FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2025
According to YouGov survey: For the most part, the survey was conducted before the recent news about the man who got shipped to the gulag through "administrative error."
Respondents didn't know about that. This is one of the questions they were asked:
Would you support or oppose the following?
Deporting immigrants without criminal convictions to El Salvador to be imprisoned, without letting them challenge the deportation in court.
Respondents were given four choices, or they could say they weren't sure. At Mediaite, Alex Griffing reports the basic results:
Americans Oppose Imprisoning Migrants in El Salvador Without Trial By More Than 2-to-1 Margin
A recent YouGov poll found that President Trump’s [policy of] deporting migrants to El Salvador without due process is widely unpopular.
The poll conducted between March 28 and April 1 asked 1095 U.S. adult citizens if they support or oppose the following statement: “Deporting immigrants without criminal convictions to El Salvador to be imprisoned, without letting them challenge the deportation in court.”
Only 15% of respondents said they “strongly support” and 11% said they “somewhat support” for a total of 26% supporting the move by the Trump administration to some degree. On the flip side, 46% said they “strongly oppose” and 15% said they “somewhat oppose”—meaning 61% of respondents are against the deportations and indefinite imprisonments. 13% of respondents were “unsure” how they felt.
Let's lay that out so you can see it. Here's how respondents responded:
Would you support or oppose the following?
Deporting immigrants without criminal convictions to El Salvador to be imprisoned, without letting them challenge the deportation in court.
Strongly support: 15%
Somewhat support: 11%
Somewhat oppose: 15%
Strongly oppose: 46%
Not sure: 13%
Fifteen percent say they strongly support these renditions. Judging by appearances, most of them are on-air message providers at the Fox News Channel.
"Oh, am I boring you again?" Jessica Tarlov said.
I keep having the deluded thought that at some point the Cult sees the bible, sneaker, crypto shucker while fucking President is just a much diminished old man, grifting his way to the grave to stay out of jail. But they never keep revising their argument to justify dumping billions of gallons of spring irrigation water into a dry lake bed in winter, or coming up with a game changing tariff formulae where you multiply 4 x 1/4 to get 1 in the denominator. The felon can do no wrong, he can only be wronged. Congratulations.
ReplyDelete"...a game changing tariff formulae where you multiply 4 x 1/4 to get 1 in the denominator..."
DeleteOutstanding.
This is why kids should learn mathematics.
DeleteOne might get a different response if the question were worded differently, like
ReplyDelete“ Would you support or oppose the following?
Deporting ILLEGAL immigrants without criminal convictions to El Salvador WHO HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED BY ICE AND FOUND TO BE MEMBERS OF A TERRORIST GANG. to be imprisoned, although they were not permitted to challenge the decision in court?
ICE hasn’t done such investigations.
DeleteGo ahead, Dickhead, delete it again, you fucking fascist freak.
DeleteWhy stop there, David? Why not include some lurid descriptions of pretty white girls victimized by, well by some other person besides the one being dropped into a hole?
DeleteI trust ICE almost as much as I trust Trump.
DeleteICE rates fucking tattoos like we used to rate beers in the "Chicago Beer Society." Points for color, effervescence, other BS. This is how ICE adds up the deportation points that leads to a professional soccer player with a tattoo of the World Cup sent to the foreign gulag forever. Due process DiC, always. Jesus, the Jews nowadays got no respect for their ancestors.
Deleteif you don't think MS 13 is a menace, then it's easy. Give them all the rights and due process. If that results in lots of MS 13 staying hear, that's no problem.
DeleteIf you think due process isn't a problem, then it's easy. Deport suspected MS 13 on the flimsiest of evidence.
If you acknowledge both problems, then it's hard. How do you strike a balance? I understand why people find ICE's point system unsatisfactory. But, what would you suggest instead?
"WHO HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED BY ICE AND FOUND TO BE MEMBERS OF A TERRORIST GANG."
DeleteHow about: 'who ICE claims to have investigated and who ICE claims are members of a terrorist gang.'
More accurate.
Good point, @8:38. Or, ICE concluded...
DeleteThat leaves the possibility that ICE's conclusions might be wrong.
David, more than half of the ICE arrests the Trump administration has been bragging about were people who were already in prison. If someone is still a threat while in prison, what does that say about our corrections system?
DeleteEveryone is entitled to due process under our constitution.
Delete"Give them all the rights and due process ...."
DeleteIdiot still thinks due process is a privilege and not an entitlement.
I'm pleasantly surprised. Maybe my fellow Americans are not as hopless as I feared.
ReplyDeleteJust give 'em time.
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ReplyDeleteHey keep posting such good and meaningful articles.
very nice work, keep it up
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ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting post. Thank you for posting a lot of interesting posts.
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ReplyDeleteThis is such a great resource that you are providing and you give it away for free.
ReplyDeleteDon't know if this is good of bad, but I think it's an accurate observation.
ReplyDelete“He’s at the peak of just not giving a fuck anymore,” a White House official familiar with Trump’s thinking told The Post. “Bad news stories? Doesn’t give a fuck. He’s going to do what he’s going to do. He’s going to do what he promised to do on the campaign trail.”
Bad, because he is senile.
DeleteBad because he is senile, a nasty piece of work, loves Putin, and hates everyday Americans. Also Project 2025 toadies running the show with evil "genius" President MuXk. So many unforced errors. So many more to come.
DeleteDid watch a Netflix movie about Gitmo. Really good. Just brought back the same bullshit with DiC. You guys hollering about just lock up and torture their fricking terrorists, and us True Patriot rule of law types saying due process. Should have shut the torture down, and punished the perpetrators. Frog marched Rummy to a jail cell just east of the north entrance to the south of Baghdad. Maybe that would have made them think twice about more of the same bullshit, this time abducting folks in America. But they got the same cheerleaders. Give the Nazis an inch...
