I fear there's little easy answer to this, beyond a cop out like "cognitive dissonance" or something which might be correct, but isn't very informative.
Well, you have to bear in mind a lot of people are not very well-informed or - at least in certain areas - smart. So you can believe that some of these people have managed to convince themselves that there are two types of illegal immigrant:
See, I like this. Make ICE crack down on MAGA-run businesses, make it clear they get what they voted for.Meanwhile, a supporter of Trump lost a third of his workforce after someone dropped a dime.
Trump supporter's business was raided by ICE after tip-off, DHS says
"ICE received a tip about A-plus Roofing's employment of illegal aliens in Key West, Florida," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Newsweek.www.newsweek.com
Other than the long life camera bit making no sense, what makes it impossible? I mean it's a Trump product so he certainly won't deliver on what is stated and if you buy one you'll be lucky to get a 20 year old flip phone and a can of gold spray paint. If he were being slightly less evil this could just be a rebrand of a couple year old phone by one of the lower cost Android phone manufacturers with a paint and/or engraving job. The pictures are all photoshop though, since I think the camera bump is from an iPhone. Definitely not made in the US unless he means final paint job and/or engraving done in the US since cheaper Chinese android phones are basically the only ones with USB C and a headphone jack together, and most of the other given specs are pretty common.In other news: Trump's new phone is stupid and impossible.
Bonus points for the "5000mAh long life camera". The idiots who get this probably signed up for Patriot Mobile.
Yes, I'm pretty sure it's not difficult to buy a simple mobile phone design (or quickly put one together with a halfway competent team), and then send the details to a Chinese factory to get it made and slap basic Android on it. Also perhaps hence the mid-range price - no way just anyone can make a premium quality phone without some serious skills and investment, but almost anyone can bang out something middling and generic.
Do you talk to normal people or just listen to people on the internet/social media? The normal person can tell there's an immigration issue and it has nothing to do with crime. When I have a co-worker that's super nice and pretty much completely non-political commenting on all the immigrants at the park in tents when they are having family barbecues there (when that's never happened before), the normal people have noticed the problem and it's not some fake manufactured problem. People aren't scared of immigrants. The same very small group you see exaggerating about crime, you have that very small group on your team saying crime is not an issue when it does indeed jump up. Have you forgotten all the gaslighting about crime from the left claiming that it went down after covid? But they fail to point out (obviously), that crime is still much higher than normal levels and it just went down from a high peak. You think normal people are going to think crime isn't an issue when you have stores closing because of crime, locking up normal everyday products, or not allowing teenagers in without parents?
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Kinda my point though - importing a cheap Chinese android phone that already exists wholesale, and doing repackaging and a paint job in the US to claim it's "Made in the USA" would easily cover most of the bases and probably be more than doable at that price point, even assuming that Trump personally gets at least 10% off the top and they need to turn a profit.
Hard to claim that Biden loves immigration and open borders and would never crack down on illegals and is also somehow responsible for ICE cracking down on illegals half a year after he left office. I mean, I know some of them like to just shout buzzwords and feels, but even they are aware that Biden is no longer President. In fact they won't shut up about it.
The thing is, for pretty much anyone on either side politically, they are very good at taking credit for anything good that happens during their party's presidency, while claiming they inherited a problem for anything bad that happens. Case in point: when the economy improved at the beginning of Trump's first term, that was proof that Trump was a successful president economically. When it began to go down at the beginning of his second term, it was lingering problems from Biden's presidency, having absolutely nothing to do with Trump tossing around the word "tariff" like confetti.
Chalk one to alternate reality disconnected from real world I guess.Do you talk to normal people or just listen to people on the internet/social media? The normal person can tell there's an immigration issue and it has nothing to do with crime. When I have a co-worker that's super nice and pretty much completely non-political commenting on all the immigrants at the park in tents when they are having family barbecues there (when that's never happened before), the normal people have noticed the problem and it's not some fake manufactured problem. People aren't scared of immigrants. The same very small group you see exaggerating about crime, you have that very small group on your team saying crime is not an issue when it does indeed jump up. Have you forgotten all the gaslighting about crime from the left claiming that it went down after covid? But they fail to point out (obviously), that crime is still much higher than normal levels and it just went down from a high peak. You think normal people are going to think crime isn't an issue when you have stores closing because of crime, locking up normal everyday products, or not allowing teenagers in without parents?
Can we ever stop acting like the extreme sides of the discussion are the normal people?
Also, the country has been against increasing immigration for a very long time now. Why are you guys here so against democracy from happening when it's something you don't agree with? Essentially, you are all so pro democracy for stuff that you want but when you are in the minority, you act like democracy shouldn't be a thing anymore.
Immigration
In your view, should immigration be kept at its present level, increased or decreased? On the whole, do you think immigration is a good thing or a bad thing for this country today?
Well that’s the inevitable catch-22 when the vast majority are arriving without the same consideration and discretion that’s expected in deciding who gets sent back. It’s unequivocally clear the majority didn’t do so legally, and whatever the plight it doesn’t negate the fact that it’s not fair to those waiting their turn the legal way.
Well that’s the inevitable catch-22 when the vast majority are arriving without the same consideration and discretion that’s expected in deciding who gets sent back. It’s unequivocally clear the majority didn’t do so legally, and whatever the plight it doesn’t negate the fact that it’s not fair to those waiting their turn the legal way.
Where was the national outrage and whatnot back then.
"Hard to claim"... and yet they do ALL THE TIME.
To an extent, I'm just sort of exhausted by it all.
Vast majority of what group?
www.cbsnews.com
Hope China stays resolute in not handing the site over.If only TikTaco wasn't such a disgusting coward.Trump to sign order extending TikTok deadline another 90 days, White House says
The Trump administration has ignored a bipartisan law that requires TikTok and ByteDance to fully sever ties.
Haven't they kinda already? I've never been on tiktok, but I remember people saying it got a lot more conservative right after the ban was (not) enforced. And considering the ban came about and was constantly brought up due to tiktok allowing pro-Palestinian sentiments to run free, and no longer hearing DC going ape over that I can only guess something was done behind closed doors about that as well.
