

What’s wrong with the classic volcano sacrifice?
What’s wrong with the classic volcano sacrifice?
While on ketamine.
The article cites a strategist who argues that bringing attention to immigration only helps Trump because immigration is his strongest issue. The unstated assumption is that sentiment on any given issue is basically static and unchanging, that you can’t change minds you can only change topics.
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.
Just wait, before you know it Russia will be our biggest trading partner, with their chief export being all the shit we were buying from China but now with a cut lining Putin’s pocket.
As disgusting as it is, he’s a lot more likely to make progress with some narrowly constructed flattery than with overt criticism no matter how well deserved.
Trump is a narcissistic manbaby who would do damn near anything just to satisfy his own ego. It makes him particularly vulnerable to manipulation, and at the same time it makes it virtually impossible for him to take criticism without throwing a tantrum and doubling down on whatever shitty thing he’s doing.
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