• @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    115 days ago

    For anything like debt relief, or any kind of social program, the qons - and the “liberal media” - always ask, immediately, and with pikachu face: “but how are you gonna pay for it?!!!111”

    I hope you remember, people who “felt poor” because of the price of eggs or whatever…there is endless amounts of money to spend on deporting people, but if anyone were to talk about helping YOU, well, to borrow a phrase: FUCK YOUR FEELINGS, there is no money for something like that, no sir!

    Also, you can BET that some of donvict’s friends will be making money from this “plan”:

    Some folks are born, silver spoon in hand Lord, don’t they help themselves, y’all But when the taxman comes to the door Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yeah

    • @YourNetworkIsHaunted
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      212 days ago

      I mean, it sounds like they did ask how much it would cost, he just bulldozed through the question instead of seriously engaging with it and legacy media is too chickenshit to report it as “Trump apathetic about costs of deportation plan” or “Mass Deportation to Cost Billions Despite Trump’s Claims” because putting the things he says in context makes him sound like the madman he is and apparently truth is no longer sufficient defense from defamation.

        • TJA!
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          17 days ago

          Yes, that sounds bad. But how else should we decide who to deport? How could we decide who is a “bad immigrant”? Maybe they get citizen status and then we realized they are also a criminal? Should they then also be deported? A US citizen? Maybe yes!

          I only see two solutions:

          1. Directly deport every foreigner, no matter if anyone thinks they are good or bad
          2. Deport everyone who ever got sentenced because of anything. Independent of their citizen status. This might include a lot of people that are thought of as American, but almost nobody is originally from here. And this way we clearly get rid of all the bad people.

          (/s, just to be sure)

        • @HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
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          17 days ago

          oh the stupidity

          Meanwhile musk still hasn’t been deported for being illegal 20 years ago like that guy. Sounds about white

    • @frunch@lemmy.world
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      I’d even wager that each time he mentions the cost it will be higher than last time. I suspect it will be measured in the billions and will increase 2-4 billion each time he talks about it. By the time it finally begins to get enacted, I’m guessing the estimated total to ship them all out will likely run in the hundreds of billions.

  • @OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world
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    3817 days ago

    So it is going to be incredibly expensive to remove immigrants and… err… reduce GDP? This is the man America trusts with the economy because something something tariffs something something eggs

    • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      115 days ago

      Well, buckle up, because it gets even stupider from here on out. This same policy genius thinks Elon Musk is so gooodest at doing bidness like Xitter, that he should be in charge of “cutting waste” in our government, or something.

  • Tiefling IRL
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    5218 days ago

    Trump in 2 months: “Mass deportation is too expensive, so we need a final solution”

  • @Fester@lemm.ee
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    1318 days ago

    It will eventually be paid for with crypto TrumpBux mined by mandatory Neuralink brain chips.

  • Em Adespoton
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    4118 days ago

    “And you know, I’m not somebody that says, ‘No, you can’t come in.’ We want people to come in."

    “We just want them to leave again unless they think and act and look just like us.”