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What boggles my mind is that no one has seemed to be interested in doing a projection for say, 8-12 years ahead, which will without doubt show how such policies will totally crash the economy and destroy our culture. While a key concern of the climate crisis is over-population, Republicans are advocating a wave of unwanted childbirths in the thousands. Or millions? Hello? Taxpayers are going to be paying for the fallout of mental illness that comes from such scenarios. And during a time when more and more Boomers are needing healthcare--which is already in crisis? Oh, and the numbers of women who will leave the workforce when we already have jobs that are not filled. Look at, for example, at the dysfunction in our postal and transportation systems. Or in agriculture, where immigrants are doing a large percentage of the work but who instead will be in concentration camps--or doing slave labor? And what if most of the unwanted babies are not white? Which is likely, due to the rate of rape in southern states. Horrors! Now there's an interesting challenge to the white supremacy wet dream.

Probably the most Oops! argument though, is to cost out what such comic-book thinking is going to cost the tax-payer. I imagine then that Trump can put bankrupting the country on his list of achievements as the worst president in history (actually, he's already won that ranking two years in a row, according to The NY Times).

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Bible says slavery is ok. Either the former immigrants or debtors will be used. They already are ok with human trafficking and Billionaires always like a new way to profit. Trump did good with Epstein.

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