After listening to Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham which contained a major walk back on his signature issue of immigration, I believe Trump has reached his ceiling.
Trump achieved an enormous lot. He completely changed the political landscape, and for many years to come, future politicians will address Trump’s ideas and define themselves in relation to things he brought into the conversation.
There’s been enormous positive change. Nobody was even talking about the really important issues back in 2015, before Trump started his first campaign. Today’s young people are losing interest in fluid identities and are looking angrily at the oldsters who stole normalcy and offered freakdom instead.
We should be very thankful to Trump but also start considering our next steps. This is only the beginning. The next stage is very important. It won’t come from Trump unless he does one of his aboutfaces and rapidly quits being the infinity migration champion we saw in yesterday’s interview.
Let’s continue undaunted, give thanks were deserved, and look to the future with calm confidence.
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“Trump has reached his ceiling”
And then some…. he actually said Americans aren’t talented enough to learn to do the jobs needed (inlcuding the ones about to be eliminated by AI?)
That should spark pushback from MAGA (unless it’s devolved into a personality cult).
Honestly, immigration is the new Cargo Cult of politics (has been for a loooong time now).
It kind of reminds me of soviet industrialization policy…. they looked and said “rich nations have industry…. if we build “industry” we’ll be rich too!!!” without thinking for a single second about things like supply and demand and distribution (and many other things) and managed to create the first industrialized famines….
Famines aren’t on the horizon but blind belief that “immigration” is bringing catastrophically bad results that politicians just don’t think about….
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That was so painful. From what I’m seeing on social media, everybody is horrified. Literally zero people voted for Trump because they wanted more mass migration. And even fewer people voted for Trump because they are desperate to hear how stupid and defective Americans are in comparison with foreigners.
It’s hard to think of more self-defeating statements Trump could have made. I hope it’s a senior moment from which we can move on because it was embarrassing.
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When has Trump ever gone against anything that hurts his bottom line of that of his oligarch pals? I think that’s how I measure whether or not he’s likely to do anything. H1Bs are indentured servants that greatly benefit the rich and powerful elite, so I’m not surprised at all to see him walk that back.
I also don’t expect mass deportations or anything of the sort; he himself already said he wants the gardeners, landscapers, and such. He and his cabinet are showbiz people, they’re about managing perception, more than reality.
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I don’t like H1Bs being presented like they’re victims. They make multiples of the national average income, have home ownership rates that far surpass the corresponding native rates, and in general are ahead on every possible economic metric one can imagine.
Indentured servants? We should be so lucky to have these opportunities available for americans.
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I have to agree with this. I know a number of people on H1Bs and briefly held the visa myself. Calling these well educated and well paid people indentured servants is ridiculous.
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Trump was very much a president needed to channel the frustrations of millions with the woke and authoritarian system that the left-wing was trying to implement. He put a stop to that and will be remembered fondly for that.
However, Trump is not a builder, has not real vision of the future, nor any new ideas other than stuff that was tried 100 years ago. He was necessary to destroy a rotten system, but we need someone else to build in its place.
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Possibly the most disgraceful moment of his presidency, and god knows there are so many contenders for this spot. Inviting al qaeda to the white house.
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We’ve seen Trump’s ceiling. His floor, though, we’ve yet to see, and we have three whole years to find out. Jesus christ, what a treat that will be.
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“No, you don’t have talent, no,” says Trump to the people who elected him.
Well, ok then.
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“Trump on the Syria’s Jolani: “People say he’s had a rough past. We’ve all had rough pasts.”
Who imagined he’d be such a cuck to israel? Makes Biden look almost statesman-like in comparison.
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Come on, let’s not judge. What’s a little spot of genocide here and there? Could happen to anybody, amirite?
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Did you see Kristi Noem bragging that they are handing out citizenships at a record pace? She’s actually bragging about it because it’s such a good thing! Everybody must be so happy!
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Insanity. Who’s advising these people? Who thinks this is a good idea? Who thinks this will bring out GOP voters in the midterms and beyond? I’m sorry but we have to move past the “republicans are incompetent” explanation. This is intentional.
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The level of deceit from the GOP is simply staggering.
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This truly is shocking. Why would anybody bring in teachers on visas? Any sort of visas? What insanity is this?
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The only constituency Trump has delivered for is jews. He has stabbed everyone else in the back. You cannot avoid noticing it.
Completely disagree. He’s poisoned the well for any populist-type movement to emerge in the future. If someone like him, with so much energy behind him, ended up repeating Cato Institute talking points about how americans aren’t good enough to be employed, while at the same time turbo-charging the GOP establishment’s foreign policies with regards to israel/middle east, what hope is there for anyone else? People like lindsay graham are chomping at the bit for him to retire so the GOP can go back to what it does best: serving israel and stabbing americans in the back.
Trump has killed MAGA in a way that’ll be impossible to revive. The GOP won, MAGA lost.
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I hope not.
We’ll all find out over the next three years.
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One year. There’s one year left before the midterms. Usually, the party of power loses the midterms. After that, there’s another impeachment circus and no legislation gets passed. Not that much of it is getting passed with Republicans holding both chambers.
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(fingernail chewing intensifies)
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How interesting that liberals like Ben Shapiro and Bill Ackman who switched parties one microsecond ago got everything they wanted from this administration while lifelong GOP voters got fucked again.
Simply amazing.
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Ackman is already licking Mamdani’s ass, so there’s that.
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Yes, he’s a parasite.
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