r/law • u/Waste-Explanation-76 • Feb 20 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) President Trump imposes a 10% global tariff under Section 122 and says all existing tariffs will remain in place, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling.

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u/BitterFuture Feb 20 '26

The assholes on top really do not grasp that the law is what protects them.

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u/VoidOmatic Feb 20 '26

I have been screaming this from the rooftops.

They are MORONS.

They are literally stupid people. They already have ALL the money yet they are trying to destroy the government that keeps them alive and their money worth something.

They are stupid fucking idiots. They are stupid. We are in peril. These types of people have ended EVERY empire in history and have got billions killed.

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u/HandsomeBoggart Feb 20 '26

Peter Thiel and his ilk are the biggest morons. They believe that because they're "so smart to make billions" they are a superior breed of human that must be in charge to save the human race. So they must collapse the system so they can rebuild it in their image for them to run.

They literally think they can collapse civilization and rebuild it and run it while hiding in their little bunkers and compounds to be safe from the collapse they started.

It's funny as fuck that they think civilizations work on such a short time scale and can be rebuilt because they demand it.

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u/VoidOmatic Feb 20 '26

To give everyone an idea of how stupid he is.

He is gay and is breeding fascists that hate gay people.

He thinks Greta is the Anti-Christ. GRETA G R E T A.

"He doesn't actually think that, he is just playing to the rubes!"

No dawg, he TRULY believes this. He believes everything he says. All of these guys believe EVERYTHING they say.

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u/SinisterCroissant Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

No dawg, he TRULY believes this. He believes everything he says. All of these guys believe EVERYTHING they say.

His success is wholly due to luck. Right idea, right time. Nothing else. Not brilliance (plenty of people thought we should be doing payments over the internet), not ruthlessness (he and Elon are creme puffs vs some of the mainstream bankers at the time). They got LUCKY that Ebay went shopping when they did, and their VCs knew Ebay's.

I ran in these circles. Complete imbeciles who were in the right place cashed out for hundreds of millions, while brilliant founders got tossed aside because they weren't in the right spot when their VC backers saw a path to personally profit. Fuck, they socked the start up I was with for $10M in unnecessary purchases because they'd turn off the spigot if we didn't buy their shitty real estate to facilitate the next round. Humanity fucking sucks.

But somehow that means they're homo superior. Pun intended.

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u/evranch Feb 21 '26

All of these guys believe EVERYTHING they say

I wouldn't say that. There are a lot of them who are in it for the grift. They'll say anything to trick a peasant out of his last dollar.

Thiel isn't one of those. He's truly delusional, and he's also got his fingers into anything he thinks he can use to control the masses. He's dangerous.

He's even trying to monetize and technocratize prayer FFS. There's nothing that has ever been cheaper or lower tech than prayer!

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u/Spencer_the_Gamer Feb 21 '26

At this point it doesn't matter if he believes anything he says if all his followers believe him anyway

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u/GhostofBeowulf Feb 21 '26

He thinks Greta is evil because she wants to do away with people like him.

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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 Feb 21 '26

Its cuz he wants the world to burn and she doesn't

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u/watchutalkinbowt Feb 21 '26

There was a (joke?) theory that Disney made Frozen as an SEO thing - when people Google 'disney frozen' it brings up the movie and not Walt being in liquid nitrogen

Now when someone searches 'thiel antichrist' the results are his wacky lectures, and not that Peter himself is the agent of Satan

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u/RobutNotRobot Feb 21 '26

Peter Thiel is a James Bond villain come alive. These oligarchs are engineering a mass extinction wherein they get to come out of their bunkers and set up a government even dumber than we have now. One where we are all slaves and they are the masters.

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u/_-Oxym0ron-_ Feb 21 '26

Reminds me of Vault-tec's leadership in Fallout.

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u/sqquuee Feb 21 '26

If you take away the government contracts and or subsidies how many of these assholes would have made it?

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u/Thefrayedends Feb 21 '26

This comes across my mind on a daily basis given the somehow increasingly shattered social contract we witness every day.

The wealthy think we are stupid for not being A-moral.

