Posts Made By: Mel Maki

Formula 1 is so advanced the cars really don't slide around much. They learn the limits of the corners. Any speed beyond that and the cars mostly just leap off the track. I liked the old manual transmissions more than the autos. Bring them back!

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Jim,
I've already posted a response to Mel regarding the Russia "hoax". I think you're asleep at the wheel and you need to wake the ----up on the insurrection. It's actually continuing to unfold before you but you don't recognize it. The fact is the Trump team is working diligently to subvert the electoral process on multiple levels. Bannon and his co-horts reportedly provide scripts to angry Republican parents to read at school board meetings to create imaginary and incendiary issues on mask mandates/vaccine mandates and or CRT, even if the school district doesn't teach the latter. The Trump team is pushing candidates for election boards who either were at the insurrection at the capitol or are active in pushing the big lie. One of 'em just got elected. Another is running for the governorship of Arizona. Another, who just stated he wouldn't have certified the votes in Georgia for the 2020 election is also now running for its governorship. If these people and others like them actually get elected to office, and Trump runs for office and loses again in 2024, then it's likely his supporters on the election boards or in the governorships, will not certify the vote based upon the big lie of election fraud.  If that happens, Democracy ends. Do you not get that?

"...Trump working to subvert the electoral process..."

Allowing millions to cross the southern border will have a bigger effect on elections. It won't be long before non-citizens are voting in a state like New York. The border caught more than 120,000 last month. More than that slipped through. Biden doesn't care that hundreds of thousands of unskilled cross. Where will they be working in 10 years? Biden and apparently other Dems do not care. Do you still deny they are a COVID risk?
Changing the demographics does make a difference.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Let's assume for a moment that Paul Manafort was actually the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton instead of Donald J Trump. Since Manafort "provided the Russian Intelligence Services with sensitive information on polling and [Trump] campaign strategy.” And according to its campaign official, "the information that Manafort handed directly to Russian intelligence was of critical importance, determining “98 percent” of the campaign’s resource allocations (such as spending on TV, radio and social media ads, rallies, field operations, and so on)." Furthermore, ", the ultrasensitive campaign information that Manafort passed to a Russian spy “identified voter bases in blue-collar, democratic-leaning states which Trump could swing,” including in “Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/548794-there-was-trump-russia-collusion-and-trump-pardoned-the-colluder
Would you be calling it a hoax? Would you believe that Clinton had no knowledge of it? Would you approve of Clinton pardoning Manaford?

Don't notice how they change the demographics. It is the "Russian hoax" and the "insurrection" that matters!

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

You be sure to let us know when the ones they caught as well as the ones they didn't start voting illegally. 
Meanwhile you can read about Republican voter fraud in the 2020 election here:
https://www.thebulwark.com/the-pattern-of-gop-voter-fraud/

it is like a dem to insist the demographics do not matter.
Are they a COVID risk?

Do you really believe dumping hundreds of thousands and even millions of unskilled labor into the country is ok?
You don't need to answer, you don't care.

Sure, probably 90% of the millions that have made it across were up to date on their shots and boosters. Your politics omit logic and you are happy about it.

And now greenies are complaining about natural gas. It seems they want scarcity and higher prices.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

You be sure to let us know when the ones they caught as well as the ones they didn't start voting illegally. 
Meanwhile you can read about Republican voter fraud in the 2020 election here:
https://www.thebulwark.com/the-pattern-of-gop-voter-fraud/

Still in that bubble?
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1064385999/new-york-city-will-allow-legal-non-citizens-to-vote-in-local-elections

aJames Lacey

Every time I hear this hyperbole about millions of illegals let into the US, I go looking for the data that would back up these claims, and I never can find any from a trustworthy or reliable source. The DHS keeps lots of statistics on the estimates of the illegal immigrant populations in the US, and you can look at it for yourself here: 

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/immigration-statistics/Pop_Estimate/UnauthImmigrant/unauthorized_immigrant_population_estimates_2015_-_2018.pdf

Here is the leading DHS site regarding immigration data and statistics:

https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics

If you look at this data, the first thing that you will realize is that the illegal immigration population has remained remarkably flat since 2005. Trump didn't decrease the number of people, but it didn't increase, and the same is true for previous administrations. The estimate has not varied much from 10-12 million since 2005. It started to increase in 1990 to its current level in an almost entirely linear fashion, which occurred under the Democratic and Republican administrations.

My point is that there doesn't seem to be any reliable data that would support the claim that "Democrats have allowed millions of illegal immigrants into our country!" Additionally, almost all of those illegal immigrants are in CA and TX. They are not running rampant all over the country. So, I would suggest that unvaccinated Republicans are more of a COVID risk than illegal immigrants.

I know the GOP loves to use illegal immigration as a whipping post against Democrats and like to claim they allow it and favor it to swell their voting ranks, but honestly, the claim doesn't seem to have much actual veracity.






James, it defies common sense to say Biden did not cause a large increase at the border. All we had to do was turn on the tv and watch it happen! True we don't have exact numbers. I saw that 170,000 were intercepted so I thought my estimate of 120,000 getting by our patrol last month was a conservative estimate. And a million a year also seems on the conservative side. I still have not recovered from anybody saying the Dem party does not want illegal immigration! Biden is purposely increasing the flow over the border. It is painfully obvious! And we should not be so overcome with politics that we pretend there is not a huge problem of COVID ACROSS THE BORDER!
Dumping millions of unskilled people into our economy is also terrible. It contributes to the difficulties people on the lower rung are going through. Why do Dems deny this is not fair to our people in that income level? Where are these people going to be working ten years from now?

Now they are claiming 1.2 million were caught at the border.
I also know people that are aware of the drugs consumed around here. They biggest cause of 18-45 deaths here is fentanyl they claim. I have not verified the number but would not be surprised at all. This has increased since the border has increased. Call it a coincidence if you wish.

Also, I am not writing about this to have a political "whipping post" against the Dems. I am upset that people are pretending this is not a real problem and a big problem. I can not respect the thought process of a person that turns his back on this.