A lot of people voted for Trump thinking he would get rid of illegal immigrant criminals–like rapists and murderers. Some of those voters are distraught that Trump is mass deporting illegals who are just working hard at a job.
The sad thing is, anyone who could objectively follow Trump could have told them: Trump was always going to mass deport, with most of those people being hard workers whose only crime was crossing a line they weren’t supposed to.
US citizens of Hispanic descent who work in immigrant-typical industries live in fear.
Because so much skilled construction labor was deported, house construction is now more expensive.
Trump’s Department of Justice has been dishonest so many times in court, that they have soiled the Department’s previous reputation of generally being honest. This soiling spreads to the US government as a whole, and even the country. If a country’s Department of Justice consistently lies, then that is not a just country. This is what happens when you appoint hacks over quality, and when the president expects the Department of Justice to obey his whims rather than the law and the truth.
Left wing activists did a July fourth noise protest outside an ICE detention center where they shot off fireworks. One of them went rogue and left the main group and vandalized the facility with spray paint. Police were called, and this man and the officer had a shootout. The officer was shot, but not killed.
The Trump administration successfully charged the activist group with terrorism and gave them lengthy prison sentences.
The group’s ideology was used to claim that they were all terrorists, even though it looks like one guy got into a shootout and there wasn’t an actual plan to shoot anyone.
Most of the group is guilty of trespassing and illegally shooting off fireworks. Some harbored the shooter on the run. One guy was convicted of terrorism charges and he wasn’t even there; he was convicted of terrorism because he had left wing material in his vehicle. Lengthy terrorism convictions in response to these actions are acts of tyranny. I’ve advocated prosecuting protestors who regularly cross the line into illegal activity, but, they should be prosecuted for what they have actually done, not Trumped up terrorism charges.
The prosecutors overcharged under directives from the Trump administration.
Musk did a great job with his businesses, but he also lied and mislead while manipulating: sucker consumers; the stock market; and the government. He got a lot of money from the government for different businesses.
Musk bought Twitter almost as a joke, and now uses it as his personal propaganda platform where his Tweets are boosted and he deplatforms people he doesn’t like.
Musk’s ability to pump the government for money went turbo charge with Trump.
Musk sometimes takes criticisms or minor slights as major slights and like a child gets butthurt and can’t rise above it.
If after the election and after coalition negotiations, Netanyahu is still in charge, we will continue to get acceptance of West Bank settler violence and an ethnic cleansing of parts or all of Gaza. If Netanyahu’s opponents are in charge, they will still reject the possibility of a two-state solution, but will limit settler violence and work to implement Trump’s Gaza peace plan.
Trump’s aggressive rhetoric, threats of territorial conquest and ending countries’ existence, and trade wars, against allies, has led to US allies organizing more of their economies around the US, which weakens the US and makes Americans poorer. Trump’s actions have also limited his influence on allies. These actions put Trump’s misguided ideas first, and America last.
When you bully and act aggressively, other countries may not retaliate in the moment, but they do work to weaken you and become more robust to your attacks.
Such Trump aggression has increased China’s power, prestige, and popularity, while lowering those of the US. The CCP is an evil dictatorship, but at least they are predictable, unlike erratic Trump.
Democracies around the world have been weakened because foreigners trying to maintain democracy in their country relied on the US for pushback against the breaking of democratic rules.
Reporting with multiple sources says Musk went to the Whitehouse with a plan to limit the connectivity of Ukrainian drones to satellites. The connections worked on the drones full speed when the drones flew into the EU, but didn’t work in Ukraine, making it seem that the connectivity was intentionally slowed for Ukraine. Musk said the Whitehouse had the say not him. The slowdown happened right as Trump was pressuring Ukraine publicly.