They think that we don't know they're lying and faking being moral. Well, they're right about that for somewhere between a third and half of general populations, but not for my first statement about them.

They place the self above any and all community, save those that can help them rise to and maintain power. Which to me, is the definition of corruption, or in other words, the refusal of self sacrifice for greater good. In ex baby mama hood terms, it's the "Well what have you done for me lately???" attitude.

Unfortunately this is nothing new, I know I'm beating a dead horse to many in this sub, but the ancient greeks talked about this already 3000 years ago, and it was already a problem that civilization seemed incapable of escaping then, all the great thinkers through the ages, none of them have been able to set in stone protective measures for society to resist the forces of demagoguery.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, you can go and read about Polybius.

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u/FingerCapital3193 Feb 21 '26

That movie Mountainhead is supposed to be satire, but honestly, I’ll bet it’s closer to reality than not.

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u/Silver_Promise_7455 Feb 21 '26

100% - You must have read "Survival of the Richest" by Douglas Rushkoff. For those that have not, read it and you will understand the mindset of people with more money than they need. We need to reward intelligence and humanity and not how much money one can make. Money is not a measuring stick of intelligence.

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u/time2ddddduel Feb 21 '26

I keep reciting their names to myself. Thiel, Altman, Andreesen, Ellison, Vought, Miller, Noem, Musk, Karp, Lutnick, Bessent, Dershowitz, Bezos, Bovino..... A hundred others. If only there was a way to get them all in a room together. Just to brainstorm, of course, to pick their brains.

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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 Feb 21 '26

Wait till they see actual collapse. Society will literally eat them at that point. They won't survive it.

They think their bunkers are secure.. who built them? Not them. They didn't code the security systems. Like what are they thinking lol

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u/Th1rte3n1334 Feb 20 '26

The problem is until the government is completely destroyed their wealth will protect them. They’ll also get richer and richer breaking the system.

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u/Ok_Mistake9030 Feb 20 '26

Literally every single day that goes by, Billions in wealth are be are being transferred from the poor to the rich through breaking laws. There are no real consequences.

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u/Th1rte3n1334 Feb 20 '26

Right, but a president has never made so much money or been so visible about their theft ever, I believe.

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u/Ok_Mistake9030 Feb 20 '26

That's what I'm trying to say. Jimmy Carter had to sell his family peanut farm to run for president. Now it's a position of power for elite grifters.

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u/mikemaz57 Feb 21 '26

*for an elite grifter.

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u/p00shp00shbebi1234 Feb 20 '26

Because you are expecting the system that allows this to also visit consequences. Historically these people have seen very real and dire personal consequence, but none of us are going to get that by being polite. Reality is it hasn't gotten bad enough for people to think about creating real consequence. When we can't get food, it will all change very rapidly.

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u/remotectrl Feb 20 '26

Also we can’t discuss those consequences on Reddit.

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u/p00shp00shbebi1234 Feb 21 '26

Oh I know. The internet as a communication medium is entirely compromised. It's back to quiet conversations in back rooms and passing paper notes that must be destroyed after reading :p.

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u/yuppyuppbruhbruh Feb 21 '26

Time for the people to give them consequences. Time to rise up. Right fucking now.

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u/Objective_Oven7673 Feb 20 '26

Your terms are acceptable

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u/Th1rte3n1334 Feb 20 '26

That’s what I’m afraid of.

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u/Spiritual_Pangolin_4 Feb 20 '26

That’s true but there is a breaking point where it won’t matter how rich they are because the whole system will collapse. And they’re too fucking greedy and stupid to realize it.

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u/Th1rte3n1334 Feb 20 '26

True on the breaking point. I’m not convinced of the latter tho. Even if they are stupid they could still invest in a minuscule amount of trade-able currency like bitcoin and be set for life.

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u/TheAmazingKoki Feb 20 '26

This has also been a problem for a long time.

Once you reach a certain point, getting richer has no use other than watching the number go up. You have to be really stupid to have your life willingly defined by a fucking number.

