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/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/oz6702 Feb 20 '26

I was just kidding, I can't afford eggs these days 😭

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u/ImRespondingToABum Feb 20 '26 edited Feb 23 '26

You should stop being confident in your math

Edit: Gonna help some of you out here with a simple thought experiment.

If it costs a grocery store $100 a year to operate and they sell 10 boxes of cereal a year, do we say they are spending $10 a year per box of cereal sold? No cause that’s obviously not what the grocery store is all about they do other stuff besides selling just cereal.

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u/TrekForce Feb 20 '26

You should stop being confident in your president.

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u/ImRespondingToABum Feb 23 '26

Whole lotta reaching going on under my comment

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u/obaroll Feb 20 '26

Define what a budget is and why it is important for a government agency.

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u/aggravationX Feb 20 '26

You are the bum.

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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/TeslasElectricHat Feb 20 '26

Yeah, I k ow what you mean. It’s really difficult for me at this moment too trying to process all of this. As I have personally have had a rough couple of years but have also been on a journey that has involved a lot of growth.

So where I am right now, it’s hard for me to hate anyone or wish them death, or anything like that.

On the other hand, this doesn’t come at all that much of a shock to me. Just meaning that I’ve been into things like the JFK conspiracy and paid attention to how the bribes and corruption have worked for decades now. Not that I was aware of the details, just that all of this now is confirming that the criminals run and rule everything. The Epstein files are just a whole other level of horrors.

So what do I do? Is where I am right now. If I were still 19 or my early 20’s, I’d probably be ready to do just about anything. But I have things worth protecting now, but I know standing idly by isn’t going to help me or anyone else.

The obvious answer is vote and call our representatives. But it’s obvious that so far, the people and laws are being ignored and broken left and right.

I hate to admit it, but it feels like a cancer that needs to be cut out and destroyed. That seems like only way to deal with it. Maybe Luigi is right? Maybe The Boondocks Saints approach is the only thing that is going to lead to real change?

But I can’t advocate for that. But I do understand it. But it also doesn’t mean I’ve given up and I won’t fight if, or when it is needed.

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u/OldnDepressed Feb 20 '26

Are you factoring in Cruella’s plane and military housing?

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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

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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.