• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    “We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years,” he wrote. “We would need hundreds of thousands of trials for the hundreds of thousands of Illegals we are sending out of the Country. Such a thing is not possible to do. What a ridiculous situation we are in.”

    I’ve noticed that Trump often does identify real issues. That’s what allows him to pitch insane, half-baked, and cruel solutions so successfully.

    We haven’t had sufficient funding for processing asylum claims for decades upon decades, and the process itself is outdated, slow, and ineffective for the country and migrant alike.

    We should be fixing that, instead of outsourcing death camps. But “doing paperwork better” is a pretty underwhelming pitch.

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      Agreed, in a lot of ways he is a response to the failure to solve real problems that have plagued us for years. Of course none of his solutions will work if they are even coherent. But a lot of people realise that the status quo can’t or won’t do anything so they decide to give a strongman a chance.

      • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s the same with the US paying more than its fair share of the NATO budget he likes to harp on about.

        He’s right about that; however we do get a lot back from that in other ways that aren’t directly tied to budget support, not to mention the goodwill of the countries that are actually on the frontlines fighting wars, unlike America right now.

        Like, pulling out of NATO is not the solution to the other countries not paying their “fair share”, nor is forcing tariffs on the world because you don’t understand what a trade deficit is because you apparently bonespurred your way out of college too.

        NATO is a critical effort that should not be hampered by which countries have what amounts of money to put in, but in the desire to stand united against truly great evil rising again like it did in 1914 and 1939. Everyone helps out in the ways they can best do it. European countries are literally on the frontlines of our current proxy wars and need our help to keep it from spilling over elsewhere. Because if that happens, the nickles and dimes we’re spending on NATO above everyone else will seem like chump change.