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no one will ever.. Ever be able to accuse this admin of being intelligent or compassionate.

republicans are dumb as steer forced through the loading chutes of billionaires by the ring through their noses.

ignorant cattle

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Might be worth mentioning that we've had the "Are you American enough to live here?" test for a long, long while. Trumps (re)weaponizing it in order to ethnically cleanse the population. But we've spent every spare minute since the end of the Cold War waging a pogrom on The Wrong Kind Of Migrants. Wish we'd had a party willing to advance comprehensive immigration and naturalization reform back in 2009 or 2021, when the liberal majority was able to do something. Wish we'd had DC Statehood, too, so a DC governor could exist to control the National Guard.

Trumpism is a choking weed that's been growing out of the seeds planted under Reagan. Liberals thought they could just go along with it in order to appease the fash-curious voters for decades. And now here we fucking are.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Wish we'd had a party willing to advance comprehensive immigration and naturalization reform back

As long as corporations or wealthy business owners are able to turn a profit from exploiting migrants, that will never happen. The people with the power (money) to change politicians' minds are against anything that would hurt their own interests.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

But running off our slave labor force is hurting business. Add tariffs to that. I cannot understand why big business isn't screaming.

[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I think the term he's looking for is pro-fascism. If the bar was Pro-USA, Trump and every single one of his sycophants and supporters would fail that test.

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 6 points 1 day ago

This was pretty much inevitable. While the Trump’s band of bigots struggled mightily to expel brown people from this country, the rest of his sycophants are doing everything they can to prevent non-white foreigners from entering the country. 

It’s counterproductive, especially when the end goal is at least 3,000 ICE arrests per day. If you don’t let enough migrants in, you’re going to run out of migrants to arrest and deport. It’s simple math, people. But it’s also a simple president, to use the pejorative form of the word. 

Marco Rubio’s State Department is doing what it can to filter out people who might be opposed to Trump and/or his policies. Applicants for visas now must subject themselves to vetting that includes deep dives into their social media accounts to sniff out anything slightly smelling of anti-Trump animus. According to Rubio himself, being anti-Trump is the same thing as being anti-America

[–] teft@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But it’s also a simple president, to use the pejorative form of the word.

Heh, the turnip would be real mad if he could understand 4 syllable words.