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Comment by Fnoord

16 hours ago

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Yes and one step further: it is attention, ultimately to extract wealth.

Trump is a distractor and can make a whole country forget about <insert recent insanity>. Passing a judge is a minor detail here.

Of course it is stupid to talent-leak your country but he just needs you to forget about $LATEST_SCANDAL. That's the value for him. Trump doesn't care about the future of US.

And distracting does not take skill. It only takes a mind poisoned to the core. He will throw anything in his chaos machine to extract wealth. And US has an endless supply of those juicy valuables and values that you can sacrifice and shed.

Let's see what next week has in store!

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  • Maybe you should look into where statistics that are "going around" are sourced from. This seems to be something an anti-immigration lobby cooked to in 2014, which was an artifact of their analysis; they considered workers aged 16-65, and the effect disappeared if you considered workers of all ages.

    Trump resurrected it in 2024 to claim that all job growth under Biden had gone to immigrants. It wasn't true then either.

  • This is going to be followed up with - DHS creates an “extraordinary” carve out for large tech companies and anyone who pays into Trump’s pockets.

    And mid size companies hire foreign workers in foreign countries and accelerate offshoring.

    People then talk about how government should restrict offshoring and punish companies while the Orange Man manufactures his phone and caps in China.

    Surely a win for the people.