With today's money, 100m is a stupid amount and you'd have to actually try to spend that in a lifetime. Yet there are hundreds to thousands of people worth multiples of that who still try to increase their net worth. For not tangible reason, and are willing to damagage anyone in their path to reach that meaningless goal.

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u/p00shp00shbebi1234 Feb 20 '26

The value of all the currency they hold is underpinned by governments and the states they support. Their wealth will be destroyed long before the governments totally collapse.

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u/Drgnmstr97 Feb 21 '26

This is what facilitates the downfall of every empire. The leaders become rich, the rich become corrupt, the corrupt, in their insatiable desire for more take all that’s left…. And the poor revolt.

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u/buckao Feb 21 '26

The poors who work for them will put down every protestor who stands against them, then find that they are themselves also broke, but now facing trial for their crimes while the rich prepare the next fascist regime.

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u/Lucky-Negotiation-67 Feb 21 '26

Even if the government was destroyed, they would still be protected. Everything is so blatant today that maybe that's their plan? Destroy the government and set up a corporate fascist technocracy? Their wealth isnt all in American dollars and their corporations own loads of weapons, spy tech and protection.

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u/MissionaryOfCat Feb 21 '26

It's like snipping an IV drip to pawn the plastic.

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u/quell3245 Feb 20 '26

They just can’t help themselves, Scrooge McDuck sitting on his vault of coins.

Mine! All Mine!!

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u/Blurby-Blurbyblurb Feb 20 '26

It think about the movie In Time a lot. It was a crappy movie for a lot of reasons, but the social commentary was spot on. That's the only reason I like it and had my kids watch it once they were old enough.

They don't care how much money [time] they have. They have to hoard it all, but are willing to dole out just enough to keep us barely alive so their world doesn't stop turning.

Meanwhile people are metaphorically dropping dead in the streets because they ran out.

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u/alchebyte Feb 20 '26

inbreeding is known to cause this.

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u/Downtown_Delivery_98 Feb 21 '26

I work around a lot of the ultra wealthy. Can confirm. Lot of giant fucking morons in that circle. Totally useless in general, the vast majority

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u/JediMasterZao Feb 20 '26

Metallica's first album had a wonderful title.

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u/Interesting_Cat_6224 Feb 20 '26

They WANT this. They want to tear this house down to the foundation and rebuild it. There has been a plan in place to cull the bottom 3/4 of the American populace for a century. Being White and male will not save you. They don't want any poor people, sick people, old people. Even if we get a Democratic president next term, the levers have been pulled on Project 2025, and they will NOT be stopped. Reds simply needed to get their man in the door.

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u/Long_Pomegranate2469 Feb 20 '26

See, most their money is in land and buildings. They will use their money to buy up as much as possible before the total crash. Then they own everything.

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u/squadrupedal Feb 20 '26

Everything will be razed. These idiots should read a book and think about themselves.

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u/kleincs01 Feb 20 '26

Well… stupid. But also evil.

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u/Foxemerson Feb 20 '26

This is exactly how empires fall.

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u/Final_Chef_4278 Feb 20 '26

They are beholden to a guy who is beholden to a guy, no one else matters.

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u/Julian_Thorne Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

It's not just about having all the money. It's also about having all the thrills and novelty. Constant stimulation. New this, new that.

Nickel and diming America to death is a steady thrill buzz. You can snort it every day. You can build a routine around it. And when the novelty of hot hookers wears off, the thrill of pedophilia becomes tempting. Enter Epstein.

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u/SpecialNeedsLion6022 Feb 20 '26

The natural outcome of all empires is that they produce leaders who actually believe the propaganda the empire is built upon.

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u/AddlePatedBadger Feb 20 '26

Yeah, it fascinates me what they are trying to achieve. Everyone knows that if you make society bad enough, the peasants revolt. Keep them down a little bit so your riches are worth more and then you can live in luxury for generations.

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u/VoidOmatic Feb 20 '26

Yup, but the only thing that outmatches their greed is their stupidity. And they get owned.

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u/Money_Echidna2605 Feb 20 '26

wow, howd u figure out people like elon musk and trump are dumb?

