If you ever say the words, “we should separate kids from their families as a deterrent”, you should be immediately shunned from society. Your job should fire you. Your colleagues, your family, your friends should all pretend like you do not exist. The entire community where you live should write you out of their lives.
It worked WONDERS for early modern societies.
Not even that. I don’t think there’s a larger political force at work than “we need to make more money and we can pay kids the same wages we paid those immigrants, they won’t know their rights anyway.”
Then jail everyone involved in the deportation for kidnapping. Sure, you can’t get Trump - get everyone else. The chilling effect should be immediate.
This is his strategy. He thinks diplomacy is just walking into the boardroom and saying “alright, what do you want” so long as it’s not YOUR stuff you’re giving up. Trump is perfectly happy to give up OTHER PEOPLE’S STUFF, other people’s territory and homes and even lives so long as it’s not HIS stuff, HIS territory, HIS life.
He THINKS he’s fine because he lives in a bubble with other people who are willing to accept and normalize his unmedicated issues at great personal cost. And now, instead of being kicked to the roadside or reckoning with the idea of “maybe I’m the asshole here”, he plans to make the whole US into his safe space so he doesn’t have to be confronted with an idea outside his sphere.
At some point of extreme wealth, you get declared a dragon and it should be perfectly fine to organize adventuring parties to attempt to slay you.
His fellow snipers and the rest of his squad admitted that he also shot randomly at civilians, to the point that his squad ACTIVELY FUCKED WITH HIS RIFLE SCOPE to make sure he’d miss the first shot and give civilians some time to get to cover as he cycled his rifle.
The dude was enough of a psychopath that they screwed the dude WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO KEEP THEM SAFE so he wouldn’t randomly murder civilians.
You also forgot the part that he stabbed a POW to death, took pictures with the corpse, and sent them to his buddies stateside.
Don’t forget cops and military protecting stores in disaster zones, full of supplies that will wind up getting paid for by insurance anyway and will go bad before the store reopens.
AND they actively steal small brand recipes and ideas, then have a contract manufacturer churn it out at a cheaper price.
Also grist for the mill of war. If you’re planning to annex Canada, or Mexico, or all of Latin America or whatever, you’ll need a lot of bodies. Desperate people are way more likely to say “holy shit the army’s recruiting for that war in Mexico. I don’t like it, but having 3 hots and a cot sounds pretty swell instead of fistfighting Ralph behind the Shoney’s for the last slice of pizza.”
Yup, just air Mike Johnson saying “I won’t hold votes on this until the election is over”. The ad copy writes itself: Republicans don’t care how many of you or your loved ones die.
Of course it’s Jim motherfucking Jordan.
It worked for LBJ, however.
Don’t forget him bragging that he now held the tallest skyscrapers on the NYC skyline.
And a federal record of abortions, stillbirths and miscarriages. Which is also pregnancy tracking.
Nah, he and the Duma have stated their victory conditions: total control over Ukraine AND the destruction of Ukrainian national identity. He doesn’t want Ukraine thinking of itself as a sovereign nation, only a Russian state.
Giant Meteor DOES solve the global climate change issue really easily.
Children of immigrants have a long history in the US of trying to pull the ladder up behind them.
No no, the worst thing would be having a beer with Lofwyr and everything seems totally normal after.
S-K is my favorite Corp to build stories around because it’s so incredibly easy to make lore-aware players incredibly paranoid.
It’s actually a worse idea. There will still be, nominally, federal control, centralized in him. Other than that, every local and state FBI branch will act as, effectively, a terror cell - they work their own leads, make their own arrests on their own recognizance, and generally conduct business as they see fit. This makes for an incredibly dangerous form of secret police - they have no leaders above the local level, no real command and control, and they’re all tasked with only one thing: make less crime.
Imagine the Cheka, but they’re organized like al-Qaeda.