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"I don’t know when we’ve gotten it in our head that a visa is some sort of birthright. It is not. You're a visitor in our country, and if you violate the terms of your visitation, you are going to leave."

— U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio

Doxn-vote this all you want, ''progressives," but Rubio is undeniably and factually correct.

Migrants?

They're illegally in the country, and they're gang members to boot.

So stop with the dressed-up, benign-sounding, emotionally heartstring-pulling "migrant" rhetoric.

"Progressives" are siding up with gang-member illegal aliens -- thugs who traffick in drugs and in human beings, who murder, who rape, and so on -- over the duly elected president who's well within his authority to deport those goons.

That's as telling as it is outrageous. One of many reasons why the Democrats' favorability rating is lower than 30 percent at the moment.

Headline says they don't have to wear them.

But the article says they CAN'T wear them.

There's a difference.

Headline implies that no female cops wanted to wear skirts - but where's the evidence of that?

Maybe some of them wanted to keep wearing skirts.

Denying women the option to wear skirts, in the name of "gender equality"?

Forbidding women to wear skirts seems a strange way to pursue that otherwise noble goal.

Rest in peace.

Yet again, Trump gets something done that Biden/Harris were too incompetent and/or unwilling to do.

Only two months in, Trump has really piled up Ws.

Afghanistan is again ranked as the unhappiest country in the world, with Afghan women saying their lives are especially difficult.

Clearly a consequence of Biden allowing the Taliban retake control of the country four years.

Afghanistan's people, especially its women, are paying for his incompetence.

This is far better than Biden and Harris ever did. Light-years better.

Democrats and "progressives" claim to be "champions of democracy."

Okay, let's put this to a vote.

Question: "Should planes full of Venezuelan and El Salvadoran terrorists, rapists, drug dealers, and gang members (who were illegally in the U.S. to begin with) be turned around and flown back to the United States?"

Actually, this already WAS put to a vote.

It was put to a vote in November.

Removing illegal aliens, especially violent ones who belong to terror groups and gangs, was one of Donald Trump's signature campaign issues.

And he won the election in a resounding victory -- some would even say a landslide.

And he won, in large part, because he vowed to remove such above-mentioned thugs from the country.

So ... every time some "progressive" group like the ACLU shops around for a "progressive activist" in a black robe to dictatorially thwart the legitimate orders of a duly-elected president on the immigration issue ...

... those "progressives" are guilty of not accepting the 2024 election results.

They're guilty of the very same thing they accused Trump supporters of, four years prior.

The stark-rank hypocrisy couldn't be more glaring.

Democrats and "progressives" claim to be "champions of democracy."

Okay, let's put this to a vote.

Question: "Should planes full of Venezuelan and El Salvadoran terrorists, rapists, drug dealers, and gang members (who were illegally in the U.S. to begin with) be turned around and flown back to the United States?"

Anyone with at least two functioning brain cells, regardless of their political persuasion, would say that the answer to that question is a resounding "no."

It's quite telling to see which hills some "progressives" choose to die on. They hate Trump so much that they will always side against him -- even if it means siding with vicious gangs of thugs who are illegally in the country.

Gotta love the media.

Terrorists, rapists, and drug dealers who shouldn't even be in the U.S. in the first place are, to the media, known as "migrants."

owzer Today  10:06 am JST

It was terrible, but there are many others who have PTSD from one thing or another, but we don't have anyone to blame, a support group, or public sympathy. JT gonna write us an article too?

I'm as critical of Japan Today (and the rest of the media) as anyone.

But come on. When they run an article about A, is it really fair to accuse them of not caring about B, C, or D?

This is like responding to someone who says "I like apples" by saying, "What do you mean? That you hate oranges, grapes, and strawberries???"

Besides, there are LOTS of support groups out there for people who experience PTSD due to everything from accidents to sexual abuse. There's lots of sympathy and support as well.

So to claim "we don't have anyone to blame, a support group, or public sympathy" is, with due respect and charity, simply not true.

And even if there wasn't a support group out there for you ... complaining about the lack of one isn't going to help.

So instead of complaining about the lack of one ... start one.

"As the central government and public offices were slow in offering support to the victims, I had the feeling that somebody had to do it," said Shinsuke Kimura, an 80-year-old lawyer who heads the center.