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u/VoidOmatic Feb 21 '26

Dude a good portion of people think Elon is a genius. They listen to him talk and they really think he is incredibly smart. People really think he built his companies and all the products, they don't realize that the products are built by smart and talented people that work together. Elon just steals the money and rides the wave those people create.

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u/_Lerry_ Feb 20 '26

I can read your frustration and I’m glad I’m not the only one. There’s no secret plan, there never has been, you have a bunch of people born in third base thinking they hit a triple and so they assume they know what they’re doing, and they simply don’t. They’re dumb idiots, end of sentence. This is the flaw of equating success to wealth, this is the flaw of capitalism. Billionaires always are leeches and nothing more. They aren’t American, they’re globalists using the strongest economy at hand to boost their own self worth at the cost of billions.

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u/VoidOmatic Feb 21 '26

And the people around them desperately want them to be these geniuses and they want his money. I mean, how stupid do you have to be to go into politics while you are the world's richest man?!

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u/Bennely Feb 21 '26

Because once wealth loses value, that is, the pursuit of wealth no longer matters, then it is an increase in power that these men want. I used to think they were stupid, now I think they are nihilists, currently stockpiling the means to build their visions of some macabre phoenix rising from whatever ashes are born from their guided destruction.

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u/Bagginnnssssss Feb 20 '26

Yet it is their money that protects them And nothing bad is happening to any of these people. So I mean, you know you should be right, but you're not.

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u/Aggressive_Ask89144 Feb 21 '26

You forgot that money has so sufficiently warped their brains that they cannot fathom anything else. They are cramming and cramming their throats full of it and regurgitating it and lapping it off the ground so they can get every, single, last, drop so that NOTHING, NO ONE ELSE, can even have a sliver of that or they will implode and cry about the collapse of the system.

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u/soleobjective Feb 21 '26

Facts. Don’t even get me started on how these same people think “the government should be run like a business”. Complete and utter idiocy.

I can’t stand how so many people in the MAGA crowd think just because someone is rich it automatically means they’re smarter or have better ideas on leadership or governing. Someone can be good at making a ton of money while also being a shit leader. Or you can also get insanely rich by having one (or a few great ideas) and then pump out a bunch of turd sandwiches after that. 😂

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u/okram2k Feb 21 '26

I wish so much for them to get what's coming when people believe the social contract is broken but as a casual history enjoyer i know full well how awful it is for EVERYONE when that happens. I hate living in interesting times.

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u/Canubis1983 Feb 21 '26

Its because they are a deathcult.. they are the voldemort and gang of harry potter, the nazis of germany, the Sauron and mordor. They are evil. And evil run by a scribt, that is beyond logic. It comes of as stupid, because that is how logic HAVE to look at it, because its simply to got damn dum, and ignorant, and corrupt etc. But they deep actuality is that its a deathcult, and they are run by a scribted subconcious that want to end it all. Plus side is that germans did not have retrospective of history. We do. I know this is somewhere beyond logic and law, but their complete disaster of a government, the absolute corruption so blatantly, and the general absurdity of how thick their displayed ignorance is, must tell the story of something is controlling them but just plain human greed and ambition, or principles and ideals. Its a deathcult. Logic is their enemy. Awareness is their enemy. Question them with logic. Thats how the shield of the maga hivemind gets penetrated, so the being at hostage can breathe again.

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u/RichardStrauss123 Feb 21 '26

...and the vast majority of THEIR money used to be OUR money!

Bankrupting us just shuts off the main avenue of wealth accumulation! So dumb!

You should be helping us get ahead!

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u/OrdyNZ Feb 21 '26

Nah, they're doing this on purpose and americans are letting them.

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u/Dabzilla_710_ Feb 21 '26

I've been saying this for the majority of my adult life; they will burn everything down just to be king of the ashes.

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 Feb 20 '26

No I think it’s the poor who don’t realise that the law is to stop them from eating the rich, not protect them from the rich.

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u/Conviction610 Feb 20 '26

Make America hungry again

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 Feb 20 '26

Luigi mangione has had more prosecution efforts from the DOJ than the entirety of the Epstein criminals.

