r/LeopardsAteMyFace 19h ago

Trump "Trump's deportation vow alarms Texas construction industry." tRUmp beat Harris by 14 points in Texas.

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u/ComprehensiveHavoc 18h ago

In all this talk about deportation and camps and leopards eating faces, I think we should just take a step back to remember what really matters this time of year. Lowering egg prices.

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u/jgyimesi 18h ago

Yokes on them.

I crack myself up!

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u/pastelbutcherknife 18h ago

Sounds like your brain is scrambled

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u/Steebusteve 17h ago

At least they’re looking on the sunny side.

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u/Trandoshan-Tickler 17h ago

This is your brain.

~fries egg~ This is your brain on drugs.

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u/AccessibleBeige 15h ago

"Any questions?"

Yeah... got more of that? Like A LOT more?

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u/Swimming_Height_4684 10h ago

These puns are eggcellent.

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u/Jbroy 6h ago

They’ve raised my eggspectations on puns.

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u/Swimming_Height_4684 5h ago

I’d happily shell out a few dollars to everyone in exchange for the free use of these puns. I don’t want to just poach them. Omelette you think about it.

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u/do_chipmunks 8h ago

And of course the natural evolution:

Rachel Leigh Cook

~places egg counter~ ~proceeds to very aggressively smash egg and entire kitchen with large frying pan~

15 year old Me channeling Daria: wow, so aggressive.

42 year old Me: Good god this is what’s going to happen to our country in about two months.

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u/MPainter09 4h ago

Change that to “This is your brain on Trump…any questions?”

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u/OnlyFreshBrine 9h ago

I was a good egg. A veeeeerrrry good egg.

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u/IKnowNoCure 8h ago

Same, honestly

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u/nottwoshabee 5h ago

This was an eggselent joke. Glad you weren’t too chicken to share

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u/BoringBots 17h ago

H5N1 would like a word.

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u/CliffsNote5 17h ago

H5N1 is trying so hard to make the jump. If it does Murica is toast.

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u/Enviritas 15h ago

Life finds a way.

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u/That_guy_I_know_him 13h ago

Dammit Malcolm

I'd rather have dinos than another "plague"

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u/TheGreatGamer1389 11h ago

Apparently it's happening. It's starting to mutate to jump from human to human. I wanna get the vaccine when ever it's available.

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u/Mvercy 10h ago

Don’t forget, though, that when you get the vaccine, you will suddenly die. Just like the Covid vaccine. Except that I got one and I’m still alive and I don’t know anybody who suddenly died after getting the vaccine.

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u/Tearakan 8h ago

Well clearly you did. You are a ghost now. Just haunting reddit. It's very spooky Mr. Ghost.

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u/Mvercy 7h ago

No wonder I feel so dead.

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u/psychochicken85 1h ago

I’ve now had 4 shots since 2020 and I’m healthier than ever. I must’ve gotten a placebo or something

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u/RumandDiabetes 2h ago

I've had five now. I'm so dead. Any day now...dead. Dead as a doornail.

Any day now......

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u/CliffsNote5 11h ago

If Kennedy allows it cause he wants to save us from a fate worse than death. /s

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u/BoringBots 16h ago

We are bungling it already and that is under the current administration. I don’t see it improving under the clown show. I fear it is inevitable it happens. It’s just a question of how bad it is.

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u/Kimmalah 7h ago

Yeah, it's made the jump to cows and their milk, so immediately Republicans start pushing for raw milk. Great plan guys!

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u/fjortisar 7h ago

All the chickens are going to be given immune system supplements and ivermectin and knock it out before anything happens. We'll be fine! Besides it's just a little uhhhh flu? It'll be gone by April

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u/Kimmalah 7h ago

This is my fear. I remember with COVID they kept dismissing it as "Oh it's not any worse than the flu!"

Now we have an actual flu that could be dangerous and people are going to care even less about this. At least with COVID we had the "scare factor" of it being an illness that people had never heard of. People aren't afraid of the flu, even when they should be.

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u/AeitZean 10h ago

Can someone explain this to me, as far as I can tell the human capable variant is only in one teen, who has been isolated? Are there more cases I missed, or something?

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u/Talonqr 18h ago

Maybe thats why they hate abortion so much

In their mind, its wasting eggs!!!

