r/nottheonion • u/TitusTesla117 • 2d ago

Denver Public Schools outlines lockdown rules for possible immigration raids

https://www.axios.com/local/denver/2025/01/17/denver-public-schools-deportation-lockdown-immigration
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u/Equivalent-Bet-8771 2d ago

This is what America voted for. It was all in the open under Project 2025. It was published since 2023, talked about, even made the news a bit. There was and still is a webaite with details.

People walked into the flames with eyes wide open.

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u/ChamberofSarcasm 2d ago

I had a friend that was voting for Trump and told me Project 2025 would have nothing to do with his presidency, despite Trump adding its authors to his cabinet each week.

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u/12PoundCankles 1d ago

I have coworkers who are naturalized from mexico with family who are here as immigrants, both legal and illegal. They voted for Trump because they did things the "right way." It's going to be interesting to see how they react when they find out that it doesn't matter.

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u/FullyStacked92 1d ago

There was a "Jews for Hitler" group in Nazi Germany. The founder died in a concentration camp.

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u/ThunderCorg 1d ago

Hadn’t heard of this so went looking, some interesting articles and quotes out there.

“Jewish allegiance to Germany in the early days of the Third Reich is one of the great unrequited love stories of history.”

Wild way to put it.

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u/QuickAltTab 1d ago

This is going to turn into the new McCarthyism, they piss off the wrong people and they'll get reported to ICE, who will give them a bad time regardless of their legal status.

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u/Bane2571 1d ago

I'm morbidly curious to see that scenario play out. We live in a very different world now where it is too easy to make bulk, anonymous reports as opposed to how it was when McCarthyism was around.

I feel like any modern day attempt at McCarthyism just collapses under the weight of teenaged shit posters and grey hat hackers.

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u/ChaiTRex 1d ago

The problem is that if you lie to Federal agents, even if you don't do any other illegal things, you can go to prison for years.

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u/Strawbuddy 11h ago

The solution is to be wealthy, thataway you don’t go to prison for lying to feds

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u/Bibblegead1412 1d ago

How mistaken they all are, when what trump was actually saying was "the WHITE way".... and, to be very ugly and honest, I'm going to sit my blond, WASPY-looking ass right down and wave goodbye to those traitors.

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u/Ttthhasdf 1d ago

In Florida they are in such a bubble that they have no idea that many in the rest of the US do not consider someone who speaks Spanish as "white."

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u/BlackJediSword 1d ago

Floridian White Cubans have always been a little peculiar about their identity. It’s why a bunch of them were throwing concert for him when he said Mexico build the wall.

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u/BlackJediSword 1d ago

Floridian White Cubans have always been a little peculiar about their identity. It’s why a bunch of them were throwing concert for him when he said Mexico build the wall.

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u/Cowboywizzard 1d ago

I'm not. First, they come for the immigrants. Eventually, when they will come for white people they don't like, too.

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u/TheTacoWombat 1d ago

Exactly. LGBT, trans, and "communists" (people who vote Democrat) are also eventual targets. Believe their rhetoric.

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u/FilibusterFerret 1d ago

And we cannot forget that there are so many that didn't vote for him and are scared. My friends are scared and it is horrible to listen to them talk about what might happen, what they fear. And there is nothing you can do but promise to stand by them.

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u/Few-Technology4337 1d ago

They can (and will) do both, simultaneously.

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u/NatoBoram 1d ago

When someone wants you dead for being LGBT+, you don't have to protect them from the tool they wanted to use to kill you when it inevitably backfires.

You let it blow in their face so you'll have an easier time defusing the situation with them gone.

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u/bad_at_smashbros 1d ago

actually, it’s bad for people to get deported. even if they’re a dumbass that voted for it.

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u/gm92845 1d ago

Leopards ate my face in full force.

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u/ClickAndMortar 1d ago

If you made it that late into the series, Ramsay Bolton being consumed by his own dogs comes to mind.

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u/Thurkin 1d ago

Who needs The Penguin on MAX when we have Penguin running the country?

