something someone in the BAP thread said like last year and was probably banned was something along the lines of "this time around the administration is doing performative cruelty" and he listed a bunch of examples i only semi-remember but its mostly true. look at how this admin has treated deportation. despite all the bluster its been about 250 days and it still hasn't hit half a million. at this rate maybe 10% of illegal immigrants at most will have been deported by the time trump leaves office.
that sounds like nothing because it is nothing. but because of the media overhyping it it looks worse than it is, same thing with the national guard and ICE being put in places all over the country to restore order, its bombastic and loud and eye catching but its not doing any better than usual. Even the whole ICE hiring! bullshit hasn't amounted to much, its still a job you need a clearance for and the admin has already admitted to at least a third of applicants that made it just to bootcamp (meaning they already got the clearance and the other bullshit) couldn't pass the physical tests. chances are we're going to find out they threw out 90% of applications. which makes sense, considering the high requirements
like the whole government is on the trump train, "all smoke" is the name of the game. the social media is pandering to the young right which also makes sense considering right wing people over 50 just watch fox news and hate the internet.
but its the same bullshit "just you wait, the GOP will deport obama!" nonsense you heard on fox news "breaking news" back in 2009, only because its pandering to millenials instead of boomers and its the first time the gop has done such a thing they're eating it up like catnip.
Someone even said it was just the right wing version of what Biden was doing with their "theater kid goverment" which also makes sense considering how people get their news and who's most likely to be obsessive about it, like they've run the data. Its the same reason american eagle had that ad with sidney sweeney, they've done the data, they know how to pander to non-leftists and they just found out there are way more of them than they thought
like when you look at the data instead of the performance Trump's second term is a fucking failure, its barely doing as good as it was the first time. Like thats the ironic part, the white house this term really is "punk rock" and by that i mean all marketing and no talent. when you actually look at the music, most punk rock is hilariously easy to play, but its the atmosphere more than anything.