No! Say it ain't so!

I thought governments were always the alpha and the omega, the first and last solutions and lines of defense against any and all problems known to humanity.

That's what we constantly hear and read, anyway. That government must take care of everything, and that if government doesn't solve a problem, that problem will never be solved.

How many more examples of government ineptitude, inaction, and inefficiency do we need to see, before we finally realize we shouldn't be looking to it to fix everything?

When a famous person is described as an "inspiration," 99.9% of the time, he/she really isn't one.

But Roki Sasaki certainly is one.

He's overcome things that are far, far, far worse than so many things that the rest of us are all too quick to gripe and whine about.

Even if he wasn't a famous athlete, he'd still be an inspiration.

Well, what can I say? Left-wing activism and "politically correct" remakes of classic movies just isn't the basis for a good business model.

This film deserves all the scorn it gets.

virusrex Today  09:59 am JST

Breaking into an apartment without any clear purpose ...

How do you know that she had no clear purpose?

She very well may have had a clear purpose.

A purpose that either the article doesn't mention, or one that she hasn't admitted to the police.

You're clearly jumping to hasty conclusions about this story, without considering all the possibilities.

GuruMickToday  09:01 am JST

All the apartos look identical from the outside.

Easy mistake to make.

The article clearly says that she was arrested for BREAKING INTO the apartment.

That doesn't sound like just a mistake.

John Lennon was one of the most gifted musicians and songwriters who ever lived.

He was also, in many ways, an absolutely horrible human being.

He had a long track record of violence against women -- including both of his wives as well as other women he was involved with.

Speaking of ... he was a serial philanderer and adulterer. He cheated multiple times on his first wife Cynthia -- including with Yoko Ono, who of course became his second wife.

And then he proceeded to serially cheat on her.

Hypocritically, he was insanely jealous and possessive of her.

He also had a violent mean streak outside the home. He got into more fistfights than even he could probably count. He once physically assaulted a friend who'd joked about John being gay.

And perhaps worst of all, he was alternatively neglectful and physically abusive toward Julian Lennon, his son by his first marriage.

In fact, the song "Hey Jude" was about him. It was composed by Paul McCartney, who by all accounts was much more of a father to Julian than John was.

John Lennon's songs were frequently peppered with messages about peace and love -- but so much of his own behavior was anything about those two virtues.

And last but not least, his most famous song, "Imagine," is one of the most hideous songs of all time. It's a song that glorifies godlessness and communism, the most murderous and oppressive sociopolitical ideology in human history.

None of us are perfect, of course, but the magnitude of John Lennon's negative behavior and character traits should render him ineligible for being honored with a minted coin.

In fact, he probably should have been in jail.

With regard to this matter, one is either on Trump's side or is on the illegal-alien criminal gangs' side.

There's no neutrality. There's no middle ground.

You're either on the side of protecting the lives of American citizens from violent thugs who shouldn't even be in the country in the first place -- or you're on the thugs' side.

It's that simple.

And now we can clearly see which side at least some "progressives" on.

Then they wonder why they got their butts kicked in the last election.

The unusual flurry of litigation highlights the controversy Act, which could give Trump vast power to deport people in the country illegally. 

The president of the United States -- whoever it is -- should already have vast power to deport people who are in the country illegally.

The operative word in that sentence is "illegally."

The president shouldn't even have to show that someone in the country illegally is a member of a criminal gang.

Just the fact that the person is illegally in the country should be more than enough to justify swift and summary deportation.

This should not be controversial at all. This should be something that everyone, whether conservative or liberal, should understand.

Legal immigration. Illegal immigration.

For Heaven's sake, a 10-year-old can sort out the difference. Why can't certain "progressives"?

Trump is cleaning up another mess left behind by his weak and inept predecessor.

I'm kind of surprised that they waited till 11 o'clock at night before finally taking him away.

Only two and a half years in prison?

For murder?

Yes, that's what it is.

Intentionally injecting someone with a lethal dose of something for the explicit and deliberate purpose of killing that person -- whether that person asked for it or not -- is murder.

In fact, that's almost as cold-blooded and calculating as it gets.

I see a lot of "what about pachinko?" comments on here.

I get what they're saying, but I'm not convinced that pachinko and online gambling are on an equal plane.

