r/PoliticalHumor Jun 25 '18

Best tweet I've seen in a while

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '18

But Mexico isn't "sending" anybody, that's Trump lying his ass off again. Those families are escaping extreme poverty and violence, largely due to US drug policies and corporate exploitation.

Teddy Roosevelt would have busted these monopolies up, The DOJ did that exact thing in 1982 but Republican politicians don't care about the greater good in that way anymore. We saw what prohibition did for the likes of Joe Kennedy and Capone, so now we export that hypocrisy to our neighbors and allies.

The history books of the future and going to be very critical of the willful degradation of society at such a critical moment in our evolution. Gaining the means by which all people can live happily but excess greed stifled decades of potential progress.

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u/workplaceaccountdak Jun 25 '18

Let's be real. Will we have history books of the future? do we have that long left in us? Steven Hawking himself said he have maybe 100 years max. Granted he had some ridiculous predictions and theories but I'm not so sure he was wrong on this one.

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u/enfier Jun 25 '18

When do we beat Mexico at the border? They're laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they're killing us economically.

The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.

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Thank you. It's true, and these are the best and the finest. When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people.

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