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concentration camps for immigrants have been a thing since at least obama. remember "kids in cages"? remember how biden didn’t free them?
trump nearly doubled the DHS’s budget between 2017 and 2021, biden never decreased it. in fact, it kept increasing under him
instead we would have had legal kidnappings/deportations! much better ☺️
because regular police isn’t militarized and corrupt to hell anyways
chinese EVs anyone?
i’ll give you that one
yes trump is worse in almost every way. but there is still not much meaningful difference between both parties. note, also, that harris sold herself as tougher on immigration than trump. would this have been true? idk, maybe not, but it still signifies she would’ve gone in the same direction
They were bad, now they're worse. That's ignoring the difference in scale too.
Fair, but once again scale. Doubling a budget in 1 year is actually a lot different than doing it over 4 years.
Umm yeah, the erosion of due proccess is scary as shit. A sitting US president is removing people from the country to random prisons elsewhere with no due proccess. Deportations are a problem, but the new issue is the dissolution of civil liberties that applies to everyone.
Correct, but not the actual issue. Police, while horribly corrupt, have jurisdiction and are theoretically bound to the local government. The military does not have the legal authority to police US citizens. It's a much bigger issue than militarized police.
A handful of targeted tariffs are very common. Basically every nation does them. Once again scale. But I do hate how this benefited Elon.
Worms for the worm god
Anyway, your comparisons lack the necessary depth. A lot of the new issues come down to scale and method. Cruelty has become the point. The law is being ignored in such a way that it suggests soon citizens will have no rights. That's fucking scary and so so much worse than anything Biden did.
You don't understand, the blue guy pretended to ignore all of this, that's clearly better. Now shut up and don't ask questions!
You're unhinged
The meaninful difference between both parties is one party allows you to bury your head in the sand while they drug and rape you and the other party just rapes you.