Simultaneously threatening their social security safety net while disappearing 4 trillion dollars of their investment dollars is the kind of juggling US citizens are being treated to by a "couldn't give a fuck" president and his minions? Well done.
Deletewhile disappearing 7 trillion dollars of their investment dollars
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Very good written information.
ReplyDeleteVery good written information.
ReplyDeleteTrump laid a 17 percent tariff on imports from...Israel.
ReplyDeleteThere's always going to be a silver lining.
DeleteD. Trump is taking an early lead over D. Trump as the worst president in American history.
ReplyDeleteThe smart money's on D. Trump.
DeleteI thought the convicted felon was in the running.
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ReplyDelete"Americans Oppose Imprisoning Migrants"
"Deporting immigrants without criminal convictions to El Salvador"
Isn't it funny how you Soros bots can call them both "migrants" and "immigrants", depending on what helps confuse the public.
Are they "immigrants"? Have they applied for and received a green-card? No they didn't. They are no "immigrants". Soros-bots from Mediaite (or whatever Soros-funded globalist assholes did this) are lying. No surprise there.
Instead, the question needs to be this: Would you support or oppose deporting illegal migrants the fuck out of the country?
Try this question on yourself, Bob, and see what the most likely answer is.
Cope, Soros-bot.
DeleteThe government must massively cut spending, even though that will take away some valuable programs. Here’s why.
ReplyDeleteInterest on the national debt is enormous and rapidly going up. In 2023 it was $660 million. In 2025 it’s projected at over $900 billion.
Total income tax revenue is about $2 trillion. Almost half of the income tax collected is used to pay interest.
The government provides $3 trillion of services by borrowing $2 trillion annually.
Raising taxes would help, but cannot solve the problem. If everyone’s income tax were raised by a whopping 25 percent, that would raise $500 billion. The deficit would still be $1.5 trillion and growing.
Conclusion. The most urgent thing is massively cut spending. We cannot support government services by simply borrowing greater and greater amounts of money each year.
The government must massively cut spending, even though that will take away some valuable programs. Here’s why.
ReplyDeleteInterest on the national debt is enormous and rapidly going up. In 2023 it was $660 million. In 2025 it’s projected at over $900 billion.
Total income tax revenue is about $2 trillion. Almost half of the income tax collected is used to pay interest.
The government provides $3 trillion of services by borrowing $2 trillion annually.
Raising taxes would help, but cannot solve the problem. If everyone’s income tax were raised by a whopping 25 percent, that would raise $500 billion. The deficit would still be $1.5 trillion and growing.
Conclusion. The most urgent thing is massively cut spending. We cannot support government services by simply borrowing greater and greater amounts of money each year.
I see, so billionaires whose tax rate is predominantly in the form of capital gains would get the same 25% increase as those with the top marginal tax rate. You’ve either not thought this out or are as usual engaging in dishonest rhetoric here. Go read up on this subject and get back to us without the bullshit talking points.
DeleteTargeting and firing IRS enforcement is a giant clue regarding the agenda of this administration.
DeleteTriggering a recession and inflation should go a long way to solving this country’s financial problems. DiC voted for this, Pete Hegseth, and RFK Jr., and has the fucking temerity to show up here and tell us how to solve our pressing problems.
DeleteFascism, the historian Robert O. Paxton writes, must create an overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions.
DeleteUS Senate Republicans pass measure to move forward on Trump's tax cutsApril 5, 2025
DeleteNon-partisan analysts say the Trump agenda, if enacted, would add about $5.7 trillion to the federal government's debt over the next decade. Senate Republicans contend the cost is $1.5 trillion, saying that the effects of extending existing tax policy that was scheduled to expire at the end of this year should not be counted in the measure's cost.
Anyone who takes Dickhead in Cal seriously needs to have his head examined.
Non-partisan analysts say all Democrats are retards.
DeleteDavid in Cal,
DeleteIt could be worse. The government could be eating our pet cats and dogs.
Yes @9:47 we saw this in Germany before the ascension of Hitler. Their entire financial system had broken down.
DeleteOur growing national debt and deficit today are an overwhelming crisis.Yet a lot of people act as if we can avoid the consequences by simply closing our eyes and ignoring it. Trump and Musk are hated because they’re waking us up to reality out of a pleasant dream.
They were being forced to pay punitive penalties to France and England because of WW1, you fucking fascist freak Dickhead. That was the cause of their inflation, you ignorant piece of shit lying fascist freak.
DeleteTrump and Musk have convinced me the only way out of the deficit problem is to import more South American gang-bangers.
Delete"Problem" solved.
David in Cal,
DeleteWhat the fuck is "revenue"?
I was in such bad debt, I had to cut my children's food expenses by 95%.
DeleteAnd the days my children have enough strength to get out of bed in the morning, they thank me for starving them to death.
Delete@10:18’s snark actually has some wisdom. If half your salary is going to pay interest on your debt, then you will not be able to afford many essentials.
DeleteAfter four years of the worst deficits in history DiC has deluded himself into thinking that the felon and the President won't blow up the deficit even worse this time around. How the fuck you pay down the deficit while the economy spirals down David?
DeleteSnark?
DeleteI'll have you know I had a 3.95 GPA in my economics classes at Trump University.
David in Cal,
DeleteCall me when we can't afford a standing army.
There is not a serious bone in Trump’s body regarding the national debt. We will be lucky to avoid stagflation. Over 5 trillion dollars in wealth lost in the last couple days. As usual DiC is FOS.
ReplyDeleteDavid in Cal,
ReplyDeleteThe thing you have to remember with Trump's tariffs, is that there is nothing business about them. They are strictly personal.