Quote (EndlessSky @ Jun 23 2019 11:15am)
It depends on the issue. On most yes quite moderate in policy.
The deportations are actually rather popular. A wide majority support deportations.
Bush didn't seem big on them but Obama was bout it. Trump seems to have focused more on non-criminal undocumented workers rather than those committing actual crimes so far but we're new to this.
I know that many rural jails are being used as ICE detention centers. You search inmates incarcerated per county as it is public record and see who is where and under what charges and a lot of jails are filled to the brim with Central Americans eating on our dime instead of theirs as they would be if they were unincarcerated. They would be out working and not costing people how don't get their taxes returned so much money. Hillbillies collecting SSDI in the trailer parks cost us way more than the fucking Mexicans lol. Incarceration makes it more expensive. Get them paying taxes.
Quote (Beowulf @ Jun 23 2019 11:18am)
-we aren't going to kill 150 people over an unmanned drone- = good all around, moderates happy
-hey everyone happy ice raid day we are going to deport the shit outta people in a big reality show way and media is going show all the sob stories and images and I'm gonna look really shitty when I should be looking good on iran- = bad moderates won't be happy
Wasn't it over the Strait of Hormuz or whatever that is Iran's territorial water? It was probably spying on them. You can shoot down things spying on you if you're capable and strong enough to resist attack. The US has a weak sovereign right now and foreign powers are all making great strides relative to the US in their region right now. We are going to get a drone shot down and not do anything and Iran will prove it is too big to fail.
Democracies don't go to war with one another anyway I doubt it will happen. Hard to say if the US is still a democracy though only one president had the majority of votes out of the past three.
That being said, how many draft dodgers are going to be commander in chief? We have had some presidents that would be hard to salute. That one marine got nked because he didn't salute Bill Clinton if anyone remembers.
This post was edited by Skinned on Jun 23 2019 10:29am