Did you see this about a Norwegian tourist to the USA?

[goaded]

Bald JD Vance meme

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The US government now claims it was because he admitted to having used cannabis, legally, in New Mexico and Germany. Can I come to the US, having possessed many of these, which are illegal in the US because they're so dangerous (not so much JR-15 rifles, they're fine) upload.wikimedia.org/.../...inder_Surprise_Egg.jpg

[Amy10223]

Well, considering that the Senator of California, Alex Padilla, was taken by force by police at a meeting when he tried to ask a question, that is nothing now. He was actually pressed to the ground and handcuffed. All for trying to ask a question he did not get to ask.
That is scary, and so is this. It reminds me very much of people I know (relatives of my ex) who were jailed for speaking against Castro. This country is becoming a dictatorship and people are not aware, unless something happens to them or someone they know. Our freedom is at stake. America needs to wake up.

[goaded]

They can't "wake up", that would be "woke", and that's bad!

[Amy10223]

You’re right! They’d rather be asleep when the country loses its freedoms.

[purplepoppy]

The meme isn't the issue. The big one for me is they forced him to surrender his password or face 5 years in prison. I'd have thought you'd need a warrant for that, what happens if you've sensitive business data on it.

[goaded]

It's a border control thing; once you're in the country, they'd need a warrant, at the border they can pretty much do what they want. I don't know the reasoning behind it.

Guess who's joined the states where you expect to be spied on?

"The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times.

The use of clean and locked-down hardware is common practice for anyone visiting China, Russia, and other states where aggressive electronic surveillance is expected. Apparently the European Union has added the United States to that list." www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/ec_burner_devices/

[purplepoppy]

Probably best I just bought a new phone, I'd get strung up if I visited

[goaded]

Do you really want to, at the moment? I know someone who was planning a three month holiday over there. Now cancelled, before any payments.

[purplepoppy]

No, far too risky at the minute. Just look at how badly ticket sales for the world Cup are going, people are staying away.

[Levin]

What could be so bad on your phone?

[purplepoppy]

90% of my gag questions for a start

[Levin]

Got it poppy, Ixnay on the Hombre ;)

[Levin]

To be fair, they've always been pretty loony on border security in the US. A 'joke' isn't something that they have any concept of.

[goaded]

My sister and I were probably lucky to get in when we didn't notice the reverse side of the visa waver form!

Didn't matter, we'd been on Concord!

[Lynx122]

great meme :)

[dustybiker2]

How many bald images of Biden are on the guards phone?

[dustybiker2]

I heard Vance had to shave as it allowed the woman's wigs to stick more securely. 😏

[Shiprex]

Lol nice one

[dustybiker2]

@Shiprex I was hungry and sleep deprived at the time. I think I went after @exitseven too. •snort• He'll get over it.

[Shiprex]

LOL more it only made it spicier and worth it. He's a big boy and time he had his pants on the right way round @exiseven

[exitseven]

@Shiprex @exitseven

[Shiprex]

@exitseven typos and aging eyesight is my bad

[exitseven]

@Shiprex I get it.

[goaded]

@exitseven WHAT?

[Gwendoline]

I know an Irish guy that was stopped from getting into the US because they found a Facebook post where he said he was going to wreck America.

[goaded]

Clearly a terrorist!

[Gwendoline]

Think he intended to terrorise the bars and clubs. He was only going for two weeks

[goaded]

I know. Ironically, it was Republicans in the US funding the IRA who bombed Britain. Until it became unfashionable after 9/11.

[Gwendoline]

That's not true. Also Americans stop funding the IRA after some major attacks that resulted in civilian deaths. Most support for the IRA came from Irish Americans who lived in long term democrat voting regions like Boston, philidelphia, new york, Chicago, detroit etc collecting money usually in bars which they used to buy weaponry from all over. It's also worth mentioning that the British state was sponsoring British terrorism in Ireland that was bombing in Ireland and killing British and Irish citizens. The good Friday agreement was in 1998 where the IRA had signed up for peace while British terrorists had not. The American government bought off the IRA with money.

[goaded]

Which "major attacks that resulted in civilian deaths" are you thinking of?

I was thinking of Republican U. S. Representative from New York Peter King, who "began actively supporting the Irish republican movement in the late 1970s. He frequently traveled to Northern Ireland to meet with senior members of the paramilitary group, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), many of whom he counted as friends.", described by a judge as "an obvious collaborator with the IRA".

Ironically, the unionists were far right wing, allying themselves with British neo-Nazis and the republicans were far left, allied with FARC. Everyone involved took support from where they could find it.

[Gwendoline]

Omagh bombing in 98 & Enniskillen bombing in 87.
Well there's was a lot support in the 70s for the IRA after

•the British terror campaign in the Republic of Ireland in the 60s& 70s,
•British soldiers shooting dead British citizens on British streets just because they happened to be Irish in ballymurpy & derry city 1972

•British internment of British citizens that were irish Catholic. That is locking up citizens without trial

• British police & state run paramilitary organisations beating up peaceful civil rights marchers.

• British state security services collaborating with British terrorists to murder Irish catholics.

• British state soldiers and police being part of prescribed British terror organisations.

• British state security services & British terrorists conducting a false flag operation of terror attacks blaming the ira long b4 the ira had gone to war.

• the denial of civil rights of British citizens living in Britain because they happened to be Irish catholics. That is jobs, housing, mortgages, loans, education etc.

