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[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Anyone want to do a comparison of where we were at with Iran under Obama vs where we’re at with Iran under Dump?

Because it’s not good. Not good at all.

[Doctor Steuss]

Anyone want to do a comparison of where we were at with Iran under Obama vs where we’re at with Iran under Dump?

Because it’s not good. Not good at all.

Based on the current "framework," Iran will control the Strait, which will enable them to enact tolls on all vessels traveling through it. We'll pay them a silly amount of money. They'll be able to continue the windfall Trump handed them of selling their oil on the open market.

So, not only will they have a massive influx of cash, and increased steady cash flow, but they also have increased reason to develop a nuclear deterrent.

5d super genius chess.

Ultimately, I think it'll all come down to what China will allow Iran to do. If China hadn't intervened, I doubt Iran would have worked with Pakistan at all (even though the terms are highly in their favor). The longer their strangle-hold on the Strait continued, the stronger their bargaining position would become, regardless of what genocidal asshattery Trump engaged in.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

But but but some BLACK PEOPLE were on some WELFARE! But but but some BROWN PEOPLE were REPLACING a ROOF. But but but some MUSLIMS were WORKING at the HOSPITAL.

MAGA is a mental illness.

[canpakes]

“We will target everything, from car affordability to housing affordability, to insurance costs, to supply chain issues,” Trump said at a rally in North Carolina in August. “I will instruct my Cabinet that I expect results within the first 100 days or much sooner than that.”

“Prices will come down,” Trump told voters during a speech last week laying out his vision for a return to the White House. “You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”

Trump is having some difficulty getting this List item going.

[I Have Questions]

It’s beginning to read as if Trump hasn’t delivered anything that he promised voters he’d deliver. Everything he promises he’ll make better, he ends up making worse. He could bring America closer to being great if he just spent all his time on the golf course…oh, wait…

At least ajax has good explanations for why Making America Great Again has turned into Make America A Laughing Stock.

[canpakes]

It’s beginning to read as if Trump hasn’t delivered anything that he promised voters he’d deliver. Everything he promises he’ll make better, he ends up making worse. He could bring America closer to being great if he just spent all his time on the golf course…oh, wait…

At least ajax has good explanations for why Making America Great Again has turned into Make America A Laughing Stock.

It would seem that kicking brownish people out of the country is the only thing that really matters to MAGA voters.

Even with that, Trump will reverse course when it helps out his friends or benefits his own properties. Check out the next post.

[canpakes]

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Trump needs immigrants more than he realized, apparently.

Trump Is Exposed Bending Key Policy to Benefit Himself

Cameron Adams
Published Apr. 15 2026 10:15PM EDT

Donald Trump changed course on a key policy of his administration after being influenced by business pals at one of his Florida golf clubs.

Trump, 79, met with Mar-a-Lago staffers Bernd Lembcke and Peter Petrina in January, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. The men on Trump’s payroll told the president that the hospitality industry needed to hire more seasonal workers ahead of peak tourism periods in winter and spring.

On the final day of last year, the government signaled it would release only 35,000 additional H-2B visas for 2026, which was nearly half the number made available over the previous three years.

The H-2B visa allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers for temporary jobs, usually in areas such as hospitality, construction or tourism.

Two weeks after that meeting in January, Trump’s administration changed direction and released the maximum number of additional H-2B visas, which is 64,716.

Trump has used the H-2B visa program to hire roles such as cooks, housekeepers and waiters at his properties, including his private resort Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

“Fundamentally, it comes down to the fact that the president himself is a program user. Mar-a-Lago uses H-2Bs,” Tom Bortnyk, general counsel for másLabor, the nation’s largest provider of H-2A and H-2B services, told Bloomberg Law in February, after the decision was reversed.

“They’re not strangers to the H-2B programs.”

The Journal report also claimed that Trump had been lobbied by Republican congressman Andy Harris to reverse the cut to extra H-2B visas. Harris’ voters in Maryland rely heavily on seasonal workers to pick crabs on the Eastern Shore.

Trump “took the lobbying campaign,” which also included input from industry leaders, seriously, sources told the publication. It resulted in the president instructing his advisers to restore the number of additional temporary visas.

The program is popular with industries that struggle to find enough Americans prepared to work for only a few months a year, such as landscaping, forestry, amusement, recreation, seafood processing, and fisheries.

Seasonal industry lobbyists also leaned on their allies in Congress to reverse the decision on the additional H-2B visas this year ahead of looming key tourism events, including the FIFA World Cup finals and America’s 250th anniversary celebrations.

“We were really doing everything we could to explain to the administration that 35,000—while we appreciated it—we needed the full 64,716,” Andrew Bray, vice president of government relations at the National Association of Landscape Professionals, told Bloomberg Law in February after the decision was reversed.

The publication also cited an industry lobbyist who said Trump officials were “testing the waters” with anti-immigration groups by releasing more seasonal visas.

