• Grammys: Billie Eilish Claims America is Stolen Land

    From BTR1701@atropos@mac.com to rec.arts.tv on Mon Feb 2 20:18:26 2026
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    During her acceptance speech at last night's Grammys, singer Billie Eilish claimed that America is land stolen from "native peoples".

    Billie Eilish's $14-million mansion sits on several acres of land stolen from the Tongva peoples who were indigenous to Southern California. Will she return that land and the home that sits on it to the tribe? I mean, she has the moral high ground, after all. She's virtuous and she made sure we all knew it. Signaled it, as it were.

    So now that it's incontrovertible that she knows her land is stolen, will she turn it over to the Tongva Tribe? I mean, that's what one does with stolen property, right? You return it to its rightful owner. If Billie needs an attorney to help her with the land transfer paperwork, I'd be happy to help. I'd even do it for free.

    In the alternative, Billie could use that land and that mansion to help house literally hundreds of illegal aliens. She could invite them all in to live
    with her, since it's all stolen land and "no one is illegal on stolen land", right Billie?

    In the alternative, she could have just listened to Ricky Gervais and taken
    his sage advice:

    https://youtu.be/fgson2Q3nog?t=419

    It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country
    who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her preening performance at the award podium.


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  • From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.com to rec.arts.tv on Mon Feb 2 15:39:31 2026
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    Verily, in article <10lr0qi$u9vm$1@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com
    deliver unto us this message:
    It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her preening performance at the award podium.


    Do you think entertainers are really worth that much effort? Only the
    very young take entertainers' views seriously, and I'm not even sure
    it's that many of the very young.
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  • From super70s@super70s@super70s.invalid to rec.arts.tv on Mon Feb 2 14:44:55 2026
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    On 2026-02-02 20:18:26 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    During her acceptance speech at last night's Grammys, singer Billie Eilish claimed that America is land stolen from "native peoples".

    Billie Eilish's $14-million mansion sits on several acres of land stolen from the Tongva peoples who were indigenous to Southern California. Will she return
    that land and the home that sits on it to the tribe? I mean, she has the moral
    high ground, after all. She's virtuous and she made sure we all knew it. Signaled it, as it were.

    So now that it's incontrovertible that she knows her land is stolen, will she turn it over to the Tongva Tribe? I mean, that's what one does with stolen property, right? You return it to its rightful owner. If Billie needs an attorney to help her with the land transfer paperwork, I'd be happy to help. I'd even do it for free.

    In the alternative, Billie could use that land and that mansion to help house literally hundreds of illegal aliens. She could invite them all in to live with her, since it's all stolen land and "no one is illegal on stolen land", right Billie?

    In the alternative, she could have just listened to Ricky Gervais and taken his sage advice:

    https://youtu.be/fgson2Q3nog?t=419

    It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her preening performance at the award podium.

    At least California and Minnesota are making amends with new immigrants
    with sanctuary cities, now Republicans want to ban that across the
    nation. Rationalize that position for us especially in context with Republicans' long held "states rights" stance which seems to have
    disappeared under Trump.

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  • From BTR1701@atropos@mac.com to rec.arts.tv on Mon Feb 2 20:48:59 2026
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    On Feb 2, 2026 at 12:39:31 PM PST, "The True Melissa" <thetruemelissa@gmail.com> wrote:

    Verily, in article <10lr0qi$u9vm$1@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com deliver unto us this message:

    It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country >> who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her >> preening performance at the award podium.

    Do you think entertainers are really worth that much effort?

    Well, they already have the media horde there anyway. When you win an award, you're herded off-stage and right into the press room where all the reporters are gathered to ask you how it feels to be the first Muslim bi-sexual three-spirit handicapped non-binary otherkin to win a Grammy... or whatever.

    It wouldn't take any extra effort just to ask her some different questions.

    Only the very young take entertainers' views seriously

    Or people named Kamala Harris, who spent over a billion dollars gathering celebrities to tell America how wonderful she is only to have no one give a damn.


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  • From Adam H. Kerman@ahk@chinet.com to rec.arts.tv on Mon Feb 2 20:58:57 2026
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    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

    During her acceptance speech at last night's Grammys, singer Billie Eilish >claimed that America is land stolen from "native peoples".

