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This comic was posted right after Trump won the first time. We need a sequel where they burn the house down.
This is the kind of scenario I see in my head when one of these asshats say they wanted to "shake things up in Washington". 🙄
It's hard to build a system, even if it's not working 100% perfectly (and no human institution is ever likely to do so). Very hard. It's quite simple to break shit. Any toddler can kick over a sand castle.
But hey, at least we did something about the "status quo", because having a status quo is automatically a bad thing according to a whole lot of fools and dumbasses.
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What's interesting about this case is that she's an illegal who was deported years ago but snuck back in anyway. Did she forget about her illegal status? Or did she think she would be spared by supporting Trump?
The cynical answer is she thought the would be spared because she's white.
The straight answer is that Trump told people the country was being overrun by criminals and gang members whom he would deport. People who bought that story thought those who didn't fit that description would be safe.
Well, the thing about being a criminal is that it means you’ve been convicted of a crime.
Trump is a criminal. But he was born in the US to US citizens.
The goal is to make all sorts of things crimes such that it’s almost impossible to function in the US as a foreigner without committing a crime. At that point, the government can choose the people to deport at their whim.
Since birthright citizenship is being struck down, and this government interprets the constitution as only applicable to citizens, expect Trump to attempt again to pass legislation for more types of citizenship nullification.
One tricky bit is, if you’re declared legally dead, you immediately become an illegal resident if you’re still alive. And DOGE has already declared a number of people dead by misinterpreting a few databases.
One tricky bit is, if you’re declared legally dead, you immediately become an illegal resident if you’re still alive. And DOGE has already declared a number of people dead by misinterpreting a few databases.
I can almost imagine this being written by Douglas adams, but the consequences a little too depressing. You know, in contrast to the complete destruction of the earth
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Spared for sure. Like many legal citizens will think when the BBB hits, they will 100% blame dems but it'll be Trump polices that will bite them. They are just too ignorant to realize.
Are those things going to be timed to hit after the mid-terms like many suspect?
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The fuck did any of them think this meant?
Wonder if the sign-holder voted for deporting brown people, but is possibly making use of Medicaid/Medicare?
She's in a wheelchair but not a really nice wheel chair. I'd say the odds are pretty fucking good.
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"I thought this would happen to OTHER people and I was all for fucking up other people's lives! Not MINE!"
Pro tip: yes, you did vote for this, moron!
They literally wrote a playbook that included all the evil shit they were going to do.
So, a couple of things... Yes, their fault for being Trump supporters...
But also... She's 45, she came here when she was 10. She's had THIRTY-FIVE YEARS to become a US Citizen.
It does take an insane amount of time to work through the citizenship process, but it doesn't take 35 damn years. Especially not after marrying a US citizen.
Source: Friend of mine did it based on refugee status from Lebanon. My daughter-in-law did it on a student basis from Burma after marrying our son.
you think becoming naturalized is going to stop them from deporting people?
naturalized are next "on the list" after they finish dealing with birthright citizens.
My parents moved to the US from Canada back in '98, became US citizens, and I've been hounding them almost daily at this point to come back home to Canada. At this point I don't care if I go into massive debt providing for them or if I have to get a second job just to be able to afford a place to rent with more than 2 bed rooms.
I'm just so terrified every day that ICE is going to detain one of them or both. I just can't get through to them that they need to leave the US and come back to Canada right now.
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You could easily argue she was deported for trying to take the legal route. They grabbed her from her green card hearing
Realistically I’m sure it’s just laziness. ICE has quotas to meet and they realize they can’t meet them while performing due diligence. So, instead of finding and convicting criminals, set ambushes at immigration courts and places of work. It shows both the stupidity of quotas and the reality of creating “criminals” where none existed before
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I guess I don't quite understand why we have a system where someone that comes here at 10 later has to take extra steps to become a citizen, honestly.
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They keep saying "criminals," even in this story. Some of them are US citizens, one of them was 4. I'm pretty sure a 4 year old isn't a criminal. Also, with no due process, we don't know shit if they're criminals or not. This is a money grabbing grift that is disappearing people, probably to death.
In Christian fascist America, 4 years old is old enough for the mines and marriage.
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Trump voter: I only wanted to hurt other people!
Reality:
Fuck all these people straight to hell. I'm for either stripping Trump states of statehood, turning them into commonwealths where they can pay for their own social security and medical coverage (because right now, the vast majority of them don't), or going back to 1870 and sending in the Union cavalry to fucking keep them the fuck out of politics, allowing black people and immigrants to vote, etc. What horrible people. Fuck you and your grandmother too.
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I'll bet 1 internet point that they never vote anyone but republican for the rest of their lives even after this. The ones who don't get deported of course.
You know, mistakes are personal, but misery is shared by all, right.
Awww sorry did you think Trump just meant blacks, latinos and middle easterners? My heartfelt condolences...🎻
Don't forget the thoughts and prayers, that really does the job right
"He isn't hurting the 'right people‽‽‽'"
-Fucking idiots that I told not to vote for him, but now their family members are disappearing.
“The only crime I committed is to love this country and to work hard and to provide for my kids,” she said.
Um... those aren't crimes, are they? I mean, things are changing fast under Trump, but these aren't really crimes yet, are they?
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Ok, so besides the violin memes and everything, where is the alternative political power, the Democrafts, the Left, whoever, that is going out and making a big show of protecting people so when shit like this happens, the MAGAs in the neighbouring houses think long and hard about who is protecting them and who is attacking them?
Laughing at these people is not going to break them away from voting this in again.
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Good. Nice to see some early adopters on video! Those selfish assholes got their comeuppance even before their cult leader ruins eveyone else's lives. So happy for them, would have loved to see her announce the great news to her kids!
Seriously tho, MAGAts are a danger to themselves, their kids, and other people's kids too; Child Proctection Services should be all over their asses!
Get fucked, magats. Have the day you voted for.
Something something, not hurting the right people huh? Look.... Don't take too much from this. Last time around we heard the same stories, and yet they voted for him again and again in ever increasing numbers. For every one or two that drop support, several take their place. Hatred and stupidity. It's just how we were raised.
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