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Tyson again. That name bubbles up to the top of the septic tank every few years. Tyson was one of several companies that paid millions to settle antitrust price fixing suits in the late 70's. Bill Clinton suppressed a water pollution problem for them when he was governor. One of Tyson's lawyers was the shepherd for Hillary's amazing cattle future windfall.

Our own fault really. We make reams of regulations with no accommodation for small competitors so being "To Big To Fail" becomes a requirement of doing business. Not surprisingly the resulting oligopoly quietly colludes amongst itself.

Why? Is building the wall going to mess up the "it's not possible" and "it won't work" narratives you've been been trained with?

> Maybe he's the wrong kind of foreign to break into the market and build connections?

That, and he's on the wrong side of 40, surrounded by young, low cost immigrants in a sanctuary city. Why incur FICA/Medicare/etc contributions for an actual citizen?

> Menial jobs

Guess we found and American that will do those jobs, despite the narrative we're fed.

This story has some highly improbable parts.

"I’ve been looking for a job here in San Francisco for the past three years. Very hard though, nobody wants to hire a foreigner. Most people think I’m a Russian terrorist because of my accent. ”You kill Americans. People say these things based on how I look and speak. It’s tough, you know? I get sad at heart when they shout like that at me. I just try to do good and provide for myself and my family."

San Francisco... I've spent time in San Francisco. It's not like that. Almost 40% of the population is foreign born and gainfully employed at something. Probably 100% of the employers this guy is likely to be an applicant of are foreign born. I really, really doubt his narrative of irrational 'muricans shouting "turrurist herp derp!" at him.

You can't find a job because you're old and living in a nation filled with unemployed older ex-workers. This state of affairs is deliberate policy so you're right to leave; it's not going to get better, particularly if you insist on living in CA. But please, stop it with the "everyone think i terrorist" fiction; most people in San Francisco struggle with very concept of terrorism; so-called terrorists are just the victims of capitalism righteously fighting back against their oppressors.

This doesn't deserve down mod. If Hacker News is going to cite Dan fucking Rather about anything then pointing out the intellectual fraud this guy is guilty of is 100% legitimate.

Clinton's opposition was an election season aberration. Sanders, being an actual leftist and mostly uninterested in the concerns of multinationals, opposed it from the start, as he did NAFTA and others.

> I suggest he go as far left and oversweeping as he can in his remaining days.

I agree. Lets have some real scorched Earth progressivism lest our famously short attention span have us forgetting why we elected Trump and reelected his party's Congress.

> Just about the only thing Congress has been doing for the last 6 years is preventing the president from doing anything.

That is correct. And the electorate just validated them for their service at protecting the nation.

> I just pity the Palestinians.

I'm sure they'll welcome yet more pity to wallow in.

It could be but it's not. The same phenomena happened with Facebook. Ordinarily Facebook is a pariah among enlightened and virtuous Internet folk; compromising privacy and marketing their users for ad revenue, etc. But then someone accused Facebook of grooming their news feed to suppress stories that might validate right wing/conservative/republican/whatever views and Shazam! I've never seen so many corporate sovereignty advocates lecturing the world about how Facebook is free to do with its news feed whatever it wishes, imbued with the right of free speech, and how dare anyone in Congress have the temerity to mention the I word. How chilling!

Tesla is another great example. Ordinarily, self serving research by a corporation is dismissed as junk science or "misinformation." But let Tesla publish survey results [1] to argue their end of a regulatory dispute and that view ricochets around the progressive echo chamber as though a voice from the sky had spoken The Word, Tesla of course being the golden boy of anti-fossil fuel group thinkers.

The sudden concern for the consequences of stopping these big trade deals is nothing more than partisanship. Pretend otherwise if you wish, but it's dead either way and the world is better for it. Thank you President Elect Trump.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/11/tesla-autopilot-germany/

Anyone know if Twitter is acting on users calling for the assassination of president elect Trump? Twitter seems to be pretty aggressive at inferring violations of their policies when someone squabbles with an SJW favored party. Trump is prolific Twitter user with a lot of followers ... are they just supposed to look the other way and ignore all the public death threats?

> earn drastically more valuable dollars to send home to their families.