    Billie Eilish's $14-million mansion sits on several acres of land stolen from >the Tongva peoples who were indigenous to Southern California. Will she return >that land and the home that sits on it to the tribe? I mean, she has the moral >high ground, after all. She's virtuous and she made sure we all knew it. >Signaled it, as it were.

    So now that it's incontrovertible that she knows her land is stolen, will she >turn it over to the Tongva Tribe? I mean, that's what one does with stolen >property, right? You return it to its rightful owner. If Billie needs an >attorney to help her with the land transfer paperwork, I'd be happy to help. >I'd even do it for free.

    You're probably not volunteering to help her keep the land she stole,
    defending against an inevitable civil suit from the tribe.
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  • From Adam H. Kerman@ahk@chinet.com to rec.arts.tv on Mon Feb 2 21:00:24 2026
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    super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
    On 2026-02-02 20:18:26 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    During her acceptance speech at last night's Grammys, singer Billie Eilish >> claimed that America is land stolen from "native peoples".

    Billie Eilish's $14-million mansion sits on several acres of land stolen from
    the Tongva peoples who were indigenous to Southern California. Will she return
    that land and the home that sits on it to the tribe? I mean, she has the moral
    high ground, after all. She's virtuous and she made sure we all knew it.
    Signaled it, as it were.

    So now that it's incontrovertible that she knows her land is stolen, will she
    turn it over to the Tongva Tribe? I mean, that's what one does with stolen >> property, right? You return it to its rightful owner. If Billie needs an
    attorney to help her with the land transfer paperwork, I'd be happy to help. >> I'd even do it for free.

    In the alternative, Billie could use that land and that mansion to help house
    literally hundreds of illegal aliens. She could invite them all in to live >> with her, since it's all stolen land and "no one is illegal on stolen land", >> right Billie?

    In the alternative, she could have just listened to Ricky Gervais and taken >> his sage advice:

    https://youtu.be/fgson2Q3nog?t=419

    It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country >> who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her
    preening performance at the award podium.

    At least California and Minnesota are making amends with new immigrants
    with sanctuary cities, now Republicans want to ban that across the
    nation. Rationalize that position for us especially in context with >Republicans' long held "states rights" stance which seems to have >disappeared under Trump.

    Making amends? How was this land stolen from immigrants?
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  • From BTR1701@atropos@mac.com to rec.arts.tv on Mon Feb 2 21:07:06 2026
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    On Feb 2, 2026 at 12:44:55 PM PST, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2026-02-02 20:18:26 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    During her acceptance speech at last night's Grammys, singer Billie Eilish >> claimed that America is land stolen from "native peoples".

    Billie Eilish's $14-million mansion sits on several acres of land stolen
    from
    the Tongva peoples who were indigenous to Southern California. Will she
    return
    that land and the home that sits on it to the tribe? I mean, she has the
    moral
    high ground, after all. She's virtuous and she made sure we all knew it.
    Signaled it, as it were.

    So now that it's incontrovertible that she knows her land is stolen, will >> she
    turn it over to the Tongva Tribe? I mean, that's what one does with stolen >> property, right? You return it to its rightful owner. If Billie needs an
    attorney to help her with the land transfer paperwork, I'd be happy to help.
    I'd even do it for free.

    In the alternative, Billie could use that land and that mansion to help
    house
    literally hundreds of illegal aliens. She could invite them all in to live >> with her, since it's all stolen land and "no one is illegal on stolen land",
    right Billie?

    In the alternative, she could have just listened to Ricky Gervais and taken >> his sage advice:

    https://youtu.be/fgson2Q3nog?t=419

    It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country >> who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her >> preening performance at the award podium.

    At least California and Minnesota are making amends with new immigrants
    with sanctuary cities, now Republicans want to ban that across the
    nation.

    Excellent! About time.

    And how does it "make amends" to (allegedly) steal land from some people and then shield other people from breaking the law as a way of compensating for
    it?

    I mean, if the government stole my car and then said "we feel bad about having done that" so they had the cops protect a rapist that has nothing to do with
    me from being prosecuted as a way of making amends to me for stealing my car,
    I wouldn't feel any better about having lost my car. That wouldn't actually be "amends" from my perspective.

