Jesus Christ, even ProPublica is doing the “he might not do it” thing? Have he and all of his surrogates not repeated themselves enough yet?
"But what about last time! The guard rails worked! It won’t be that bad.”
Meanwhile every single guard rail is 50 miles behind us.
There’s literally someone making that argument right now. “The genocide isn’t going to happen, they’re just lying about it” is the most dangerous possible position to take right now.
Everybody has to use the “maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t”. His unreliability is a feature not a bug.
It is far from just Trump boasting in this case. And they are already acting on it. New Jersey is expanding its camps, and Texas donated land to build camps there too.
This is just not a “maybe” situation.
Mass deportation is obviously problematic for many reasons, but negatively impacting the profit margins of the Military Industrial Complex isn’t one of them.
Increasing salaries of American workers by making labor scarce is the purpose of restrictive immigration policy.
But it’s just another way things will implode economically.
The “implosion” of oligarchs profit margins isn’t something any of us need to worry about. Over the short term, the vast majority of us will benefit from it - like 90% of the population stands to gain, 10% will break even, and the billionaires will see their income reduced.
In the long run, putting more disposable income into the hands of working Americans will be a driver of economic growth.
Implosion of oligarchs?
You are sadly mistaken that the fallout will harm the wealthy. They aren’t going to throw up their hands in despair, they’ll just further attack worker and consumer protections, salaries, benefits, retirement funds and all the rest. I don’t know what planet you live on where the oligarchy just go ahead and hand out money to the masses because their exploited labor force got deported. They just find new bodies and exploit even harder when they’ve already made it a mission to crush the middle class.
Yeah, its not credible to claim that large, profitable enterprises will “implode” if the supply and demand curve shifts slightly.
At the most cynical level, businesses that depend on cheap labor from undocumented immigrants will get squeezed as their labor costs increase.
America’s Military Industrial Complex isn’t going to fail if market forces require they offer more money to secure a sufficient supply of labor.
The “implosion” of oligarchs profit margins isn’t something any of us need to worry about. Over the short term, the vast majority of us will benefit from it - like 90% of the population stands to gain, 10% will break even, and the billionaires will see their income reduced.
I’d say what happened in 1929 suggests otherwise.
What happened in 1929 was a result of low wages and high unemployment pulling the rug out from under the economy, and therefore it suggests that policy that leads to higher wages and lower unemployment is needed to prevent a repeat.
Sure, that stock market crash that destroyed a whole lot of wealth had nothing to do with it. Nothing at all.
It crashed because people were broke.
That is simply false.
He’ll just have Musk make them all.
“let that SINK in”