I've had that remittances argument thrown at me so many times; do you honestly believe ---- I mean actually and genuinely believe ---- that transferring money back home is somehow equivalent to participating in the fate of your nation personally as a worker, parent, voter, dissident, etc.? Citing remittances is just another lame attempt to rationalize tolerating illegal immigration because admitting that there might actually be a great benefit to these countries if the US stopped stealing their youth is abhorrent to the leftist mind. You're so wrapped up in your SJW views you won't allow yourself to see the real damage.

Remittances don't fix anything. None of these nations that export their youth and collect remittances ever get better; Mexico, Haiti, so many Middle Eastern and North African nations, former Soviet republics exporting their youth to the EU... they fester on as failed states forever because the people they need to deal with the fail just leave for greener pastures. Individually you can't blame them, but the collective outcome is tragic. All remittances do is allow origin nations to subsist on a trickle of hard currency and continue feeding wealthy nations with more young.

> We mess with their government, incentivize [sic] them to sell us drugs by having so much demand for them, and exploit their natural resources.

All of these same conditions apply to Canada yet, somehow, Canada isn't a third world kleptocracy.

> If anything, this is why I don't get anyone who thinks its JUST the immigrants fault

Your 'anyone' that blames only immigrants is a mostly a strawman; there are despicable people in the world but that's not who elected Trump, despite what you think. We know employers create demand by employing illegals, and we know those employers buy politicians to oppose securing the border. We know drug abusers in the US create demand for narcotics, and we know securing the border will hinder their supply from Mexico, dealing a great blow to Mexican drug cartels; yet another important benefit of securing the border.

Indeed. And I'm sure they'll be happy to provide both. That's what allies are supposed to do. Sure will be a nice change from the past eight years of barely contained hostility.

>> People flee Mexico because it's an extremely poor country with a horrible government and is controlled by drug cartels. Screwing the country over further economically sounds like the worst way to solve this problem. In fact, it seems like a very good way to exacerbate the problem.

Mexico can't ever improve while the US continues to steal their despondent youth for low cost landscaping, house painting and wait staff. The very people with the courage and energy to leave their home countries to improve their lot are precisely the people needed to effect change against a corrupt regime. Our tolerance of mass illegal immigration is actually immoral; their are tens of millions of victims left to suffer bandit republics and kleptocracies because that small fraction of their populations that would otherwise have had the motivation to pick up a weapon and do something about it are instead occupied hanging drywall somewhere in the US.

>> I thought he had given up on that.

You did?? He's been personally promising to build it 3-5 times a day to tens of thousands of people in every competitive state in the US. It's kind of hard to miss...

>> Why would Mexico have to pay for that? ... It's like building a wall on your property and demanding your neighbors pay for it.

Except the neighbors -- to stretch the analogy a bit more -- have their children, pets and a few spare vehicles in your yard and have become accustomed to browbeating you into not complaining about it. Trump et al. plan on altering this dynamic.

"I don't see the controversy you do."

Comfortable, secure people are often oblivious. Redwood CA demos are changing very fast; we'll see if you're still as blind in a few years.

Somehow we're supposed to discuss the rapid decline of ESPN/NFL fortunes without dealing with the obvious, widely known and unavoidable politics involved? That is not rational. If you want your little hacker safe space to not become another Internet flame war cesspool then see about keeping these stories off the list.

"What's wrong with that?"

Nothing at all is wrong with that. If ESPN, NFL, et al. feel the need to implode their white guy safe space and destroy their own finances in the process, well, it's a free country. I'm good with it. It will also serve to pull some of these people out of the la-la land they live in and face the reality of the hate filled grievance mongers they're surrounded by and have been studiously ignoring all their lives. I see that as a big win. So yes, please continue; fill every game and all the space in between with lectures and --- most importantly --- continue pretending the collapse of NFL revenue has nothing to do with it.

Some have argued that this is really about cord cutting and nothing to do with the intrusion of political controversy. That is badly naive. Watch a Trump rally some time. Call it cultural interest or whatever. Note the thousands of people yelling "CNN sucks! CNN sucks! CNN sucks!" No, it's not really about the Cable News Network specifically; they have the entire MSM in mind, including Hollywood, all cable news and --- now --- professional sports, the only remaining reason they had to justify their $100+/month cable bill. It's exactly the same demographic; some are just a bit ahead of the curve.

The rest will follow.