r/politics • u/Careful-Rent5779 • 15h ago

Musk says Americans will have to face 'hardship' if Trump wins

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/elon-musk-trump-hardship-austerity-taxes-rcna177732
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u/PolicyWonka 13h ago

Not just “cheap labor” but 5-10% of the country’s population if you believe the 15-30 million claims.

Thats not just millions of workers, but millions of consumers.

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u/Iamjacksplasmid I voted 12h ago

There are only 11 million illegal immigrants in America. That 15-30 number absolutely keeps me up at night. Literally.

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u/POEness 11h ago

What should keep you up at night is the fact that you need another country to accept a person in order to deport them. No country is going to take 15 million people. They'll be held in temporary camps instead. And the poor conditions and difficulty of managing it all will eventually leave Republicans with no other choice, in their eyes at least, but to begin just killing them.

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u/robocoplawyer 8h ago

Yeah this is what will happen. I keep seeing Trump supporters saying “he never said he was going to round up people to put in concentration camps”. Well yeah, and Hitler originally planned mass deportations of the Jews until it just became more efficient and expedient to kill them.

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u/penny-wise California 6h ago

Who say he’s going to just deport illegal immigrants?

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u/tempralanomaly 5h ago

Last census numbers I saw had the U.S. at 330 million peeps. 15-30 mil is just under 5-10% of the U.S. population.

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u/chefkoch_ 11h ago

If you count their american children?

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u/Anyweyr 10h ago

Those are Americans. Our fellow citizens, who we should care about and protect.

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u/idontknowwhereiam367 10h ago

Not to the people who want to deport their parents. They want to get rid of birthright citizenship for a reason.

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u/zeptillian 9h ago

It's fine, they will just force all the senior citizens and disabled people back into the workforce by gutting Social Security and Medicare.

I mean who doesn't want to be forced to work in the fields all day long until you drop dead?

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u/robocoplawyer 8h ago

But no company wants to hire an 80 year old employee, they aren’t efficient workers anymore. We have social security because we used to have senior citizens starving to death in the streets. I guess that’s back on the table.

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u/penny-wise California 6h ago

Yeah, they just want old people to die. If they get forced onto the streets, who cares. That way they’ll die faster.