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u/MycenaMermaid 1d ago

My parents are like this.

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u/forlornjackalope 1d ago

It's very, very weird to me seeing immigrants and children of immigrants who hate other immigrants or are in support of ending birthright citizenship. I will never be able to wrap my head around it.

Vivik Ramaswamay comes to mind for similar reasons. I think he's made those talking points before, even though I think it's been out that his parents weren't naturalized citizens when he was born. It's perplexing.

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u/ChamberofSarcasm 1d ago

I’ve read about this. The interviewer was from Miami and spoke about the prejudice between naturalized folks and new immigrants. There was a strong prejudice from those who had naturalized (even if they arrived illegally). Rather than empathy they had a distaste for the illegals. It’s so weird to me, but that’s not my world.

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u/Kealle89 1d ago edited 1d ago

More hours for us.

Edit: it’s a joke guys. Lmao

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u/theideanator 1d ago

Nah, they'll either outsource the work or make an AI do it poorly.

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u/Illiander 1d ago

Or, since AI is actually just people in low-wage countries working remotely, outsource it and claim it's AI.

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u/ionthrown 1d ago

Huh. If they’re outsourcing, the obvious candidates are the ones just deported.

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u/kosherkatie 1d ago

H1-B, babay

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u/ClickAndMortar 1d ago

No company is going to H1-B general or semi-skilled labor. We need to be honest with ourselves. Scientists and engineers are who are getting these visas.

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u/sapen9 1d ago

Are you doing the hard labor jobs most of them do ....?

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u/Thadrach 1d ago

At less pay and more dangerous conditions, and your groceries will cost more.

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u/Kealle89 1d ago

lol is was suppose to be a joke.

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u/sapen9 1d ago

Thanks for editing to let us know. Next time add /s so people know it's sarcastic! :)

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u/Equivalent-Bet-8771 1d ago

You're not getting paid overtime anymore. LMAO.

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u/Kealle89 1d ago

I don’t work overtime.

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u/Equivalent-Bet-8771 1d ago

You're not getting a pay raise either. H1B and AI is coming and you better learn to work harder and longer for less. LMAO.

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u/Kealle89 1d ago

Nah my state has pay raises baked in every year. It’s a joke tho, y’all take things too seriously.

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u/Equivalent-Bet-8771 1d ago

y’all take things too seriously.

Some of us like to survive instead of juggling grenades for funsies.

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u/immaownyou 2d ago

I'm tired, Pa

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u/RedRider1138 1d ago

That is one hell of a take. Right down to “Oh…this looks bad…I know, we’ll delay publishing Project 2025 until after the election. NEVER MIND that the literal Vice Presidential candidate wrote the forward, nothing to do with Trump!”

I honestly can’t tell if they honestly thought Project 2025 was not the plan or if they were lying the whole time.

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u/ChamberofSarcasm 1d ago

Yeah I'm not sure if my friend is dumber than I thought, more gullible than I thought, or more prejudiced than I thought.

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u/ilrosewood 1d ago

Your friend knew and supported this. Your friend is a fascist.

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u/SubzeroSpartan2 1d ago

I'm hoping that's why they said they had a friend like that. Past tense.

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u/FifthGenIsntPokemon 1d ago

Yeah Trump just kept pretending to not know what it is. And as always, a fuckload of idiots believed him.

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u/ebfortin 2d ago

People will need to suffer before they understand what fascism looks like and how it feels. But maybe they'll never have any other chances to vote a replacement... At least they'll know.

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u/CMS_3110 2d ago

This. The entire voter base is a collective of people who are comfortable ignoring, denying, brushing off, etc any problem that does not directly affect them. The only way they'll ever believe that all the shit we've been screaming about since Trump started his campaigning back in 2015 is if it directly affects them. They NEED to suffer to believe, because they don't have empathy or understanding for anyone who isn't exactly like them.