    Rationalize that position for us especially in context with
    Republicans' long held "states rights" stance which seems to have disappeared under Trump.

    Easy. Per the Constitution, immigration is entirely a matter of federal jurisdiction. There is no "state's rights" argument with regard to
    immigration. Which is something the Obama and Biden DOJs actually ran to court and argued when red states started trying to put up barriers along the border to stop the hordes Democrats were letting flood in. The Democrats had no problem screaming about how immigration is federal only and states have no business butting into it. Then a Republican gets elected and suddenly every blue state in the country thinks it has a say in border and immigration enforcement.

    What happened to Obama's claims that states have no business interfering with immigration enforcement? Oh, right. A Republican's in office now so the entire Constitution changes. Certain powers of the presidency only apply when Democrats are in office. I keep forgetting that.

    But as a practical matter, if you ACTUALLY care about the illegals, then refusing to cooperate with ICE and handing criminals over at the jailhouse
    door when they're released is the last thing you'd do. Because if you don't hand them over to ICE and you release them back into the community, then ICE has to go after them in the neighborhoods and at job sites. And when ICE turns up to those places looking for the criminal you refused to hand over to them
    at the jail, they're likely to find a lot *more* illegals present and now they're gonna get deported also.

    Bottom line, if you stop with the 'sanctuary' nonsense and hand over an
    illegal in the jail, then one illegal gets deported. If you refuse to
    cooperate and ICE has to hunt him down in the community, dozens get deported. Which way is better for the "undocumented community"?

    And most of the time, the "community" itself would prefer the state hand that burglar or drug dealer or rapist over to ICE. They don't want people like that living amongst them any more than you or I would. But no, Democrats have an Agenda to pursue and if that means dumping convicted rapists back into immigrant communities to own Trump, that's what they're gonna do. And if a few innocent people get raped and murdered because of it, well... you have to
    break a few eggs to make an omelette, amirite?

    (Sorry if that's to 'verbose' for you, super70s. I know how much you hate big words and sentences and all.)


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  • From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.com to rec.arts.tv on Mon Feb 2 16:14:12 2026
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    Verily, in article <10lr2jr$u9vm$3@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com
    deliver unto us this message:
    Only the very young take entertainers' views seriously

    Or people named Kamala Harris, who spent over a billion dollars gathering celebrities to tell America how wonderful she is only to have no one give a damn.


    She spent that much on celebrity endorsements? Dang. It didn't even
    work.
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    In article <10lr2c7$us21$1@dont-email.me>, super70s@super70s.invalid wrote:

    At least California and Minnesota are making amends with new immigrants
    with sanctuary cities, now Republicans want to ban that across the
    nation. Rationalize that position for us especially in context with >Republicans' long held "states rights" stance which seems to have >disappeared under Trump.


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    thetruemelissa@gmail.com wrote:
    Verily, in article <10lr2jr$u9vm$3@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com >deliver unto us this message:

    Or people named Kamala Harris, who spent over a billion dollars gathering
    celebrities to tell America how wonderful she is only to have no one give >> a damn.

    She spent that much on celebrity endorsements? Dang. It didn't even
    work.

    Didn't she stiff them?
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  • From moviePig@nobody@nowhere.com to rec.arts.tv on Mon Feb 2 18:17:22 2026
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    On 2/2/2026 3:18 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    During her acceptance speech at last night's Grammys, singer Billie Eilish claimed that America is land stolen from "native peoples".

    Billie Eilish's $14-million mansion sits on several acres of land stolen from the Tongva peoples who were indigenous to Southern California. Will she return
    that land and the home that sits on it to the tribe? I mean, she has the moral
    high ground, after all. She's virtuous and she made sure we all knew it. Signaled it, as it were.

    So now that it's incontrovertible that she knows her land is stolen, will she turn it over to the Tongva Tribe? I mean, that's what one does with stolen property, right? You return it to its rightful owner. If Billie needs an attorney to help her with the land transfer paperwork, I'd be happy to help. I'd even do it for free.

    In the alternative, Billie could use that land and that mansion to help house literally hundreds of illegal aliens. She could invite them all in to live with her, since it's all stolen land and "no one is illegal on stolen land", right Billie?