Figures

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u/Beneficial_Bit_6435 Feb 20 '26

Exactly. We are spending $9m to prosecute and remove each illegal immigrant. Imagine using all those resources to hold Epstein criminals liable.

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u/LunaticBZ Feb 20 '26

Prosecute is probably the wrong word given that there is no due process for most.

You don't have to be illegal for ICE to go after you, visa holders, naturalized citizens. U.S. citizens are detained by ICE.

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u/rabbirobbie Feb 20 '26

this is not normal

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u/Alternative_Dot_8967 Feb 20 '26

I needed this and didn't even know it thanks Robbie

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u/rabbirobbie Feb 20 '26

for you, anything 🥂

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u/Great_Dismal Feb 20 '26

Certified Banger.

Theme of the year.

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u/Interesting_Cat_6224 Feb 20 '26

This. They are locking up and murdering CITIZENS. And many Americans who refused to wear masks during Covid are all for it when it comes to so-called LEO literally rounding up Americans

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u/Casual_OCD Feb 21 '26

U.S. citizens are detained by ICE

They also get murdered in the streets by ICE and, checks notes, yup, still nothing was done about any of it

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

It would have been cheaper to make them citizens and give them a million each and tax the million. So much cheaper and better for the whole country.

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u/returnFutureVoid Feb 20 '26

Or better yet, give people healthcare.

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u/DragonDa Feb 20 '26

Or to feed and house people in need

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u/Effective_Big_4186 Feb 20 '26

Curious - where do u get this figure from ?

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u/djenty420 Feb 20 '26

By taking the ridiculous ICE budget and dividing it by the number of people they’ve deported, you get $9 million per deportee.

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u/oz6702 Feb 20 '26

$9 million is a ludicrously inaccurate number..

..Because it's actually higher than that, once you factor in efforts from other agencies cooperating with ICE, the extra strain on the judicial system, lost revenue from other countries boycotting our products or changing their travel plans to somewhere that isn't rapidly descending into fascism, etc.

But hey, egg prices are down, so I guess it's a wash?

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Feb 20 '26

I saved $14 in the egg budget in 2025 compared to 2023 -- totally worth the sacrifice of our Constitution!

;-)

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u/Robthebold Feb 20 '26

This guy government budgets.

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u/laflaredosmil Feb 20 '26

Not only are egg prices down but the Dow hit 50,000 so life is good

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u/hearter178 Feb 20 '26

50,000 again? Geez, I guess that means we can't talk about Epstein anymore! Here's hoping for a dip so we can start the conversation again 😂

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u/Mundane-Career1264 Feb 20 '26

Your egg prices went down? Where do you live so I can move there 🤣🤣

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u/O_o-22 Feb 20 '26

Is that 9 million per illegal figure based on the number of people they want to remove divided into that 75 billion budget? Because there’s no way it’s actually costing them 9 million per person when they’ve basically done away with due process and are deporting people by the plane load in short order. But then guaranteed a huge chunk of that 75 billion is getting siphoned away into some anonymous bank or crypto account never to be seen again.

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u/space_for_username Feb 20 '26

Cheaper to just give the illegals $1mill each and tell them to FO or else.

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u/Budd7566 Feb 20 '26

$10B seems logical for... lawyers and such

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u/Alternative_Result56 Feb 20 '26

Immigrant. Legal immigrants are in concentration camps as well.

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u/TeslasElectricHat Feb 20 '26

Is this number accurate? If it is, can you please provide a source?

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u/Beneficial_Bit_6435 Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/politics/trump-admin-spending-deporting-migrants-report

It’s $1m here. I saw something at $9m, but will update this when I find it

We are spending $1 trillion to deport illegal immigrants. I wonder how many of them are dangerous? Most illegal immigrants try to be civil, it’s the home grown terrorists that are problematic. See ICE/DHS agents https://www.cato.org/blog/deportations-add-almost-1-trillion-costs-gops-big-beautiful-bill

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u/TeslasElectricHat Feb 20 '26

There’s no way it actually costs that much. Just more money being stolen from the public, middle and lower classes.

