DUmmy idiocy in full view, part 9,000,000: passports

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MichMan (16,920 posts) Thu Feb 12, 2026, 04:26 PM
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State Department to revoke more passports from people who haven't paid child support
The State Department is planning to revoke more passports from people with large amounts of outstanding unpaid child support.

Individuals who owe more than $100,000 will be among the first groups targeted by the State Department for passport revocation, a U.S. official told the Associated Press. Those who enroll in a payment plan could avoid revocation.

Three U.S. officials told the wire that the Trump administration is planning to revoke travel documents under the 1996 passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.

The act authorizes the Passport Denial Program, which allows government officials to revoke travel documents for parents with unpaid child support totaling more than $2,500. In the past, passports were only revoked in the midst of a renewal or when someone sought consular services. However, the Trump administration is now planning to seek out those in arrears, per the AP.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/state-department-to-revoke-more-passports-from-people-who-haven-t-paid-child-support/ar-AA1Wa6il?ocid=BingNewsVerp

This could be good: DUmmies are like NBA players when it comes to supporting their kids.


Here we go, so good:

UpInArms (54,530 posts)
2. Quotas, people!
Reply to leftstreet (Reply #1)
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 04:44 PM

We have to meet those quotas!

(Shakes head sadly at the disturbing disgusting world that TFG has created)

MichMan (16,920 posts)
9. You are OK with people not paying to support their children?

UpInArms (54,530 posts)
10. No ...
Reply to MichMan (Reply #9)
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 06:42 PM

I am not okay with people not paying support, but sending them away removes all ways to encumber any earnings

MichMan (16,920 posts)
11. How is not issuing a US Passport sending someone away?
Reply to UpInArms (Reply #10)
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 06:44 PM

Wouldn't that actually stop them from going away?

UpInArms (54,530 posts)
13. Revoking passports
Reply to MichMan (Reply #11)
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 06:51 PM

Is sending them away.

     O YE GODS, HOW STUPID

UpInArms (54,530 posts)
15. No
Reply to MichMan (Reply #14)
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 07:32 PM

Please understand what I am saying, if earnings can be liened upon for support, those earnings must be made within the jurisdiction. If you deport someone, those earnings will no longer be available.

If the courts and the claimants have failed to place those liens, they should rectify their errors.

If an earner is removed, that possibility leaves with them.

Everyone is responsible for paying and collecting.

MichMan (16,920 posts)
16. What does any of that have to do with having a passport though?
Reply to UpInArms (Reply #15)
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 07:41 PM

You can be deported with or without one.

UpInArms (54,530 posts)
17. Nevermind
Reply to MichMan (Reply #16)
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 07:45 PM

I cannot seem to explain how to extract support monies to you.

The thread is a gold mine of complete ****ing idiocy: DUmmies think taking someone's passport means deporting them. Yes, they do. That is what they think.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you DU, the smartest people on the Internet. Just ask them.

[Texacon]

 

Great find!

KC

[Texacon]

Funny how they keep trying to blame it on Trump.  Something that was passed in 1996.

 

Wait until they all see the tax bill they get for selling their stuff online and $600 hit their bank account. 

KC

[ADsOutburst]

Funny how they keep trying to blame it on Trump.  Something that was passed in 1996.

The chronology of things has never stopped them from blaming Trump. They blame him for "legal persecution" of Leittia James, even though her crimes weren't discovered by the Trump administration. Or blame him for exposing fraud by immigrants, even though some of it was uncovered before his administration.

[SVPete]

The amount of stupidity in that thread is jaw-dropping. Some, despite being told over and over and over think revoking a passport means the person will be deported. I guess those DUmmies have not realized that they lived in the US for however many decades before they got a passport ... if they ever did.

Some DUmmies didn't read the part of the article that gives the $$ criterion for passport revocation. They fantasize that it can be used on anyone they hate, and that Trump is using it that way.

Some "get" that the purpose of the 1996 law is to prevent child-support scofflaws from fleeing the US. I'm not sure if any realized that the $100K and above starting point means: 1. the law has not been enforced in a meaningful way for 2 or 3 decades; 2. the Trump Administration is targeting "rich" people first.