    In the alternative, she could have just listened to Ricky Gervais and taken his sage advice:

    https://youtu.be/fgson2Q3nog?t=419

    It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her preening performance at the award podium.

    Afaics, all land is "stolen land". And if we ever address such questions openly, it might be the beginning of, say, a meaningful morality.


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  • From BTR1701@atropos@mac.com to rec.arts.tv on Tue Feb 3 00:01:59 2026
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    On Feb 2, 2026 at 3:17:22 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 2/2/2026 3:18 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    During her acceptance speech at last night's Grammys, singer Billie Eilish >> claimed that America is land stolen from "native peoples".

    Billie Eilish's $14-million mansion sits on several acres of land stolen
    from
    the Tongva peoples who were indigenous to Southern California. Will she
    return
    that land and the home that sits on it to the tribe? I mean, she has the
    moral
    high ground, after all. She's virtuous and she made sure we all knew it.
    Signaled it, as it were.

    So now that it's incontrovertible that she knows her land is stolen, will >> she
    turn it over to the Tongva Tribe? I mean, that's what one does with stolen >> property, right? You return it to its rightful owner. If Billie needs an
    attorney to help her with the land transfer paperwork, I'd be happy to help.
    I'd even do it for free.

    In the alternative, Billie could use that land and that mansion to help
    house
    literally hundreds of illegal aliens. She could invite them all in to live >> with her, since it's all stolen land and "no one is illegal on stolen land",
    right Billie?

    In the alternative, she could have just listened to Ricky Gervais and taken >> his sage advice:

    https://youtu.be/fgson2Q3nog?t=419

    It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country >> who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her >> preening performance at the award podium.

    Afaics, all land is "stolen land".

    Of course it is. Col. Nelson Miles addressed this quite eloquently with
    Sitting Bull when they met at Wounded Knee under flag of truce.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN90wZRnyM0

    And if we ever address such questions openly, it might be the beginning of, say, a meaningful morality.

    Or and endless morass of accusations and counter-accusations going back millennia.


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  • From The True Melissa@thetruemelissa@gmail.com to rec.arts.tv on Mon Feb 2 20:09:02 2026
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    Verily, in article <10lrdtn$12lcb$1@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com deliver unto us this message:
    Of course it is. Col. Nelson Miles addressed this quite eloquently with Sitting Bull when they met at Wounded Knee under flag of truce.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN90wZRnyM0



    Whoa, that is a *killer* scene. I should catch the whole movie.
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  • From super70s@super70s@super70s.invalid to rec.arts.tv on Mon Feb 2 19:15:05 2026
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    On 2026-02-02 21:07:06 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Feb 2, 2026 at 12:44:55 PM PST, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2026-02-02 20:18:26 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    During her acceptance speech at last night's Grammys, singer Billie Eilish >>> claimed that America is land stolen from "native peoples".

    Billie Eilish's $14-million mansion sits on several acres of land stolen >>> from the Tongva peoples who were indigenous to Southern California. Will she
    return that land and the home that sits on it to the tribe? I mean, she has the
    moral high ground, after all. She's virtuous and she made sure we all knew it.
    Signaled it, as it were.

    So now that it's incontrovertible that she knows her land is stolen, will >>> she turn it over to the Tongva Tribe? I mean, that's what one does with stolen
    property, right? You return it to its rightful owner. If Billie needs an >>> attorney to help her with the land transfer paperwork, I'd be happy to help.
    I'd even do it for free.

    In the alternative, Billie could use that land and that mansion to help
    house literally hundreds of illegal aliens. She could invite them all
    in to live
    with her, since it's all stolen land and "no one is illegal on stolen land",
    right Billie?

    In the alternative, she could have just listened to Ricky Gervais and taken >>> his sage advice:

    https://youtu.be/fgson2Q3nog?t=419

    It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country >>> who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her >>> preening performance at the award podium.

    At least California and Minnesota are making amends with new immigrants
    with sanctuary cities, now Republicans want to ban that across the
    nation.

    Excellent! About time.

    So you have no more concern about the welfare of immigrants than what
    you're accusing Billie Eilish of.