• British citizens of Irish ethnicity harassed, assaulted and imprisoned in their homes every 12th of July with much property damage that went on sometimes for months.

• state media propaganda and black outs reporting fake news (BBC)

• Miscarriages of justice where innocent people were locked up for crimes they didn't commit for decades. And of course British police and military getting off with murdering British citizens who were Irish catholics.

I could go on and on.

[goaded]

A lot of that did definitely go on, but I wonder if you had sources for:

• British state soldiers and police being part of prescribed British terror organisations.
and
• British state security services & British terrorists conducting a false flag operation of terror attacks blaming the ira long b4 the ira had gone to war.

[Gwendoline]

Just part of the history of the troubles in Northern Ireland.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Showband_killings
March–April 1969: Members of the UVF and Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV) bombed water and electricity installations in Northern Ireland. The loyalists hoped the attacks would be blamed on the dormant IRA and on elements of the civil rights movement, which was demanding an end to discrimination against Catholics. The loyalists intended to bring down Ulster Unionist Party Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, who had promised some concessions to the civil rights movement. At the time, the bombings were indeed blamed on the IRA, and British soldiers were deployed to guard installations.

[Gwendoline]

30 March: Loyalists bombed an electricity substation just outside Belfast, causing blackouts across much of the city's south and east.
4 April: Loyalists bombed a water pipeline at Dunadry, County Antrim.
20 April: Loyalists bombed Silent Valley Reservoir and an electricity pylon in Kilmore, County Armagh.
24 April: Loyalists again bombed the water pipeline at Dunadry.
26 April: Loyalists bombed a water pipeline at Annalong, County Down, cutting off the water supply to much of Belfast

[Gwendoline]

6 April 1966: UVF members threw petrol bombs at a Catholic primary school—Holy Cross Girls' School—in Belfast. The attack happened two days before Terence O'Neill, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, was to address a Catholic-Protestant reconciliation meeting there.
en.m.wikipedia.org/.../Timeline_of_Ulster_Volunteer_Force_actions

That's only the UVF not all the other British terror groups.

[Gwendoline]

www.theguardian.com/.../david-cameron-pat-finucane-murder
www.google.com/.../uk-32887445.amp
www.theguardian.com/.../evidence-police-in-belfast-colluded-with-loyalists-in-the-troubles-report-finds

[goaded]

Thanks for that. I'll read through, but it might take a while! Just to be clear, I'm not claiming the English were whiter than white, 50 years ago or now.

[Gwendoline]

The background of the troubles leading up to it is very intresting. All Irish catholics wanted were civil rights and rather than give them they instigated a war that exploded in their faces, they thought they'd do what they did in the colonies, shoot a few and it would die down. Truth is that all was unnecessary, the British looked bad in front of the UN and EU human rights commissions and were shamed into giving Irish catholics in Britain civil rights. In the end the Sunningdale agreement that was proposed in the 70s about shared rule, civil rights etc is nearly the exact same document as the good Friday agreement signed in 98. Read through some of the events that led up to the troubles, before bloody Sunday in 72 when British paratroops got gun happy.

The Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 17 May 1974 were a series of co-ordinated bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland, carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Three car bombs exploded in Dublin during the evening rush hour and a fourth exploded in Monaghan almost ninety minutes later. They killed 33 civilians and injured almost 300. Together, the bombings were the deadliest attack of the conflict known as the Troubles (although the deadliest single incident would be the Omagh bombing in 1998), and the deadliest attack in the Republic's history. Most of the victims were young women, although the ages of the dead ranged from 4½ months up to 80 years.

[goaded]

I remember my sister (who studied it at Uni) telling me about this, that the border was practically designed to ensure conflict, but I didn't really grasp how recently the British Empire was still massive. I knew colonial times were bad, but I felt it was a 18th-19th century thing, not just 100 years ago, when my grandfather was a young man.

[Gwendoline]

The Irish boarder in 1921 was designed to ensure that the Irish prodestants outnumbered Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland. Instead of taking all of ulster they even left out ulster counties donegal, cavan and Monaghan that had a Catholic majority to ensure Irish prodestants were in the majority by at least 70/30. In the 50s and 60s as the Irish Catholic population began to grow they even took measures of ensuring that no new infrastructure was built in the west such as roads, and ensured that most factories were in the east, they also dismantled the railway system in the west, made sure most governmentmoney was spent in the east. Even today there are no 4 lane motorways in the west and there's been efforts this last 20 years that are constantly blocked.
In 1921 when Irish independent home rule and the prodestant ascendancy in the north there was a civil war and a split in the ira and Sinn Feinn party with one side opposing a divided Ireland and the other wanting to accept it. With pro treaty forces and parties backed by the British government. 20,000 died. But that's pretty common when the British empire pull out that a bloody civil war follows. Current Parties in the Republic Finna Fail & finna Gael are both descended from Sinn fein.

[mfused411]

This was reported on Facebook and Tiktok. I believe it!

[SmokinAces2000]

Why were they even going through his phone?

[Shiprex]

Because the regime is in meltdown as they're all ❄

[goaded]

"Starting April 2025, U. S. visa applicants, including students, skilled workers, and tourists face enhanced digital scrutiny. The government now reviews public social media posts for extremist content or affiliations." travelobiz.com/.../

[Chocolatetwopointtwo]

land of the free..

[AngryCarl2]

nope