A thread (not by me) inspired by the article.
@Shuck and @TooGoodToCheck_, this thread may also answer your question.
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Then what are you bitching about? You don’t need rights. You have all that sweet sweet tip money. Something about cheating on taxes. Why is my drink empty. I want to speak to your manager.
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I thought of that more as one of his implicit messages, rather than his explicit ones, but yeah.
That they want both foreign labor and want it to be here illegally so they can better exploit it is just part of the baffling, self-damaging hypocrisy. These are the people singling out “illegals” to rail against. They want undocumented workers and they want them in their community, but they’re supporting someone who explicitly says he’ll block them and deport them.
This quote from one of the linked stories, about someone who voted for Trump, and whose policies are going to put him out of business:
“I feel like I’ve been tricked by the devil,” said Devine, owner of Harrodsburg-based Devine Creations Landscaping. “I feel so stupid.”
Trump being “the devil.” “Tricked” by the guy who’s doing the things he said he’d do; for doing the things that were the primary promise of his campaign. Yeah, sure, “tricked.” The cognitive dissonance between racism and self-interest - the racism won out.
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This is what I told Right-Wingers for years on internet forums-that undocumented workers were here because businesses wanted them here. But of course they denied it.
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Mmmm. I’m not sure you can get more explicit than:
I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything… Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.
Sure, it wasn’t an actual plank in the platform. But it also wasn’t enough to cost him the election, as it would have to so many politicians that came before him (especially if they were Dems), so it certainly spoke to the base.
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They want undocumented workers.
But they very much don’t want them in their community. They want them seperated, apart, cutoff. No contact, no use of public benefits.
That was just satire bro.
He’ll be more presidential once he’s in office.
Something something bring “the revolution” faster.
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The explicit stuff only came out unintentionally - so that’s fine, then. He didn’t want us to know about it, so he obviously didn’t mean it.
Yeah, I used “community” poorly, in the sense of “working in their town,” but yeah, you’re completely right, they don’t want these people in their community, not as an actual part of it. Which is a further irony because the oft repeated complaint about immigrants is their failure to assimilate, to be part of the community.
Wait, were we supposed to take him literally but not seriously or seriously but not literally? Or was it neither?
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I think we were supposed to take him seriously except when the speaker was too wealthy, white, male, and straight to feel the direct consequences.
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