The two men with him were taken into custody. Machado said he does not know why.
Hey, reporter. Hey journalist. You just gonna leave it at that? Not an ounce of curiosity about the the two taken into custody? Did you follow up with ICE on their status? What did Machado know about them? Are they citizens? Here legally? Illegally? If so, why was Machado (who voted for trump because he’s against illegal immigration) driving them to work? Is he picking up day workers, is he a hypocrite? Did you think that might be an interesting angle for the story? You’re a reporter, or… maybe not. I guess you got your feel-good FAFO story about Machado, so you’re done, that’s all you cared about doing.
Pity they released him so fast. Idiots like this are part of the reason the whole world is now suffering the turd presidency, so no amount of schadenfraude will be enough when it comes to them.
MAGA folks never care about cruelty until it affects them, then they cry for mercy and compassion. To them the damaging human consequences are either justice, religious imperative, or necessary cost - until they are the ones paying. Now they reap the fruits of their indifference or often full-on support of the suffering of others. I still feel bad for the innocent, like children or those who have opposed this malevolent chaos from the beginning.
Yep - the GOP over the last few decades tossed away any morality and took the easiest path they could for coalition building, assembling the stupid, bigoted, gullible, and most importantly - least empathetic bunch of people. Literally tossing away conservative ideology and specifically preying on these people’s weaknesses.
assembling the stupid, bigoted, gullible, and most importantly - least empathetic bunch of people.
To me the one of the funnier things is these same people who whine endlessly about the oppression by political correctness getting upset about being called deplorables or plain ol’ stupid.
There’s going to be a lot of that. I live in the Southwest, and the number of Trump-voting Latinos is shockingly high. There are a lot of conservative Latinos who straight up consider themselves to be white. Gonna be a real shock for them when it finally sinks in what the rest of their party thinks about that.
Latino voter implies that they are citizens. So when they hear something like “stricter immigration laws” they think it doesn’t apply to them because they have the documentation that says they are citizens. But none of that matters when ICE pulls you over at gunpoint for looking illegal.
They believed they were the exceptions. Because they got theirs. It’s all those other illegals that are bad.
It’s more like, “I went through it the hard, legitimate way. It took me years. And then these people just hop the fence and get me in trouble for it?”
There’s a good NYT - The Interview podcast about it. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/magazine/ruben-gallego-interview.html
Fucking moron.
