What do you think of Donald Trump?

[Normchacho]

contestgamer said:

Normchacho said:

 

Did you just argue two contradictory points in two consecutive posts?

"Jay walking is illegal too, people do it and we dont freak out. If taxes were much lower it wouldnt be a problem."

"We have laws and if you break them you get punished - that costs money, it's nothing new."

 

When the main detrement of illegal immigration is supposedly economic, it's stupid to do more damage fixing the problem than the problem itself caused. 

 

I hope you realize the way you're talking about the situation in Mexico is fucking insane. First off, there is no way you could do that much damage to Mexico without generating a huge backlash from Canada and the rest of Central and South America. Canada being the Unted States largest trade partner. China also has a pretty sizable stake in Mexicos economy. So we would be doing a very good job of pissing off pretty much all of our largest trade partners.

Oh, and what would we do doing all this damage for? What's the upside? The damage done in cost alone would heavily outweigh any economic benefit, and the damage it would do to our foreign policy would be immense.

You mention what America could do "if we really wanted to" and I guess you are correct, there is a lot we could do if we really wanted to. But leaving  millions of people to starve because they don't want to pay for a border wall they can't afford? That's just...wrong.

 

Canada and south america needs us way more than we need them. The US is in a very unique and advtanagous position - we can crush most of the rest of the world, especially the powerless countries with minimal foreign blowback due to our control of most of the world economy and international finance systems, not to mention overwhelming military superiority. You think Canada will enact sanctions against us for crushing Mexico? We could pulverize the Canadian economy.  The fact is this is all theoretical - I guarantee the Meican government will pay up pretty quickly once we cripple their economy and perhaps even replace some of their leadership. Yes, it would cost us money to do it, but we'd just charge the Mexicans for that too - in the end they'll pay whatever we want because we could turn their economy in to a stone age trading system. It's not wrong - it's simply an incentive for them to do what Trump wants them to do.

 

So...I actually just think you might be a genuinely bad person. That, or you're just very shortsighted.