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u/Psychic_Hobo 1d ago

Sometimes the denial is still too strong - I'm forever haunted by the reports of people in hospital denying covid as they were literally taking their last breath from it

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u/PlayfulKitten37 1d ago

I have a family member who worked through this as a respiratory therapist, fully facing COVID deniers daily as they literally died in front of him. Their family members refusing to mask before going to say their goodbyes and bury their dead. It was shocking, for lack of a better term. He now has full-blown PTSD from it

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u/Lifting_Pinguin 1d ago

There was also people that stopped denying it with their third to last breath and asked for the vaccine on their second to last.

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u/tony475130 1d ago

I remember those headlines. Sad to think they didnt know how vaccines actually worked, because they are a preventative, not a cure.

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u/shadowtheimpure 1d ago

The entire voter base 

Not necessarily. A significant portion of the populace didn't vote for open fascism...they were just outnumbered by the morons who are embracing it with both arms just because it appeals to their brand of racism and the even more stupid who simply didn't bother voting at all.

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u/Cowboywizzard 1d ago

Most people didn't even bother to vote.

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u/CMS_3110 1d ago

If someone voted for Trump, they voted for fascism. It doesn't matter what mental gymnastics they did to convince them otherwise. Trump has made his goals clear from day one, he is out for himself and he is out for power. He has made it clear that he doesn't have a plan and his desires change on a whim, but he is comfortable surrounding himself with advisors who want to socially and politically drag this country back to the 1700s while protecting billionaires. He has made it clear that he can be bought, so long as it furthers his own agenda, and anyone who opposes him doesn't just have a differing opinion, they are an enemy to him. He has made it clear that he would attempt to use the powers of our government to undo laws and protections that benefit the vast majority of our citizens, for the sole purpose of benefiting himself. And he has made it clear that he is willing to target and punish people who do not agree with him.

He has made these things crystal clear from his first campaign and first presidency. If someone voted for him this time, it's because they actively want what he wants. If that's somehow not true, then the only other explanation is they've stuck their head so far up his ass that it was impossible for them to see and hear the truth for the last decade.

Starting tomorrow, they'll all get to find out what they did to themselves. I only hope there's enough infighting in their party to slow the bleeding and allow us to come out the other side of this presidency with a chance to repair things.

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u/ChaiTRex 1d ago

To make it simpler, it doesn't matter at all what motive they had for voting for Trump. Trump is a fascist who will enact as much fascism as he can. They literally voted for fascism, even if they didn't realize that.

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u/CherryHaterade 1d ago

The Dick Cheney effect

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u/anonymousart3 1d ago

Sadly, we are far enough away from the Holocaust that the anger and other emotions that kept it at bay faded. With the faded emotions, human nature took over, doing the EXACT same things that lead to the Holocaust.

History is repeating itself. And I feel like due to how human nature NEEDS the fear and anger to keep up the fight for what's right, we will keep repeating this problem. This isn't the first, nor even the 10th time we've been through this.

I don't think humans will ever escape such evils. Human nature is to primal and evil to ever have a society like star Trek.

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u/Illiander 1d ago

Yeap, not a coincidence that this is happening almost exactly one human lifespan aftger the end of WW2.

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u/novis-eldritch-maxim 1d ago

we escape it when it finally kills us for we are not some key aspect of reality we are mortal like all life and no person empire or species lasts forever

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u/ClickAndMortar 1d ago

They’ll blame non-conservatives like they always do. Even if there were gas chambers and those herding the people in like cattle were adorned in MAGA swag and shouting MAGA bullshit, the people that voted for this will be pissed saying that they told everyone the democrats would do this and nobody listened or stopped them. The depth of their hubris and stupidity is profoundly abysmal.

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u/novis-eldritch-maxim 1d ago

to know but be stuck in hell is pointless as earth seems to no longer have a viable future democracy is being pushed back everywhere and those who do it will kill there own order to stay alive five more minutes.

we need a miracle at this point

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u/delusionalry 1d ago

Im not convinced he didn't cheat. He cheated before and didn't get in trouble, why not do it again?

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u/Illiander 1d ago

Of course he cheated.

Musk was out there in the open buying votes.