Those groups have traditionally opposed the visas, believing they take jobs from American workers. The additional visas also seem at odds with Trump’s policy of mass deportation.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/Trump-is- ... t-himself/

[Jersey Girl]

I don't even believe this. I seriously need to return to the Lent observance and get away from this abject insanity. Talk about brain rot. Did he even parent his own children?

Lawrence: RFK Jr. lied to Congress when he denied saying ‘every Black kid’ should be ‘re-parented’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr_uVMNbOAg

[canpakes]

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We can keep some adult non-citizens around to take care of the landscaping and laundry at Trump Co. properties, but the Administration has no use for immigrant children, so out they go.

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Cancellation of contract with Catholic Charities relief group sparks outcry

By Carol Marbin Miller, Syra Ortiz Blanes and Lauren Costantino
APRIL 16, 2026 5:20 PM


The Trump Administration’s decision to abruptly cancel an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami to shelter and care for unaccompanied migrant children is drawing a raft of criticism from South Florida political and religious leaders – including members of the president’s own party.

Archbishop Thomas Wenski confirmed this week that the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement has terminated an agreement in which the church operated a federal foster care program for migrant children who entered the U.S. alone and undocumented. Many of the youngsters were placed in foster homes, group homes and shelters until they were able to move in with approved family members, if at all.

It’s the longest-running program of its kind in the country.

“Nobody’s told us why we weren’t re-funded. But I think it’s a little bit of political gamesmanship,” Wenski said Thursday, pointing to the Catholic Church’s immigration advocacy in the backdrop of the national dialogue around border security.

The federal government notified the Archdiocese it would terminate the nearly 70-year partnership on March 25, only days before public tensions emerged between the Vatican’s first American-born pope – who has made compassion for migrants a cornerstone of his ministry – and President Donald Trump, who has made them a target of his wrath.

Trump has accused the pontiff of being “weak” on crime fighting. Pope Leo XIV has criticized the U.S. bombing campaign in Iran.
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Two members of Congress from Miami-Dade, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar and Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez, wrote to the U.S. Administration for Children and Families and the Office of Refugee Resettlement asking leaders to reinstate the contract.

“South Florida has always been the frontline of humanitarian migration in our hemisphere,” Salazar and Gimenez, both Republicans, wrote. “History shows that when crisis hits the region, it arrives in Miami first.”

“Cuba is facing its most severe crisis in decades, with widespread blackouts, food and fuel shortages, economic collapse, and growing civil unrest. These conditions historically trigger sudden migration surges, often including unaccompanied minors,” the two representatives wrote. “At the same time, Haiti continues to descend into instability, with escalating gang violence, breakdown of government authority, and a worsening humanitarian crisis that is forcing families to flee. The combination of these crises creates a high likelihood of a near-term influx into South Florida. Reducing capacity in the very region most likely to receive these arrivals is not cost-effective, it is a strategic mistake.”

They added: “Catholic Charities provides what cannot be quickly replaced: trained staff, proven infrastructure, and decades of expertise.”

Catholic Charities’ relief program for migrant youth has its roots in Operation Pedro Pan, which began as a clandestine mission to relocate the children of Cuban dissidents at the outset of the revolution which brought Fidel Castro to power in 1959. The iconic airlift, which came to include ordinary Cuban families in search of freedom and a better life, rescued 14,000 children. About half of them ended up in the care of the Catholic Church.

The Pedro Pans, as they are often called, were woven into the fabric of Miami’s culture. Many of the children rose to be members of the city’s business, political, academic, professional and religious elites. Former U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, a Miami Republican, entered the U.S. on a Pedro Pan airlift.

“The assistance we received will always be remembered,” said Pedro Pan Group Inc., the national charity founded by former unaccompanied Cuban children in 1991, in a letter to the Trump administration on April 8. The group called the stripping of funding “both shocking and deeply concerning.”

“We respectfully ask you to reconsider your decision,” wrote the group.

Reacting to a story in the Herald Tuesday about the contract, state Sen. Ileana Garcia, a Miami Republican who served as deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security during the first Trump Administration, blamed the conflict on Miller, who is the White House deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security advisor.

Miller is widely viewed as the architect of Trump’s immigration policy, which involves making life so unbearable for migrants in the United States that they voluntarily return to their country of origin.

In a tartly worded post on the “X” social media platform, Garcia said Miller had been obsessed with removing migrant children since Trump’s first term. Miller, she said, “has been fixated on the issue of unaccompanied minors for a long time. This situation presented an ideal opportunity for him.

“His motivation isn’t about whether these children are trafficked or not,” she added. “He simply doesn’t want them in the United States.”

“He believes he’s shaping the ideal American,” Garcia wrote. “His contempt for non-white individuals reveals his true character.”

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/ ... 37430.html

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/20 ... es/686839/

Krash Patel is drunk at work, when he actually decides to show up for work. There’s more, so read the article.