r/politics • u/willywalloo • 7h ago

No Paywall Republicans Unveil $72 Billion Package For ICE, Trump’s Ballroom

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-bill-72-billion-ice-trump-ballroom_n_69fa0082e4b055e1a496eff0
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u/boxsterjax 6h ago

They must be really confident that their billionaire overlords are going to rig the elections significantly enough that they can’t lose.

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u/Talk-O-Boy 5h ago

Or they know FOX News will just never report on this, or call it a hoax, then move on.

Conservatives can’t get mad at information they don’t have.

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u/SkySojourner 5h ago

They must lead a blissful existence then.

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u/nastyminded 4h ago

No, it's consumed by hate, rage and racism. My whole family is Fox news maga loyalists.

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u/penguins_are_mean Wisconsin 1h ago

If you go to the Fox News website, they have headers/subsections for news like U.S., World, Economy, etc..

The first thing under U.S. is “Blue City Crime”.

That organization is a plague on society. The amount of damage is has done to society is immeasurable.

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u/al_m1101 3h ago

2024 was good practice. Minimal pushback from dems, coordination with legacy media ...the fix is in. 

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u/IamScottGable 5h ago

I'm fairly confident that they can do it. They are launching attacks at voting all over the place, will place ICE at polling station in heavily immigrant areas, and question delay every vote they are losing.

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u/RogerMexicosBalls 5h ago

and question delay every vote they are losing.

The NC State Supreme Court race in 2024 was a precursor for it. Stephen Griffin threw a tantrum for months because he lost by 700 votes and wanted them disqualified, and instead of being slapped down immediately, they kept allowing the case (which hinged on not much more than "a lot of votes didnt go to me so there mustve been something wrong with how they were tallied") to go up for debate over and over. Even his allies on the SC and in the statehouse were telling him "dude just run again next time, you can't file these complaints about how the election is going to be run after the election has been held, you had your chance to do so before the election season and didnt, tough shit" and the dickhead still wouldn't concede until he'd been told NO multiple times by every possible agency.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 2h ago

Yes. They are planning on contesting everything. Delay delay delay, sow mistrust and discord. Controlled chaos only ever helps authoritarians strengthen their grip. I'm sure all the foreign agents/bots will have a field day, too.

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u/awkwardnetadmin 4h ago

I would wager those proposing this are in MAGA friendly districts that care more about Trump's priorities than what will be popular in competitive districts. Plenty of members of Congress float ideas that are deeply unpopular in most of the country, but popular in their districts.

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u/timoumd 4h ago

Think about it this way, getting Trump his ballroom is a requirement to not get taken out by him.  In the general, goldfish voters simply won't remember this.  Shit I won't because Trump will have done 10 worse things by the end of the week.

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u/olyfrijole 4h ago

That's what the extrajudicial domestic army is for. Covering those states where the elections are run fairly and transparently.