Did you know that Donald Trump plans a $200 million anti-immigrant ad campaign in the US and overseas? Trump says the ads will tell the real story of what he's doing on the border. They star Kristi Noem, former governor of South Dakota and currently Secretary of Homeland Security:
Noem said that Trump instructed that he didn’t want to be in the ads himself, telling her: “I want you in the ads, and I want your face in the ads … but I want the first ad, I want you to thank me. I want you to thank me for closing the border.”
She recalled: “I said, ‘Yes, sir, I will thank you for closing the border.’ So if you notice, in that ad, we thanked him for closing the border.”
Here's the ad, though it's so incompetently loaded and served you probably won't be able to play it:
I wonder where the money for this came from? Apparently we can't afford to fully fund medical research at CDC or NIH these days, but we can find a few dollars under the sofa cushions to thank President Trump for closing the border. Imagine that.
Recognition. That's all the King wants! Recognition that he is a Greater American Leader than anyone thought possible. Give him that ... actually let me start again. Give the King that adulation and he'll leave y'all to the tender mercies of Musk and Kash Patel.
Why are liberals so stubborn?
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"We politicians". I guess it wasn't enough to thank him, she had to blame herself for the problem of illegal immigration as well. lol. He really does have the GOP completely beholden to his ego.
She actually said "weak politicians," not "we politicians." Still, I can understand hearing it that way from someone who dissed "the government" only to be told that she was now "the government."
Point out all the things that could have been accomplished with $200M. Don't just claim it's a waste of money; people need to see what opportunities were lost.
There’s no point in doing so. It amounts to every man, woman and child getting 67 cents off their taxes, or 67 cents in additional spending on whatever they care about. $200M sounds like a lot of money but it just isn’t at the scale of the US. (“We could fund 1 research project that we cut a month ago! We could build 2 high schools in 2 lucky towns!” Nothing sounds impressive.)
I'm sure you could fund MANY MORE than 1 research project for $200M.
Given what the money was spent on, perhaps it could be used more productively on the same general topic by hiring several hundred new immigration judges to deal with the enormous backlog of refugee claims.
I seriously don't understand why Biden never did that a couple years before money was in a bill that Trump told Johnson to can. It seems like Presidents can do almost anything they want without regard to what the Constitution says about appropriations.
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The party of small government is at it again, folks! Have taxpayer dollars ever been used to make a campaign ad before? Just wondering.
Plausible deniability. "I don't take any responsibility. It was all Kristie."
Also, funny how the US government is supposedly bleeding red ink, and not only is there $200M just lying around, they are talking about giving away all the so-called "savings" as individual checks back to us, the taxpayers.
So how is any money at all being "saved"?
Cherry on top--it probably is illegal using Federal funds for partisan propaganda.
Someone should point that out to them.
"America respects those who respect our laws..."
So she's going to deport Trump?
Get Musk, too. Apparently, he's a Canadian now. And Canadians are petitioning to have his citizenship revoked.
I like her earrings.
He didn't close the border. So what is she talking about.
This. It's mind-bogglingly stupid for Trump or anybody to claim that he "closed the border" or even to argue that it's a good idea. FFS, more than 250 million people travel into and out of the US every year via air traffic alone.
The only two countries that have "closed" borders are like North Korea (which doesn't actually have a closed border, but whatever) and I guess that North Sentinel Island. Neither of them are good models for much of anything relevant to the US.
Don't forget the former Soviet Union, although it was more closed from the inside than the outside since no one wanted to move there anyway.
I have seen the ads and it is sad to see where America is now under these chuckleheads. Here is hoping it takes less than a decade to get back to somthing better,
Noem is obedient to her master. She knows what happens to disobedient dogs and fears Trump’s gravel pit. I’m sure that when Trump sees her he will pat her on the head and say “good girl”.
That closing shot. It looks like....
I am surprised the ad doesn't show her shooting a chihuahua in the quarry to emphasize her point.