Trump Squared
Trump Squared
I don’t think Trump is going far enough in his immigration policies. He wants all the illegal migrant criminals out—good, we don’t want criminals in our midst. No criminal, no crime. But the same argument applies to allcriminals—we want them gone, so they won’t commit crimes on us. We could send them all to Mexico but that might prove difficult politically. The solution is to send them somewhere empty and far away, like the British did with Australia. That worked out pretty well in retrospect. True, Australia today might not want planeloads of American criminals deported there, but I have an answer to that: send them to Greenland! All we have to do is buy Greenland, or just take it, and then send all of our criminals there. Bingo, problem solved. This has the added advantage that Greenland is a cold desolate place, unlike Australia, so no one can accuse us of going easy on our criminals. This will solve the crime problem in America. Trump just needs to get tough on crime.
Why limit it to criminals? Why not anyone accused of a crime? The Senate and the House, whose members presumably took an oath to uphold the Constitution, just voted to detain and deport any non-citizen even accused of a crime. 12 Democratic senators and 46 Democratic House members joined Republicans in passing the bill.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/news/misguided-laken-riley-act-fails-to-fix-broken-immigration-system#:~:text=The%20bill%20eliminates%20due%20process,low%2Dlevel%20crimes%20like%20shoplifting.
Yes, but we should extend that to anyone who even thinks of committing a crime (where a crime is any non-white-collar crime). Shoplifting, in particular, must be driven from our land (even the thought of it).
Careful now—those cast out by cancellation seem to wield more sway over right-wing minds than those still in the fold. I can’t shake the feeling there’s a non-zero chance baby Musk stumbles on this post and, with his trademark lack of self-awareness, touts ‘legendary philosopher McGinn’s modest thoughtcrime proposal’ as the hot new feature for Neuralink 2.0!
That would be hilarious.
Trump could make a killing on deporting the criminal class to Greenland. Don’t give him any ideas. He’s always devising new ways to exploit real estate. He’ll simply reopen the mines of Laurion but in Greenland.
I wonder what proportion of the American population would approve of the idea.
But wouldn’t he have to send himself to Greenland?
Logically, yes, but his crimes are not really “crimes” in his book.