• angrystego@lemmy.world
    2·
    38 minutes ago

    I would have thought the number of illegal border crossing would go up - the direction hasn’t been defined.

  • Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    9·
    3 hours ago

    This is a transcript of a meeting. Those are words that trump did say, but this screenshot is cropped deliberately to hide that fact.

    This is one of the typical lies that trump is known to make in speeches. This isn’t a whitehouse staff member publishing those words as a written statement the office stands behind.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
      102·
      9 hours ago

      I’m guessing they mean an over 100% increase of the decrease of the period-over-period amount.

      It’s not necessarily wrong, but it is, in fact, a really, really stupid way of communicating information, which is very on brand of them and their supporters.

      • gabereal@sopuli.xyz
        7·
        8 hours ago

        Listen, if you have to jump through hoops to stretch the meaning of a phrase, just to raise the idea that the phrase might not be completely asinine, it might be a better use of your time to just let it be. You shouldn’t have to do mental gymnastics and word judo just to squeeze a non-obvious semi-literate meaning out of something the leader of the free world said. Don’t do their work for them (unless you are being paid to do their work for them, of course… but get paid up front, because they aren’t very good about honoring contracts).

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 hours ago

          I’m merely trying to explain what I interpret as their logic, not justify it or say that it’s acceptable - it’s not. You and I are in agreement here. The US has clowns leading the country. Absolute fucking clowns.

      • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
        4·
        7 hours ago

        if you can do the linear algebra equations necessary to make all these nonsense statements have a glimmer of truth you should emigrate to the EU while you still can

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      I wonder why so many people think there is something fundamentally different about North Korea and the people there. Sure the media control is a bit tighter, but the same thing is happening there as here, always has been in fact. Media is controlled by the state who are controlled by the elite/wealthy. Because of this, meda lies, they just tune their lies to whoever is watching.

      You don’t NEED to wall off your nation to make people spout lies for you, to make newscasters and printed headlines tell the population that their leader doesn’t poop and that he’s 700 years old and shoots money beams from his navel. The people who want to hear it will repeat it with glee and don’t want to fact check it, and the ones who don’t believe it know enough to be quiet and keep their head down so they can get through the day. The same things are happening here and have been happening here.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        31·
        7 hours ago

        i think the whole hermit kingdom we will kill you and your entire family, plus sentence you to forty years for forced labor is going to be a more impactful difference between north korea, and literally anywhere else in the world.

      • gabereal@sopuli.xyz
        32·
        7 hours ago

        There are a couple fundamental differences between the US and North Korea - in NK, you can’t travel without governmental approval and also you get shot if you try to leave.

        In the US, you can walk to a different state if you so desire (or drive or fly, but those require gov’t ID) and the only thing you need to have if you want to leave the country is paperwork that the other country accepts.

        I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more fundamental differences between the two countries, but those are two big ones that I thought of off the top of my head.

    • Lesrid@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      11 hours ago

      Yes actually, and he’s making some crossings super legal to compensate further.

      • towerful@programming.dev
        2·
        7 hours ago

        AND we are actually sending our best!

        Edit:
        “we”/“our” from US perspective. I’m not from the US. Just felt like a lovely wordplay on the “they aren’t sending their best”

  • teamevil@lemmy.world
    8·
    11 hours ago

    And what official body is in charge of keeping the official record and count of illegal immigrants crossing the border? Seems to me it’s most likely DHS and ice reporting and isn’t it in their own best interest to inflate the numbers or deflate them to appease the Nazis?