Gonna be glorious
Watch the clip.
Mike Davis, a leading candidate for the Trump administration's AG: “We're going to deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing – anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents. We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious."
(2023)pic.twitter.com/YpjjmL2K4V— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) November 8, 2024
I don’t believe in god . . . but oh my god.
I think we should keep the anchor babies, their parents, and their grandparents, and deport the Trump administration. I don’t know where, since I doubt any country wants them, but maybe we can send them…and Musk…to Mars. Don’t tell them it’s not feasible to live on Mars; let them try.
Cue “JOKING!” excuse. No, he won’t literally rain lava down on Washington DC, but there is clear intent to do pretty much everything else, however hyperbolically or “humourously” presented here.
I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities; a 1970 letter from a 10 year old girl to Charles M Schulz.
If she is still alive she’d be 64 now, I wonder how she feels when she looks at the New Trumpian America. Was she one who turned her back on past beliefs to embrace the new standard of hate and fear? Or has she held tight to her morality and is horrified by what her country has become?
Mass deportations will do as much, if not more harm to the American economy as tariffs. Replacing the low cost labour provided by “illegals” will add to inflation. That is, of course, if the low cost labour can be replaced at all. Are there enough workers willing and waiting to work in slave like conditions for minimal pay with no workplace protections, or will they all be sitting on their couches, sucking down Bud Lite while waiting for all the high paying unionised jobs to suddenly reappear?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu-duTWccyI
Has anyone (a Muskite maybe?) thought of applying to Trump for financial aid in the glorious project of building a temple in his honour: maybe after knoicking down some trivial building like the Supreme Court and using the site for His Parthenon? (BTW: Trump’s pronouns: Me / Mine / Him / His / Gimme / Gotcha – and please note devoutly religious capitalisation.)
I would guess that the Trumpenon would go straight to the top of his to-do list. Could also be a dollar or two in it for the successful insider wh makes the winning bid.
Wasn’t Trump’s father an anchor baby?
Rev, I have heard that argument so many times, and every time I hear it, it disgusts me.
One. What kind of people are we that we think it’s okay to keep prices low, and inflation low, by using workers in slave like conditions for minimal pay with no workplace protections? When I hear liberal people say this, I wonder if they’ve thought it through. We are saying, basically, that we are entitled to the low prices at the expense of all these people from other countries. It is a shit argument, it is an insane argument, it is an inhumane argument. No one should be put in such working conditions. These individuals, who are people, came here without permission, so they cannot use the legal system to get what every worker in this country is entitled to – minimum wage at the least, breaks and vacation time, and workplace protection against arbitrary firing. If this is what we have to do to have low prices, we need to suck it up and BUY LESS SHIT!
Two. In the 1950s, there were high-paying unionized jobs, and the middle class was strong. They were able to buy the things they wanted in spite of the higher cost of labor. Having higher paid unionized labor doesn’t have to make things bad for the consumer. The real problem isn’t the cost of labor (which is always a large part of a business budget, I realize) but the obscenity of the profits expected. We are now at a point in history where media refer to it as a loss if your profit margin went up by “only 2%” in the past year. Many companies are pulling enormous profits, larger than anyone needs to be a success, and they’re doing it at the expense of the workers. Paying the workers well, keeping the prices at what they are now, and you will get lower profits, but THERE WILL STILL BE PROFITS. You might be a multi-millionaire instead of a multi-billionaire. Oh no! Can’t have that.
Three. The mantra that Americans won’t do those jobs is shit. I have lived a large portion of my life in areas without a lot of immigrants, and those jobs are being done. Who by? People of color, women, and neuroatypical people who are glad to get a decent job like custodian instead of being stuck in a group home where they make pennies. This was once a Republican talking point, and the implications are that these are not Americans; they may look like Americans, talk like Americans, and live in America (after being born here), but the only real Americans are those in the ‘proper’ circle. Now the left has picked up this obnoxious talking point because they have not spent much time in areas where these jobs are being done by Americans…Americans who wouldn’t be able to get a high-paying unionized job if it was available, because they can’t read well, they aren’t good at math, they are socially awkward, whatever.
I don’t object to immigrants becoming part of this country; it’s a proud tradition, right? My ancestors escaped the Irish potato famine by coming here. But if we are going to use arguments like this, we are no better, no more human, than those who would throw people out just because they don’t look right and speak with an accent (or don’t speak English at all).