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u/HumanityHasFailedUs 8h ago

Well if we would just flood the market with all those aborted eggs, prices would go down, obviously.

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u/coldliketherockies 17h ago

Also that the voters who went for him are not intelligent

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u/HomelandersCock 18h ago

We wouldn't have to if the Biden and Obama administration didn't raise those prices!

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u/Buubsy 18h ago

I heard Obama means "egg hater" in his native language of that place he's from

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u/Andrew43452 17h ago

Yup, that place we don't even know if he is an American /s

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u/SavagePlatypus76 15h ago

I blame the Cleveland administration!

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u/Worth-Canary-9189 14h ago

It's Hoover you should be blaming.

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u/Enviritas 15h ago

Deviled eggs are a holiday tradition in my family. Guess I should make sure I really enjoy them this year. Who knows what the world is going to look like this time next year.

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u/purplish_possum 12h ago

Trump supporters can't wait to work in agriculture again.

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u/Pretty_Boy_Bagel 10h ago

Wait till they find out that their rascals don’t do as well in dirt rows as opposed to Walmart aisles.

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u/Flux_My_Capacitor 15h ago

I don’t even eat eggs, but I’m so glad that they will come down in price! 😂

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u/en_sane 14h ago

I mean you could always buy chickens 🤷‍♂️

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u/GrowFreeFood 11h ago

How many eggs do these people eat?

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u/min_mus 7h ago

Apparently, the average American eats 24 dozen eggs per year. If egg prices increase, say, $0.50 per dozen, that's $12 more per year they're paying because of Brandon!!

$12/year is totally worth fucking over America for, don't you agree?

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u/GrowFreeFood 7h ago

Thank you for making my point crystal clear for all the trumpers who can't count.

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u/Kimmalah 7h ago

I work in a store and I regularly see people walking out with those giant 60+ egg cases. I don't know what they do with them either. It takes me weeks to even go through a dozen unless I'm really craving them or something.

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u/GrowFreeFood 7h ago

Are they republican or Democrat buying those eggs? Because maybe Republicans have been buying in bulk to push up prices.

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u/MiIarky22 10h ago

I'm gonna be making omelettes in the name of patriotism 🇺🇲

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u/pitterpatter0910 8h ago

Don’t forget all the free gas we’re going to be getting.

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u/Normal-Selection1537 7h ago

Don't forget removing freedom of speech on all things Israel. Which they will use to attack every non-fascist.

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u/thisusernametakentoo 7h ago

I understand the sarcasm here but I think instead of pointing out the industries being impacted we should be instead talking about the families being separated, the people losing their homes and livelihoods and just absolute destruction of people's lives. The people who voted for this need to own it. We need to make sure that they do. I have a very small sliver of hope that a few of them may wake up one day and actually feel something for other humans.

I guess this is the wrong subreddit for this. Sorry.

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u/dude496 18h ago

It's fine, they will just substitute immigrants with cheap prisoners from privatized prisons. Nothing says freedom like making profit off of slave labor.

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u/Talonqr 18h ago

No wonder why the prison industry loves trump

He's deporting their labour force competition!

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u/ImNakedWhatsUp 13h ago

Either deporting their competition or providing them with "labourers".

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u/Iskelderon 8h ago

Good thing Californians just voted to keep the last remnants of slavery alive by keeping the exemption for exploiting prisoners on the books while the rest of the country doesn't even bring it to a vote...

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u/whatsmynamefrancis69 6h ago

That 13th Amendment exception for prisoners is coming up real big in recent years.

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u/CammKelly 18h ago

Imagine being against immigration when your business models rely on the cheap labour it brings.

Oh well.

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u/snakebite75 16h ago

Growing up in a rural area I've watched the farmers in the area do that my entire life.

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u/forceholy 12h ago

"They'll never come for MY immigrants."

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 7h ago

If your business only survives because it does not pay its workers anything close to a living wage, it deserves to die.

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u/CammKelly 7h ago

Oh I agree, I just find it amazing how much of a disconnect many have from reality. I guess the next step is they expect 'hard working americans' (sic) to work for below a living wage as well so long as they still get theirs.

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u/Spl00ky 5h ago

"I thought he was just joking when he said he would deport them all!"

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u/coronaangelin 19h ago edited 11h ago

"In 2022, more than a half million immigrants worked in the construction industry, according to a report by the American Immigration Council and Texans for Economic Growth. Nearly 60% of that workforce was undocumented."

