What An Awesome Idea To Dig A Moat Over 2000 Miles And Then Fill It With Snakes And Alligators.

What an awesome idea to dig a moat over 2000 miles and then fill it with snakes and alligators.

Well, we're not entirely serious here, but it would be endless jobs for Mexican immigrants.

Nonsense, once again Trump proves that he has no idea about business and is more likely to display medieval values.

How about a replacement for the Panama Canal, just at the longest point, which can never really be economical.

He had also recommended investigating pale science to see if it could help against Covid.

The sick thing is that his own party is going along with this nonsense just to get into power.

His supporters have no interest in differentiating and are completely overwhelmed by complex interrelationships.

Perhaps Trump was simply misinterpreted! It's an incredible opportunity to embark on the largest conservation project for renaturalization ever to be realized on American soil. While some may see nature conservation and Trump as two unlikely partners, we believe they can coexist.

Nonsense, we were only joking

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Nobody is illegal in stolen land.

The last of the Muhhekunneuw ... more or less

Tribal name

Since they originally established their settlements along the Hudson River (Mahicannituck - ‘waters that are never still’, ‘water that is always flowing’), they referred to themselves in their language simply as Muhhekunneuw or Muh-he-con-ne-ok (‘the people of the waters that are never still’, ‘the people of the water that is always flowing’). Therefore, the Dutch and English referred to them as River Indians along with the tribes living along the Hudson, such as the Munsee (Northern Delaware) or Wappinger (Wappani). The Dutch distorted the name of the Wolf Clan (‘Manhigan’) into Mahigan, Mahikander, Mahinganak, Maikan or Mawhickon. The English simplified the word to Mahican or Mohican. The French referred to them as Loups (‘wolves’).

Demography

All Algonquin tribes living between the Hudson River and Connecticut River were generally referred to as Mahican and were estimated to have numbered around 35,000 people by 1600. The Albany tribes, known as the Mahican Confederacy, had a population of around 8,000. By 1672, the number had been decimated to around 1,000. At the low point in 1796, there were only 300 Stockbridge (The Last of the Mohicans) living with their former Iroquois enemies, the Oneida, in Brotherton, New York. Including the Mahican living with the Wyandot and Lenni Lenape in Ohio, their total number at that time was about 600 people. Today, 1,500 Stockbridge (recognised by the state) live on or near their reservation west of Green Bay, and an estimated 1,700 Brotherton Indians (Mahican) (not recognised by the state) live on the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago.

Wikipedia more or less

It is perhaps worth noting that every white American citizen currently alive can trace their lineage solely to immigrants.

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It's ironic that a nation full of emigrants and immigrants doesn't want emigrants and immigrants.

The Truth About Immigrants and the Economy

Immigrants are good for the economy and our society! Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

For centuries, immigration has been America’s secret sauce for economic growth and prosperity.

But for just as long, immigrants have been an easy scapegoat.

One of the oldest, ugliest lies is to falsely smear immigrants as criminals.

It’s just not true. Crime is way down in America. Anyone who says otherwise is fearmongering.

And whatever crime there is is not being driven by immigration. Immigrants, regardless of citizenship status, are 60% less likely to be incarcerated for committing crimes than U.S.-born citizens.

Maybe that’s why border cities are among America’s safest.

Immigration opponents also claim immigrants are a drag on the economy and a drain on government resources.

Rubbish!

Quite the opposite, the major reason immigrants are coming to America is to build a better life for themselves and their families, contributing to the American economy.

The long-term economic benefits of immigration outweigh any short-term costs. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that adding more immigrants as workers and consumers — including undocumented immigrants — will grow America’s economy by about $7 trillion over the next decade. And those immigrants would increase tax revenue by about $1 trillion, shrinking the deficit and helping pay for programs we all benefit from.

Immigrants of all statuses pay more in taxes than they get in government benefits. Research by the libertarian Cato Institute found first-generation immigrants pay $1.38 in taxes for every $1 they receive in benefits,

This is especially true for undocumented immigrants, who pay billions in taxes each year, but are excluded from almost all federal benefits. After all, you need documentation to receive federal benefits. Guess what undocumented immigrants don’t have. Hello?

