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Walternate 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼🇩🇰🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇦's avatar

Deporting people without due process makes everyone less safe because without due process, there’s nothing to stop them from deporting you. You’re a citizen? Prove it! But you can’t see a judge to do so. Oh, and even if we make a mistake, we won’t get you back. And once your rights can be so egregiously violated, you essentially have no rights at all.

Cutting foreign aid, less than 1% of federal spending, will make us less safe. We make friends by feeding poorer nations. Friends = good! We prevent the spread of disease before those diseases reach American shores. We keep adversaries like China out of those regions by being there first and doing good. Are farmers were being paid billions to supply grain that, once cancelled, will starve them of income as much as it will starve the impoverished around the world.

They are not cutting spending. Their budget is going to run up our debt even worse than he did in his first term. DOGE is just a show and a means to break the federal government for molding in Trump’s image. The damage they’re doing is far greater than any savings, which can’t even sufficiently dent the budget, deficits, or debt, because it’s a tiny fraction of federal spending.

Threatening allies with annexation, cozying up with dictators (e.g., Putin, Bukele, to a lesser extent Orban), levying economic warfare on the world, especially our allies (tariffs, in addition to taxing the domestic consumer, are an act of economic war), makes us less safe. Allies won’t want to work with us or share intelligence with us. The US, regardless of how people feel about their lives, is wealthier and more prosperous than any nation in history. This took place over the last 80 years. It’s a hard-won position that we shouldn’t have and once lost, cannot easily be regained.

There’s so much more to say, yet this has all been happening in front of your eyes. It’s been unfolding for a decade. If you don’t see any of what I’m saying or if you think that it’s all good stuff, there’s no point in further discussing with you. If you don’t see what I’m describing, then you’re either incapable or unwilling to see it. Otherwise, you see what I’m saying and you’re fine with it.

Hopefully neither you nor anyone you care about will find their lives turned upside-down by the politics of a delusional narcissist; an emperor with no clothes. If you do find yourself in that position, we’ll be ready to receive you on this side of reality. That is, if you’re willing to see it.

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ReadingRainbow's avatar

What does letting in 10s of millions of completely unvetted people walk across the border for years without due process do for safety?

What allies? What good is an ally who can offer no assistance? All of those “dictators” are democratically elected and wildly popular among their constituents. They are only dictators because they put their people’s interests ahead of the globalist project.

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Walternate 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼🇩🇰🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇦's avatar

Thanks for confirming. Not enough time in the world, let alone to waste on conversations like this. Good luck to you and yours.

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ReadingRainbow's avatar

Good luck to all of the foreigners you prefer over your own countrymen.

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Elena Carter's avatar

Wow, Walternate—just wow. I think you more than answered his question—amazing response! It’s sad knowing it will fall on deaf ears.

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

~Mark Twain

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