Trump’s plan is a gas.
Trump1932!
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THEN Trump willl say…“OK, I have a yuuuge opportunity for all of you unemployed Americans. There are LOTS of crops that need harvested in the hot…hot fields because I just deported the people who picked those crops. The pay is lousy but…well, I did promise you all jobs”
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What are the people who believed what Trump was saying early on going to do once they realize that Trump was lying to them to get the delegates needed for nomination? Or you have the other possibility. Those who believed Trump early on will figure its Obama’s fault that Trump cannot deliver on what he promised.
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Oh I think Republicans are praying that Trump WILL deliver on his promises.
Trump1932!
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You didn’t look hard enough.
Viewpoint: How would Trump remove 11 million people from the US?
By Keith Olbermann
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Said otherwise, not even Republicans find Trump trustworthy.
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His supporters believe it. More lies from the GOP!
That question has already been answered. Multiple interviews across several states with Trump supporters asked how they’d feel if various Trump promises weren’t kept. They said it wasn’t important, they weren’t voting for policies, they were voting for Trump. Then they express some vague notion Trump will do…well…something about all the things they don’t like. No matter, he’s the successful businessman, we’ll let him worry about the details. For them the important thing is Trump represents a big “Fuck You!” to The Other. Muslims, Blacks, Hispanics, feminists, liberals, scientists and academics, et al. The “Fuck You!” is all that’s really important to Trump fans.
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By Benjamin Powell
To forgo a repeat of last year, when labor shortages triggered an estimated $140 million in agricultural losses, as crops rotted in the fields, officials in Georgia are now dispatching prisoners to the state’s farms to help harvest fruit and vegetables.
The labor shortages, which also have affected the hotel and restaurant industries, are a consequence of Georgia’s immigration enforcement law, HB 87, which was passed last year. As State Rep. Matt Ramsey, one of the bill’s authors, said at the time, “Our goal is … to eliminate incentives for illegal aliens to cross into our state.”
Now he and others are learning: Be careful what you wish for, because you may get more than you bargained for.
Georgia’s law, similar to those in Alabama, Arizona and a few other states, gives police the authority to demand immigration documentation from suspects when they detain them for other possible violations. The law also makes it more difficult for businesses to hire workers and creates harsher punishments for those who employ or harbor illegal immigrants.
The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that some 425,000 illegal immigrants lived in Georgia when the legislation was passed – seventh highest in the nation. Those numbers are now down, as hoped for, but the state’s economy is paying a heavy price.
The dirty secret that everybody knew was that most of the state’s agricultural workers were immigrants, many of them illegal. Some lived in the state; others migrated with the harvest from southern Florida up to New York and back. Some of the former have moved away, while many of the latter are bypassing Georgia. Without them, according to a University of Georgia study, farmers were about 40 percent short of the number of workers they needed to harvest last year’s crop.
Despite high unemployment in the state, most Georgians don’t want such back-breaking jobs, nor do they have the necessary skills. According to Dick Minor, president of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Grower’s Association, immigrants “are pretty much professional harvesters” with many specializing in particular crops.
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Disagree. Who is going to say to a reporter, “Sure, I want to gas all the Jews. We need to get rid of those vermin”?
Trump’s message is what it is. It is foolhardy to pretend otherwise.
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So, Trump, the candidate who “says it like it is” and whose voters are tired of politicians saying one thing and doing another, didn’t really mean a “wall” when he said “wall” and didn’t really mean that he would “deport” illegals when he said “deport.” And yet his supporters still see him as someone who isn’t a politician and will keep his promises. You can’t make this kind of stupid up.
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It would figure a British media outlet publishing the writing of a (moderately) gadly former American sports journalist would be the extent of critical analysis Trump’s plan received. If only what you cite had been hammered relentlessly by ABC, CBS, NBC and others, prominently, on consecutive Sunday and evening news broadcasts.
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Since when did Republicans start caring about the details of implementing broad, facially idiotic, policy pronouncements?
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I think I’ve come to the conclusion that the saddest and scariest part of all this isn’t the racist and misoginistic tRump, or even his rabidly angry low information followers. It’s the media and the GOTP and their massive effort to ‘normalize’ this asshat and the crap he spews.
Did everyday citizens and critical observers in long ago Germany and Italy see these harbingers of catastrophe like we do today?
I’ve seriously begun reformulating my business exit plan for the next 10 years. If tRump wins the election, I’m shifting to a 4 year exit (to Panama) instead of a 10 year. I’ll regret deserting the rest of you, but I’ve been planning on going anyway and there’s no up side to me having to strangle several insufferable tRump Humpers by the time I leave, if I wait 10 years. Besides, I want no part of what might be a second term…
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Hey that gives him a lot of time to build the wall!
Not a wall wall, more like a WKRP Les Nesman wall
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Your base is already angry, because Republican politicians have been making promises they could not or would not keep… and now, you want rile that angry base up even more, with more broken promises?
Way to be a “uniter,” Littlefinger.
He sounds more like a huckster with each passing day and each passing walk-back.
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And beyond that that so many Americans believe the same way if not worse.
Oh, but that isn’t what it’s all about now! Now it’s about hurting someone else! Making some ‘other’ pay for the pain they have suffered! It’s about power. It’s about revenge on that black man in the White House and all those others that ‘stole your country from you’!
Keep your ammo dry folks, I’m still not sure this won’t turn into a shooting revolution…
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“Hill Republicans” are either trying reverse psychology on the Donald, or this is what passes for their Latino outreach.
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