President Donald Trump, in his first major interview since his party lost control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, said he thinks his administration was too aggressive on deportations and that he thinks he can work with Democrats in the new Congress on some kind of immigration deal.

Trump said his deportation policy was part of the reason Republicans lost, telling CBS’s “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired on Sunday: “I think it might be too tough, yeah.”

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[–] 17 points 19 hours ago (6 children)

Did he even ever set policy? It seemed like he just hired a billion dollars worth of goons and let them loose on the browns and the poors with no oversight or directions beyond "make peasants afraid again".

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  • [–] 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (4 children)

    When you're a politician you should be aware of things like what happens when you hire a bunch of undisciplined, powertripping-hungry goons with no background checks and unleash them on the population with guns, no training and the general impression that they are righteous and can get away with doing anything they want.

    There is a reason why the military forces people through a tough basic training designed to instill discipline before they're left alone with enough firepower to kill a whole village.

    What ensued was perfectly predictable. Trump was too dumb to predict that this would look bad on him and wanted to give an image of a "tough president" anyway so he let the problem get worse. But I can guarantee you that whoever organized this knew exactly what they were doing. They wanted to create an environment of terror and set all the pieces for it to happen naturally.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

    100%

    I forget the guy's name, but ICE's old head loved walking around in a coat that made him look like the spitting image of an SS officer. There wasn't any attempt whatsoever to hide what they were doing, but unfortunately they hired a bunch of fat stupid people who couldn't make a police academy or get through basic training.

    For all the terror they spread in those few months, they also made themselves look absolutely fucking ridiculous.

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  • [–] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 child)

    You probably mean Bovino, although he wasn't head of ICE, he was a "commander at large" at the Border Patrol, a made up role and title.

    Fun fact, ICE has not had a properly confirmed director since 2017, it has been a revolving door of acting directors since then..

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

    Donald doesn't really set policy. (except maybe with war and LLM's., which he's been very publicly vocal and decisive about.)

    He lets subordinates do it at federal agencies and then depends on the states to lead. This was most evident during COVID.

    For someone who wants so badly to be a dictator, he wants plausible deniability on any complex issue because his demented brain can't think its way out of a wet paper bag.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

    Wait, Donald.

    You mean shooting a housewife in her car and a nurse trying to help a fellow protester up was... "too tough"?

    I've been saying this since last year. The attempt to reboot the Gestapo was a massive over-play of MAGA's hand, and you could see this evidenced on the nightly news every day when they were pulling Republican voters from the protest to talk about how sickened they were watching schoolkids being chased down by masked men and women escorted to port-a-potties to be forced to suck dick or get deported. Or targeting legal citizens going to court for their hearings to get their citizenship paperwork renewed. Or being mass-deported to a gulag in Nicaragua to be tortured and likely murdered.

    "Too tough". I get that Donald doesn't understand how to take criticism, but this shit is fucking weak. People hated your immigration policy, even people who wanted a crackdown.

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  • [–] 3 points 18 hours ago

    Good point, better promote Stephen Miller

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  • [–] 2 points 16 hours ago

    As he promotes Steven Miller to a higher positionn still ,,,,

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  • [–] 2 points 16 hours ago

    Its so funny really. I watched a part of this and he recognizes to some degree how all his policies pissed everyone off but can't connect it to him doing a bad job. Its like a kind of magic of the mind. He is so close to putting it together. I dunno how he can be right on target with what was bad and so off target with who made it bad. Heck he does not even want to toss hegswich under the bus which is like his normal go to move. I mean he tossed his whole party under the bus.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago

    When unempathetic middle country people who live in the suburbs and rural zones have a problem, then you know it was bad.

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