Grandfather votes for President who will deport his son and law and grandchildren because he knows they are “good ones.”
“This isn’t a joke,” she said. “Why am I the only one doing all the work?”
Don’t underestimate the amount of psychic damage this shit can do to someone. I’m trans, living next to a university in a solid blue county in Texas. I’m probably gonna be fine over the next four years. Probably.
Yet, I have the urge to live as though these are my last days because the world is overwhelmingly against me.
I know there’s a very real chance that if I don’t move, then I’ll be fucked.
I know that, with my education, it really probably wouldn’t be that hard to find a job that’ll allow me to work remotely or that is based in a blue state. Yet I’m dead inside from all the hate and anger. I’ve managed to keep my head down and avoid most of the hate that’d be directed at me personally, but it still hurts.
They’ve been fighting against invisible monsters so long, they’ve forgotten that those are REAL people.
Sky is the father in law who voted for Trump.
“All those criminals that Trump’s been talking about — the rapists, the gang members — that’s not you,” Sky said. He had heard Trump say that he would deport “the bad guys” first and possibly show leniency to immigrants who had been brought to the country as children.
“You deserve to be here,” Sky said. “To me, you’re basically American.”
“But I’m not,” Jaime said.
Aren’t they throwing around numbers like 1 million deportations?
Does Sky think there are a million rapists and murders amount the 7 million that are here?
Why do these people play repeats. This same shit happened last time do people just forget? Do they hear about it happening to others and just completely externalize it? Fucks sake.
The worst thing progressives do is assume everyone is as informed as themselves.
Immigrants and first generation Americans more often then not have labor jobs, work unusual shifts with a small number of other people, live in districts with bad schools, and don’t speak or read English. They watch news on culturally oriented outlets like telemundo and only interact with other immigrants in meaningful ways.
It’s extremely easy to use that bubble to circulate disinformation. It’s coming from other people they love and trust and tinted with their own culture.
You know what’s ironic?
Dems did this exact same shit in 2016. They learned nothing. They’re still beating the Clintonite drum of praying that money from the rich will buy them enough name recognition to overcome the fact that they’ve ignored the descent into poverty that millions of their voters faced over the last four years. The same was true in 2016 when Hillary was running as an extension of Obama, and they just ignored that Obama presided over a foreclosure crisis.
And, from what you can see on this thread, apparently their plan is to just double down and lose some more.
I hope the grandfather has his kids and grandkids deported and never gets to see them ever again. He fucking deserves it.
Really sucks to be Jaime and his kids though. The wife should have looked into what she was signing up for, i’ve known for decades that if you want to be here legally you need to leave before coming back and there’s no guarantee.
This country is so fucked up, they don’t even have the critical thinking skills or knowledge to understand why our economy is so bad right now: Slashed corporate tax rates and media, healthcare and employment controlled by the ultra wealthy. We’re just neo-slaves given less and less to make our owners more and more. Our health isn’t the ownership’s problem, and we’re only useful as long as we are producing them more wealth.
I hope the grandfather has his kids and grandkids deported and never gets to see them ever again. He fucking deserves it.
you want innocent children to be punished for something their grandfather did?
In the spirit of leopards eating faces: Sky is the one who should suffer, but his suffering - not seeing loved ones - isn’t even remotely comparable to the suffering of those people who rightly should be here but who will be deported because of Sky & his friends’ choices.
This is just tragic, how these people deluded themselves. Hearing what they want to hear and ignoring what they don’t, and even now not believing that their imagined reality will not play out like they think. They’re too committed to the cause and the cult to have regrets.
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