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Anyone look at this guy’s illegal finances yet? Fucken hate this place.

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“We will be dealing with this for decades to come. President Trump has said we want to start the largest deportation effort in history,” said Johnson. “It’s needed. We need to find all these dangerous people, criminals. They’ve emptied out prisons in Central America and sent them all over the border.”

And this fucking bullshit lie again. America runs on immigration. Try eating when there’s no migrants to work the fields you fucken racists.

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Try eating when there’s no migrants to work the fields you fucked racists.

That’s what all the newly born (unaborted) babies are for!

I wish I could add /s, but I feel like this is the real plan

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The increase in slave labor via prisoners will “help” as well.

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You know what’s cheaper than underpaid immigrants? Barely-paid-at-all prison labor. They’re criminalizing homelessness (at the same time they’re raising rents and food prices), they’re trying to criminalize gay rights, women’s rights, civil rights, disabled rights, etc. Also trying to dismantle Social Security and Medicaid to force the old and sick to keep working, repealing child labor laws to force kids into the workplace earlier, withdrawing worker protections like heat and water breaks so they can be forced to work longer, etc.

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Yep, we never finished off the Confederacy and they never stopped wanting to enslave people, so here we are

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what even do these prison-labor-slaves produce that’s so precious? are there specific products you guys could boycott?

sorry for the dumb question.

i’m a faraway european and don’t know much.

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I see people are continuing to bring this up for the completely wrong reason. We shouldn’t be protecting migrants just because they’re cheap labor. That’s a horrid stance to take.

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Why not?

US is facing a labor shortage as the biggest wave of retirements is hitting us right now. This directly leads to inflation (fewer goods made as the most productive seniors retire out of work with no viable workers under them).

Democrats are losing on the inflation discussion. Point out that cheaper immigrant labor will help fix inflation and you win two more arguments with the general population.

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Mike Johnson has no chance of becoming VP, he needs to shoot a few puppies to prove he’s worthy first

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Johnson called for an isolationist approach to U.S. foreign policy

The Hudson Institute advertised Johnson’s appearance ahead of time as a discussion about “threats to the U.S.-led world order,” specifically from China, Russia, and Iran, and a conversation that would detail “the speaker’s agenda to bolster the credibility of US deterrence, strengthen alliances, improve America’s hard power, and maintain freedom, security, and prosperity for the American people.”

These idiots not realize you can’t have both those things?

Vote them out

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Wait, I thought they liked Russia now?

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Mike Johnson and his son monitor each other’s porn habits- that’s normal!

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The Republican Party is not one of nation builders or careless interventionists.

Yeah, we’ve seen that with Iraq and Afghanistan.

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