The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

Eric Andre accurately compares Stephen Miller to Mr. Burns, a younger but uglier (both outside & inside) version

 

Vincent Scardina, the owner of a small Key West, Florida roofing company, supported Trump’s tough immigration policies. Then, on May 27, ICE swooped in and hauled off 6 of his workers on their way to a job — fully 1/3 of his workforce.

Adding to Scardina’s annoyance, the men had valid work permits and pending asylum applications, according to their attorney Regilucia Smith. “They are legally here,” she said. “Valid work permit, not even close to expired… again, no criminal records—not here, not in Nicaragua.”​

Scardina lamented that being in a small market, “We’re not able... to just replace people as easily as, say, a big city, [with] very limited people to pull from, and then you would have to train them, and that takes sometimes years...I know of one landscaper that lost nine or 10 of his whole crew he had and he’s just totally out of business all of a sudden, just like that.”

When asked if he regretted his support of Donald Trump, Scardina replied, “Buyer’s remorse? I don’t know, a little bit.”

 

Pretty amazing we are living in the year 1940
Again. A time when the world didn’t realize we were actually in WW2.

Feels like WW3 has already started but the political rhetoric hasn’t made the public realize.

Hopefully I’m wrong, but Israel V Iran is a big one.

 

I fully expect some carve-outs for Trump's billionaire/millionaire buddies ...

 

Children, the lot of them.

 

But, they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats!

 

@deb4rockets dead solider for no reason at all

 

I'm 100% quite sure the world knew it, even if America refused to acknowledge it

 

He was the real deal, Chief Warrant Officer is something you earn with work.

 

Seriously. If a democratic president had a fake military parade for his birthday and someone died bcz of the preparation what would honestly be the reaction from the cult? @Salvy @El_Conquistador

You cant compete with the media landscape the MAGA have create. Its the most successful brainwashing operation in history

 

From the 2024 Republican Convention:

“I will end every single international crisis that the current administration has created, including the horrible war with Russia and Ukraine — which would have never happened if I was president — and the war caused by the attack on Israel, which would have never happened if I was president.”

 

The way to fix e-Verify is to fire everyone at e-Verify. amirite?


This meat packer did everything by the book - ICE arrested 70 of his e-verified workers anyway

Gary Rohwer owns Glenn Valley Foods, a meat-packing concern in south Omaha, Nebraska. Like most companies in the meat-packing business, many of his workers are foreign-born. However, Rohwer was not concerned with Trump's belligerent anti-immigrant hostility as he is a 'by-the-book' guy.

Rohwer is a man who follows the rules. Naively, he thought this fly-right attitude would keep him in federal law enforcement's good graces. He was wrong.

Fortune reported on Gary's experiences as an employer in a nascent fascist state. In an article headlined: "Omaha food plant owner who lost half his workforce in ICE raids says he followed rules for hiring immigrants," the pro-business magazine (no socialism lurking here) reported:

The owner of an Omaha food packaging company says his business has been unfairly hamstrung by federal immigration officials, who raided the plant and arrested more than half its workforce.

The raid took place despite the company meticulously following the government's own system for verifying the workers were in the country legally, owner Gary Rohwer said Wednesday.

Glenn Valley Foods now is operating at about 30% of capacity as the business scrambles to hire more workers, Rohwer said as he stood outside the plant.​

This is how Rohwer put it:

"We did everything we could possibly do."

Adding, "I'd like to see the United States government … come up with a program that they can communicate to the companies as to how to hire legitimate help. Period,"​

Company President Chad Hartmann echoed the owner's puzzlement:

"My biggest issue is: Why us? We do everything by the book."​

He explained that the plant uses E-Verify, the federal database used to check the immigration status of employees. When he said as much to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who carried out the raid, they told him the E-Verify system "is broken."

To which Chad quite reasonably responded:

"I mean, what am I supposed to do with that? This is your system, run by the government. And you're raiding me because your system is broken?"​