Is now a bad time to point out how IDF crowd suppression tactics, surveillance strategies, and kidnapping/assassination efforts in Gaza have been exported to the US and incorporated into domestic PD and ICE training regimes?

A big incentive to work in the US is the remittance you can send back to your families in poor communities.

This very well might quash the incentive to migrate for tens of thousands of young people.

What an amazing racket. The US government is going to make these guys mega-millionaires.

I mean, they do it because it fucking works. We’ve seen this pattern repeated with everything from a recognition in the hazards of smoking (peaked in the 1930s, then plummeted into the 1970s thanks to aggressive marketing by cigarette companies, then had to pull itself up again into the 2000s) to asbestos to climate change.

Another case in point, The McDonald’s Coffee Case in which a 79-year-old woman received 3rd degree burns and required a skin graft thanks to a McD’s staffer spilling a cup onto her lap in a drive-through. During discovery, it was uncovered that McD’s keeps their coffee at 200° as a corporate policy, because it discourages people from taking advantage of their “unlimited refills” policy by slowing down how fast they can drink it.

Subsequently, the case became the center of a corporate-led public media campaign to poison popular opinion against “excessive” rewards for pain and suffering. John Stossel, ABC’s go-to libertarian flavored corporate shill, made his career off repeatedly citing, exaggerating, and bemoaning the results of the lawsuit on behalf of conservative think-tanks and tort reform advocates.

And the campaign largely worked, with tort reform becoming a central issue of US politics over the next ten years. Legislation to limit damages a court could award, to limit the availability of class action lawsuits to poor defendants, and to limit civil liability to businesses and governments generally speaking swept the nation under conservative state and federal legislatures in the 90s and 00s.

Trump is a product of this era. He knows what buttons to push in order to move popular opinion. And he’s slamming that feed bar until it breaks off.

Turkyie’s been the backdoor for evading all sorts of US/EU sanctions for some time.

But all efforts stopped in their tracks earlier this week after Trump told his senior staff he wouldn’t try to remove Powell following advice from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to the Journal. Bessent and Lutnick reportedly warned Trump that removing Powell would trigger a wave of legal issues and market chaos. In fact, the markets took a dive in the wake of Trump’s threats that Powell should be ejected.

Nice to know that Bessent and Lutnick still have the best interests of the billionaire class in view.