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by Alupis 328 days ago
How many tariffs have been realized? Very few...

Deporting known criminals and gang affiliates isn't a "mass deportation campaign".

Don't allow your flavor of politics to cloud your world view.

And... you've interpreted my writings incorrectly. I've been hoping for reciprocal tariffs most of my life...

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Not true, there’s been a huge jump in deportation of people with no criminal record. You’re right though there has been only a marginal increase in deportations specifically of criminals.

https://www.cato.org/blog/65-people-taken-ice-had-no-convict...

The effective tariff rate on American consumers is above 20%…

https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/state-us-tariffs-july-23...

Just because there can be MORE deportations and MORE tariffs doesn’t mean he’s not doing them lol. You’ve done a fine job of revealing your motivated reasoning anyhow. Clearly one shouldn’t take your predictions on NWS seriously.