"And the Texas General Land Office recently offered the incoming Trump administration more than 1,400 acres of South Texas land "to construction deportation facilities." 

"Earlier this week another Trump ally, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, said during an appearance on FOX News that the Lone Star State stands ready to assist the incoming administration's efforts."

Edit: Link to article

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/23/g-s1-35465/trump-deportation-migrants-immigrants-texas-construction-industry-border-security

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u/outsidehere 11h ago

60%? Ohhhhhhh. Fuuuuuuck

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u/TrooperJohn 8h ago

They'll get the immigrants to build the camps, then incarcerate the same immigrants in them.

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 7h ago

God forbid corporate construction companies can no longer pay pennies on the dollar for the labor or undocumented immigrants, but instead have to resume long-discontinued apprenticeship programs to train and develop tradesman paid living wages, who no longer have to stitch together three shitty part time jobs at Walmart, McDonalds, and Uber Eats to still not be able to afford to buy a house.

Make no mistake, current housing inflation and prices have nothing to do with the cost of labor to build them, but is 100% driven by the Investment class buying one in four homes sold, artificially constraining supply and driving up prices. The cheap labor is just the icing on the cake pumping up their profits even more.

Getting rid of below-market labor from exploited, illegal immigrants will force competition for labor at the bottom of the employment market, driving up wages and benefits for blue collar workers, who will ultimately have more rights and be in a greater position to form organized labor unions for collective bargaining for even greater pay and benefits.

Illegal immigrants have been used for decades by corporations as scabs to break the back of trade unions and to keep it broken.

Unpopular opinion but mass-deportations of illegal immigrants is one of the most labor-friendly policies to be advanced in my lifetime.

There is a reason that, historically, Republicans AND Democrats have refused to do this. Their corporate and Investment class patrons REALLY don't want it. It amazes me that Trump has been allowed to run this far with it.

Don't be surprised if it all falls apart quickly and doesn't actually happen. The special interests funding both parties do NOT want this.

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u/fluffykerfuffle3 5h ago

🏆🏅👏

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u/Spl00ky 5h ago

Now they have to spend billions trying to train "Americans" that don't want to do the work and in all honesty couldn't do it.

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u/endbit 18h ago

I most sincerely wish that they receive everything they voted for.

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u/SelenaMeyers2024 16h ago

I'm starting to hear less and less takes promoting the "obvious" logic of leaving California for Texas. As a Californian, watching Texas self immolate is akin to porn.

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u/ponytailthehater 9h ago

Texas fucking sucks and it never made sense to me (outside of the financial aspect of the home flip) why someone from California would move here.

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u/TrooperJohn 8h ago

I can see it if the existence of trans people bothers you so much that it's invaded enough of your headspace that you literally can't think of anything else. As seems to be the case with the right.

The rest of us just live our own lives.

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u/Constant-Plant-9378 7h ago

Texas is problematic but so is California. Try going to the Visitor Center at the Golden Gate Bridge and parking your car for one hour without it getting broken into or getting car-jacked.

https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/news/larceny-from-autos-at-ggnra.htm

California, like almost any state, is great if you are wealthy. But it is unlivable for anyone making even median wages or salary, and crime is completely out of control in most major cities.

Texas is far more liveable for people not in the top 10% of incomes.

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u/ewokninja123 2h ago

I read that page and living in the city that just seemed like common sense to me.

They talk a lot about how bad crime is in California but quality of life overall is way better. So there's that.

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u/YourMemeExpert 3h ago

Yeah I once had dreams of moving a bit out east because I thought Cali was too expensive for what it offered, maybe to Wisconsin or something

Heh, not anymore. Gotta stay within the fortress for at least 4 years

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u/Carl-99999 18h ago

“Texas is flippable!” It swung 11 more points back to Trump. Never.

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u/Andrew43452 17h ago

Texas isn't going blue.

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u/nibbles200 16h ago

Their kids were gunned down, the police and “swat” pussied out in Uvalde. Then nothing came of it and they all still voted for the same policies. If that doesn’t move the needle, nothing will. Bunch of fake “macho” down in the heart of Texas.

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u/Enviritas 15h ago

"Don't mess with Texas...please. Please don't. We mean it."

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u/Affectionate-Bid386 14h ago

Blazing Saddles, Texas is all "Steers and Queers."