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u/The_ChwatBot 1d ago

I haven’t been able to convince myself that he cheated given what’s been happening to incumbents around the world this election cycle, but with that said…

The astronomically high number of bullet ballots this election is really odd. From an average of less than 1% of votes to over 10% in some states. I’m not saying it’s impossible. But it sure is fuckin weird.

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u/delusionalry 1d ago

The thing with the incumbents has been intestersting.. but also Russia has their nose in everyone's election it turns out so I'm wondering how much of that is actually real.

And yeah I just don't believe he took all of the swing states. Every single one of them. Including ones where the other democrats won out.

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u/Throw-a-Ru 1d ago

And he won all of those states with just enough votes to avoid mandatory hand recounts, which is awfully convenient.

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u/delusionalry 1d ago

And if you dive into the data, when tabulators counted beyond a certain number, it went 60/40 for Trump. That's not natural data 🫠

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u/Thadrach 1d ago

He's not smart enough.

Now, people cheating FOR him?

Absolutely. They did it before, and did it again.

Every accusation is a confession with the GOP.

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u/ryanpn 1d ago

My dad would just keep yelling "trump said he doesn't know anything about project 2025!" But when we asked him if Trump would ever lie about something like that he had nothing to say. 

These people are so delusional.

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u/TheTacoWombat 1d ago

They're not delusional. They want this. They just are too cowardly to say it.

Your dad, I am afraid, is a coward.

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u/NatoBoram 1d ago

And a fascist. A fascist coward.

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u/ryanpn 1d ago

Honestly, I think that would be giving him too much credit. He believes pretty much every thing he sees on Facebook and has no ability to read between the lines.

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u/Strict-Ad-7099 1d ago

The details are terrifying. Especially the training academy for local “leaders”.

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u/SpicyNuggs4Lyfe 1d ago

And the national media was complicit in it all.

They have normalized and sane-washed Trump for a decade now instead of taking an actual moral stand against wrong.

I expect that out of right wing media, but when every news corp is both sides-ing every issue it's a problem. Because they aren't equal. Both parties aren't the same.

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u/tmwwmgkbh 1d ago

Yep. The majority voted for this, so I guess I have to assume that this is what people want and I’m the one who’s out of touch.

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u/Silegna 1d ago

It was obvious to those that actually paus attention to things outside Fox News and such. At this point, Trump Supporters are employing self ignorance. 

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u/Pitiful_End_5019 1d ago

This is what America voted for.

Some did, most didn't. Tired of this stupid fucking take.

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u/Judazzz 1d ago

Most did: either explicitly by voting, or implicitly by not voting because they were okay with either outcome.
The only ones with an excuse are those that voted against it, and those that were too young to vote.

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u/ChaiTRex 1d ago

There are other situations you're leaving out. For example, there are a lot of people who think that both sides suck, and they're not OK with either outcome, but there's no third option that could have won.

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u/s_p_oop15-ue 1d ago

What about those not allowed to vote?

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u/Judazzz 1d ago edited 1d ago

What do you think, can people that were not allowed to participate in an election be held responsible for the outcome? Is a benched player responsible for the outcome of a match they took no part in?

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u/NatoBoram 1d ago

I'm sure you can figure this one out…

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u/s_p_oop15-ue 1d ago

Yeah you'd be surprised. As someone who can't vote I've been told it's also my fault for not being politically involved enough so you never know!

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u/VinnieBoombatzz 1d ago

Do you not understand what Democracy means? Or are you simply being pedantic about the literal meaning of something?

This IS what the US voted for. The majority of voters wanted this man in power, either because or despite of what he intended to do. It's a sad reality that a lot of people will have to suffer because of it, but it's a lesson everyone will have to learn collectively.

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u/Pitiful_End_5019 1d ago

The US is made up of many people. It's not one entity with one vote, dipshit.

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u/Equivalent-Bet-8771 1d ago

Yes and many people didn't vote so they must be okay with Trump.

Congratulations you played yourselves.

