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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Well, people also think that the government's investing in mind control satellites (I remember a poster here saying a Senate candidate in... California, IIRC, saying she'd oppose such measures a while back).
On empty crossroads, seek the eclipse -- for when Sol and Lua align, the lost shall find their way home.Reminds me of a tongue-in-cheek line from King Of The Hill on sexism, something like "It's worse when we get our privileges taken away because we're used to them!" in reference, I think, to how treating boys and girls sports equally is more to the detriment of the boys than for the benefit of the girls, or something along those lines.
That sentiment is probably applicable in a lot of scenarios.
edited 21st May '16 11:28:55 AM by LSBK
Given that's blatantly discriminatory I don't think he'd be able to get very far with that idea. Even if he managed to implement such a thing there'd be tons of people subsequently attempting to sue the government. (And I'm not sure he can stop a private business like Western Union from transferring money anyway???)
If he does managed to do that I'm not sure how that would encourage Mexico to pay us to build a wall, though. It's like Step one: Stop money transfers, Step two: ?????, Step three: PROFIT!!!!!
Somehow I doubt he'd do that, what with the "EEEVIILLLLLLS" of socialism and the fact that many people would protest that he nationalized a business (and I think in America doing such a thing would require a pretty extreme situation because otherwise why would the president bother?) and then apparently did so just to stop money transfers.
If memory serves Trump has a white paper about how to implement his immigration policy (the only thing coming close to a concrete program, the SCOTUS appointments aside, that Trump has in his policy "agenda"), maybe it does go into detail.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI doubt Trump would be hesitate to institute socialist policies in the US if they benefited him, to be honest. Having said that, his popularity would certainly plummet if he really tried to make Mexico a pariah on the level of Cuba. And really, it'd be a lot harder to stop all trade between the US and Mexico, since our current immigration situation proves how easy it is to smuggle things (and people) across the border.
Unless Trump builds a wall to keep the US out of Mexico.
Leviticus 19:34Come to think of it, if I were Mexican, I actually might be tempted to pay for a wall between my country and a Trump-governed America. Maybe that's Trump's strategy — to make the US to be so utterly obnoxious that Mexico will eventually consider it a good investment to prevent American citizens from crossing the border.
edited 21st May '16 1:47:55 PM by DrDougsh
Trump attempting to cut off trade with Canada would have weird effects in New England, since the power grid crisscrosses into Canada and the two really big power plants near Niagara Falls are pretty interconnected. There's also a town, Stanstead, on the border between Quebec and Vermont that literally sits right on the border. The town library is in both Canada and the US. I wonder how it would go there.

Not a cent? How exactly does he justify that last point?