No they are actively violating the 4th amendment by claiming that administrative warrants signed by a paper jockey in the ICE office allows them to enter the homes of people they suspect of being undocumented. This form of warrant, at best, can be used as reasonable suspicion to detain and investigate a suspect's documented status. Reasonable suspicion is well under the bar to enter someone's residence against their will. A federal court has explicitly ruled (years ago now) that they can absolutely not use administrative warrants that way, that a search warrant signed by a judge that verified that they gave probable cause for an arrest is required to enter someone's property. They are explicitly rejecting the ruling of that court and violating the 4th amendment in the process.
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No they didn't. They told them to ignore the law. Meaning they're violating the law when they violate people's rights. That is different and will (hopefully) come to bite them in the ass if we ever return to having any sense at all in this country.
Nope, believe it or not, that's treated entirely differently. Considered to be covered by the 5th amendment since you would be required to provide information that could be self-incriminating.
The entire reason they were at that church protesting is because the pastor, David Easterwood, served as the local field office director for ICE. It wasn't just a random protest at a random church. They were calling for the resignation of a pastor who is violating Christian values by assisting in the ethnic cleansing that ICE is perpetrating. The organizer of the protest is a reverend herself. She agrees with you about him not being a real Christian, and that's why she decided to do this in the first place. The fact that they're trying to turn this into an anti-Christian thing when she's a Christian reverend and she was criticizing him for violating Christian principals... it's a huge fucking joke. This government loves to operate on obvious lies though.
I'm all fairness, he's drawing direct apples to apples comparisons between electrical generation to gasoline production, fuel energy per acreage for corn ethanol vs solar vs wind, cost benefits for investment now and the long term sustainability of stable materials vs consumables. His audience is probably not the people that generally need to be told that electric over fossil fuels is just better, but it's still cool to be able to fully understand the context by giving direct conversions, and useful for having that discussion with others. Honestly, my wife and I started looking at trade in values to possibly switch one of our vehicles to an EV soon, basically entirely because of the points he made about the financial viability now. So, he inspired me, for what that's worth.
I mean... he has like 4 videos about led Christmas lights, but... this is definitely in the top 5.
No shit. That's why they were there protesting at that church. It wasn't a random location.
Crashed economies hurt the poor. The rich use their wealth to buy up resources, realestate, stocks, etc. on the cheap and then ride it out in their luxury homes while the rest of us stand in the bread lines.
It doesn't help home owners, home buyers or even home sellers looking for a lateral move in a new area or an upgrade to a bigger or nicer home. In fact for the latter two, it ultimately hurts them. The people that it helps are those who are looking to downsize their home, move into a nursing home, or move in with their kids. i.e. people old enough to not have kids living with them anymore, retirees, etc. They can sell their 600k home they bought for 80k 40 years ago, pocket all of that or the difference if they buy a smaller home, and use it as a slush fund on top of their social security and 401k to take vacations.
Meanwhile, their home is bought as an investment property that people like their kids and grandkids will need to rent instead of own, spending more per month than a mortgage would be for the same home, especially as rent increases every year to keep up with the housing market (even though the only costs that go up for the landlord with the market increases is a marginal amount on taxes and cost to buy MORE investment properties), and with the renters gaining no equity for their rent dollars while their landlord profits off of that money instead.
Hell, not only would lower housing prices mean that more people could become homeowners, or means current homeowners could afford to get a bigger home for their family, or live closer to work, or get a nicer/newer home that isn't a money pit.
Raising house prices ONLY benefits the elderly homeowner looking to sell and the landlords looking for more tenants and higher rents. Speaking as a homeowner, for the love of god, bring housing prices down.
Miller is waiting for the excuse with plans already made preemptively, I'm sure, the fucking Nazi worm.
"A bit tan for my liking too."
Last thing I saw her in was season two of The Last Of Us and she was awesome in it. She went out still killing it. RIP, Catherine.