I'm not a gambler at all, so I can't comment on this issue from a place of direct knowledge or experience.

But it does seem to me -- again, as a non-gambler who's on the outside of this issue looking in -- that online gambling would be a lot riskier.

I have no doubt that pachinko-playing can be excessive and obsessive -- but my hunch is that for most people, pulling yourself away from an online gambling site would be much more difficult.

I would imagine that, while all forms of gambling can be addictive, online gambling can be particularly so. So many of us just can't pull ourselves away from that screen, keyboard, or touchpad. Especially while sitting in your home all by yourself.

Not very easily, anyway.

Mr KiplingToday  04:01 pm JST

If for example, an Englishman bet online from Japan at a UK bookmaker and paid by using his UK bank. Would this be breaking the law?

I would think so, if he's in Japan.

When in another country, we are obliged to obey its laws.

U.S. core consumer prices have just dropped to their lowest level in nearly four years.

So all of that inflation and economic malaise that the progressives are predicting, so far at least, doesn't seem to be a big worry.

In fact, reading between progressives' lines on social media and such, they almost seem to be hoping for it.

"The answer is not to just ban and put our heads in the sand," said Keri Rodrigues, president of the National Parents Union, which represents over 1,000 parent organizations in the United States.

We can educate kids about the risks of cell phones AND ban them at school at the same time. They're not mutually exclusive.

Banning cell phones in schools doesn't automatically make anyone guilty of "burying their heads in the sand."

Ms. Rodrigues is apparently the one with her head in the sand. She's the one who seems to be so glibly dismissing the clearly demonstrated negative effects of excessive phone use on kids.

She compared efforts to ban phones to "abstinence education," noting that failing to properly teach children about complicated issues such as sex has failed in the past.

Don't take the rest of my comment down as "off topic," moderators, because I'm responding here to a direct quote from the article -- which makes it "on topic" and thus fair game for a response:

Teenagers who don't have sex don't get pregnant, nor do they get STDs.

So it's not that abstinence education failed. It's idiotic to blame an approach for negative outcomes, when that approach is NOT implemented.

When it comes to avoiding pregnancy and STDs, abstinence works every time. It cannot NOT work. It's the ONLY foolproof way to avoid those two consequences.

Blaming abstinence ed for pregnancy or STDs is like blaming the helmet for your head injury sustained from a bicycle accident .. after you IGNORED educational efforts about the need to wear a helmet.

Despite the media drum-beat about how the tariffs are going to cause major damage to the US economy:

More Trump Success: Core Consumer Prices Dip To Lowest Level In Almost 4 Years As Inflation Eases

In another sign of the success of the Trump administration, the inflation rate for February came in lower than economists had predicted, with core consumer prices dropping to their lowest level in nearly four years.

“The annual core consumer price inflation rate in the United States, which excludes items such as food and energy, eased to 3.1% in February 2025, from 3.3% in the prior month and below market expectations of 3.2%. It is the lowest figure since April 2021,” Trading Economics reported.

"This inflation report, much like last week’s jobs report, is far better than the media predicted and the so-called ‘experts’ expected,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt celebrated on Wednesday morning.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-success-consumer-prices-lowest-level-in-almost-4-years-inflation?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3pJSqoq8qTlQde_Mpy1E0waZeMvsXE-0f8WNttGVBeN3aFVlwW3hnMLDs_aem_m2LXBNDMIDxMd1gMoxHU8g

Japantime Today  09:22 am JST

Very common around the world. Not only in Japan. There are many videos on the dark web and even regular websites which contain this material. Most people have probably seen it by accident when watching porn on their smart phones.

All the more reason to ban porn.

No, porn is not free speech.

It is nothing more than a gateway to sexual exploitation, human trafficking, destroyed marriages and families, and even rape and child molestation.

It's prostitution -- the only difference being that the viewer, rather than the physical participant, is paying for it.

As such, it should be illegalized. Everywhere.

I pray that Russia accepts the terms of the proposed cease-fire.

And maybe this is just wishful thinking, but my hunch is that they will.

Way to go, Mr. Trump.

And thank you for doing far more in the interest of peace in just two months, than your "decent" predecessor couldn't even bother to do in three years.

Trump, again, goes eyeball to eyeball and gets the other side to blink first.

Another day, another win for Trump.

Keep up the good work, Mr. President.