Oddbean

"There is no such thing as the West Bank - it's Judea and Samaria. There is no such thing as settlements - they're communities, they're neighborhoods, they're cities. There is no such thing as an occupation." -Mike Huckabee, Incoming US Ambassador to Israel @Mike Dilger

i am reminded of the closing scene from American Psycho https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144084/ where President Reagan is talking on TV and Bateman ( the Psycho ) comments that Reagan is basically this sweet grandpa on the outside ... ( and it is implied that on the inside Reagan is a monster just like Bateman himself ) ... then Bateman says "but what is on the inside doesn't matter" Trump is Reagan on Steroids. And it isn't just his supporters but also his haters that judge Trump 100% on his rhetoric and not on his actions ... same as it was for Regan and same as it was for Bateman ... "what is on the inside doesn't matter" Machiavelli wrote about this when ? And people are still this way - still completely taken by appearances taking them at face value ... amazing, pathetic and disgusting. i have tried hundreds of times and it is impossible to explain to my dumb bitch mother what Trump is or what her own Husband is for that matter ... and most Trump voters are like my mother ... people are either unwilling or unable to face reality, probably both, always were and always will be ... @Prince Aleph

i doubt we will see huge deportations. we will probably send back a few thousand. out of like 50 million illegals living in US. then the next administration will import another 20 millions. but yeah it seems like they will allow Trump to throw his voters a bone by deporting a handful of illegals in exchange for a blank check for Israel to finish wiping Palestine off the map ... and probably Lebanon too ... and maybe Syria and Iran as well ...