What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world.”
“To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump told me, he would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s founding.”
“He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.”
Back in 2016, after the election, the NY Times put together a panel discussion with the creators of all the top TV political shows. Veep, The West Wing, Scandal, and others. Every producer and writer questioned said the same thing; if they’d had a fictional character say that the “liked soldiers who didn’t get captured” on a show the netowrks and advertisers would demand that the character be hated and despised by every American.
Please no one tell this buffoon about the NKVD. He would drool for that kind of power.
What a travesty of a leader the GOP have chosen.
They want the USA to be the USSR in practice.
Plus a liberal dose of Nazi Germany.
But hey, we’d keep our guns!
And instead of three mass shootings a week, you’ll have three a day. Yay!
Trump has been the only president to actually float the idea of confiscating people’s firearms. The only one. Dems might talk regulation, but even that’s a powderkeg, even tho it’s equally bipartisan in its support.
That anyone would pick and choose whats believable that falls out of diarrhea diatribes is beyond me. The guy tear gassed a church, including the preacher, to clear it for a photo op. That’s their “Messiah”?
They’ll follow him straight to eternal damnation. I’m not wasting another thought on the thoughtless.
The existence of a presidential pardon blows my mind. It assumes that some miscarriage of justice has occurred and the president is able to detect it in a way that the legion of criminal justice administrators could not. America has devolved into crony capitalism.
It’s too bad the “bOtH siDeS” kids have their heads shoved so far up some long-dead antisemitic socialist’s ass to bother reading this.
I don’t believe he would actually deport anything close to even 1 million people. Maybe I’ll bite my words… but the economic impacts would be massive. Inflation would shoot up.
Try working on any large scale construction projects without illegals. Costs go up dramatically.
For example, lemme talk about an industry I have experience in. Let’s say Comcast or AT&T wants to build a fiber optic network in a city.
They hire a prime contractor to do this. They pay something, let’s say $10 a foot of fiber. That prime contractor has to make sure everybody that works for them is a legal citizen. Comcast has rules - can’t hire illegals.
But what happens? That prime contractor hires some subcontractors. And those subs hire more subs. It becomes a little tree branch which each lower branch having less and less regulations until you reach the bottom where Juan and Jose are the ones actually digging the potholes and pulling the fiber cable through the pipe.
This is why Comcast is able to pay $10 a foot. Because Juan and Jose are happy working for $150 a day.
Americans doing that amount of hard labor would cost much more. You would have to pay taxes, workers comp, overtime, much higher base salary, etc. All sorts of things you don’t really gotta worry about when you have Juan and Jose doing it.
That $10 a foot can easily double.
And that’s just fiber optic cable. Imagine all construction, landscaping, etc shooting up in price. That’s inflation baby.
Trump’s whole shtick is economy. I have a feeling he’ll do the bare minimum and then advertise it as the biggest deportation campaign in history. Sort of like his wall.
The biggest best wall in the world but it actually barely covers 52 miles in 2000 miles of border.
Don’t bet against conservative stupidity.
Florida agriculture is already suffering from recent laws against undocumented workers.
I work in Florida. What happened is there was a sort of mass exodus initially and then everyone slowly started trickling back when they realized the law had no teeth.
It was meant more as political theater and not really enforced. To the best of my knowledge, nobody has been arrested to this day.
Of course, I agree with you. They are playing with fire. They ultimately represent business interests and those business interests can be hurt very badly should some true ideologue populist politician rise into power.
Trump (and mini-Trump aka DeSantis) is a conman pretending to be a Jesus. What if an actual MAGA Jesus shows up? One who believes in what he’s preaching and actually has the capacity to enforce it?
It’s only a matter of time. It’s very dangerous.
In game of thrones, when Cersei allies with, and then elevates, the church…and her shockface once she realizes that the Priest wasn’t a grifter like she assumed, but was in fact a true believer, and his morality will be applied against her as well.
That’s the reason we don’t pass bullshit theatre laws, bc at some point, some dogmatic fucks who think everyone should have to bend to their ideals of what makes a functional society, ideals truly absent any thought of whether contemporary society is functioning at all, gin up their rabble, who won’t question or do any research, and then try to enforce anachronistic law on us, like the Comstock Act. Or Arizona’s abortion ban from before anything legal Arizona existed.
Note to any who work in or aspire to work in our legal system; clean the books. Take the old laws and repeal them. The above reasons are why we need to keep the law neat, concise, and simple. A child should be able to understand the law.
And ffs is you do put urself thru the misery of law for a career try to remember that law is just the religion of justice. It exists because we have an inate internal sense of fairness and justice. Obfuscation of that fact doesn’t change that fact. Judges should be considered priests of the truth. Isn’t that why they’re called ministers in other parts of the world? How’d we lose sight on that?