You had no idea that something like this might happen, huh?
So the world gets to suffer now, because you leaned into and voted for chaos.
Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers, you asshole.
Scardina, who runs a small roofing business in Florida’s Lower Keys, cannot believe it. “It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,” he told NBC6, visibly emotional.
He continued, “It’s almost like they’re actual people. I mean not actually, but almost, you know?!”
I am sure he will feel better once DoJ shows him photoshopped pictures of his former employees’ MS-13 tattoos.
Scardina says he voted for Trump and still supports many of the former president’s policies, but this isn’t what he signed up for. “Buyer’s remorse? I don’t know, a little bit.”
Lessons learned: 0
Party supported in next election: republiQan
Trump voter gets choked
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Starting to feel cheap getting so much use out of this
Should have used the version of this picture that makes his face bigger
thanking intensifies
They’re the same picture.
No I think using memes featuring the guy’s real face are important.
But that is his real face. /s
While being arrested, right? Because they arrested the business owner who broke the law several times, right?
Adding to Scardina’s annoyance, the men had valid work permits and pending asylum applications, according to their attorney Regilucia Smith. “They are legally here,” she said. “Valid work permit, not even close to expired… again, no criminal records—not here, not in Nicaragua.”
🤣 like a child when they get caught, they only care when it affects them.
Still, his colleague, Virgil Scardina, says they count themselves lucky. “I get to go home and hug my kid,” he said. “These guys don’t. And they don’t deserve that.”
“Given what you know now will you vote against trump and the GOP in all races coming up?” - reporter probably
“Absolutely not! The GOP will always have my vote!” - this Roofing company owner probably
im deeply confused as to how this isnt the standard follow-up… “would you change your vote if you could?” and “will you continue to vote for the party that has these policies in their platform?”
Actual journalists tend to avoid anything that appears partisan. Their job is to report the news, not to deliver commentary.
And a 20-year campaign by Republicans against mainstream journalists has left them in a position where even straight factual reporting is considered biased by 50% of voters.
I agree that someone should follow up with these people and get them to really consider how their politics are affecting their own daily lives. But that really needs to be dealt with by pundits and talk-show hosts instead of reporters.
right, those actual journalists who are from organizations ejected from the whitehouse and threatened by a fascist takeover of the fcc to lose their licenses for pointing out the king has no clothes.
hows that neutrality workin out for ya, switzerland
kind feels like the story is the zombified population voting against their own best interests and it should be followed up on by everyone with a voice.
this isnt 50 years ago when honesty, decorum, respect existed and the league of women voters ran presidential debates. we are now a non-trivial percent away from no longer being a democracy.
“Well… if they promise that this time it will be different and they will only deport criminals and not the others…”
I think a tinier violin is needed in this case?
Figures the tardigrade would prefer a cello.
That is a cello. It’s just that the microscopic cello shop has a poor selection so it had to opt for a too small cello
PLEASE be Considerate. He THOUGHT he would be Able to Bully Black Children at his Client’s HOMES! He DIDNT expect THIS so be NICE AND RESPECTFUL stupid dumb librul losers!
Pure leopard material yes, but this also highlights where the goalposts have shifted. The business owner fell for “were getting the criminals and rapists” lie, while the admin is rounding up everyone.
According to his lawyer, these employees had their papers in order and no criminal records domestically or in home country. So why were these employees collected? and why are so many republicans okay with this behaviour?
So why were these employees collected?
Brown people.
That, and the fact that there just aren’t as many undocumented immigrants in the US as Trump and his advisors have claimed. So to stoke fear they need to keep the numbers up. Any innocent, law-abiding, legal residents caught up in their net are acceptable collateral damage (in their view).
One can only hope that in 50 years, Trumpism and mass deportations will be a short-lived historical anomaly like McCarthyism and the Red Scare.
So why were these employees collected? and why are so many republicans okay with this behaviour?
it’s racism. always has been. cult leaders give their followers an easy target to blame their shitty lives on, and it works. legal, illegal–doesn’t matter. they’re brown. that’s literally the reason
how can we get to the point where the “why are they doing this?” no longer needs to be asked?
The sad part is that even if the lives of these MAGAs get worse - worse than the lives of the immigrants they look down upon in their home country, they would likely still be racist.
There are pockets in rural America, an obscenely rich country, that are borderline third world country conditions, and they still vote Republican with a sense of superiority and extreme ignorance of their relative standard of living compared to rest of the world.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if some of them were okay with trading electricity and sewage systems (return to 1700s) for racial and religious homogeny.
President Lyndon B. Johnson was correct when he said:
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
That was 60 years ago. It hasn’t changed. The rich and the political elite like it this way.
Yeah, I know, and it’s sad (but not surprising) that it’s still true. I should read up about the larger context of that quote.
I personally believe with zero background knowledge that we’re just not evolved enough to have empathy beyond our physical sphere of influence. Like as an aggregate, unless we personal interact with another human, we seem to have no problem vilifying them. We seem to even be able to hate ppl who look exactly like us too, lol. Civil wars are so ridiculously common in history.
It’s like we tend to hate humans who look nothing like us or exactly like us, lol. Everything between that spectrum is acceptable.
I might be naive, but many Republicans are okay with it just because it hasn’t affected them yet.
Oh, this guy knew these workers, thought of them as friends? Clearly they were just hiding their criminal lifestyle from him. Not like MY friends. Hey, why are there a bunch of white vans outside their house?
They’re OK with it because on the surface level, it’s what they want. Any single little bit of inspection and it falls apart, but they get to call them illegals, criminals, etc and talk about how good a job Trump is doing. They get to claim a win over the Libs, and that is the height of what they want from this presidency.
OH NO
anywayEdit: Just realized this could be misunderstood. The above sarcasm was in the “fuck you, leopards at your face because you and others voted for leopards who eat faces” kind of way.
Trump voter can go fuck himself. Then get back to fuckin work doing what his employees used to do before he voted for Trump.
Himself
Vincent Scardina supported Donald Trump’s tough stance on immigration at the ballot box. But that decision came back to bite the roofing boss when ICE detained a third of his workforce.
He can hire other Magats. They will do the job even better!
My Dad did construction for 40 years. Even before the companies started hiring a lot of immigrants, it’s hard to find roofers.
It’s a hard to find people with the knowledge or ability to learn - that are also not afraid of heights and have the coordination to not fall off and the attention to detail to not make the conditions for other people to fall.
Plus it’s a horrible job. My dad was also a general contractor, and where we live is very hot and dry in the summer. I remember, as a kid, seeing roofers on top of a house in 100+ F heat, mopping hot tar; I thought that must be the worst job there was. When I got older and started working in aerospace, when my boss would say he needed someone to do some unfun task, I’d always volunteer because I’d be thinking, “this is so much better than mopping tar on a hot roof.”
I’d take a tar mop in the summer over the winter any day
I used to work outside in -10F regularly. Far preferable to 100F.
Its easier to get warm than cool.
Try -20F, and soaked in sweat. Winter flat roofing sucks
But no Amuricans want to do back breaking labor for only $5 an hour, and without healthcare or three weeks vacation. Where am I supposed to find new labor to exploit so cheaply?
AI
It’s not even want it’s can’t afford to.
Yeah, those American workers get kind of pissed when they get handed a 1099 at the end of the year and owe Taxes, Social Security/Medicare, and fees. A US citizen gets injured & starts to seek benefits because of it the state or feds probably likely to review if they are not just classifying employees as contractors.
DOH thanks!
