I can't think of a constructive way to respond to news this dumb. Anyone have a silver lining?
Another brilliant humanitarian crisis caused entirely by the U.S. for no good reason at all.
As a Kiwi I look at the US, Russia, China, etc as the same. Even the UK (where I now live) is a scarier place than back home.
What people want is stability. Not endless fucking wars.
People in my country don't give a shit about Moses-Jesus. They do care about how much their fuel costs.
this of course true for Tibet and Taiwan, too -- you just don't care because that's not where you live.
...and with that attitude globally, we get endless war.
Even now they are posturing in their "South-Chinese Sea", or as the Filipino's like to call it, the "West-Phillipine Sea". Also, Taiwan, Hong Kong...
And then we haven't even talked about how nice they are to their own citizens.
China is growing in strength and moving towards a new global world order, and the way Trump is fucking up US supremacy at the moment, China might well succeed.
Oh no, I haven't heard about that lately. What are they doing? Building camps to mass-inter their own citizens? Disappearing people from airports and then lying about where they are being kept? Withholding welfare funds to punish political enemies? Murdering civilians in the street and calling them domestic terrorists? Employing legal threats to force companies to sell technology for domestic mass surveillance?
The second silver lining is that, even if CBP does its job, there is another step where the Trump administration will certainly drag its feet again: "If it is determined upon liquidation or reliquidation that excess moneys have been deposited, such that a refund with interest is due to the importer, CBP certifies the refund and interest amounts to the Department of the Treasury, which then employs its own processes to disburse the certified amounts to the importers of record."
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cit.193...