"Today Trump confirmed that he intends to bypass normal legal constraints on his actions by declaring a national emergency on his first day in office in order to launch his mass deportation of undocumented migrants."
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William -- The first a-holes to eagerly round-up people are cruel and evil.
A year or so later, they might be that, or "just following orders", or scared for their family.
I thought we were talking about why people voted Trump? I'm open to the cruel bastards version, but there are so many other narratives including economic desperation.
Economic desperation can be viewed as clueless, lied to, greedy, and/or single-minded.
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I had a guy who voted Harris and who makes about minimum wage clue me in on how important the economy was in all this.
Worldwide -- with inflation "after" COVID -- there has been a shift to the right in governments.
Now how people got fooled into thinking Trump or any other despot would be good for the poor and the economy is another issue.
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@zagone "Fooled into" definitely seem like operative words here.
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@zagone As commentators from Robert P. Jones to Paul Waldman to Charles Pierce and many others have noted, the "economic anxiety" narrative peddled by the media when Trump was elected in 2016 and rehabilitated all over again this go-round simply does not mesh with the facts. People may say that their reason for choosing Trump is economic, but dig beneath the surface to their attitudes about immigrants, gender-related issues, racial matters, LGBTQ and trans people, and there's a lot more there.
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@NeadReport I do suspect Pamela Hilliard Owen knows lots of examples of that happening in American history.
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@phaedral Thanks for the link. Yes, I hear of people bragging that their "portfolio" is thriving now. I'm in the wait-and-see camp about what's going to happpen down the road.
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@Laloofah Yes, it is part of the hideous equation, for sure. We've just watched a film about a group of Jewish children experimented on medically by the Nazis and then murdered just as Germany surrendered, and a constant theme in that film, based on a true story, was how groups in Germany and business leaders were raking in money due to the barbarism.
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@BassRck66 @lupus_blackfur Vote suppression and getting people to think their votes won't count anyway have been powerfully effective tools for the Republican party for some time now.
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#Trump voters didn't believe he would make good on mobilizing the military for #deportation of undocumented immigrants. It may happen in Texas, but it won't in New York or New Jersey.
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@Stinson_108 We'll see, won't we? He and his folks have already said that if some states and cities resist, they'll bring in military from other states/cities. What's to stop them from doing that?
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What prevents the White House from mobilizing the military for #deportation?
The Posse Comitatus Act, for one.
If you assume that law has no meaning, then it's a matter of finding people. Sure, use tax and vehicle licensing records for addresses. Then people start moving around. The Army will need the ccoperation of local police to access license plate readers. That's the kind of thing NJ and NY won't do.
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@Stinson_108 We'll see.
