"illegal immigrants take up our resources" is a crazy argument because they consume far less resources than the typical American and far more likely to contribute to their provision. Especially when it comes to housing.

No clue. And there’s no traffic in LA now due to deportations - 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄. So THAT’s who was driving all the Prius and Teslas clogging up the freeways - those day workers they seized outside of Home Depot.

even the "smart ones" are making mostly ideological arguments obvious cost of not letting anyone challenge them in public ... for, like, a decade now, at least

um, does he not know the definition of "permanent", because I don't think it has a limit of 100 years

I spend a lot of time wondering if they actually believe this stuff or just say it knowing that it's an ideologically useful lie.

a hundred-year reich

Even our Nazis are ersatz.

*hundred-week

Ideological self-capture. No distinction between exoteric and esoteric. Opening the vats of memetic poison meant for the plebs and huffing the fumes.

I would love to know what the behind closed doors dynamic looks like right now. They have polling that shows how unpopular this stuff is so I almost have to assume that this is just bluster to keep things positive publicly

They don't interact with the factual world. They exist plainly in a cybernetic-news loop. Social media, X and Truth Social, and a few selected news maker like Fox are their main interaction with the world. Ultra-biaised interaction made for them by people like them. They're high on their own supply.

I had a distant relative ask me at a Fourth of July cookout this weekend what it's like living in a city because "crime is so out of control". He was really disappointed that I've lived in my neighborhood for thirty years and the only bad thing that's happened is someone swiped a bicycle off my deck

Dude has absolutely no connection with reality, just sits in the living room mainlining fear and paranoia about the world.

The part about ensuring a permanent majority fascinates me. They really believe that Democrats only win due to importing illegal immigrants, just pure 1488 stuff

When they’ve deported all the “illegals” they’ll realize what they really want to do is deport Democrats.

What they want to do is 'get rid of' anyone that looks or thinks differently from them.

They really don’t understand the coalition that won the 2024 election for them. They way overperformed with young Latino men and are trying to round up their dads and grandparents and cousins.

Going to be interesting to see if the VA and NJ break the fever a bit. Guess it depends on how hard they break. +10-15 Spangenberg win would be glorious and I think would probably make a lot of front liners shit themselves.

Also funny that they think a city gripped by fear as Federal police roam the city locking people up is going to be popular. People hate being stressed and scared! They will translate this anger into voting them out

the deportations are unpopular, zoomers hate them, and once the cuts kick in, normal thermostatic backlash hits

I think this is just trying to apply Trumpian rhetoric to other Republicans. It's always worked for Trump, just proclaiming he's a winner until society gives up and gives him his trophy.

they did delay a lot of the cuts but I gotta think setting things up so that either you vote for Democrats in 2026 or you lose your insurance is gonna work out great for them

Dems could roll them back if they take both houses of Congress, and bet that Trump won't sign. But there's a good chance he does and then run on saving Social Security.

Trump doesn't even know that he cut Medicaid afaict

If he senses something popular has happened, he'll immediately be out there taking responsibility for it.

can you imagine the nursing home canvassing. vote blue or you all lose your jobs and/or die on the street

Delaying the cuts probably hurts even more. The specter of the impending doom of a bill can be just as harmful as reality.

Reminds of all the “ extinction of the GOP” articles that came out in the spring of 2009 … and by the summer of 2009 it was VERY clear that conservatism was very much still alive !

Yeah but dems didn't have direct control over voting machines

Neither party does!

“Let’s make our fascist police war against the city full of influencers perfectly stream and clipable. That’ll make the kids love us”

Latino realigment is going to hit like a truck.

I’m curious what happens when that normal thermostatic backlash kicks in. Like these people are convinced 1) woke is over, 2) the mass deportations are destined to succeed, and 3) they’re on a path to remake America in their image. What happens if/when their chances of success plummet?

Declare a state of emergency, claim the elections were rigged

And that's before the post-summer sale tariff pricing kicks in on retail, the impending crash in Tech since interest rates won't fall, ongoing inflation issues made worse by deportations and the continued retirement of the boomers, and the prospect of summer brownouts from transformer shortages.

Keep in mind they believe undocumented immigrants are voting in elections and that this is the democrats’ entire electoral strategy.

They don’t just see this is a popular policy, they believe they are deporting the Democrat voting base.

In other words the election conspiracies in 2026 will be wild as they square the circle of “Trump successfully deported all the Mexicans” and “the dems still managed to rig the election”. One assumes they will jump to dead people voting, or hacked machines, or paid voters.

Also traffic as a policy barometer is twisted. And it's still here (I'm working at home in lieu of spending an hour in the car). The only time it was gone was early COVID (I don't long for a return to early COVID)

I too am beginning to think that these idiots really believe their BS. Pam Bondi gave an interview the other day and said they were deporting the millions of democratic voting immigrants. They really think immigrants are voting!!

Even in their own world, I don't get get it. How does ruining the city secure a majority for them??

they think that illegal immigrants vote

Ah, right. Forgot about that.

Permanent one hundred year majority. That's almost a good band name. Either permanent, or one hundred year. Possibly, permanent one hundred percent majority is what was meant. Which is also stupid. #JailTrump #Oldemort

It’s weird tho since undocumented immigrants can’t vote lol

My hope is that they forget to rig the elections because they think they’ll win in a landslide