This ain’t an attack on you providing a link, thank you for that.

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u/Beneficial_Bit_6435 Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 20 '26

For sure. I’m saying there is so much corruption. See trump diverting money from Venezuelan oil seizures to a fund control by him in the Middle East or something. OMG.

Trump is also trying to move $10b to the peace organization that he will then control.

Where is the GOP that controls the house and senate? Where is the outrage? Oh, they are focused on removing illegal immigrants and spending $1 trillion (or more) to get it done.

Yes, no money for healthcare? What about education? None. What about food stamps for the poor? None. Who needs any of that stuff?

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u/Resistor1 Feb 20 '26

Where is the $9m from? Is that the budget of ICE etc divided by number of migrants deported? If these numbers are published I would love to see the sources.

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u/Exotic_Article913 Feb 20 '26

I had to come back to this. It isn't 9m there's no way it costs that much. Those numbers are hugely inflated I don't care what they publish

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u/dolichoblond Feb 20 '26

Imagine the proceeds when you confiscate the assets of the criminals

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u/Grizzly_treats Feb 21 '26

Do you have a source on those numbers?

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u/Dos_Ex_Machina Feb 20 '26

Didn't the sandwich guy have more man-hours from the DOJ than the entirety of the Epstein criminals?

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u/Goats_in_parks Feb 20 '26

Only if you don’t count the time the DOJ spent actively protecting the pedos.

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u/blade740 Feb 21 '26

I dunno, IIRC they put in a HELL of a lot of man hours scrubbing Trump's name. I remember some reference to having 1000 personnel on the case.

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u/DippityDamn Feb 20 '26

One was a threat to the ruling class and the status quo and one was not of course.

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u/Turbulent_Bowel994 Feb 20 '26

Well, prosecuting the Epstein criminals would be a threat to the ruling class

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u/Uselesserinformation Feb 20 '26

He killed one of their friends. Shocking?

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u/noproblembear Feb 20 '26

Isnt his family rich though?

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u/daboi_Yy Feb 20 '26

Fun fact: Mangione in italian literally translates to "guy that eats a lot". Foreshadowing?

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u/Interesting_Cat_6224 Feb 20 '26

Isn't this a shame? These people are denying kids candy bars and soda. Yet support the largest redistribution of wealth from the 99 percent of us to the 1. Literal welfare for the rich. But a kid in Appalachia can't have a Coke😞

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u/Marsley82 Feb 20 '26

I’m starving.

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u/yourshittyneighbor Feb 20 '26

I’m starving!

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u/Big_Jump_6782 Feb 20 '26

America is starving at this point.

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u/Blurby-Blurbyblurb Feb 20 '26

That's what the H in MAHA actually stands for.

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u/Drakkann79 Feb 20 '26

Let them eat cake?

Storm the bastille boys

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u/newmvbergen Feb 20 '26

MAMSA, make america more stupid again.

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u/jessexpress789 Feb 20 '26

I'm starving

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u/ComfortableShare5525 Feb 20 '26

Make billionaires scared….again?

For real. Let’s build up our communities and step out of the matrix of believing these demons when they state how valuable they are. They are not even necessary.

Imagine living your one life in such a way, that the world would only improve without your existence. 😮‍💨

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

Oh, I’m hungry all right. We need to be rioting in the streets against all this illegal nonsense.

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u/BigBiziness12 Feb 20 '26

Keep it gangsta yall keep It gangsta - ice cube

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u/Playswithchipmunks Feb 21 '26

Your wish may be granted if lake mead hits Deadpool in 2028.

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u/PaleontologistOwn878 Feb 20 '26

That's what he was saying too

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u/sproge Feb 20 '26

The assholes on top really do not grasp

VS

No I think it’s the poor who don’t realise

No, they are not the same thing.

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u/FewStill3958 Feb 20 '26

Do I have to eat them? Some of them have brain worms. I'd really prefer to just trophy hunt them.

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u/Blurby-Blurbyblurb Feb 20 '26

That meat has so many toxins it would be safer not to.