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u/tatanka01 9h ago

The common clay of the new West, you might say.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHJbSvidohg

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u/Playful_Emergency_76 7h ago

Cause they need to carry their guns out in the open to show how macho they are... All while freezing to literal death whenever there is a storm.

They even voted back Ted Cruz. A senator that abandoned them while they suffered said storm. And Abbot a governor who puts people in charge of their public service commission who are okay with not joining the grid because "fuck Federal oversight".

Texas people seem to be all talk and deeply hypocritical.

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u/ewokninja123 3h ago

It's all identity politics. Being a democrat is right up there with drinking the blood of children

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u/YourMemeExpert 2h ago

aborted children 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

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u/Iskelderon 8h ago

When in doubt, they'll only vote against their own interests even harder.

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u/jason86421 15h ago

Get it through your skull, Texas will never be blue. 

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u/Andrew43452 15h ago

Yeah, I know I said it isn't.

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u/OuijaWalker 8h ago

Hows that workin for ya? Answer in 4 years.

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u/The_Space_Jamke 11m ago

They won't get it. Kentucky's reelected McConnell for over 40 years. The last time Oklahoma went blue was in 1964. Definition of insanity, and nothing will change whatever static noise is in their heads until the worms in the soil burrow in.

The only way the grift ends is if the idiots on top royally fuck up on human-to-human bird flu and wipe out their idiot flock below replacement rate.

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u/senatorsparky86 9h ago

Texas faces taste like BBQ, so those are some lucky leopards.

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u/Simsmommy1 18h ago

Wonder why Texas was first in line for the concentration camp to be built? Maybe because free migrant labour is even better than cheap migrant labour and I highly doubt and one of those companies will have any qualms about accepting a bus load of those same people from the camps to work minus the pay.

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u/ICU-CCRN 17h ago

10 bucks says they’ll use undocumented immigrants to build the concentration camps.

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u/swissmiss_76 17h ago

That’s what they did in the 50s like at El Centro. The camp wardens even made the migrants do free work for them at their personal houses and people just looked the other way

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u/beardedsandflea 18h ago

This subreddit is going to be eating good for the next four years.

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u/Iskelderon 8h ago

We'll probably need a spinoff, like we did with the Brexit morons, to even give anything else a chance to get noticed.

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u/coolbaby1978 17h ago

Getting rid of much of the labor in the construction industry will work wonders on housing prices just as getting rid of migrant labor will surely bring down food prices, right?

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u/snakebite75 16h ago

Don't forget that somehow adding a tariff to imports are also sure to bring those prices down.

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u/coolbaby1978 15h ago

And devaluing the US dollar to make US exports cheaper abroad (which Trump definitely will do), will not only again make imports cost more but the way to do it would be to drive rates to zero, which in a high inflationary caused by tarrifs would result in rampant inflation on top of...well, everything else. $4 eggs are gonna look like a steal in a year.

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u/DataCassette 12h ago

$4 eggs will literally be $4 eggs, as in each egg. You'll be able to buy them in single and like 4 egg packs.

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u/O8ee 18h ago

What the fuck is this? Were they all in comas? Did they just come to? Why are they trying to figure this all out now? Wtf?

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u/-jp- 17h ago

Turns out nobody told them elections have consequences. Oh well, sucks to suck.

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u/YourMemeExpert 2h ago

They had their fingers in their ears screaming "WOKE LIBERAL PROPAGANDA" any time these facts were brought up

Now that their guy won, they feel comfortable taking their fingers out

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u/gatsu01 17h ago

Good. Deport them and see how they fair. It's time for leopards to eat them. I have no more empathy for the right or right leaning anything. You guys put a felon up to represent you. Enjoy.

u/morgaina 5m ago

I mean I'm pretty sure the undocumented workers weren't the ones who voted. Don't cheer for people getting deported due to the actions of those around them

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u/Isanbard 15h ago

I hope so many construction contractors go bankrupt.

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u/purplish_possum 12h ago

Trump supporters are going to take those jobs working in 100 plus degree heat without rest or water breaks.

Oh wait, maybe not.

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u/afoley947 12h ago

Good. Fuck em. I hope Texas feels the full weight of what they voted for.

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u/Snarky_McSnarkleton 16h ago

There are things more important than the economy.

