I'm not sure the seller had any idea - I should see if I can edit my original post - I rechecked and it was actually UPS that made me pay so they're the one I should be looking to for a refund.

I was charged an $18 tarrif on a $40 halloween mask I bought on Etsy. No mention of tarriffs during the purchase. A bill came from UPS in the mail about a month later advising me to log on and pay a government website the fee. Will I be getting a refund for this charge?

They are more afraid of one Russian word (kompromat) than they any English sentence - simple or otherwise.

I dunno - I found some things a lot sweeter there, like spaghetti sauce. Might have been the particular brand.

So a $220 poll tax then? Nice.

Melanie Stansbury speaking to a crowd

Rep. Melanie Stansbury: “The United States government is engaged in an active coverup of the largest sex trafficking scandal & influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States — and Donald Trump is right at the center of it”

LOLOLOL I love that he felt the need to note that all the children were accounted for when they left. Stupid POS.

They should invent a United States government which isn’t run by corrupt racist pedophiles.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

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Also meth but ... yah ... hate doesn't help.

If you ever need a chuckle ask him to pronouce "decal" (the sticker thing you put on a window)

Certainly a convenient distraction from the Epstein stuff, and the rounding up people into concentration camps stuff, and the worst jobs report since 2009 stuff....

exactly

Part of me doesn't believe this. R wing elites are always pretending to be stupid for the masses - "College is a waste" (but my kid goes to Yale). But if true another part of me is sorry for this kid who is definitely going to die or be permanently maimed by something like diptheria.

no one should care about the aged princeling or think he speaks for anyone.

Are you kidding it will be so easy, just like Iraq .... oh wait ....

In a different life I had the opportunity to be "in the know" re geopolitics and observe the news cycle. 1st reports were nonsense, 2nd reports moved towards reality, but sometimes it took until 4th or 5th reports (after folks stopped paying attention) for something close to truth to be reported.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

If you aquiesce to extortion the extortion never stops.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Reading this statement was the moment I became an *actual* independent. I've registered IND for a few years but have voted straight D since 2016. This dishonorable mud wallowing is a turning point I can't squint my way past. The fantasy of returning to "normal" has evaporated. Where to next friends?

Their gonna have a roll call loyalty oath and escort out any officers who don't swear allegiance to the Cheeto Jesus

I agree with him but also fuck that guy. Fuck him 5000x to Sunday.

As an ordained clergy member of the Church of the Latter Day Dude, I endorse this development. dudeism.com I also endorse looking up the most obscure festivals you can find and asking your colleagues to participate with you. Especially the super judgy ones. www.lonelyplanet.com/articles/obs...

mine is that someone will bother to codify "norms" into law especially the one where the law applies to all citizens equally

This is the evil that folks are investing in.

I think he means that there are no publicly traded companies turning a profit for their shareholders by housing the homeless. Detaining immigrants on the other hand is BIG business.

People move fast when there's money to be made. Housing immigration detainees is BIG business. The really terrifying part is that the business model incentivises keeping people in for as long as possibe.

It's not over yet.