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Is this the best thread ever and the other poxy international thread should be closed

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GROTTO said:
They have used this in the past.

The Homeland Security Department is experimenting with a new way to track immigrant families caught crossing the border illegally before being released into the US: GPS-enabled ankle bracelets.
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US testing GPS-enabled ankle bracelets to track undocumented migrants

Immigration officials have launched a program in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley to give GPS devices to parents caught crossing the Mexican border illegally with their children
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Not sure what your point is here the leg cuffs reportedly in use on the illegals being transported back to their countries of origin are plain old legcuffs and most certainly not ankle bracelets. Two very different scenarios, these illegals are going not coming so once they off the plane the USA has no interest in monitoring their movements.
 
Kane McGoodwin said:
Columbian coffee is a major export to USA, so will impact on coffee prices, though gather USA will look to source more coffees from other countries where there are no tariffs as 50% more would become unviable.

May not impact on Starbucks, but you are kidding yourself if there isn't going to be any impact...

Increase in world tariffs will ultimately increase inflation.
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You think Columbia is going to smash its own economy just to spite Trump. America will get coffee elsewhere in a flash, can Columbia find a buyer for its coffee on a scale to replicate the USA...goid luck
 

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Kane McGoodwin said:
Where did I compare them? Once again you are protecting.

If these 4 are truly terrorists, why would the USA be allowing them to return home, when normally they would lock up international terrorists? It doesn't make sense if they are truly dangerous to let them free.

I gather the vast majority of illegals are not dangerous to USA citizens... but I understand it is the right of USA to send them home as it is the right of Columbia that they are sent home in a humane way.
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Then if they want a level of humanity to their discretion to be shown to these people, maybe they should be chartering planes at their expense to bring their own people home. They are ALL law breakers and its the right of the US administration to treat them as criminals. They have had far better treatment as foreign invaders than those people that walked through the capitol building on jan 6th, hurt no one, damaged nothing and left no footprint yet they were hunted down like dogs, faced swat teams at gunpoint in some cased and were summarily incarcarared.
 
BunjiMC said:
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Rose McGowan rips Kamala Harris over past Harvey Weinstein donations

Rose McGowan has attacked Kamala Harris for once accepting a donation from disgraced Hollywood tycoon Harvey Weinstein.
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“Did you return the money Weinstein gave you? @SenKamalaHarris How many predators bankroll you?” McGowan tweeted last Wednesday.


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GROTTO said:
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Rose McGowan rips Kamala Harris over past Harvey Weinstein donations

Rose McGowan has attacked Kamala Harris for once accepting a donation from disgraced Hollywood tycoon Harvey Weinstein.
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“Did you return the money Weinstein gave you? @SenKamalaHarris How many predators bankroll you?” McGowan tweeted last Wednesday.


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I'm confused at your point.... are you trying to say that all American politics is ****ed and corrupt? If so, I'm completely with you!
 
Slippery Pete said:
This is a complete and utter lie.

In fact, that period was when the majority of vaccine mandates and sackings in regular, non-healthcare jobs were just kicking off.

Please provide evidence of any vaccine mandates that were “relaxed” in November/December 2021.
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The omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 was first reported in South Africa on 24 November 2021.

Data on its transmissibility and clinical severity and differences to previous variants were systematically collected and analysed by public health units around the world over the next few weeks/months.

These data, in addition to increasing vaccination coverage which dramatically decreased clinical severity, were used as justification for many changes to the COVID response in 2022.

It seem as though you are suggesting that before omicron even existed, governments should have:
a) guessed that this mutation would occur and what impact this would have on transmissibility and severity, and
b) made wholesale changes to their delta variant based response strategies without a shred of data to justify it.

This would of course be a very stupid suggestion. I was also under the impression you were vehemently against governments making decisions like this.

Wrong again Pete. Bad luck. You surely must be getting tired of this.
 
Kane McGoodwin said:
Columbian coffee is a major export to USA, so will impact on coffee prices, though gather USA will look to source more coffees from other countries where there are no tariffs as 50% more would become unviable.

May not impact on Starbucks, but you are kidding yourself if there isn't going to be any impact...

Increase in world tariffs will ultimately increase inflation.
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It’s more than just import/export tarriffs - which as you point out, increase prices for Americans not Colombians.

Colombia is a critical ally for the US in Latin America, not only economically but also diplomatically and militarily.

That relationship has been built over decades to address key issues like drug and human trafficking, the rise of Communism, and other threats within the Americas.

In the context that Colombia had already been accepting hundreds of deportation flights from the US per year anyway under the Biden administration (without a trade war), this grandstanding pissing contest is the latest example of how naive and stupid the Trump administration. They couldn’t even spell Colombia correctly in their press release ffs.

Not only does it achieve nothing (did I mention Colombia were already accepting hundreds of deportation flights from the US per year anyway), if the US push away their allies hard enough and fracture those relationships, those countries will increasingly be pushed to diversify their economic and political ties to allow greater influence for countries like China and Russia - who would be licking their lips at watching this nonsense unfold.

But hey, at least insecure beta males will look at Trump pushing around minorities and less powerful countries and be super impressed by what a ‘big man’ he is. Haha. It’s f***ing pathetic.

Fortunately at this stage, Colombia’s President like many other world leaders is meeting Trump’s buffoonery with calm and rationale statesmanship which I’d hope will eventually defuse this.
 
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BunjiMC said:
You have missed the point completely.
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Not me, it's you, both have plenty of skeletons in the wardrobe if the media is to be believed yet both became President of the USA despite this and both are free men any way you like to spin it.
 

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