported when it first got out about her. That still doesn't stop the fact they are willing to jail and deport people for their viewpoints. The problem isn't the visa holders, which sucks in and of itself but visas are temporary allowances of being able to stay in the country more than a day or two. So if they get revoked for some bullshit reasons, it sucks and shouldn't happen but pretty much any nation on earth can do the exact same thing.

The problem is the jailing of green card or other permanent residence immigrants that are basically getting their status revoked without going through due process which is required to remove that status. It would be like trying to jail and then deport a natural born citizen without any due process.