Actual conversation I had with a Trump voter yesterday: Me: the woman who cares for your mom is not a U.S. citizen. They’re going to try to deport her. Her: No that’s not true. They’re not deporting the good ones. Only the criminals. 🫠🫠🫠 - ThreadSky

mollyknight.bsky.social • 190 days ago

Actual conversation I had with a Trump voter yesterday:

Me: the woman who cares for your mom is not a U.S. citizen. They’re going to try to deport her.

Her: No that’s not true. They’re not deporting the good ones. Only the criminals.

🫠🫠🫠

Comments

amber94949.bsky.social•190 days ago

🤯

erinrussellphoto.bsky.social•190 days ago

mexhistorian.bsky.social•190 days ago

My head hurts. 😣

calliopejane13.bsky.social•190 days ago

My husband’s aunt and uncle own a restaurant where almost the entire kitchen staff are immigrants here on work permits. Do they think they will be allowed to keep “their immigrants”??

tiny-direwolf.bsky.social•190 days ago

Only if they have enough $$ to pay Trump off

rucabazooka.bsky.social•190 days ago

Work permits means they are legal, so not right away. But I can see permits getting harder leading to lost workers.

itchybitchyspider.bsky.social•190 days ago

Probably.

thewordbird.bsky.social•190 days ago

It’s a cult. 😫

zebulon35.bsky.social•190 days ago

When there are no fruits or veggies on the store shelves, restaurants can’t keep the doors open and the economy comes to a grinding halt from tariffs, these folks are going to be in for one hell of a shock.

devinsbarncat.bsky.social•190 days ago

😆

astro-cowboy.bsky.social•190 days ago

This election was the worst cases of leopards eating faces I’ve ever seen

aj-b.bsky.social•189 days ago

They are so delusional.

elank.bsky.social•190 days ago

so many sweet summer children unprepared for a long cold winter

iamstefan.bsky.social•190 days ago

Gonna be using this non-stop for years.

coakleym.bsky.social•190 days ago

...since when did they even notice never mind selectively care about the "good" ones? sigh

alicesteaparty.bsky.social•190 days ago

The good ones?

digit10.bsky.social•190 days ago

And then they will blame the Dems for all the things that Trump and the GOP are about to put this country through. As long as Fox News tells them how to think…

gregcohn.bsky.social•190 days ago

Striking. Less than a full week after the election result, the media is all over Trump’s appointments docket, conjuring images of family separations, ICE raids, university disembowelments, and the ghouls who want these things. Why didn’t they do this walk down memory lane before the election?

johnnyvonrotten.bsky.social•190 days ago

millennialmaureen.bsky.social•190 days ago

Beautiful, thanks!

cameronyeager.bsky.social•190 days ago

Yeah, this meme is going to come in handy a lot soon

thewettanktops.bsky.social•190 days ago

Seriously… what part of “20-30 million people” do these people not understand?

hoopbears.bsky.social•190 days ago

I simply do not understand the filtering process that occurs in their brains to cause that interpretation.

And also, knowing it exists, I have no idea how to fix or even slightly modify it - not even sure if that's a possibility.

aaronjg.bsky.social•190 days ago

Bless her heart...

myartboard.bsky.social•190 days ago

Retirement communities really need to think fast - this is going to affect care at every level.

ginnyweatherbee.bsky.social•190 days ago

Oh dear🤦🏼‍♀️

sassmom.bsky.social•190 days ago

They are all criminals to Trump. They never understand that it will happen TO them eventually.

dvgeebees.bsky.social•190 days ago

Wait till they find out what a tariff really is

a-vibrantstorm777.bsky.social•190 days ago

and the band played on...

djmccann.bsky.social•190 days ago

When Trump killed certain visas last time, my Dad's boss' daughter, who had been in the US since age 10 but despite her parents becoming citizens had never applied herself, lost her job unexpectedly and had to return to England. He was incredulous that it could happen, but it's what he voted for.

hoodiecraw.bsky.social•190 days ago

Noice

gn4rest.bsky.social•190 days ago

Boy, the MAGA denial is amazing. They are just about to find out.

alexloop1987.bsky.social•190 days ago

I had an interaction with someone on this platform, who didn’t seem to grasp that naturalised individuals were legal citizens of the US and that children born to illegal immigrants were also legal citizens of the US thanks to the 14th Amendment.

alexloop1987.bsky.social•190 days ago

For context: this person said they were fine with Trump’s policy of deporting “anchor babies” (their words) and that they hadn’t seen where Stephen Miller said he would deport US citizens. I tried to explain the potential most dire consequences of this, hopefully I got through a bit.

gregrobins.bsky.social•190 days ago

The disillusionment is real

ls1228.bsky.social•190 days ago

Delusional to the end

psychprof85.bsky.social•190 days ago

Had the same conversation with my mom last week.

