Remember when every American boasted about being part Irish/Scandinavian/French/Italian/Spanish etc. Actors used to love doing it in their bio, and the average American would do too.

No one does now. Why?

With no more nationality by birthright currently (though completely unconstitutional), then most every person is a child of two immigrants at some point, so ICE should be disappearing them.

And that South African white guy has said he was an illegal immigrant so he could be quickly disappeared. Everyone needs to make a report to ICE about him. As he’s still in the country, then every immigrant could come clean and publicly announce their illegal status and would be ok, right…Right?

I’m not American so have given up trying to understand the actions of a mad man. Watching White House meetings with Trump and his senior advisors sycophants is funny. It must be really scary for the leaders of other countries trying to make sense of it all.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m not American so have given up trying to understand the actions of a mad man.

    The issue is not that it’s the action of one mad man.

    The dude has been elected by a lot of people thinking that his ideas were the way to go. To me that’s the real issue. Trump himself could vanish he would as quickly be replaced by some variant with very similar ideas… And that wouldn’t change much (save maybe that this other person would be less orange and less illiterate? Maybe)

    • waigl@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      You’ve hit the nail on the head. As weird and hard to believe as it seems right now, it’s not Trump himself who will be our biggest problem in the mid to long term. It’s who ever comes after him who he and his followers are paving the way for now.

      Trump so far has been of a somewhat limited dangerousness for freedom and democracy so far, not because his views and convictions are not dangerous enough, but because he’s simply too incompetent to be properly dangerous. There is a good likelihood that whoever comes after him will be a lot more competent.

      • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
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        2 months ago

        There is a good likelihood that whoever comes after him will be a lot more competent.

        CoughVanceCough. He is bright & very smart, powerful, and young. His Munich speech for example, even though too many of my EU fellow citizens (and representatives as well) dismissed it as non-sense and mean, was quite articulated (very hypocritical too, but that’s not the point) and, well, quite informative on what the USA want to do and what the USA will do.

        And so is Bessent, in a less rhetorician way even though I don’t imagine him becoming a leader but that’s just my gut feeling ;)