Yeah, so what? Even if Trump wins, the best we can hope for is a half-hearted attempt to remove some of those who are here legally on the TPS visas. The courts will strike it down because TPS is legal, and we will be told, yet again, that “oopsie, we tried, but see, it’s the Swamp”, etc. But we’ll have our cat memes, so let’s pretend that’s a huge win.
Nobody cares what we want because we aren’t making them care.
TPS for Ukrainian nationals is scheduled to end April 19, 2025 but I’m sure it will be extended, regardless of who wins.
FWIW, Trump tried harder for the wall then a lot of Democrats tried for their pet causes.
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“Trump tried harder for the wall”
How? What did he do? Cause to me it looked like a whole lot of nuthin’
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He did all the things that Biden overturned on his first days in office. Will Mr. Trump reinstate them? Have his opponents in the nested, unelected, and unaccountable federal and state bureaucracies have new ways to thwart the will of the voters? IDK.
We can be absolutely certain what Ms Kamala and the team running the Bidenreich will do. So it’s a reasonable gamble.
How do you decide who to back and how far in taking back / deconverging your SPLAC from the SJWs/DIE actors, Miss Clarissa?
So you also think that all we’d get from Trump in the second term is what we got in the first?
That’s exactly what I fear.
As for DEI, what exactly did Trump do to push back on it? Again, I ask in complete seriousness, eager to find out something, anything that would get me interested in voting for him.
At least, we had no George Floyd type riots with Biden. That’s a good thing.
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Is that what I wrote? Huh. Yes, I suppose that’s a possible read. Hmm. A rephrase: What are you afraid from a President Trump 2nd term that you would be safe from in a Kamala presidency?
Answered, too.
Ah well. Never mind the other question.
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I’m not for Kamala. I’m just not seeing much difference between them. Aside from rhetoric, I’m kind of not really seeing anything else.
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Yes. I know.
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It’s fascinating that nobody on either side wants to try to persuade a sincerely undecided voter. I’ve been telling everybody in sight I’m undecided but nobody ever offers an argument in favor of their candidate. All I ever hear is, “but don’t you realize that Trump/Harris will destroy our country?”
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I’d give it a try, but since you live in the midwest, you can’t vote for any of my candidates. (shrugs)
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You literally posted this a few days ago:
Voters can be motivated by the dislike of the opponents’ candidate much more than by the love for their own.
And are now baffled as to why
nobody ever offers an argument in favor of their candidate. All I ever hear is, “but don’t you realize that Trump/Harris will destroy our country?
A vote for Harris is a vote for, among other things:
Feel free to make a similar anti-trump list and compare the two. I refuse to believe there are still “undecided voters” in the country. Especially someone like you who is on the right end of the high information voter spectrum. What can I tell you that you don’t already know? If you’re happy with how the last four years have turned out, go ahead and vote for Harris.
I’m not referring to you, but I get super annoyed at fake undecided voters and the incessant focus on them by the clueless media every election season. If people say they’re undecided, they either love attention or are too afraid to reveal their choices. There’s no third category.
DEI-fication was going on even more aggressively than now during Trump’s first term. No mass deportations took place. The executive order on anchor babies never materialized. And the BLM raged through our cities with impunity.
We keep saying that Harris shouldn’t pretend she has no relation to the current administration. That is fair. But neither should Trump pretend that his presidency never happened.
Quite a few of my students say there’s nobody to vote for. Of course, young people generally vote in small numbers. Still, young people who are disaffected towards both candidates are real.
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Hey, I don’t need any convincing as to whom to vote for. Your dem talking points will not work on me, sorry. I’m not an undecided voter lol.
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He was willing to play chicken over the national budget over funding the wall.
He wanted to divert funds from a hurricane and wildfire relief supplemental during the shutdown to fund the wall. It is unfortunate that communities suffering from the aftermath of hurricanes suffered but a lot of people blamed Congress, not him.
