@IamSean90 Sleeveless shirt, bleach blonde hair, hoop ear rings and the facial hair of a barely post pubescent boy. No one thinks @KyleKulinski is a serious person.
@KyleKulinski Yes, technically Congress would need to propose a joint resolution, not standard legislation.
But itβs a bit rich coming from a guy who looked out an airplane window at the Midwest and genuinely wondered if the Earth just naturally grows in perfect squares. π
@AndyWatk@DzDownUnder@EdKrassen Thinking "Occam's razor" is an elite intellectual flex in 2026 is wild. Most of us didn't need Google; it's intro-level philosophy. Also, you used it wrong. The simplest explanation for a career real estate negotiator using public bluster to leverage deals, is that itβs a tactic.
@Skribbety@gridnpixel@EdKrassen You started out with, Obama was never against gay marriage and hundreds of thousands of American citizens are being deported. At least now you are living in reality. I'll give you this one. Yes, saying he ran on the issue was overstating it.
@SECWARcokedealr@EdKrassen No arguments here! Having the government buy up private tech stock is definitely some creeping socialism that should make the DSA happy. No self-respecting "far-right" politician would ever support the state seizing a stake in private business, so much for a free market. π€·πΌ
@Skribbety@gridnpixel@EdKrassen And those arrests/detentions? The GAO says 121 were detained over a 5-year span. They weren't shipped off; they were released once citizenship was verified. You're acting like thousands are locked up right now, when it was a tiny fraction of historical paperwork errors.
@Skribbety@gridnpixel@EdKrassen That's a real 2021 GAO report, but look at the years: 2015β2020. You're using decade-old stats from Obama & Trumpβs 1st term to try to prove thousands of citizens are being booted right now in 2026. Still total fiction. Glad you found Google, now look at the dates.
@Skribbety@gridnpixel@EdKrassen Yeah, Trump has a massive ego and brags about himself constantly. What else is new? That literally has nothing to do with this conversation. We were talking about your completely fabricated deportation stats, not his Twitter-tier boasting.
@Skribbety@gridnpixel@EdKrassen Also "most" being deported are asylum seekers? Completely wrong. Over 2.3 million active asylum seekers are legally waiting for court dates, not being rounded up. Most deportees are people caught at the border, with final removal orders, or denied claims. Stop making things up.
@Skribbety@gridnpixel@EdKrassen No one said he was the best president alive or dead? What are you even talking about? Completely hallucinating arguments to argue against.
@AndyWatk@EdKrassen Thatβs standard theatrical brinkmanship, not actual policy. For the record, I think the Iran War was a bad idea, but his "fire and fury" rhetoric is just a tactic to force them to the table. Just like with North Korea, he uses crazy deadlines to pull them back to a deal.
@gridnpixel@EdKrassen Meanwhile, Trump pulled the right toward the center. He abandoned classic GOP plans to cut or privatize Social Security, backed marriage equality on day one, and passed bipartisan criminal justice reform. Tell me, what specific, actual policy of his makes him an extremist?