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‘South Texas will never be red again’: Home builders warn GOP over Trump’s immigration raids Construction executives have held multiple meetings over the last month with the White House and Congress to discuss immigration busts on job sites.     I almost feels sorry  for Susie Wiles.  She as much as anyone was the architect of Trump's coming back from the dead.  And now as his Chief of Staff she has to deal with his stupid ignorant racist bullshit every fucking day.  Be careful what you wish for, Susie. This may be a double whammy thanks to dumb fuck racist Trump.  He goaded Newsom to pass a law that will gain Democrats US House seats in California.  Meanwhile, the Texas gerrymandering plan may well backfire and win Democrats House seats in Texas, too. He is telling Mexican Americans, or Mexicans who want to be Americans, to fuck off. He is telling young Texans who want to buy an affordable home to fuck off. How can Trump be such a stupid dumb racist piece of shit?   (Memo to self:  he always has been.) He is sure good at being a venal cruel political animal who plays on racial resentments.  Now it is blowing up again, like in 2018.  Right in the face of the politicians who have to kiss his ass.  And the Hispanic and young people who voted for him.    

Like you. many Dems live in their little bubbles, but are still VERY much aware of whats going on with immigration and Trumps attacks on it.....   Lets be honest,  its really NOT an immigration issue,   its a COLOR issue.....   You dont see them running after WHITE folk,  although they are not adverse to KILLING white folk that try to aid the people of color..... So while you may live a privileged life, the lives of others are not lost on you..... YES, things will be a lot better if Dems can win the House and perhaps Senate,  but when you speak of compromise,  there will still be NONE with the Trump administration or the GOP.   Its a word they dont know or accept....eventhough we have seen Trump do the TACO when it gets too hot in the kitchen.   Trump has no problem bringing his whole party down....its never been about his party....its always just about Trump and he will NEVER allow himself to look weak or powerless, at least to himself.    Trump is deluding himself into believing that after he's gone, all the buildings and monuments that carry his name will remain,   the Grand ballroom, and the Golden arch, the authoritarian rose garden....will all be torn down or stripped on the defining Trump stench.....   That day cant come fast enough...... But as far as your "fantasy" of compromise from the right......  take an Ambien and sleep it off.....aint EVER happening.   There obviously will HAVE TO BE another way !    *** And this might be a radical thought, but I would LOVE to see Maxwell Frost become speaker of the House. 

In a word, compromise. I actually only listened to the first few minutes, in honesty,  Sis.  You know me.  I have a  short attention span. While I agree with most of what the host says,  he's also a good example of Democratic cluelessness.  And I include myself in that.  I live in California in a nice mostly Latino or mixed race area that is middle class.  I don't see homeless tents every day.  My house is not broken into.  I don't experience the rental housing crisis because I am a landlord who charges super cheap rent so I have tenants who stay forever.  Pretty much none of this shit effects me personally. So when I was reading about immigration during the 2024 campaign I intellectually understood what the polls were telling me.  Lots of people, including immigrant Americans, were pissed.  Too many people cutting the line too quickly taking too many resources away from them.  But I definitely underestimated the extent of the anger.  Which definitely helped get Trump elected. My hair stylist is a Mexican immigrant whose son voted for Trump, for pretty much all the reasons a lot of Latino men did.  Prices are too high.  A big ass truck costs too much.  I know his Mom agrees with the idea that there is a legal way to let people like her in.  And she feels some Mexicans who come in illegally are in fact criminals.  Trump understood that and played to it.   He did not get her vote, but he got her son's vote.  In places like Arizona that put him over the top. So Democrats can partly blame this on ourselves.  In retrospect, with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, Obama pretty much got it right.  He was hard ass on immigration.  Deporter In Chief.  And it worked.  He got re-elected. Now Trump is the one who has gone way too far, and there is a huge backlash.  Is it too much to hope that Democrats, if we take the House and - one can at least hope - the Senate in 2026 could actually create a compromise law Obama tried and failed to win? To this day many Democrats and Republicans in Congress in 2013 say that bipartisan compromise immigration law that passed the Senate 2 to 1 would have solved lots of problems.  And that it was a fair enough rules-based way to have what most people want:  an open and welcoming country that also plays by rules and establishes order. The GOP House Freedom Caucus killed it.  You can look at that as a key moment in the rise of Trump.  We won't compromise and make shit work.  We'll play divide and conquer and build resentments. In South Texas, the GOP immigration hard line is now political kryptonite   That is music to my ears. I don't think Republicans can or will do shit on their own.  They fear Trump too much.  And I hope a few of the moderate Hispanic Republicans lose their House seats over this issue.  You can be cruel to immigrants.  But you are cutting your own heads off.  Die, fuckers.  Die.  Ha ha. Dead pieces of shit.  See how cruelty feels, you dead fuckers?  Ha, ha, Republicans.  You killed yourselves.  Stupid dumb fucks. Granted, no one in the polite halls of Congress is that blunt.  But the Republican survivors will get  the memo.  Maybe.  And if Democrats are in charge, maybe something can happen.  Schumer and Jeffries are good at compromise. If Democrats win the House or Senate or both I hope they pick one or two things they can mostly agree on with Trump, and make it happen.  Immigration reform would be near the top of my list.  John Boehner could not get a Republican House to go along.  Trump could.  And if Democrats run the House they don't need to, anyway.   The Senate is where compromise would be the winning ticket. The question is whether Trump wants to be the President who got compromise immigration reform done.  He has a big ego.  It's not Mount Rushmore or a Nobel Peace Prize.  But it's not out of the question. Recall that Biden wised up and tried to get a compromise bill passed in 2024, which Trump killed for political reasons.  Democrats should not do the same.  They should force Trump to either compromise, or bring his party down for being fanatics that always go too far. Then again, when is the last time Democrats saw a great political opportunity and took it?

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