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Wait, are they really not getting paid? Dont get me wrong id rather see them just lose the job and or get deported (to the bottom of the ocean), but if they arent getting paid that a lil karma at least. And funny.
Also please dont lump A'nold in with those scumbags.
They're probably getting their monthly salary but that 50k bonus requires 5 years "service" so they'll all be out of a job before then
I don't think this meme is accurate. ICE agents aren't in it for the money.
???
I mean a large portion are in it for the money. The power trip is a bonus for many. Let's be objective here
The laying off of massive amounts of civil servants made a desperate class of people that needed to pay their mortgages and support their families. Now you've got ice, an agency beholden to following through their contracts or forced to pay back money they already spent.
Objectively, the meme is wrong because they know they're not getting paid :)
This is one thing I never understood... how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?
He doesn't just screw over workers, he does it for his business partners, too. Wealthy and powerful people... people who can hire hitmen and also pay to make the evidence disappear. If they can kill Epstein why wouldn't they have gotten rid of him in the 80s and 90s when he didn't have as much power as he does now?
The american legal system is catered to one principal:
if you owe your bank $10 that's your problem, if you owe your bank $10 billion dollars, that is your banks' problem.
This is why salespeople and scammers flourish in america: get enough loans and debt and you can uno reverse any monetary problem here but often rich people and bullshit artists are the only ones who have enough collateral to get that kind of debt.
The courts are designed to take a lifetime to figure that kind of stuff out - it keeps going as long as you have money. This is why republicans are obsessed with the estate tax: if you pass it on to your kids before the scam gets sorted out, all the ill gotten gains are laundered. Your kids are set for life and all the people you conned foot the bill.
It also shows how much a high estate tax would cripple these incentives.
This is why republicans are obsessed with the estate tax: if you pass it on to your kids before the scam gets sorted out
Same thing with the AI bubble. Sure it will burst, companies will go bankrupt, millions of peoples retirement savings will disappear, and many will suffer /die from the economic aftershock...
BUT
The rich will have already realized their dividends / capital gains
The rich will have already purchased the land / property
The rich will already have the data centers / ram / AI
They rich will have their assets and eat ours to
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The whole system is a kleptocracy and the AI bubble bursting will make late stage capitalism worse not better.
Unscrupulous people use other unscrupulous people as patsies... They're all so up their own ass that they don't think they'll be the one that has one over on them. They are all narcissistic.
My understanding is the not paying people is “legit” in that the remedy is the courts but his lawyers are good at making it too costly to pursue. If they believe they weren’t paid, they should sue: notice there are few judgements against him like that.
It’s just like all his shell companies. During the first reign of terror, there were articles that they found over 500 companies with payments going back and forth so the web was impossible to decipher and there were always Trump owned companies with huge losses/writeoffs. I don’t remember them actually finding anything illegal but it sure smells like it. He even bragged it was so complex that the irs didn’t have enough auditors to dig through that for tax fraud. It was almost a dare. What happened to that?
I don't get it either. My cousins lived in Southern New Jersey, near Atlantic City, where all of his casinos went bankrupt. He was notorious for not paying local contractors and some went into horrible debt due to his refusal to pay. Yet that whole region is crazy about him. I suppose they just don't have very good memories around there.
Those lead pipes are really paying off.
Same way I stuck with my wife for 20 years despite her being a rotten person - I kept hoping it would get better, and she'd string me along with promises... Then she cheated on me with our son's best friend's dad, that finally made it easy to leave, and once I left, hindsight made all the previous mistreatment so much more obvious...
Yo dawg pardon my language but fuck that bitch. Stay strong and sorry someone played with your heart like that. Your example speaks volumes for your son.
He doesn't screw over the Epstein class, and that's all that really matters
What if in our world of infinite universal timeline probabilities, this is the timeline where Trump always gets what he wants?
To think there's a potentiality where he always loses and we missed it by this much.
This is one thing I never understood… how does he keep getting away with it? Repeatedly screwing people over and over and over and over again and somehow no one doing shit about it?
All his fans and supporters believe that he only screws over their common enemies. In fact, they love that he does that. They falsely believe that he would never screw over them. He will never eat their faces. They think they're the in group with Trump.
An authoritarian typically keeps the military and police well-fed, or alternatively allows them to rob the plebs as they see fit. Otherwise bad things may happen to the emperor.
Unfortunately, Trump is likely to kick the bucket before he sees any blowback of this.
yeah he did trash all those science fundings for a reason and part of it is to pay his own policing force aka ICE
sadly I would not put it past a lot of those psychopaths to do it for free.
No doubt that some of them are doing it for the love of the game. 🫤
Maybe some of them just show up in masks with their mallninjashit, and they’re not on the payroll and no one asks if they did the two week training.
I was recently thinking, this recruitment drive must be heaven for the common proud boys brownshirt.
Who of them wouldn't sign up, they get to harm immigrants, they get cover from the very top if they catch public attention, they get gear, and they might even get paid for it.
This is what he meant by "stand back and stand by"
Its the old bait and switch. Did you know that Federal Deposit Insurance can be paid out in a period of decades? They can make you ''whole'' over a period of time that can stretch over years. Technically you will not lose any money but practically you can die before you get your money.
Way to big of a violin. Great image tho.
Is that an electrophoresis gel?
Apparently scientists found a way to draw a violin that's 13 microns wide. Fuckin crazy, idk how they did it, but I love that they did.
Ok, what did I miss?
ICE had a signup bonus (dunno how much, $4000, I think?), and nobody received it yet.
The guy who is 'famous for not paying' is Trump, who has a history of being in debt/not paying his debts off.
Specifically not paying contractors. He would regularly hire contractors for jobs at Trump buildings/companies where it was x% up front and x% on completion. Then when they came for the completion percent he would just not pay and make them take him to court. Sometimes he paid, but other times they just couldn't afford to litigate as long as he could so they'd get stiffed.
Edit: USA Today Article because citing your sources is important: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/
Or paying the buses to his rally in winter but not back, abandoning a ton of his followers to freeze the night or find other ways home.
Afaik the bonus promised is 50k, which is a bit more significant. Leads to people joking that they'd like to join, get the bonus and then just not do the job.
The government legit removed student loan repayment programs from a lot of agencies and gave them to ICE like those dipshits will ever use them.
You have to stay with the agency several years. The plan is to fire them before paying.
Exactly it's a retention bonus that gets paid out in stages, but DHS can also recoup all of it if the agent/goon leaves before the period expires. I wouldn't be surprised if they dangle a "reenlistment" bonus near the end of the term which locks them in longer.
It’s even better because when they do get paid if they leave before their 5 years they have to pay back their bonuses INCLUDING tax.
So they’re kinda paying for the privilege of hunting minorities. Really sick to think about.
Pedos are like that. Diddy is well known for never paying anybody, which is why 50 Cent was given all of that footage.