[Texacon]

That thread gets funnier each time I go to it.   

At least half of them have NO idea what they're talking about.

KC

[enslaved1]

UpInArms (54,530 posts)
10. No ...
Reply to MichMan (Reply #9)
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 06:42 PM

I am not okay with people not paying support, but sending them away removes all ways to encumber any earnings

That's not enough functional brain cells to maintain consistent breathing, how can this person type on a computer? 

More importantly, how did they complete their BA in Medieval LGBTQWTF literature?   

[Airwolf]

For DU, reading and comprehension was never a hallmark of their basic education, if they ever got one.

[ADsOutburst]

That thread gets funnier each time I go to it.   

At least half of them have NO idea what they're talking about.

KC

You mean...

...as many as half do have an idea of what they're talking about? This would be impressive by their standards.

[FlippyDoo]

UpInArms (54,530 posts)
17. Nevermind
Reply to MichMan (Reply #16)
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 07:45 PM

I cannot seem to explain how to extract support monies to you.

As stupid as this UpinArms DUmbAss is, I have to wonder how it remembers to breathe without some sort of memory cards or some such.

I'm beginning to think that some of the DU members aren't there because of their political beliefs. I think that some of them actually realize that they are stupid and are at DU as kind of a confidence builder. At DU, whenever their stupidity gets them to feeling down, they can point to DUers like UpinArms and say, "I may be too stupid to poor piss out of a boot with the instructions on the sole, but at least I'm not as stupid as UpinArms".

[DUmpDiver]

I wish I had a mole to point out that Bill Clinton signed the act that made the Passport Denial Program US law.

[RonE]

UpInArms (54,530 posts)
17. Nevermind
Reply to MichMan (Reply #16)
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 07:45 PM

I cannot seem to explain how to extract support monies to you.

...one of the few times I can say to a DU'er, "I feel your pain"

[BamaMoose]

Funny how they keep trying to blame it on Trump.  Something that was passed in 1996.

 

Wait until they all see the tax bill they get for selling their stuff online and $600 hit their bank account. 

KC

In order to understand them you sometimes need to embrace your inner-Dummy.  This can be achieved naturally by completely zoning out until your brain shuts down.  But it may require a heavy dose of alcohol, drugs or even a few minutes of oxygen deprivation.  So, the Dummy scenario plays out something like this:

The year is 1996. Trump is still friendly with the Clintons.  Bill Clinton is sitting in the Oval Office and the “Red Phone” rings.  Bill tentatively answers it fearing some significant international issue is about to erupt with the Russians.

Bill Clinton (BC):  This is President Clinton.  Boris is that you?
Donald Trump (DT):  Hell no Billy Joe Bob, this is Donny T.  How’s it hanging?
BC:  Donald, how did you get this number?  It’s my hot line to the Kremlin.
DT:  What can I say?  I know people in Russia.  But don’t you worry about that.  I’m calling to ask for a favor.
BC:  Awww hell, what now?  Does this have anything to do with Jeffrey?
DT:  Nah, screw that guy.  The sooner he kills himself the better.  I’d like you to push a bill through Congress to go after deadbeat Dads.
BC:  Why?
DT:  Because no one likes deadbeat Dads.  And someday in the future it may serve my interests.  So, I’m thinking financial penalties, maybe some jail time.  Hell, maybe even take away their passports and deport them.
BC:  I can make that happen.  We’ll call it the Deadbeat Dad Deportation Act.
DT:  Super!!  How’s everything else going for you?
BC:  Aww, Washington sucks.  And Hillary’s been such a bitch since we got here.
DT:  That’s too bad.  She’s such a shrew.  Give me some time and I’ll come up with something that’ll make her regret being so nasty.
BC:  That would be great.
DT:  In the meantime, have you considered getting a little loving on the side?
BC:  Well, there’s this intern named Monica…but if I did anything with her it’d probably end up being some sort of scandal.
DT:  Nah.  Go for it.  Nobody will ever find out.  Trust me.
BC:  Maybe.  All right I got to go.
DT:  Talk to you later Big Dawg.  And the next time you see Epstein tell him to quit calling me.

[SVPete]

Well, that's a whole lot more believable than DUmmie-Ravings!