Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

[nycfan]

“…
America’s food-supply chain relies on a predominantly immigrant workforce for some of its most challenging jobs, such as picking fruit, applying pesticides on crops, operating machinery and slaughtering livestock. About two-thirds of U.S. crop-farm workers are foreign-born, and 42% aren’t legally authorized to work in the country, according to a Labor Department report.

Agriculture trade groups are lobbying the incoming administration for the expanded use of temporary work visas. Some farms and meatpackers are forging deeper ties with recruiters who can ensure a steady labor supply.

… During the first Trump administration, the plants were a target for immigration officials, who led raids of pork facilities in Ohio and a Mississippi plantowned by large poultry producer Koch Foods. In an interview with a New York television station earlier this month, Homan said he expects raids of meatpacking plants and other workplaces to occur again.

Desperate for labor in the Covid-19 pandemic’s wake, meat processors hired migrants from Haiti and other countries who could legally work in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status program, according to industry officials. Executives worry that, if Trump ends the program, it could jeopardize the legal status of the people working in their plants. …”

 

[heelinhell]

My hope as it pertains to immigration is that the administration will deport the folks who are already slated for deportation and call it a win, and will then expend significant resources beefing up border patrol personnel, technological means of securing the border, and more immigration/asylum/work visa processing personnel. I won't agree with any needlessly cruel or inhumane methods, and I won't appreciate any performative political theater, but if Trump 2.0 figures out a way to solve (or make a lot of progress toward solving) our immigration issues, I'll happily tip my cap. It's obviously well-documented how much I don't approve of Trump as a person or as a leader, but as I keep saying, I am sincerely hoping that some good comes out of his second administration. I'm going to choose to look on the bright side until or unless given reason otherwise.

That is my hope, as well.

1 ) Deport those already slated for deportation. Lie to the people that it was millions of blood thirsty rapists and murderers
2 ) Allow Congress to pass the border security bill and claim it as his own plan

 

[nycfan]

“… The 22-page police report was released in response to a public records request and offers the first detailed account of what the woman alleged to have transpired — one that is at odds with Hegseth’s version of events. The report cited police interviews with the alleged victim, a nurse who treated her, a hotel staffer, another woman at the event and Hegseth.

… A spokeswoman for the Trump transition said early Thursday that the “report corroborates what Mr. Hegseth’s attorneys have said all along: the incident was fully investigated and no charges were filed because police found the allegations to be false.”

The report does not say that police found the allegations were false. Police recommended the case report be forwarded to the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office for review.

Investigators were first alerted to the alleged assault, the report said, by a nurse who called them after a patient requested a sexual assault exam. The patient told medical personnel she believed she was assaulted five days earlier but couldn’t remember much about what had happened. She reported something may have been slipped into her drink before ending up in the hotel room where she said the assault occurred. …”

 

[nycfan]

(Cont’d)

“…Hegseth told investigators that the sexual encounter that followed was consensual, adding that he explicitly asked more than once if she was comfortable. Hegseth said in the morning the woman “showed early signs of regret,” and he assured her that he wouldn’t tell anyone about the encounter.

Hegseth’s attorney said a payment was made to the woman as part of a confidential settlement a few years after the police investigation because Hegseth was concerned that she was prepared to file a lawsuit that he feared could have resulted in him being fired from Fox News, where he was a popular host. The attorney would not reveal the amount of the payment. …”

 

[wmheel1287]

Like your beloved Pres Biden. What’s your story? My guess you’re either bitter divorced guy or never married guy that’s bitter women don’t like him. I’’\ll
DM you photos of my family if you need further proof of my family.

Man, you are one petty pathetic little pissant arent you? I don't think I've seen anyone quite so childish in a very long time.

 

[BlooVooDoo]

…Hegseth was concerned that she was prepared to file a lawsuit that he feared could have resulted in him being fired from Fox News, where he was a popular host. The attorney would not reveal the amount of the payment. …”

That’s surprising. I figured budding sexual predator was the line on his resume that got him hired on Fox News in the first place.

 

[mpaer]

That is my hope, as well.

1 ) Deport those already slated for deportation. Lie to the people that it was millions of blood thirsty rapists and murderers
2 ) Allow Congress to pass the border security bill and claim it as his own plan

This works

 

[heelinhell]

So what if Hegseth is a sexually assaulting misogynistic white supremacist ?

That has nothing to do with his ability to lead the Department of Defense.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[heelinhell]

So is the plan to have undocumented construction workers build the prisons that they will then occupy after construction is completed ?

 

[Enigma94]

Feels like future generations will be visiting this site as a warning of what can happen when xenophobia takes over.

 

[mynameisbond]

I thought their only plan was sending them to NYC?
Where has this initiative been the last four years?

 

[heelinhell]

Feels like future generations will be visiting this site as a warning of what can happen when xenophobia takes over.

One of my most harrowing experiences was visiting the Dachau concentration camp. I'm confident that we will not build ovens to burn undocumented immigrants.

Nevertheless, I suspect visiting Trump's detention centers in the future will be a troubling and emotional experience.

 

[JCTarheel82]

For the love of god, can we please give Texas back to Mexico?

 

[CFordUNC]

For the love of god, can we please give Texas back to Mexico?

Mexico be like

 

[farce©]

Oh there will be some human pain and this board will go insane with "separating kids from families" and "putting kids in cages" and trying to undo all the bad the biden administration caused. One of the absolute worst is the turning a blind eye to the devastation and horror imparted on kids due to cartels while this board pretended all along that there is no crisis at the border and the right is just making shit up and its all good. Several went as far as to say the right was blowing the issue way out of proportion and nobody cares about the border except maga because they are racist. Of course they will be the very first hypocrites to scream when the left's media, who has misled them every step of the way, tries to portray trump as evil for cleaning up the mess. All of a sudden, the plight of immigrant kids will zoom to the top of their hypocritical, faux moral outrage, list of trump failures.

Absolute bullshit

 

[Healing]

Mexico be like

Yeah, Mexico wouldn't want to the inevitable civil war.

Fuck it, let Texas ride alone. I know that won't happen with a ttump autocracy, but I'm dead serious - let Texas go independent. Their oil and gas reserves will keep them going for a while, but we've all seen what happens to petro-states - they fall much more quickly than diversified economies. Yes, there's a substantial ag industry, but with how climate change is eating Texas alive, their ag industry is on tenuous grounds as South and West Texas experience desertification.

 

[JCTarheel82]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/marjorie-taylor-greene-elon-musk-ramaswamy-doge.html

Marjorie Taylor Greene to work with Musk, Ramaswamy as DOGE subcommittee chair

 

[nycfan]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/marjorie-taylor-greene-elon-musk-ramaswamy-doge.html

Marjorie Taylor Greene to work with Musk, Ramaswamy as DOGE subcommittee chair

The obvious efficiency of having two heads of a department that doesn’t exist, plus a rabble-rousing “subcommittee chair”(?) and no statutory authority to do anything is a really encouraging start for a proposed radical restructuring of the Federal government.