For all the Trump administration’s talk of saving money and increasing “government efficiency,” the president demanded that huge amounts be appropriated in the Republicans’ recent budget bill to fund his mass-deportation program.
In all, $170 billion was set aside to be spent over the next four years for border and immigration enforcement. This total includes $45 billion to create a sprawling detention system (nearly five times the annual budget for the Bureau of Prisons), $30 billion for ICE operations, $46.6 billion for more border wall construction, and, as if that weren’t enough, a new $10 billion border patrol slush fund.
This level of funding is unprecedented. ICE is now the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the country. And that fact raises a question: What exactly are they going to do with all that money?
I wish those of us who stood on “moral righteousness” when voting (in this case not voting) had enough brain power to think about the genocide they helped to trigger back home.
bUt AmErIcAnS nEeD tO gEt UnCoMfOrTaBlE tO hElP gAzAnS.
how is this helping Gazans? things don’t seem any better to me in the levant
Don’t be silly. They’re morons. Of course they’ll choose moral superiority regarding a conflict on the other side of the planet before considering the wellbeing of their own nation. Especially when doing so ALSO brings about the worst possible outcome for that foreign conflict they claim to care so much about.
These people can’t tie their shoe laces. Don’t expect them to vote more intelligently (or at all) next time around.
If you think that’s bad, imagine the kind of fuckups who would nominate someone that’d campaign so terribly that they couldn’t wipe the floor with him (four times in a row!)
You’re not wrong there, the leaders of the DNC are absolute fucking idiots.
But so are the morally righteous idiots that decided they would help another genocide along while making the genocide they “cared” about worse.
You’re not going to do anything about people not being able to bring themselves to vote for genocide, but you might be able to get the DNC not to tell its own base to fuck off.
This is true.
You cannot change an idiot. But you can change the way you approach idiots.
But I’ll still always, forever, view those idiots as world class idiots. Because they are.
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https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition
Looks like it wouldn’t have made a difference either way.
I don’t know how many times I have to point this out.
It doesn’t matter if it made the difference or not.
The people who stayed home or voted 3rd party had no clue whether they were going to make the difference when they did what they did.
They do not deserved to be absolved because it didn’t happen to end up making a difference. They are fools who gambled with our nation’s wellbeing.
They’re fools for not blindly supporting a party that got Trump elected as president twice? What an odd take.
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