From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 1/8/2026 10:57 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > On Jan 8, 2026 at 7:30:33 PM PST, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/8/2026 9:48 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>   On Jan 8, 2026 at 6:31:36 PM PST, "Rhino"    
   >>>   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   On 2026-01-08 9:16 p.m., super70s wrote:   
   >>>>>     Trump is also deploying forces against his own protesters.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>     Looks like things are tough all over for authoritarian leaders   
   lately.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   Incredible. Iran is literally shaking off nearly 50 years of Islamist   
   >>>>   occupation and you are seeing close parallels with   
   >>>>   democratically-elected Trump. If the protesters are successful, this   
   >>>>   will be as big as the fall of the Berlin Wall and you have to try to   
   >>>>   score partisan points....    
   >>>   
   >>>   Not only that, he's not even getting the points right.   
   >>>   
   >>>   It's Tampon Tim Walz that's spinning up the Minnesota National Guard and   
   >>>   threatening to deploy the military against federal law enforcement   
   officers   
   >>>   for the egregious sin of enforcing valid, democratically passed and   
   >>>   constitutionally tested immigration law.   
   >>>   
   >>>   For years the Left has demanded that the government literally ignore the   
   law   
   >>>   with regard to illegal immigration and now we're seeing how far they're   
   >>>   willing to take those demands.   
   >>   
   >> We're biased to "ignore the law" to favor the individual.  It's not new.   
   >   
   > Then why do we arrest people for DUI?   
      
   For the same reason(ing) we arrest drunks firing pistols at the moon. In   
   such instances, we're favoring not impersonal government statute, but   
   individuals who happen to be in the immediate vicinity.   
      
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