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Joe Rogan on Trump's mass deportations: "I really thought they were just going to go after the criminals"
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Yeah Joe, you and 100 million other idiots.
Actually no, this is deliberate mass ignorance. The GOP has openly advocated hunting minorities for a while now, and used the word criminal like an insult, not a statement of fact.
Some people, probably most, are that ignorant. My wife is a legal, brown immigrant, fighting for her 10-year visa, which should be a rubber stamp by now.
She had no clue. "They're only taking criminals." Hell, the immigration office told her not to worry about what she's seeing on the news. And low-level government workers like that aren't exactly parroting MAGA talking points. They just want to do their fucking job and go home.
And it's true! The odds of ICE snatching her are slim, especially since I haven't seen any around here and there's no ICE office in the region. The odds are slim for everyone, but they're ramping up fast and I've got a solid education in 20th century history. I know what's coming.
Took me some time to make her realize this is a real threat to her. I don't want to scare the shit out of the woman, but I'm nowhere outside the house, especially with her, unarmed.
My man, over half of Americans read at best on a 6th-grade level. How informed do you expect them to be?
One other thing, you're right, most undocumented aliens are in violation of civil law, not criminal. Read up on it a bit, IANAL, but you generally have to be purposefully fucking up for your border crossing to be a criminal offense.
First of all, good on you and your wife. Seriously.
I'm not your man.
But I have difficulty buying the "honestly clueless" argument; after all, this has been going on for 10 years now and it never took a rocket scienctist to see what this man is about. Maybe there's a choice to only watch Faux News? That would be part of what I mean by deliberate ignorance.
Yeah, the USA's immigration legislation is seriously fucked up.
he said that hispanics are genetically criminal
but trump talks so much gibberish it’s impossible to listen to all of it.
conservative media leaves out the most horrible stuff while leftist media focuses on it….
it just shows rogan only consumes news from one side.