to anyone who might be thinking this is no big deal. could you just disappear from your life for 17 days and just pick it back up? would your boss happily understand? would any missed bills just forgive you? this is still a massive penalty; not even to mention the psychological harm this ordeal would levy.
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As someone who could do that: It is still a big deal.
I worry a lot of people won't learn until the leopard is eating their face, and maybe not even then.
Yep.
Most US'ians are so blindly occupied with the everyday events of their own little lives that they won't realize/care that it's raining a shitstorm until the shit actually gets on them personally. In quantity.
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Trump won the 2024 election on the promise of “the largest deportation operation in American history”, but few anticipated a crackdown on documented immigrants, including visa and green card holders and citizens who have the status by birth or naturalisation, or tourists.
Plenty of people anticipated this. Who's easier to deport when you want to get rid of a big number quickly? Someone living under the radar? Or someone who's right on file and complies with orders to come in? And if there's no due process, you can say they committed any crime you want to justify it. It's not like morality or honesty would stop anyone involved in the process.
Ice are an international terrorist organization
They're a real bunch of ICE-holes
Ice is*
lol great gif
That guy served in the White House btw, although that's not really shocking anymore seeing who's living there, but back during when he got on to the Obama administration, it was kinda crazy. (Also why his character killed himself in House MD.)
Kal Penn! World class actor and true American patriot!
Idk know he honestly has the greatest range, but definitely world class in comedy. And lots of people say comedy is harder than drama, but idk.
I haven't really watched his latest works. Only the stoner movies and House, really.
He was in smile that horror movie a couple years ago. It was actually a super good horror flick imo. I was stoked to see Kumar being a dr again
I love the ending to smile 2. The creature on the stage was some Evangeline shit.
Smile 1 blew my mind. Lowish budget and leaning into one theme hard. Nailed it.
Smile 2… was a little goofy.
But the weird monster was great
I haven't seen the first one yet.
But yeah, there's a reason i only brought up the monster haha
If you like the second you’ll love the first