It's no secret that Republicans are planning to fire millions of government workers and trash several departments.

While I do not share your pessimism about the future, couldn't you find someone less abrasive with more knowlege of the workings of government. If you are going to tear something apart, it helps to have a plan to replace it.

When you no longer trust the news, when you no longer trust the FBI the CIA all the intelligence agencies, when you no longer trust the judicial system, when you no longer trust the legislature, when you place all your trust in the hands of one man you no longer have democracy you have monarchy.

[quote=America 1]Don't tell me what I can or cannot do.
Go ahead and try.

'New normal': High number of migrants crossing border not likely to slow
With migrants in need of housing, safety, and economic opportunity continuing to enter the United States, the overall number of migrant encounters with U.S. authorities this year has already surpassed last year's total.
And that number is expected to keep climbing.
How many migrants crossed the border in 2023?
More than 2.8 million migrants have had encounters with authorities so far this fiscal year, compared to more than 2.7 million migrants in 2022, according to the latest Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics. The current migrant figure includes August, but not September, the last month of this fiscal year, which has yet to be announced.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/09/30/how-many-migrants-crossed-the-border-2023-mexico-venezuela-2022/70979085007/

FACTSHEET: FINAL FY23 NUMBERS SHOW WORST YEAR AT AMERICA’S BORDERS—EVER
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the House Committee on Homeland Security released its latest “Startling Stats” factsheet outlining U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) September and Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 border encounter data. In the final month of FY2023, CBP recorded 269,735 encounters at the Southwest border, marking another unprecedented milestone under Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and President Joe Biden’s open-borders policies. This monthly number also represents an 86% increase from June 2023, when the Biden administration celebrated a short-lived drop in illegal crossings following the end of Title 42.
The annual numbers proved just as catastrophic. In FY23, CBP recorded more than 2.4 million encounters at the Southwest border and more than 3.2 million encounters nationwide. Just this fiscal year, 169 individuals on the terrorist watchlist were apprehended attempting to enter the country illegally, and at least 1.7 million known gotaways have evaded apprehension since FY2021. Americans did not need more proof that Biden and Mayorkas’ post-Title 42 strategy had failed, but unfortunately, that’s exactly what we have gotten.

As this disaster spirals further out of control, the Biden administration does not know how many dangerous i*****l a***ns are entering the country undetected, especially as Border Patrol agents are being pulled off the front lines to help process and release the historic number of i*****l a***ns flooding the border. While monthly apprehensions and encounters continue to increase, Mayorkas simply continues to double down on his mass parole programs, incentivizing and facilitating the entry of otherwise inadmissible aliens into the United States at a scale never before seen.
Key Facts:

Encounters at the Southwest border (SWB) in FY2023 increased by over 40% since FY2021, 4% compared to FY2022, and more than 100% compared to FY2019.
Last month, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported a 40% increase compared to September 2021 and 18% compared to September 2022.
Since President Biden took office, there have been 7.5 million encounters nationwide and 6.2 million encounters at the Southwest border, in addition to 1.7 million known gotaways.
In FY2023, 169 individuals whose names appear on the terrorist watchlist were stopped trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry. 18 were apprehended in September alone.
So far in FY2023, CBP has arrested 35,433 aliens with criminal convictions or outstanding warrants nationwide, including 598 known gang members, 178 of those being MS-13 members.
In FY2023, CBP, including Air and Marine Operations, seized 27,293 pounds of f******l, coming across the Southwest border—enough to k**l more than 6 billion people.
https://homeland.house.gov/2023/10/26/factsheet-final-fy23-numbers-show-worst-year-at-americas-borders-eve

the term open borders means nothing is done to stem the tide of people just walking across the border ; this is not true

No
10,763 in 2021, 12,928 in 2022,-Border Patrol statistics

Donald Trump made up to $160 million from international business dealings while he was serving as president of the United States, according to an analysis of his tax returns by CREW.

Since you asked, I worked for 57 years has a parish organist, 19 years as a teacher of music, and many years as a pastoral minister. I am receiving social security right now which I paid into for 57 years.
Show me the research behind the accusations you make above before I believe a word of it.

[quote=America 1]

BIDENS OPEN BORDER IS A LIE. stop repeating it.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Provides $19.934 billion, an increase of $3.257 billion above FY23 and $3.103 billion above the request. $2.104 billion for an additional border wall. $496.2 million to fund 22,000 Border Patrol Agents. $305.4 million for additional non-intrusive inspection technology.In addition , Biden is asking to tighten reasons for asylum.

Trump has kicked holes in our country, our constitution and our democracy from the moment he came on the political scene. It started by describing Mexicans as rapists and drug dealers except for a few. Next there was the debate at which he debased his opponents by calling them names. Some of you thought that was cute; some of us recognized that as the work of a bully. A debate is supposed to be a discussion of your policies- what you plan to do to make the country a better place. Instead of policy, we got slogans. America first. Make America great again. How? (By getting rid of black and brown people) OH no, we wouldn't say that out loud. It's just get rid of the crime ridden big cities run by Democrats. Rail against the caravans of brown people coming across the southern border. No one cares about white people coming across the northern border. Complain about any news outlet that does not say nice things about you. Make them the enemy. Any investigation of your deeds is a witch hunt. What a baby who couldn't take the heat. Hired and fired people-he demanded loyalty, not t***h. Daily nasty tweets. His MAGA nuts then threaten that person. So no politician will say t***h to or about him for fear of losing their job or their life. Now he is making fun of the judges, the prosecutors, and the jury.
His followers do not respect congress, the DOJ, the judges, the CIA, FBI, the deep state (those are the workers who do wh**ever it takes to keep the government running,) or the e******n commissions of each state. These are the things that a democracy needs. It seems you would like to have a king-good ole Donnie till he dies, so you can have entertainig tweets every day.

[quote=Ronald Hatt]As to your *total idiocy posting: Remember, *C***d is a "Creation", of *Obammy, *Mengele, F***i, & the

*Chinese....~Trump was forced to clean up "yet another Demoncrap mess"...[ As usual]...& he had to borrow trillions to do this!

Aren't you smart enough to read the T***h? {"BTW", The brightest of the Demoncrap e*****rate, was never "Born"]

[ If you are smart enough to post at this venue....Try to get to the t***h, not your mythical prefabricated ...

"Once upon a time"... self-deprecation, & mystical thinking!

You Demoncraps....have *no Idea just how *crippling your last *3 i***t p**********l choices have ruined this

Republic, & probably will never fully recover, from that abominable v****g record...of pure political irresponsibility![/quote]

Too bad. We would all have been better off if Trump had stayed in his basement without a microphone.

What? How?

How is Biden ruining the country? His administration has produced an infrastructure package, and inflation reduction package and has negotiated lower prices for some medications. You blame him for inflation. How about the companies that have overcharged us because they have a chance to do so. How about supply chains that are behind because of c***d. you think Biden orchestrated all that? And no we don't have an open border. Yes there's a multitude of people many of whom are at checkpoints and many of whom try to get through illegally. Has congress come up with a definite plan for immigration no. That has been kicked down the road for years so don't blame Biden.

You want to know why he scares us? It is because he believes that as president he can do wh**ever he wants. He can ignore what Congress wants. He plans to take revenge on anyone who has been disloyal to him. Don't believe me listen to what he says. This is a man who is a bully. It started with the Republican debates in 2015. He ridiculed each Of his opponents on the debate stage. Think of how many people he fired in his first four years. Why? Because they were disloyal. These actions are the actions of a king. Is that really what you want?