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Trump's Second Term

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk

Reuters said:
"70% of the workers are gone," one farmer said as most of the work is mostly done by immigrants, impacting business.

Lisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura County, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruit and vegetables each year, much of it hand-picked by immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

Tate knows the farms around her well. And she says she can see with her own eyes how raids carried out by agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the area’s fields earlier this month, part of President Donald Trump’s migration crackdown, have frightened off workers.
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Trump conceded in a post on his Truth Social account this month that ICE raids on farmworkers – and also hotel workers – were “taking very good, long-time workers away” from those sectors, “with those jobs being almost impossible to replace.”

Trump later told reporters, “Our farmers are being hurt badly. They have very good workers.” He added, “They’re not citizens, but they’ve turned out to be great.”

He pledged to issue an order to address the impact, but no policy change has yet been enacted.
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Full story at Reuters
 
The following quotes seem to sum up the attitude among the Republicans with respect to the cuts to Medicaid:

“We are all going to die.”
— GOP Senator Joni Ernst

“They’ll get over it.”
— GOP Senator Mitch McConnell

“It's immaterial.”
— Vice President JD Vance

“I feel great.”
— GOP Senator Lindsay Graham

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Regnad Kcin said:
Only three and a half more years of this to go!
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If the US still has (by American standards) free and fair elections in 2026 and 2028. Fingers crossed, I guess?

Honestly, though, I'm starting to think this is the kind of situation that can only be rectified by 3.5% in the streets or even a full-fledged revolution.
 
azazal said:
So now that the god awful bill has cleared the senate, and looks to be heading to his desk to be signed, I have a new conspiracy theory. Once signed, Vance under directions from Theil and other tech billionaires will run a trial balloon on 25thing 47. If it looks to get positive support in both legislative chambers, he'll press it for real. The 1% have what they wanted and have no more need for Trump, and Vance will be a more stable and controllable minion.
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Why would they need a more stable and controllable minion? Trump already signs whatever is put in front of him, and his antics provide a distraction (see below).
 
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I haven't updated this in four days, partly due to being busy with other things, and partly due to having to wade through the tsunami of bad things happening coupled with multiple insane utterances by Trump.

As of the close of the day on July 1, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -891.

1 July 2025
-1: Trump calls for deporting US citizens [345]
-1: Trump halts promised weapons shipments to Ukraine [346]
-1: Kristi Noem wants a whole system of concentration camps across the USA [347]
-1: The National Science Foundation will lose its head office to Housing and Urban Development [348]
-1: Trump muses again on the word “groceries” [349]
-1: Trump rambles on again about water flow restrictors [350]

References

345. Trump: “We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that’ll be the next job.”

346. (Via Nick Schifrin on X): White House confirms it has halted weapons that Ukraine was scheduled to receive, including PAC3 Patriots, 155mm artillery rounds, GMLRS, Stinger, AIM-7, and Hellfire missiles.

347. Kristi Noem at DeSantis’s new migrant detention camp: “This facility is exactly what I want every single governor in the country to consider doing with us.”

348. Headline: HUD moving into National Science Foundation headquarters [The Hill]

349. Trump: “A simple word like that -- groceries -- it was like, almost, a strange word. I hadn’t heard the word in so long. But what could be more beautiful than the word ‘grocery?’”

350. Trump: “You buy a house, you have a faucet in the house and the water doesn’t come out. They have a restrictor in areas where you have so much water they don’t know what to do with it. You have a shower head the shower doesn’t -- you think it’s not working, it is working. That’s no good for me.”


30 June 2025
-1: Headline: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: What to know about Florida’s new controversial migrant detention facility (CNN)
-1: Headline: DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship (NPR)
-1: US military announces it will be shutting down its weather satellite program (or will stop sharing the data) [343]
-1: Trump lies about bringing costs down for the average American consumer (US CPI is up 2.4% over the past 12 months) [340]
-1: Trump believes the massive tax cuts will spur growth to a value 10× that of the cuts [341]
-1: Trump unbelievably claims no one entered the United States [illegally] “last month” [342]
-1: Trump repeats his lie about the Biden administration letting in 21 million people enter the US illegally [342]
-1: Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says the huge budget bill is “the most fiscally conservative ever”

References

340. Trump: “The Trump Administration has gotten costs down, very substantially, for the American Consumer. There has never been anything like this!”