    And how does it "make amends" to (allegedly) steal land from some people and then shield other people from breaking the law as a way of compensating for it?

    I mean, if the government stole my car and then said "we feel bad about having
    done that" so they had the cops protect a rapist that has nothing to do with me from being prosecuted as a way of making amends to me for stealing my car, I wouldn't feel any better about having lost my car. That wouldn't actually be
    "amends" from my perspective.

    Rationalize that position for us especially in context with
    Republicans' long held "states rights" stance which seems to have
    disappeared under Trump.

    Easy. Per the Constitution, immigration is entirely a matter of federal jurisdiction. There is no "state's rights" argument with regard to immigration.

    I'm aware of what the Supreme Court has ruled, I'm just pointing out
    how conservatives are only enthusiastic about federal intervention vs.
    states rights when it happens to conform to their own dogma.

    Legal precedent has long held that the federal government cannot
    require states and localities to carry out its immigration policy,
    which the current regime routinely ignores by trying to extort them
    with the withholding of federal funds.

    But as a practical matter, if you ACTUALLY care about the illegals, then refusing to cooperate with ICE and handing criminals over at the jailhouse door when they're released is the last thing you'd do.

    The Trump regime isn't only rounding up "criminals," all you need to do
    is have dark skin or speak with an accent.

    Because if you don't
    hand them over to ICE and you release them back into the community, then ICE has to go after them in the neighborhoods and at job sites. And when ICE turns
    up to those places looking for the criminal you refused to hand over to them at the jail, they're likely to find a lot *more* illegals present and now they're gonna get deported also.

    Bottom line, if you stop with the 'sanctuary' nonsense and hand over an illegal in the jail, then one illegal gets deported. If you refuse to cooperate and ICE has to hunt him down in the community, dozens get deported. Which way is better for the "undocumented community"?

    And most of the time, the "community" itself would prefer the state hand that burglar or drug dealer or rapist over to ICE. They don't want people like that
    living amongst them any more than you or I would. But no, Democrats have an Agenda to pursue and if that means dumping convicted rapists back into immigrant communities to own Trump, that's what they're gonna do. And if a few
    innocent people get raped and murdered because of it, well... you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette, amirite?

    (Sorry if that's to 'verbose' for you, super70s. I know how much you hate big words and sentences and all.)

    Okay from now on I'll describe your "incoherent rambling full of
    opinionated fallacies" as demonstrated above as such instead of
    "verbose," the latter doesn't necessarily mean you don't know what
    you're talking about.

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  • From BTR1701@atropos@mac.com to rec.arts.tv on Tue Feb 3 04:24:26 2026
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    On Feb 2, 2026 at 5:15:05 PM PST, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2026-02-02 21:07:06 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    On Feb 2, 2026 at 12:44:55 PM PST, "super70s" <super70s@super70s.invalid> >> wrote:

    On 2026-02-02 20:18:26 +0000, BTR1701 said:

    During her acceptance speech at last night's Grammys, singer Billie Eilish
    claimed that America is land stolen from "native peoples".

    Billie Eilish's $14-million mansion sits on several acres of land stolen >>>> from the Tongva peoples who were indigenous to Southern California. Will she
    return that land and the home that sits on it to the tribe? I mean, she >>>> has the
    moral high ground, after all. She's virtuous and she made sure we all >>>> knew it.
    Signaled it, as it were.

    So now that it's incontrovertible that she knows her land is stolen, will >>>> she turn it over to the Tongva Tribe? I mean, that's what one does with >>>> stolen
    property, right? You return it to its rightful owner. If Billie needs an >>>> attorney to help her with the land transfer paperwork, I'd be happy to help.
    I'd even do it for free.

    In the alternative, Billie could use that land and that mansion to help >>>> house literally hundreds of illegal aliens. She could invite them all >>>> in to live
    with her, since it's all stolen land and "no one is illegal on stolen land",
    right Billie?

    In the alternative, she could have just listened to Ricky Gervais and taken
    his sage advice:

    https://youtu.be/fgson2Q3nog?t=419

    It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country
    who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her >>>> preening performance at the award podium.

    At least California and Minnesota are making amends with new immigrants >>> with sanctuary cities, now Republicans want to ban that across the
    nation.