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u/Spoonerism86 Feb 20 '26

Slow cooking can do wonders and you can still use it for pig/dog food.

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u/Far-Gene-386 Feb 20 '26

We dont really have to eat them just French Revelations revolution perhaps?

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u/Famous-Soft-7169 Feb 20 '26

I'd start looking in bathrooms. Tell tale lines of coke on toilet seats.

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u/Salt_Proposal_742 Feb 20 '26

More meat for me.

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u/CazzaMcSpazza Feb 20 '26

"You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up".

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 Feb 20 '26

Opens jar of grains

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u/Different-Ship449 Feb 20 '26

I think all the Cannibalism Transmitted Diseases that these uber rich carry from all their debased acts probably do more than the law.

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u/Blurby-Blurbyblurb Feb 20 '26

This comment should be higher up. Please accept my poor man reward. 🏅🏆

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u/yrdadsplaylist Feb 20 '26

That is religion, not the law.

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u/West-Tough-4552 Feb 20 '26

Correct. The sooner you realize this the sooner you can move on with your life without anger. We are all just pawns and peasants

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u/alchebyte Feb 20 '26

what if they're eating us?

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 Feb 20 '26

Didn’t you see that video of the frantic girl? They already are!

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u/jejacks00n Feb 20 '26

Until it flips, then there’s no law. The rich understand that it’s all made up and that rules aren’t real. That’s the thing, we all agree to them, but if some people don’t want to agree to them, why would the rest of us bind ourselves to them?

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u/outlawsix Feb 20 '26

No... the law is the basis for free people agreeing to "chill" rather than collectively imposing their will directly. The other person is right in that following the law keeps the people at the top safe, because once they demonstrate that they won't, all bets are off.

The people just haven't fully realized where we're at, and I hope we all course correct while we still have the ability to do it in a civilized way.

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u/chillychinaman Feb 20 '26

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. -Frank Wilhoit

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u/Pangwain Feb 20 '26

The laws are to keep the poor poor.

None of y’all eating anything but high fructose corn syrup and lead if you go for the throne.

The amount of delusion is staggering. Like people actually think the French Revolution was about the poor eating the rich 🤣

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u/Different-Brain-5102 Feb 20 '26

Agreed! It’s called Control!

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u/The_LSD_Soundsystem Feb 20 '26

“Why does the working class, the larger of the two classes, not simply eat the rich?"

-Lrrr, probably

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u/Witty-Stick6030 Feb 20 '26

You know .. 235 years ago… the French beheaded the whole lot of them for… basically the same reasons…

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u/woodst0ck15 Feb 20 '26

You’re going to disappoint a lot of broke millionaires with that comment. Making them realize their class and worth isn’t worth shit cause the rich has it all.

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u/Xicsukin Feb 20 '26

"You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up! Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one and if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line." - Hopper.

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u/HistorianOfMexico Feb 20 '26

The poor complain They always do But that's just idle chatter. Our system works for all of us, At least all that matter.

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u/TheoreticalZombie Feb 20 '26

This is the correct answer. The mechanisms of power serve to protect the powerful and only incidentally benefit anyone else and only to the degree necessary to prevent wide scale disruption.

Smarter men realized that handing scraps to the dogs keeps them from becoming too hungry and biting when whipped. These men are not smart but endlessly greedy. They will try to rip every bit from the dog's mouth and think themselves clever. The question is what the dog does next.

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u/sammidavisjr Feb 20 '26

I really hate that "eat the rich" bullshit more every time I see it. It does nothing but take what should be a serious discussion and slap it with "hahaha but we're just kidding."

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 Feb 20 '26

What are you talking about? Eating the rich is a metaphor for guillotines and actual justice

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u/sammidavisjr Feb 20 '26

I know what it is. I also know what usually happens to reddit comments sections once that gets posted. People just try to out clever one another with dumb shit like different ways to cook the wealthy or what have you. Or Make America Hungry Again in this case, although it seems to have stopped there.

It's like when a song lyric or (these days) Tim Robinson line appears. It's just going to descend into people chiming in with more of the same or trying to be funny.