341. Trump: “For all cost cutting Republicans, of which I am one, REMEMBER, you still have to get reelected. Don’t go too crazy! We will make it all up, times 10, with GROWTH, more than ever before!”

342. Trump: “If you look at what Biden did to the border, it was SO BAD—Last month, we had NO PEOPLE COMING IN, but the bad part is—BIDEN LET IN 21 million people and we have to check those people.”

343. Via Christopher Webb on Bluesky: “The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.”

344. Q: “Can you respond to the CBO estimate that the Senate bill would increase the deficit by nearly $3.3 trillion?”
LEAVITT: “This is one of the most fiscally conservative pieces of legislation that has ever made its way through Capitol Hill.”


29 June 2025
-1: Trump champions coal over cleaner technologies [336]
-1: Trump wants to remove all protections on pretty much everything [337]
-1: Trump once again ignores the reality of Canada-US trade [338]
-1: Trump boasts about the unilaterally imposing trade “deals” [339]

References

336. Trump: “We’re doing coal. I don’t want windmills destroying our place. I don’t want these solar things where they go for miles and they cover up half a mountain and they’re ugly as hell.”

337. Trump: “In China, you know how long it takes? One day. It’s called President Xi. ‘Boom. It’s okay.’ Over here we’re gonna have almost the same thing. We’re getting fast approvals.” (And he’s quite likely wrong about Xi.)

338. Trump: “Frankly, Canada should be the 51st state. It really should. Because Canada relies entirely on the United States. We don’t rely on Canada.”

339. Trump: “We’ll send a letter and we’ll say ‘we would consider it a great honor, and this is what you’ll have to shop in -- we’re like a department store -- to shop in the United States, and you’ll pay a 25% tariff or we’ll wish you a lot of luck.’ And that’s the end of the trade deal.”


28 June 2025
-1: Headline: The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness (Slate)
-1: Trump threatens Canada again on trade [333]
-1: Trump on the European Union: “They’re nasty. They’re very nasty ... we have the cards far more than they do.”
-1: Trump lies about the cost of gasoline at the pump [334]
-1: Trump believes the leaders of Russia, China, and North Korea (Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un) respect the US. [335]

References

333. Trump: “We have all the cards. Every single one. We don’t want to do anything bad, but economically we have such power over Canada. I’d rather not use it ... it’s not going to work out well for Canada.”

334. Trump: “Gasoline now is down to close to $2 in a lot of places. A couple of places… it’s like $1.98 a gallon.” (He may be confusing wholesale and retail)

335. Trump: “Vladimir Putin made some very nice statements today. Look, he respects our country again ... President Xi respects our country. Kim Jong Un respects.”
 
What is it that Trump has against Cuba? One of his first actions on election was to declare Cuba a terrorist state (which certainly hasn't been the case this millennium), now he increases the sanctions.

Did they refuse to let him build a Trump resort with golf course and casino? Does he want them to make Trump Rum or trump cigars? Should they offer to imprison US deportees?
 
Planigale said:
What is it that Trump has against Cuba? One of his first actions on election was to declare Cuba a terrorist state (which certainly hasn't been the case this millennium), now he increases the sanctions.

Did they refuse to let him build a Trump resort with golf course and casino? Does he want them to make Trump Rum or trump cigars? Should they offer to imprison US deportees?
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Cuba is not kowtowing to the US even after 80 years of sanctions, so it must be punished.
Bullies are not known for their subtlety.
 
What does the US have against Cuba, is perhaps a better question. I mean, I know it's a dictatorship, but the whole quarantene and sanction thing still makes little sense to me. What positive effects, if any, are they even having? To me it just seems the US are being sore losers over their failure to oust a communist regime right on their doorstep.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
What does the US have against Cuba, is perhaps a better question. I mean, I know it's a dictatorship, but the whole quarantene and sanction thing still makes little sense to me. What positive effects, if any, are they even having? To me it just seems the US are being sore losers over their failure to oust a communist regime right on their doorstep.
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So Trump should like it, right?
But I guess it's seen as a socialist (probably leftist woke) dictatorship. And Trump only likes the killer dictatorships, not the weak ones.
 
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