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totallygeekytoday at 6:34 PM3 repliesview on HN

The US seems hellbent on destroying its own economy, immigrants have always played a key part in it. Looking forward to Trump yelling about how the radical left has somehow undermined the US economy in a few months.


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Terr_today at 6:45 PM

Looking forward? He never stopped. It's been 10+ years of narcissistic scapegoating, even for times when he was President, even while Republicans controlled congress, and even over trade-deals, policies, and laws that he took-credit for and bragged about. (e.g. USMCA in 2020.)

> Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceania was at war with Eastasia! The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! Quite half of them had the wrong faces on them. It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work!

-- 1984

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reaperducertoday at 6:40 PM

Everything is someone else's fault. The buck never stops with him.

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geodeltoday at 6:43 PM

Well, others can bent in other direction and boost their economy by taking in all immigrants that were US bound.

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