    Excellent! About time.

    So you have no more concern about the welfare of immigrants than what
    you're accusing Billie Eilish of.

    Not immigrants. Illegal aliens. I know you progs like to conflate the two and pretend there's no difference, but there is.

    And I'm accusing Eilish of hypocrisy. There's nothing hypocritical about my position with regard to illegals, so your comparison is nonsensical.

    Rationalize that position for us especially in context with
    Republicans' long held "states rights" stance which seems to have
    disappeared under Trump.

    Easy. Per the Constitution, immigration is entirely a matter of federal
    jurisdiction. There is no "state's rights" argument with regard to
    immigration.

    I'm aware of what the Supreme Court has ruled

    It's not a matter of Supreme Court interpretation. It's *in* Article I,
    Section 8 in black-and-white. Well, maybe black-and-parchment yellow, but it's right there.

    Legal precedent has long held that the federal government cannot
    require states and localities to carry out its immigration policy

    It'll be hilarious if you all's gun control dreams ever come true and you get to ban all the guns and a bunch of red cities, counties, and states declare themselves 'sanctuaries' from federal gun laws; that no state or local law enforcement will assist the federal government in enforcing its gun laws, and if the ATF wants to try to police 800 million guns nationwide with only 2300 special agents, they're welcome to try.

    Betcha Dems won't be so excited about the concept of sanctuary cities then. Betcha we'll be treated to all sorts of hysterical bleating about how "that's unconstitutional". And when you remind them that they started all this with sanctuary cities for illegals, all you'll get is the Democrat's trademark "That's different!"

    which the current regime routinely ignores by trying to extort them
    with the withholding of federal funds.

    Which is perfectly acceptable and legal. Has been since the 1970s, when the FedGov imposed a nationwide speed limit of 55mph. Several states sued, rightly pointing out that per the 10th Amendment, regulating traffic is a power reserved to the states and the FedGov has no jurisdiction over speed limits. The court sided with the states, so the FedGov said fine, you can regulate
    your own speed limits but if you set them any faster than 55mph, no more highway funds for you. The states sued again and this time the court ruled in favor of the feds. Said it was their money and they could set any conditions
    on it that they chose. So we ended up with 55mph speed limits everywhere
    except Alaska, which told the feds they didn't need their highway money so
    they could keep it and pound sand.

    If you don't want to cooperate with federal law enforcement, then your state
    or cities don't get law enforcement dollars.

    But as a practical matter, if you ACTUALLY care about the illegals, then
    refusing to cooperate with ICE and handing criminals over at the jailhouse >> door when they're released is the last thing you'd do.

    The Trump regime isn't only rounding up "criminals," all you need to do
    is have dark skin or speak with an accent.

    Suuure. My latina girlfriend literally works on the same block as ICE offices in L.A. She has brown skin, long dark black hair, and they have no idea how
    she speaks or what accent she does or doesn't have just by looking at her as she walks down the street. Not once has she had any problem with them.

    Because if you don't
    hand them over to ICE and you release them back into the community, then ICE
    has to go after them in the neighborhoods and at job sites. And when ICE
    turns
    up to those places looking for the criminal you refused to hand over to them
    at the jail, they're likely to find a lot *more* illegals present and now >> they're gonna get deported also.

    Bottom line, if you stop with the 'sanctuary' nonsense and hand over an
    illegal in the jail, then one illegal gets deported. If you refuse to
    cooperate and ICE has to hunt him down in the community, dozens get
    deported.
    Which way is better for the "undocumented community"?

    And most of the time, the "community" itself would prefer the state hand
    that
    burglar or drug dealer or rapist over to ICE. They don't want people like >> that
    living amongst them any more than you or I would. But no, Democrats have an >> Agenda to pursue and if that means dumping convicted rapists back into
    immigrant communities to own Trump, that's what they're gonna do. And if a >> few
    innocent people get raped and murdered because of it, well... you have to >> break a few eggs to make an omelette, amirite?

    (Sorry if that's to 'verbose' for you, super70s. I know how much you hate >> big
    words and sentences and all.)

