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  • Let’s set aside the horrific implications for a moment. And let’s ignore the part about deporting American citizens as a form of collective punishment.

    Just reading this in the most charitable way possible, he’s saying that we could let businesses sponsor the migrant workers and in doing so allow them to stay. What a clever idea, why haven’t we tried that before? Oh wait, we have, they’re called work visas. Too bad half your party opposes them (while the other half wants to use them as a form of indentured servitude). Not that it even matters that much when you are deporting people who are here legally anyway.

    Doesn’t matter what promises Trump makes (even if he had actually meant them), when ICE has an absurdly high quota to meet and free reign to deport people without due process, no paperwork will be able to keep immigrants safe. They will just continue to go for the easiest targets








  • So, you need to be working a job that pays like shit and doesn’t provide healthcare, thus subsidizing the shittiest employers.

    Or you need to prove you are disabled. Which of course probably requires supporting medical evidence. Which would require access to healthcare.

    Oh, and even if you have an obvious disability, we’re gonna make it as hard as possible to apply for disability benefits.

    Justified by the idea that somehow having access to a doctor enables people to sit on the couch and play video games all day.

    Just admit that you (at best) don’t care if poor people suffer and die as long as it benefits you and your donors in some small way.







  • It makes sense. The damage Trump does to the the economy will be felt by everyone, and even right wing media struggles to defend the tariffs.

    In contrast, immigration as a political issue has always been about hype and narratives more than reality. The anti-immigration argument is mostly fighting an imaginary problem. As such, the effectiveness of the policies are irrelevant, they need only to claim that things are getting better and their supporters will believe them.

    I would be much more interested in knowing what people think about the specifics of Trump’s immigration policies. How many people support deporting us citizens, suppressing free speech, violating due process, etc. I would bet that those numbers would look very different.


  • Getting closer to what I want, which is a reasonably sized and priced EV truck built for actual utility. I’m ok with it leaving out all the extras that I don’t need, and hopefully that means it isn’t also going to be tracking people and harvesting their data.

    My biggest objection to the truck itself is that it’s still trying to look like an ICE truck. There’s no engine in front, you could easily slide the cab forward a bit to make room for a larger bed. I would much rather have a tiny frunk and an 8 foot bed, even if it means making the whole thing slightly longer. It’s shorter than a corrolla, so it’s not like they couldn’t add a little length to the design if necessary.

    Bezos being involved is also a massive turn off, but than I’m not sure who is going to go into mass manufacturing EVs without some rich asshole funding it.


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    In the op-ed, McMahon says, “Why? Not because we want to be unkind to student borrowers. Borrowing money and failing to pay it back isn’t a victimless offense. Debt doesn’t go away; it gets transferred to others. If borrowers don’t pay their debts to the government, taxpayers do.”

    But when businesses need a bailout…

    Also, hilarious coming from this administration. How many bankruptcies has Trump been involved in?