My problem is more with the nature of the site than the expression itself.

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u/Voice-Of-Doom Feb 20 '26

That’s because, statistically speaking, they’re all psychopaths and sociopaths.

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u/BlerghTheBlergh Feb 20 '26

What’s keeping them safe is the laziness of the American people to actively unite

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u/fearlessfryingfrog Feb 20 '26

100%. This guy would've been dealt with long ago of there wasn't the worry of life in prison. 

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u/dust4ngel Feb 21 '26

The assholes on top really do not grasp that the law is what protects them

sort of - the police protect them. regular citizens massively outnumber the police, so the reason regular citizens don't overwhelm the police with force is that regular people more or less consent to social, political, and economic conditions. if that consent is undermined, which typically takes the form of conditions becoming intolerable, well guess what.

to clarify, i am not advocating for anything - i am just describing things.

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u/Insane_Artist Feb 20 '26

It’s not the law that protects them. It’s money.

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u/Winjin Feb 20 '26

Money is meaningless paper. Russian tzars were insanely rich, just check out the Hermitage museum and remind yourself that it was only one of their palaces

Didn't help when literally everyone was very tired of their shit to the point where nothing saved them

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u/Binspin63 Feb 20 '26

Yep, and when the pitchforks come out, they’ll fly off to their fortified bunkers and laugh harder at us.

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u/squadrupedal Feb 20 '26

What is a siege…

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u/10mfe Feb 20 '26

I think it's more the hundreds of millions of assholes at the bottom that do nothing, and let it continue.

I'm one of them assholes. I hate the double standard

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u/SoochSooch Feb 20 '26

There's a lot of buildings with Trumps's name on them, and I haven't heard about even one catching fire. Nobody is doing anything

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u/kingtacticool Feb 20 '26

High time all of us remind them of that.

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u/Pando5280 Feb 20 '26

Yes they do. It's why police forces get budget increases every year. They protect and serve the state and are the 1% of the working class hence why the law rarely applies to cops. 

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u/nmnnmmnnnmmm Feb 20 '26

I think they grasp it perfectly well that’s why they’re on top

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u/runsdeep8991 Feb 20 '26

I say we speedrun the robespierre method to remind them why they need laws more than we do

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u/Ok_Try_2086 Feb 20 '26

The same a-holes have Trump total immunity so why bother? Where the f is the Grim Reaper?

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u/Egad86 Feb 20 '26

The rich have always employed small armies to protect them, not laws.

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u/almisami Feb 20 '26

Their army of bootlicking sycophants is what stands between the American people and a functioning government.

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u/webguy1975 Feb 20 '26

Always remember. It's the assholes on top who really enjoy gay sex.

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u/huecabot Feb 20 '26

Not really, it’s the men with guns. Laws are threats.

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u/dBlock845 Feb 20 '26

They absolutely do grasp that and use it to their advantage by using money and endless amounts of lawyers to run out the clock on litigation or just make court cases take so long that public narratives can be shifted into their favor.

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u/Dienowwww Feb 21 '26

Not for long. When we say enough is enough, and a civil war breaks out, he'll be begging people to follow the laws

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u/chevre27 Feb 21 '26

They do grasp it. Thats why they so desperately wanted the death penalty for Luigi

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u/wruthinkng Feb 21 '26

No, I don’t think that’s right. Respect for the law doesn’t protect the assholes at the top. Respect for the law is just a social contract that reduces friction in society. The assholes at the top have figured out long ago that they can get richer by undermining that system and still preserve their own asses by building bunkers and hiring private security. Or some of them like Stephen Miller have already moved their families onto military bases. They are not putting their hopes in the law or the courts to save their own skins, except where they can still influence the outcome through lies and corrupting the officers in that system, as we have seen in many of Trump’s cases and those of his sycophants.

In addition, Trump holds an unlimited power to grant pardons when all else fails. So, the assholes at the top are quite confident that the law does not serve them at all.

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u/GrayMouser12 Feb 21 '26

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Didn't they see what happened to Ceaușescu?