And of course, one of the most common anti-immigrant claims also isn’t true.

No. Immigrants are not taking away jobs that Americans want. Undocumented immigrants in particular are doing some of the most dangerous, difficult, low-paying, and essential jobs in the country.

Despite what certain pundits might tell you, immigration has not stopped the U.S. from enjoying record-low unemployment.

And as the Baby Boom generation moves into retirement, young immigrants will help support Social Security by providing a thriving base of younger workers who are paying into the system. The fact that so many immigrants want to come here gives America an advantage over other countries with aging populations, like Germany and Japan.  

What’s more, immigrants are particularly ambitious and hardworking. They are 80% more likely to start a new business than U.S. born citizens. Immigrant-founded businesses also impressively comprise 103 companies in last year’s Fortune 500.

And immigrants continue to add immeasurably to the richness of American culture. We should be celebrating them, not denigrating them.

It’s time to speak the facts and the truth. We need immigrants to keep our economy — and our country — vibrant and growing. They are not “poisoning the blood” of our nation. They’re renewing and restoring it.

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

Henry A. Wallace

Lies are becoming the truth. This is the age of disinformation.

Populists and right-wingers use propaganda, misinformation, and distortion of facts. This is also used by dictators.

The world is flooded with lies to gain and hold power. And they don't compromise with anyone who disrupts them. Human rights and equality are a waste of time. Those who don't fit the world picture are deported, imprisoned, sentenced, and locked away. Based on the exceptions indicated by those in power, martial law can be imposed.

Power is seized,

the state is reorganized,

crises are created at home,

threats are made, and people are purged.

The seizure of power is consolidated through intolerance, and all state positions will be filled anew.

Wow, the Third Reich is back, didn't the Americans sacrifice their sons to get rid of it?

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The question of whether one is destined for a particular path in life is one that many individuals ponder at some point in their lives.

Our response to this question, which we have already asked ourselves, is that fate is a true democrat. It cannot be known with certainty what fate has in store for any individual, but one can choose how they face up to it.

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Death has walk more times at me side than I can count, but I'm not afraid of uninvited visitors! Why not me, maybe I'm up to it while others break.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

Louis D. Brandeis

As long as injustice exists, resistance is the duty of every humanistically socialized person, because it is the only way to ensure that history changes for the better.

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Let us imagine God as a gigantic eternity that, according to Einstein, does not play dice. If he is eternal and greater than everything, can it be that he is everything? Let's say he is everything here, now, space and time, yesterday, tomorrow. Wouldn't we somehow be the greatest and the smallest in Him?

Let's say he doesn't need any proof that he exists, that he is existence and even non-existence. If we were not as insignificant as a blood vessel that has its purpose in our body and of which we are never aware.

God himself does not exist and yet he exists.

A whole universe with many galaxies, black holes, pulsars, black matter with curved space, hydrogen burning suns that light up the darkness, super novenas and all the matter that you hardly believe is evenly distributed cannot be God himself.

A concept that is far beyond our understanding and has nothing to do with the all too earthly perspective of a God.

We are stardust, iron, water, carbon, created from elements of the universe, so God is in us.

An eternity that expands and finally disappears into darkness when all the hydrogen is burned up. And finally collapsing to rise again.

In our view, the divine is an eternal everything that will eventually pass away to rise again.

No, the God you invoke does not hear us. We are made of Him and have the fantastic good fortune to be part of the whole.

But man is man's path to divinity or damnation, it is our responsibility.

God was never there and has never been absent, the divine lies within us and is called understanding, compassion and love.

Religions are not and will never be able to speak for eternity of the existence of all things through their claim to exclusivity.

Every night when we look up at the night sky we realise, through our knowledge of the stars, that we are looking into the past for a light whose source may no longer exist.

Here we feel divine in connection with the world and all that surrounds it.

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People have to be there for other people - that is the only thing that helps when times are hard.