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Couple alleges racial profiling in Border Patrol stop they recorded on video
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I’m not sure where the lie comes in here, Trump is a liar, but the stuff he’s doing with “deportations” is very much on brand and what he blithered on about in his campaign.
The lie was that "worst of the worst" is 11 million people. Fox News ginned all these people up to believe in a massive immigrant crime network, where anyone living in reality recognized that 11 million people is literally the entire undocumented population. Most people's brains - certainly Trump's - seem to shut down when numbers get introduced, though, so none of them ever got around to that point. Or to the implication that 3% of the country are actually drug-running, daughter-raping, mass-murdering gang bangers - you would probably know 5 of them.
I mean, I think we can all understand wanting to deport multiple-murderers and serial rapists, but in practice, that's an incredibly small number that wouldn't even be noise in routine deportation numbers. Deporting the 10-20 million people Trump promised (and seems to be aiming for) means whole neighborhoods gotta go. People who don't even have parking tickets.
Worse will happen. Laura Loomer, one of Trump's former favorite talking heads, "joked" about 65 million people being thrown into Alligator Auschwitz.
That number, by the way, is the entirety of the Hispanic population in the US. I truly believe that the admin expects to make the US, at best, an apartheid state far worse than what it was. At worst, they're wanting a complete ethnostate a la Rhodesia.
I've known people who believed that he was only going after the gang members, rapists and murderers. They're the ones that watch fox, so they are in a bubble. This incident forced them out of their bubble.
Tbf, we're in a bubble too because most of us don't watch fox. We don't know what they're hearing so we can't counter act it.
Not choosing to be in someone's bubble doesn't make you just in a different bubble.
I'm not in the "not a nazi" bubble because I'm not reading Stormfront every day.
True, but he convinced the "people" that he was going after murderers, rapists, and dangerous criminals, not farm workers, housewives, and children. See the disconnect? We knew he was lying, but they are idiots, so they believed the giant lying liar like he wasn't some giant lying liar. It's funny if we weren't all going to die.
Honestly the one thing I applaud Trump is how conmitted he is on delivering on his campaign promises. He goes as far as to break the law in order to do so. It makes a mess of things because he promises contradictory things, but it’s laudable all the same. Democrats should learn that from him.