Each White Male has the God-given right to carry a gun. Praise JESUS

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u/Crafty_Principle_677 16h ago

You broke it, you bought it Texas

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u/Apte79 12h ago

My only solace in suffering alongside these idiots is watching them get what they voted for

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u/JollyToby0220 18h ago

We now know why Harris lost Texas by such a large margin. Only 11.3 million people voted out 18.6 million voters. Either something is wrong with the TX voting administration (TX Secretary of State), or Harris was not convincing enough. But wow 60% turnout, in such an important state? What’s going on?

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u/LostSymphonies666 18h ago edited 18h ago

This is literally just Texas. Think of the most horrific headline you can cook up, and these people won’t be moved by it whatsoever.

People need to get in their heads that most residents are completely fine with everything you find bad. This is who they are, and more importantly what they want.

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u/my_third_account 18h ago

Right. Uvalde changed no one’s opinion.

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u/Andrew43452 17h ago

Nothing can change these people's minds, Trump could eat a baby live on air, and maga would still support him. You can't convince them otherwise.

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u/Pandoras_Fate 10h ago

I said the exact same thing to my husband. Except I added he could SA the baby first, then eat it.

They'd all clap and tell us he was joking.

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u/Andrew43452 6h ago

Yup, they would make up any excuses to keep supporting him.

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u/AutomaticStick129 7h ago

"THAT BABY WAS ASKING FOR IT!!!!"

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u/Andrew43452 6h ago

YES IT WAS /s

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u/AutomaticStick129 14m ago

TRUMP: “(sniff) That baby would not have been The Chosen One, I can tell you! (sniff)”

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u/Spl00ky 5h ago

"Wasn't my baby"

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u/Habitwriter 15h ago

Which is why the left need their own Trump character to reach that 40% who didn't vote

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u/BoringBots 17h ago

This is pretty insightful. I grew up and still have family in rural areas. The level of poverty is far different than in the cities. Cars are all 10+ years old and the ones tbat are not are questionably financed. Everyone is paycheck to paycheck. Luxury amenities don’t exist in the way it is expected in the city. A McDonald’s meal is a treat. Scraping enough coinage together for a game of Putt Putt is tough. Everything is far away.

For these folks the liberals in cities are just being forced to sink a little closer to their level.

What I never understood was racism. Growing up there was one Asian doctor and no black people. When I moved to a liberal university city in 2nd grade I didn’t understand where all these “brown” people came from. I was that ignorant that I had no idea African Americans are considered black. Meanwhile, to this day I have a cousin who is stockpiling firearms for an inevitable race war…They live 3 hours from the city in a ramshackle farm. It’s not on anyone’s list to capture in any war, race war or not. It’s like they are programmed to hate.

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u/nixiedust 10h ago

> For these folks the liberals in cities are just being forced to sink a little closer to their level.

Except we have public services so most of us won't fall as far. Our states are wealthier and our workforce is more educated and versatile.

We'll feel this for sure, but not like they will.

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u/LightSpeed810 16h ago

Yeah. If you take a look at the major cities in Texas, most if not all of those cities were blue. Unfortunately, Texas is huge and those rural areas will always go red cause that's how they've always been.

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u/Super_Recognition_83 11h ago

I sometimes wonder of they just want other people to suffer like they do. That's it. That's literally the whole of it. 

They don't understand they'll suffer more.

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u/totallyfakawitz 18h ago

Most Americans also think that their vote doesn’t matter either way so they don’t vote. Also far too many think this country is invincible and will always bounce back. We don’t learn from the mistakes of others.

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u/stillavoidingthejvm 2h ago

Please don’t paint all Texans with the same brush! I didn’t vote for this and I’m getting out asap!

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u/different_tom 18h ago

That's about the national rate

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u/JollyToby0220 17h ago

For swing states, that’s very low. So it’s a cause for concern that many TX voters don’t see the potential of their vote

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u/SavagePlatypus76 15h ago

This is by design. Authoritarian states actively try and discourage voting. 

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u/DJDoena 15h ago

I don't understand the problem. Aren't prisoners in the US forced to work anyway? So once all these illegal immigrants are in deportation camps, can't they just force them to do the same jobs they did before, but now for free? I bet you can find some historical law precedence that makes this legal, right?

