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Well JD, do something about it!

It's pretty easy to go on a favorable YouTube channel or podcast and say just about anything you want, there's not much pushback there.

The last few years have taught us that turning that talk into provable facts you can then act on has really never happened.

At this point, I think it's fair to ask if they really have the "evidence" they say they do, and are somehow just being stonewalled at every turn when trying to act.

Or are they all just bullshitting for the clicks and views, and pandering to the base to try and motivate voters
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Deploying the troops would give President Trump strategic options, but officials caution that a decision to put boots on the ground in Iran hasn’t been made.

Literally the first sentence under the headline
There is "some" skill and experience to working the x-ray scanner and determining what is and isn't needed for physical secondary screening. I'm assuming sticking a completely untrained noob there would result in a shite ton of false positives

But that statement is just the latest in a long line of over the top bullshite claims from both sides of this thing.

re: ICE helping out at MSY

Posted by OldManRiver on 3/23/26 at 11:04 am to
How did we get from ICE/NG in the airports to transgender surgeries within 5 seconds of the same answer?
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Are you telling me that the U.S. and IDF just can’t just decimate everything from the coast of Iran on the Hormouz inland until the strikes on shipping stop?

The people that own and insure the tankers aren't going to take the risk that something might happen. And the US can't 100%, without fail guarantee that the ships won't be hit.

That's the problem with this whole thing, and one many can't grasp. The bar for Iran "winning" is exceptionally low. They just have to remain even a fractional threat to completely grind the shipping and energy trade through the Strait to a halt.

re: ICE helping out at MSY

Posted by OldManRiver on 3/23/26 at 9:14 am to
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They aren’t helping with TSA from what I could see

They were walking around and present but weren’t at any security checkpoint or anything else

Tom Homan said they were going to "guard the doors", so the TSA agents that normally guard the doors could go work the lines

Of course, he also said Sunday morning they were working on the plan for Monday morning, so I doubt a whole lot of thought went into this
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Perhaps that hasn't been conveyed

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They were unable to talk to each other, but we've had very strong talks. Mr. Witkoff and Mr. Kushner had them

Sounds like they have it all sorted out and it was a very smooth operation
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Patel owns this. He had better find those stolen ballots and slam the conspirators. No more of their muh Investigation crap. No consequences is why it keeps happening.

At some point people will realize that the "investigations" that are played out in real time on X and podcasts aren't real investigations, but LARPing for clicks and engagement

Go back and look at the FBI releases whenever there has been a major drug bust or child trafficking ring broken up. We get the release of what HAS HAPPENED, and who is being arrested and prosecuted. Not continual comments, tweets and interviews about what IS GOING TO HAPPEN
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White House border czar Tom Homan said Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers will not be directly involved in security scanning measures at airports, a day before agency officials will begin assisting Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees.

“Wherever we can provide extra security, I don’t see an ICE agent looking at an X-ray machine, because we’re not trained in that,” Homan told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“But there are certain parts of security that TSA is doing that we can move them off those jobs, and put them in the specialized jobs to help move those lines,” he added.

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“ICE agents are assigned at many airports across the country already,” he told Bash. “They do a lot of investigation, criminal investigation on smuggling at airports. But you got TSA agents covering exits, people that enter through the exits.”

“Certainly, a highly trained ICE law enforcement officer can cover an exit and makes sure people don’t go through those exits, entering the airport through the exits,” he said. “And stuff like that relieves that TSA officer to go to screening and to reduce those lines.”


Sounds like much ado about nothing, just a reallocation of resources to hopefully move the lines quicker. But I'm social media from both sides will somehow paint a very different picture

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Did the executive order say no other games can be played on that same day?

No, it just gives an exclusive "4 hour window" on that day
I think he can only be used in a save situation

re: World Baseball Classic 2026

Posted by OldManRiver on 3/17/26 at 9:07 pm to
I don’t watch MLb, I only know who Skenes, Bregman,, Judge and Harper are

Is this considered a “big time” lineup for the US? Or are these average guys they could get to play?

re: World Baseball Classic 2026

Posted by OldManRiver on 3/17/26 at 8:08 pm to
Livvy Dunne wishes Skenes looked at her like he’s looking at Logan Webb demonstrating that pitch

re: World Baseball Classic 2026

Posted by OldManRiver on 3/17/26 at 8:00 pm to
If the US loses, you’ll see a lot of words against Skubal for not being here and probably the pitchers in this game as well .

But the real culprit is this offense. These guys just can’t hit right now

re: World Baseball Classic 2026

Posted by OldManRiver on 3/17/26 at 7:42 pm to
Getting worked by a guy with a 5 ERA last year. Pitiful

re: World Baseball Classic 2026

Posted by OldManRiver on 3/16/26 at 9:16 pm to
Great, a final with a stadium full of CONMEBOL assholes

re: World Baseball Classic 2026

Posted by OldManRiver on 3/16/26 at 8:46 pm to
With Nola and Lorenzen going tonight, seems like an Italy win would be the optimal result for US

re: Bovino to retire

Posted by OldManRiver on 3/16/26 at 1:45 pm to
Possibly, or typical politics got into play and Bovino was the easiest one to remove for "optics" or whatever BS justifications those in power need to make their decisions
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The help open the straight was in large part to show the US citizens that Nato member do not have our back despite the USA being the only thing that has prevented Russia from reaching their objectives in Ukraine.

Yes, exactly, because we have an educated and inquisitive population that is interested in the political ramifications of NATO countries not working with the US
Asking 1000 people in a random mall who NATO is and what do they do might get more responses asking how to spell NATO than who they are

re: Bovino to retire

Posted by OldManRiver on 3/16/26 at 1:40 pm to
Bovino and Noem no longer in their positions 2 months after the Minnesota shooting

I wonder if that's a coincidence