A lack of success doesn’t equal not trying. But perhaps there are other measures you think he should’ve taken that he did not that would be more of an effort or would’ve lead to success. Priorities, right?
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This is beginning to remind me of bad students who claim they should receive better grades because they “tried so hard.” In the world of adults, nobody cares about how hard you tried. Only results matter.
I can just imagine explaining to the Dean that I tried to show up for class, tried to get published, tried to grade the exams. Something tells me that wouldn’t go over very well.
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So what does deporting the illegal migrants look like to you? Or what would look like keeping the promise?
And actually all TPS is permission to stay in the country, it doesn’t imply anyone came in legally, in and of itself. All the Justices agreed. There are definitely TPS people who came in illegally. But such hairspliting is a little boring.
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“deporting the illegal migrants look like to you?”
To me it looks like taking them into custody and flying them to their country (or taking them to the border if there is one).
There are also subtler policies like remigration (making life as an undocumented or non-productive alien unappealing).
But the US is addicted to cheap labor without much rights so there’s no real chance of large scale deportation….
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Are you against all TPS immigrants (including Ukrainian ones), or just the Haitian ones in Ohio?
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Please read on the origins of the Salvadoran gangs MS-13 and Barrio 18.
A whole region was devastated. Still is devastated. And all you can do is repeat this self-righteous twaddle without trying to learn anything.
Yes, I’m against the entire concept of TPS because it’s horrid, exploitative, it treats people like furniture.
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Are you against all TPS immigrants (including Ukrainian ones), or just the Haitian ones in Ohio?
To answer your question – which seems to be put from the standpoint of someone who approves of TPS immigration, I would have to know if you or anyone close to you (family, friend, colleague, neighbour) has been affected by the presence of illegal immigrants: criminal events, loss of income, unfair competition and so on.
There is an epidemic of luxury beliefs and pathological altruism currently going on in the United States. One wonders why.
TPS is an utterly inhuman practice. It’s very aggravating that its supporters preen and congratulate themselves on their exceptional morality when it’s extremely exploitative. The people on these visas are dragged over here while they are young and can be squeezed for every drop of cheap, mute, easily exploitable labor, and then thrown away like used Kleenex when they grow older and start needing medical services, etc. It’s extraordinary that these absolute hypocrites, like this smug, stupid “Old Reader”, cheer on this abuse and consider themselves the good guys in all of this.
“DEI – what did Trump do to push back on it?”
Trump did sign an executive order pushing back on at least the worst aspects of it (which Biden promptly revoked as soon as he got into office): “Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping”: https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=6e257557bdef38acJmltdHM9MTcyODM0NTYwMCZpZ3VpZD0zNjc5ZjE4Ni1hY2JkLTZlYmUtMmFmNi1lNDhiYWQzZDZmYjQmaW5zaWQ9NTE3OA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=3&fclid=3679f186-acbd-6ebe-2af6-e48bad3d6fb4&psq=trump+executive+order+against+race+and+sex+stereotyping&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly90cnVtcHdoaXRlaG91c2UuYXJjaGl2ZXMuZ292L3ByZXNpZGVudGlhbC1hY3Rpb25zL2V4ZWN1dGl2ZS1vcmRlci1jb21iYXRpbmctcmFjZS1zZXgtc3RlcmVvdHlwaW5nLyM6fjp0ZXh0PVRoZXNlIHByaW5jaXBsZXMsIGNvZGlmaWVkIGF0IDUgVS5TLkMuIDIzMDEsIGNhbGwgZm9yIGFsbA&ntb=1
That’s a good executive order. I like it. Sadly, for a reason that has remained undisclosed, it waited until the last 3 minutes before the 2020 election to be issued. Had it been issued at the beginning of the presidency, there would have been time to actually start refashioning federal agencies to reflect this change in policy.
But accepted, there was some action, belated though it was. This is making me feel more positive towards Trump. I thank you for addressing this seriously and offering valuable help.
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