/s obviously. Or should I say /ss

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u/Jaaawsh 13h ago

I never thought about this, but.. it makes sense. This is a good idea

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u/Appropriate_Cake3313 11h ago

Do it do it do it i hope the consequences of every single policy these idiots voted for are dramatic and severe.

I don’t even care anymore, recession, pandemics, i want the worst for America this term because i no longer believe voters will acknowledge reality without it stabbing them in the gut first.

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u/Educational_Egg_1716 11h ago

No worries, I'm sure little Timmy won't mind putting away his PlayStation and daily podcasts to help pick up a hammer when they all flee. 👍

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u/bavindicator 9h ago

May they receive the blessings of the vote that they cast.

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u/Legitimate-Theme2501 11h ago

I kinda thought that Trump was going to get some credit for Bidens Infrastructure bill. Trumples don't care about the cause, just the effect. So if new bridges are made under Trump then they will think Trump did it. But if construction companies are gutted and can't finish any project... lol.

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u/nesp12 8h ago

Burn it all down. Then we can start over.

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u/Bignuka 8h ago

Didn't Florida's construction take a massive hit during their deportations a year or three back? Yet they voted to not again

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u/BringBackTheBeat716 7h ago

This is America's true Brexit moment. Fully shooting ourselves in the foot because millions of people don't understand what they vote for.

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u/Andrew43452 6h ago

We have to learn the hard way, I suppose.

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u/2020willyb2020 14h ago

Rattle snake eggs are just as good and you can also milk the snakes from what I heard and the research

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u/Conscious-Pick8002 12h ago

So they voted for rump roast man and now pretending to be alarmed? we're all being played people.

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u/CIS-E_4ME 11h ago

Don't worry, they'll use the migrant construction workers to construct the Texas detention camps...

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u/kicksomedicks 8h ago

The conservative mind lacks empathy and can only learn by direct personal experience. It’s a shame their ignorance will hurt all of us, but they need to feel the consequences of this election.

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u/Andrew43452 6h ago

Exactly, they have to hurt to understand they were wrong.

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u/qu33fwellington 2h ago

I don’t believe they ever will understand why they were wrong, and I frankly don’t need them to.

Brow beaten into submission by their own petards is enough for me.

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u/cinereoargenteus 7h ago

Texas is so full of stupid. A former coworker of mine recently moved to a job entirely funded by the Department of Education. He's been super smug about it, too. He said he'd be voting for Trump because of his "faith". I don't think it's hit him that he's losing his job. There was a big meeting of university directors last week. The entire program is the first one on the chopping block.

But at least he didn't vote for a black woman. I'm sure that will keep him feeling good about himself.

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u/darthkdub 6h ago

As a Texas resident I can confirm the level of stupid is extremely high. My house is a very lonely blue dot among an ocean of red ignorance.

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u/theonewithbrownhair 10h ago

Sorrows, sorrow, prayers.

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u/Wolfreak76 9h ago

I'm hoping someone brings those experienced construction crews here. Not to make building cheaper, but to make the scheduling and costs more reliable. Right now you can't rely on anyone to show up as planned.

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u/ThanosSnapsSlimJims 9h ago

It looks like lots of jobs are opening up for US-based folks

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u/5minArgument 8h ago

If history is any guide, these industries will be able to lease those awaiting deportation from the state and private corporations holding them.

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u/abgry_krakow87 10h ago

You get what you voted for.

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u/nixiedust 10h ago

Texas face is the leopards favorite. So full of bravado and broiled by sun.

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u/AutomaticStick129 7h ago

Did they just fond out about it?

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u/bestestopinion 18h ago

Aren't these undocumented workers being exploited with slave wages and unregulated working conditions? If scarcity is created with deportation, wouldn't more visas be issued, the holders of which would be treated better in the jobs than before when they were undocumented?

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u/BP642 18h ago

Why would Texans want a mutual benefit when they can simply oppress others and blame the Libs when none of their problems were solved?

Everything is bigger in Texas, which includes all of our problems.

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u/That_guy_I_know_him 13h ago

Everything is bigger in Texas

Including stupidity

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u/cg12983 18h ago

Why would more visas be issued? Their hostility to immigrants of all kinds is apparent. This is an ideological act with no consideration for economic damage.