    Okay from now on I'll describe your "incoherent rambling

    What exactly is incoherent about what I wrote? Please be specific. Because if you can't make sense of my posts, I suspect the problem is on your end as no one else here ever seems to have a problem understanding me.

    full of opinionated fallacies"

    But yours are not opinionated or anything, amirite? Or lemme guess, you're under the delusion that any opinion you have is factual merely by it being *your* opinion?


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  • From Adam H. Kerman@ahk@chinet.com to rec.arts.tv on Tue Feb 3 07:58:43 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.tv

    BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
    On Feb 2, 2026 at 3:17:22 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    On 2/2/2026 3:18 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

    During her acceptance speech at last night's Grammys, singer Billie Eilish >>> claimed that America is land stolen from "native peoples".

    Billie Eilish's $14-million mansion sits on several acres of land stolen >>> from
    the Tongva peoples who were indigenous to Southern California. Will she >>> return
    that land and the home that sits on it to the tribe? I mean, she has the >>> moral
    high ground, after all. She's virtuous and she made sure we all knew it. >>> Signaled it, as it were.

    So now that it's incontrovertible that she knows her land is stolen, will >>> she
    turn it over to the Tongva Tribe? I mean, that's what one does with stolen >>> property, right? You return it to its rightful owner. If Billie needs an >>> attorney to help her with the land transfer paperwork, I'd be happy to help.
    I'd even do it for free.

    In the alternative, Billie could use that land and that mansion to help >>> house
    literally hundreds of illegal aliens. She could invite them all in to live >>> with her, since it's all stolen land and "no one is illegal on stolen land",
    right Billie?

    In the alternative, she could have just listened to Ricky Gervais and taken
    his sage advice:

    https://youtu.be/fgson2Q3nog?t=419

    It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country
    who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her >>> preening performance at the award podium.

    Afaics, all land is "stolen land".

    Of course it is. Col. Nelson Miles addressed this quite eloquently with >Sitting Bull when they met at Wounded Knee under flag of truce.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN90wZRnyM0

    Chief Sitting Bull (August Schellenberg) meets with Colonel Nelson Miles
    (Shaun Johnston) in Cedar Creek, Dakota Territory in a last attempt to negotiate terms between the Sioux and U.S. Army during the Plains Indian
    Wars.

    Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)

    Directed by Yves Simoneau

    Written by Daniel Giat

    Produced by Dick Wolf (exec.), Clara George, & Tom Thayer

    Starring: Aidan Quinn, Adam Beach, August Schellenberg, Anna Paquin,
    and Shaun Johnston

    HBO Films

    This was a made-for-tv movie.

    And if we ever address such questions openly, it might be the beginning of, >> say, a meaningful morality.

    Or and endless morass of accusations and counter-accusations going back >millennia.




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  • From NoBody@NoBody@nowhere.com to rec.arts.tv on Tue Feb 3 07:20:27 2026
    From Newsgroup: rec.arts.tv

    On Mon, 2 Feb 2026 20:18:26 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
    wrote:

    During her acceptance speech at last night's Grammys, singer Billie Eilish >claimed that America is land stolen from "native peoples".

    Billie Eilish's $14-million mansion sits on several acres of land stolen from >the Tongva peoples who were indigenous to Southern California. Will she return >that land and the home that sits on it to the tribe? I mean, she has the moral >high ground, after all. She's virtuous and she made sure we all knew it. >Signaled it, as it were.

    So now that it's incontrovertible that she knows her land is stolen, will she >turn it over to the Tongva Tribe? I mean, that's what one does with stolen >property, right? You return it to its rightful owner. If Billie needs an >attorney to help her with the land transfer paperwork, I'd be happy to help. >I'd even do it for free.

    In the alternative, Billie could use that land and that mansion to help house >literally hundreds of illegal aliens. She could invite them all in to live >with her, since it's all stolen land and "no one is illegal on stolen land", >right Billie?

    In the alternative, she could have just listened to Ricky Gervais and taken >his sage advice:

    https://youtu.be/fgson2Q3nog?t=419

    It sure would be cool if we had an actual functioning media in this country >who would have asked Billie Eilish some of these hard questions after her >preening performance at the award podium.


    Liberal elites are long on lectures but short on living by example.
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