‘Hey, you didn’t expect us to actually do the stuff we were elected to do, did you?’
April 30, 2026
POLITICAL CARTOON BY JAKE FULLER
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LOL, exactly
What an embarassment to live in this county. Three plus decades ago it wasn’t like ‘this’. Roads and infrastructure were maintained. Homeless were not laying all over the place. Law and order were recognized both federally and locally. Growth was slow and controlled. When the “zero tolerance” signs were replaced by the “where nature meets culture” roadside signs we were doomed.
“I believe that we should have stringent immigration enforcement, but the way it’s being carried out today is unacceptable under various legal principles, both in technical legality, but also in like fundamental principles about how we want the law to operate in the world.
Now, if that’s the case, then what we are seeing is the delegation of a critical executive function to private vendors. This relationship is not something that’s happening through bills passed by our representatives in Congress. It’s not happening through agency action that’s subject to public notice and comment.
It is happening through contracts. It is happening through contracts that I’m not sure that there are people out there that care about the DFAR or the FAR, which are the enormous statutes that regulate how you can contract. And so what this means is we are shielding these policy decisions from public accountability.
There is not kind of public awareness of how this is happening. There is not public input into the terms of the contracts. And then you can go back to, well, yeah, but we picked an executive.
We picked an executive. Courts have said that actually the executive has enormous power, should not[…]”
“All of that might be true. But you might still believe, and this is a separate paper that I’m writing because I’m clearly existentially preoccupied with the executive branch’s use of automation, that even if we have a unitary executive with this enormous amount of power, we still believe that there are other things in the government that provide some friction in execution of a president’s will, in a way that maintains the legitimacy of that use of power. Some of those things are informing the public, involving some degree of public participation, incorporating some amount of human judgment in the way something is executed.”
From The Lawfare Podcast: Lawfare Daily: The Dangers of Privatized, Automated Immigration Enforcement, Apr 30, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lawfare-podcast/id498897343?i=1000764658599&r=1354
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I assume the quote is referring to Palantir, Oracle, et al. So many refuse to name names and specifics. We’ve had a technocratic hellhole government for 15 years. Now it’s established and blooming in all of our faces.
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The overarching issue is governments constant use of problem, reaction, solution. They cause problems, react poorly & untimely, and the solution is always less liberty and more government intervention. This is exemplified by how illegal immigrants were conveniently allowed in for several decades and once the digital prison planet infrastructure was ready to go live the illegal immigrant spigot was magically closed. Now they say we must have more Orwellian surveillance systems in place in order to be safe. I don’t wanna see any illegal immigrants or any dystopian surveillance systems.
“Those Kings by the way, being the sole judges when emergencies happen, they generally create them as often as they want money.”
-Samuel Adams
“They” cause problems? Really? It’s more like Democrats screw things up (Biden & open borders) and then the Republicans spend too much $$ fixing their mess.
You miss the point. Blind partisanship bickering is allowing this big brother state to be built around us. I’m not worried with so much with who caused these issue as I am what is being done to supposedly remedy these issues.
Patriotism means standing up for the principles this country was founded upon, not some jackasses that competed in a popularity contest.
Here’s a summary of what the economic data shows, post-WWII (Truman through Biden)
GDP Growth
GDP has averaged 4.23% annual growth under Democratic administrations vs. 2.36% under Republicans — a difference of nearly 1.9 percentage points.
Job Creation
Democratic presidents averaged about 164,000 jobs added per month, compared to 61,000 under Republicans — a rate roughly 2.4 times faster.
Unemployment
During Democratic presidential terms, the unemployment rate fell by an average of 0.8 percentage points, while it rose by 1.1 points under Republican terms.
Recessions
The average Democratic presidential term has been in recession for about 1 of its 16 quarters, versus 5 quarters for the average Republican term.
Stock Market
Stock market returns have also been higher under Democratic presidents since 1945, according to multiple analyses.
Budget Deficits
Budget deficits were smaller under Democratic presidents — at 2.1% of potential GDP vs. 2.8% under Republicans.
Income Inequality
For families in the bottom fifth of the income distribution, income growth was 188% faster during Democratic administrations (2.1% average annual growth vs. 0.7% under Republicans).
Same TDS responses to everything… its not getting old, its been old for over a year now
You are forgetting to report stats on WW11 (Eleven) that Omar was trying to educate people on. After all she is versed in American History as a U.S. Congress Representative.
Thanks for some facts Invitado. Most of the Loud Minority that has set up camp here think TDS is what other people have, but they are the only ones who believe a word Trump says and cheer the shooting in the back and face of US citizens by federal agents.
Goode and pretti ice cream, go ICE.
This shows nothing more than the lag effects of centralized government action on the economy. Democrat economies benefit from work of the prior republican administrations and then proceed to run it into the ditch.
Every one of you MF’ers missed my point. Y’all think you’re defending your nation when you are really just defending your own political party. Don’t get stuck in the blame game for past events when we have imminent issues to stop before it’s too late. Both parties have become lovers of excessively big government and executive governance. Sometimes this comment section reminds me of Rachael Madow and Sean Hannity vomiting on one another, over and over again, while they both deny their homosexuality
Is that how they found that boat that was sunk several weeks ago — lil Kenny was standing on one of the cinder blocks? If we would have just had more rain.
If he’s found complicit and responsible for impeding ICE operations at least he doesn’t have to look far for a rock to break up.
Thanks Jake!
@Invitado — Source your information
Invitado is blowing so much smoke and BS that he should be standing in front of a fire station. He has reversed every so called “fact”, if they are not pure smoke and mirrors.
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/historical-puzzle-us-economic-performance-under-democrats-vs-republicans
Enjoy!
Jake is apparently in full dementia if he thinks the CC was elected to enforce ICE.
As usual Jake, right on target.