• floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    35·
    8 days ago

    “Economically devastating” seems to be the plan nationwide. Tariffs, protectionism, shrinking the population by deporting working people, persecuting the educated and defunding education… None of this fascist stuff will do anything but drive the country into greater misery and poverty.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      The grift, I get. The bigotry, I get. The hate, I get. Hell, even the fealty to Putin, I get. But at this point, they’re veering into gratuitous destructive stupidity without any upsides that I can fathom at all, not even abhorrent ones. I don’t get it.

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
    29·
    8 days ago

    Here’s the thing: That’s exactly what Trump supporters want. That’s the “pain” Musk talked about.

    They don’t care about the cost. Money or human.

    I asked a Trump supporter how they wanted to handle American citizen children of illegal immigrants and they said they wanted the children taken away and placed into Christian indoctrination programs (they didn’t call it that but that’s what they meant).

    • beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 days ago

      The point is that he’s proven that his claim of deporting “illegal” people has no meaning at all. When faced with the fact that the Springfield migrants are objectively not illegals, he put the goalpost one step back and claimed that their being legal was illegal because something something Khamala Harris. So if we can conclude that actual legal status will not be a factor in his musings about who is and is not illegal, the only prediction that can be made is that his plan is to deport anybody he THINKS SHOULD be illegal and I would not mind betting that his criteria will coincidentally encompass the racial minorities he dislikes, regardless of what previous laws considered legal or not.