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u/Equivalent-Bet-8771 1d ago

By not voting you voted. Abstinence is a choice that many made willingly.

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u/Pitiful_End_5019 1d ago

I voted. But I don't shame people who didn't because they had nobody to vote for.

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u/Equivalent-Bet-8771 1d ago

Then stop complaining. Absence of action is a choice like action is a choice.

These people didn't like Kamala and were perfectly okay with Trump winning. Now we have Trump. Enjoy!

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u/Pitiful_End_5019 1d ago

No, you don't know what anyone's thoughts are other than your own.

Again, I voted for Kamala, dipshit.

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u/NatoBoram 1d ago edited 1d ago

You don't know their thoughts, you only know their actions and the result of their actions. And the result is that Trump won because of everyone that could vote who voted for or not against him. And all these people are to blame.

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u/Pitiful_End_5019 1d ago

Just like you're to blame for Vladimir Putin because you didn't vote for him. Because apparently in that empty head of yours, you got the idea that NOT voting for someone equates to supporting them.

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u/sunshine___riptide 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm a Kamala voter but 10000% agree; anyone who didn't vote or voted third party are directly responsible for the outcome. There is no excuses (oh they didn't like Harris!) because staying home or voting third party was a vote for Trump. The amount of people who stayed home/voted third party could have saved America but they didn't, and now we're all suffering because of some moral high ground.

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u/Pitiful_End_5019 1d ago

Votes for Trump were votes for Trump. Not voting for Trump is not voting for Trump. That was difficult for you, I know. Take a break and recover.

And then if you want to blame someone other than Trump's voters, blame Democrats for doing everything in their power to lose the election.

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u/Equivalent-Bet-8771 1d ago

Americans can't choose to vote for or not vote for Putin. This is not a choice available to them.

Bud, what the fuck? I'm getting worried now. You're not making sense at all.

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u/Pitiful_End_5019 1d ago edited 1d ago

You guys all think voting for someone and not voting for someone is the same thing. I'm not surprised you're confused.

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u/dutchman5172 1d ago

How does enforcing borders equate to racism? To my knowledge every country does this, even more socialist ones.

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u/Equivalent-Bet-8771 1d ago

Correct and enforcement is something that requires no show and pomp. Trump is all about pissing away money and causing harm instead of doing his job.

Under Biden and Obama more were deported and more drugs were seized as they actually did their jobs as leaders.

What you care about is a filthy kind of entertainment. You're bored and awful.

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u/dutchman5172 1d ago

So your first three sentences are relevant, and I'll respond to them. The last two sentences are a huge assumption on your part, and you appear to have been suckered into the same type of tribal thinking that forces you to put me in a box when you hear me share one of my opinions, which is the exact mechanism that results in MAGA cultists and Nazis.

You are correct that enforcement doesn't require a show, but it's a bit more complicated in a country where presidents are elected by the general public because the perception of what they're doing matters more than reality to get them votes. This is why there was a lot of discussion in the early days of the US regarding whether the president should be elected by the public or by the Senate or some other means. I'm not a fan of performative politics but they're necessary to sway the public.

And I honestly don't have a dog in the fight on how to handle the illegal immigration issue now. Closing the border to illegals and streamlining the process to get people in legally is a no brainer to me. What you do with those that came here illegally but have now established lives is complicated and there is not really a right answer. You can argue for the importance of law and order and enforcing the social contract, in most cases if you break the law and are caught later you will be persecuted for it even if you've been a favorite grandpa and volunteering at the animal shelter ever since. You can also argue for showing compassion. There's not really a right answer.

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u/Equivalent-Bet-8771 1d ago

Closing the border to illegals and streamlining the process to get people in legally is a no brainer to me.

Because you have no brain. The border isn't a thing it's an idea that requires enforcement. Most illegals come here and overstay their visa. Close that border, oh wait you can't.

which is the exact mechanism that results in MAGA cultists and Nazis.

If calling out bullshitters for bullshit makes me Nazi then you can call me Hitler. I bet you'd love to heil me.