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?

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    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.

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      while making the genocide they “cared” about worse.

      No, it was just as bad under Biden, you people were just genocide deniers when it was your team doing it. In that sense, Trump has been better for Gaza, because at least now western liberals aren’t engaging in as much genocide denial.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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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          And I’ll still always, forever, view you lot as Nazi tier genocide apologists. Because you are.