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Literally this
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.
This but on the third panel they blame Biden and the democrats.
100% that last panel. Also, to really complete the DARVO effect, it could use a few third parties popping up to represent the Elevated Centrists, the "independents", the "liberal media", and a certain kind of "leftist" that like to blame the Democrats for not stopping the Republicans doing all the awful shit they get up to...
You know, mistakes are personal, but misery is shared by all, right.
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.
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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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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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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.
Trump voter: I only wanted to hurt other people!
Reality:
"I thought this would happen to OTHER people and I was all for fucking up other people's lives! Not MINE!"
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.
The sad thing is that these people are using our money and having Taco sending that money directed against blue areas. Once ICE gets all their funding, it's about to get a whole lot worse.
Taco seems to be tearing this country apart. Gee, I wonder what two countries might benefit the very most from that?
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.
Yeah want to shake these people. They could deport YOU! your wife! Your CHILD! To a torture prison in the jungle! You don't know if any of these people are criminals! You don't know if they are citizens! You don't know! They haven't seen a judge! How would anyone know?
THEY CAN PUT YOU IN A VAN TOMORROW AND SHAVE YOUR HEAD IN CECOT THE DAY AFTER THAT!
They could send you to Syria. South Sudan, some other black site. No one would stop them.
I’d go even farther. Since there’s been precious little due process, essentially none are criminal. Essentially none of those deported have been convicted of any crime.
And no, I’m not taking the word of the people who deprived them of that right while hiding their own faces
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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.
Awww sorry did you think Trump just meant blacks, latinos and middle easterners? My heartfelt condolences...🎻
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"He isn't hurting the 'right people‽‽‽'"
-Fucking idiots that I told not to vote for him, but now their family members are disappearing.
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