They all chicken out, once they are confronted.

It’s (social) media. People are drowning in propaganda that’s being pumped out on the airwaves by billionaires that own the media and tech companies. Until the wealthy people and capitalism are put in check by populism, it’ll only get worse.

its gross how people were convinced millions of immigrants were here causing issues but as soon as a few thousand are exported everything is a-ok.

Media cycles have flipped from “MIGRANT CARAVAN! KUNG-FLU! TOOKER JERBS!” to “Those ICE agents are being a bit too rough, COVID is solved/not-real, AI will replace you anyway so migrants aren’t really an issue.”

oh yeah, and now we get spend hundreds of billions of dollars now not feeding people but ‘watching’…

Now that we have the eugenics focused government that the media industry lobbied for, we can pivot towards the liberal technocracy that makes the brutality cheaper and more efficient. Amazon / Facebook / Palantir will join forces to deliver a new era of Smart, AI-powered Population Management that can deliver the same gestapo-like tactics for a fraction of the price.

Just like with Clinton after Reagan/Bush and Obama after Junior and Biden after Trump, we’re going to get a new Tough On Border Crime democrat at the top of the ticket (maybe even Harris again, she was great at telling Guatemalans fleeing a civil war to go home) who will campaign on Trump’s ICE doing a bad job according to the deportation counting spreadsheets.

And we’ll get an earful about spending, too, of course. Never a bad time to take another big chunk out of the Entitlements in order to balance your books for National Security.