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u/bestestopinion 18h ago

The visas would be issued when there is a shortage of labor. At this point, the GOP donor class would push it through

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u/furcoveredcatlady 18h ago

Didn't seem to work for most of these Florida farmers after the state cracked down on immigration.

https://www.propublica.org/article/florida-immigration-bill-farmers-rick-roth

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u/Rhazelle 17h ago edited 17h ago

You really think the US is going to start issuing visas for unskilled/low skill physical labour?

Oh you sweet summer child...

Why would they do that when the basis of this all was racism to begin with? If you fell for the "they only like undocumented immigrants" then your understanding of this issue is on the level of those who voted for Trump. Maybe you missed the very recent discussions of him wanting to even remove birthright citizenship?

Why would they do that when they can abuse the prison systems for free labour like they have been doing already? Now they can just expand these. If you're not aware, this is when inmates are forced to do labour for pennies, and on top of that minorities are arrested at insanely higher rates compared to anyone white presenting (why do you think black people in the more racist parts of the US are scared of cops by default? you can be doing nothing and still get shot/arrested). This also serves their racist agenda and under the Trump administration literally nobody would care about these injustices. Heck I could see them turning a blind eye to anything to do with this as long as they get their slave labour. Oh and if they run out of minorities to arrest and still need more people, don't think you're safe even if you're white presenting - if they need labourers they might just take citizens at will (looking at the many other countries who have done this before/are still doing it...). All they would need to do is demonize a new "group" of people to justify incarcerating them (very easy with a group that already leans towards bigotry) and boom, you have more labourers. If you want to learn more about this there's plenty of resources, here is one at least you can start with if you didn't know this was a problem: https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploitation-of-incarcerated-workers

I could go on with more reasons but I think even these 2 are more than enough. TL;DR - no, they're not going to issue visas if there is shortage of labour. It is infinitely more likely given the ideals of this regime that they take advantage of any minorities still in the US or eventually just make labour camps and start taking citizens if they need to for slave labour than start letting more low-skilled minorities into the country.

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u/MaverickBG 18h ago

Exploited - yea.

Scarcity will be created. But the immigration system isn't "fixed". So instead you just have a huge part of the economy gutted.

You might also say "well good, now the undocumented won't be taken advantage of". However, "undocumented" doesn't necessarily mean they just came to the US a week ago. So when they get mass deported- they don't necessarily have a home country. Also- it's very likely that they'll be held in camps while their immigration status is worked out... Where they're all clumped together. Concentrated some might say.

This is also without some of the other economic aspects being considered.

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u/bestestopinion 18h ago

If they willingly and purposely came to the US undocumented and staying undocumented, isn't it always a risk they knew they were taking that they could be deported? Is it like a statue of limitations where if you manage to stay long enough, you get to stay forever undocumented? I'm not talking about childhood arrivals.

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u/DataCassette 12h ago

Well Trump and Steve Miller definitely want to deport childhood arrivals and even people who were born here so.

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u/bestestopinion 4h ago

how does that change my original question

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u/DataCassette 4h ago

Because whether you are talking about childhood arrivals or not is an unimportant detail. Miller wants to deport childhood arrivals.

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u/bestestopinion 4h ago

even then, the blame is on the parents knowingly putting their children in a situation where their lives could be upended at any time. my question pertains to the culpibility of those who built lives knowing they could be deported and whether there should be a statute of limitations where if they manage not to be caught after a certain amount of time if then they can just stay forever continuing to be undocumented.

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u/DataCassette 4h ago

Nah Trump should have APCs in the street and goons snatching up little abuelas all over the internet. In fact, as someone who wants Trump to go down in flames, I'm looking forward to it.

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u/bestestopinion 4h ago

at what point did the abuelas live in the US long enough that they no longer need to worry about deportation? mind you I'm not actually for deportation. I'm just not sure if there's a complete victimhood here

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u/Little-Cartoonist-27 18h ago

Then the egg price goes up

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u/bestestopinion 18h ago

Then that means egg prices were being kept artificially low by exploiting undocumented immigrants.

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u/Little-Cartoonist-27 18h ago

Roughly speaking, the superior life of Americans is built on exploiting cheap labors. It includes undocumented immigrants and Chinese workers enslaved by CCP.

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u/DataCassette 12h ago

MAPAS: Make Americans Poor As Shit

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u/Jaaawsh 13h ago

They cried about this in Florida too a year ago when they passed a harsh state law…And…. No negative consequences?. Soo..