• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    For anything like debt relief, or any kind of social program, the qons - and the “liberal media” - always ask, immediately, and with pikachu face: “but how are you gonna pay for it?!!!111”

    I hope you remember, people who “felt poor” because of the price of eggs or whatever…there is endless amounts of money to spend on deporting people, but if anyone were to talk about helping YOU, well, to borrow a phrase: FUCK YOUR FEELINGS, there is no money for something like that, no sir!

    Also, you can BET that some of donvict’s friends will be making money from this “plan”:

    Some folks are born, silver spoon in hand Lord, don’t they help themselves, y’all But when the taxman comes to the door Lord, the house looks like a rummage sale, yeah

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      I mean, it sounds like they did ask how much it would cost, he just bulldozed through the question instead of seriously engaging with it and legacy media is too chickenshit to report it as “Trump apathetic about costs of deportation plan” or “Mass Deportation to Cost Billions Despite Trump’s Claims” because putting the things he says in context makes him sound like the madman he is and apparently truth is no longer sufficient defense from defamation.

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    8 days ago

    Good thing journalists are only asking the policy questions after the election. Not that it would’ve mattered for the result, but still.

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    9 days ago

    “And you know, I’m not somebody that says, ‘No, you can’t come in.’ We want people to come in."

    “We just want them to leave again unless they think and act and look just like us.”

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    8 days ago

    So it is going to be incredibly expensive to remove immigrants and… err… reduce GDP? This is the man America trusts with the economy because something something tariffs something something eggs

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      6 days ago

      Well, buckle up, because it gets even stupider from here on out. This same policy genius thinks Elon Musk is so gooodest at doing bidness like Xitter, that he should be in charge of “cutting waste” in our government, or something.

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      8 days ago

      On top of the money that goes in to social security from migrants that cant withdrawal it. And the taxes we get from them in general

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        8 days ago

        Well he’ll probably try to kill both Medicare & Social Security so he’ll see it as a net positive…

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      I’d even wager that each time he mentions the cost it will be higher than last time. I suspect it will be measured in the billions and will increase 2-4 billion each time he talks about it. By the time it finally begins to get enacted, I’m guessing the estimated total to ship them all out will likely run in the hundreds of billions.

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    8 days ago

    It will eventually be paid for with crypto TrumpBux mined by mandatory Neuralink brain chips.