Let’s set aside the horrific implications for a moment. And let’s ignore the part about deporting American citizens as a form of collective punishment.

Just reading this in the most charitable way possible, he’s saying that we could let businesses sponsor the migrant workers and in doing so allow them to stay. What a clever idea, why haven’t we tried that before? Oh wait, we have, they’re called work visas. Too bad half your party opposes them (while the other half wants to use them as a form of indentured servitude). Not that it even matters that much when you are deporting people who are here legally anyway.

Doesn’t matter what promises Trump makes (even if he had actually meant them), when ICE has an absurdly high quota to meet and free reign to deport people without due process, no paperwork will be able to keep immigrants safe. They will just continue to go for the easiest targets

Because they aren’t just doing nothing, they are actively interfering.

What’s wrong with the classic volcano sacrifice?

On the one hand, he could dump absolutely unthinkable resources into primary campaigns. Given the sleazy tactics he employed previously, it’s safe to say that any primary fight he really threw his weight into would be brutal, dirty, and incredibly damaging to everyone involved. Even if he failed to unseat the incumbent, they would have almost certainly have a diminished war chest and a lot of additional baggage weighing them down going into the general election.

On the other hand, I am not exactly holding my breath while I wait for Musk to make good on a promise. And even if he did follow through, there’s no way he would just throw the money at the campaigns and let professionals handle it. He can’t resist the urge to make himself the center of attention, which can only backfire.

And third, his objection to the bill is not all that shit that it does to fuck the country, it’s that it isn’t cutting enough. Anyone he backs in a primary is probably going to be even worse than the incumbent. The only upside there is that the even more extreme candidate might be more likely to lose in the general election. but that’s not a chance I wanna take after the last election.

Microsoft said Windows 10 would be the last version I’d ever use. They didn’t know how right they were. I’ve been gradually switching to Linux, and will absolutely never use Windows 11 or any other version they put out.

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I love all three and have no idea how I got here.