prodigypaul.bsky.social•190 days ago

the denial is so bad with these ppl…Tom literally said himself if you’re not bad you can “self-deport” before we get you too

djhoch.bsky.social•190 days ago

I had this conversation with a Harris voter, a Black man who thinks they’re going to just deport criminals. I reminded him that “criminal” was code for Black for a century.

kiasuchick.bsky.social•189 days ago

Saw LA MAGA dude post about his housekeeper’s availability and how great she is. (She used to clean my house until some weirdness over payments). She’s undocumented.

ncmc1994.bsky.social•190 days ago

This is just sad.

anthrodiva.bsky.social•190 days ago

Ahahahaha

johnfix.com•190 days ago

Because good people never get deported, right?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/03/11/feature/a-beloved-restaurant-owner-was-deported-a-community-was-in-uproar-then-it-moved-on/

tiny-direwolf.bsky.social•190 days ago

I remember that and have been thinking about it.

fuzzyblumonster.bsky.social•190 days ago

"He was not one of those Mexicans. He was like a white boy to me.”"

THOSE MEXICANS

But they'll deny they're racist until their dying day.

weynouth.bsky.social•190 days ago

Yes! I’m having the same convo!! They believe Trump only deported criminals in his first term.

If you’re interested, have a look at this wild report: Trump deported less criminals.

https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-released-criminals-so-he-could-jail-asylum-seekers

egojunk.bsky.social•190 days ago

We are deporting decorated veterans. You can do whatever you want if you get to define who is "bad" and who is "good." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwtjlXVEkZM

l-aurian.bsky.social•190 days ago

Every Trump supporter I’ve spoken to has said this exact thing. And they’ll believe it no matter what until someone they know is taken.

lucke2bme.bsky.social•190 days ago

I think a lot of people out there are in for a rude awakening.

habbott4.bsky.social•190 days ago

I had a similar type conversation last night with a friend of 20 years😳 except she was trying to convince me that the economy will now get better

rizzoandmillie1.bsky.social•190 days ago

Our economy is the envy of the world. Shame on the media for pushing GOP lies, and Dems for not taking credit for how good of an economy we are in now.

What did she say about tariffs raising our prices?

divebart.bsky.social•190 days ago

The economy is working best for the wealthy tho bc they don't feel inflation

The Dems should have done more to address their corporate sponsors greedflation and we wouldn't be in this position rn

blemley.us•190 days ago

They don’t listen critically to anything these liars say. They’re going after EVERYONE. Homan on Fox yesterday:

https://www.newsweek.com/tom-homan-trump-mass-deportation-migrants-families-separated-1984259

ndygh17.bsky.social•190 days ago

Well their opinion of who is OK will vastly differ from the Trump administration’s opinion of who is OK

thecollectah.bsky.social•190 days ago

I had the conversation with a Latino friend. Gaaaah!!!

pocono.bsky.social•190 days ago

Getting rid of the criminals is the same thing the Biden administration was doing. This is going to be very different

ddelv.bsky.social•190 days ago

Yeah, I had a Dem use this same reasoning in defending Obama/Biden's immigration records. Neither side wants to think critically about their own. Can't we all just agree that treating immigrants at the Southern border like trash or pawns is bipartisan?

jansky123.bsky.social•190 days ago

"They are talking about the Jews in Eastern Europe, not us." - common talking point among German Jews in 1933.

paulkelleher.net•190 days ago

“In this dissertation I shall argue that Trump voters use ‘illegals’ in two very different yet often conflated ways.”

dodgersjra.bsky.social•190 days ago

“Only the good ones”

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/24/1009789515/a-senator-seeks-to-reverse-trump-era-policies-for-deported-military-veterans

socalsusan.bsky.social•190 days ago

😂😅🤣

davespodek.bsky.social•190 days ago

Heard something similar in conversation this weekend…
I just…what can you say?

retcw3.bsky.social•190 days ago

Morons

hoodiecraw.bsky.social•190 days ago

I define who's a Jew
(Germany ~ 1937)

ellescott3.bsky.social•190 days ago

I’ve heard this sentiment repeated by others! It’s really quite something what these people have convinced themselves of to justify their hate!

mashamasha.bsky.social•190 days ago

15M criminals is a lot of damn criminals.

dhumph.bsky.social•190 days ago

Every time I read one of these stories, I shake my head. I've been shaking it so much that I now have a headache.
Have these people learned nothing over the last 8 years?

rizzoandmillie1.bsky.social•190 days ago

How many “bad ones” do they think there are?! This is the problem with the media, they don’t educate the public at all. If you’re not a U.S. citizen, they do not care if you’re “law abiding” or not. They will dispense of you like he did in his first term. The ignorance is astounding