• NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
      82·
      2 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.

      • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        13 minutes 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

      • gabereal@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        1 hour 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).

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 hour 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
        2·
        28 minutes 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
        2·
        58 minutes 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.

  • teamevil@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 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?

    • Lesrid@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      5 hours ago

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

      • towerful@programming.dev
        1·
        51 minutes 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”

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
    5·
    5 hours ago

    What percent of immigration is illegal? I’m beginning to suspect Republicans are actually pro immigration (gotta have those slaves) but need to be loudly against it, hence the crackdown on illegal immigrants

    • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
      6·
      3 hours ago

      Trump has (so far) been deporting at a slower rate than Obama’s or Biden s highest rate. He seems to be mostly making a big show to discourage border crossings. It’s kinda working, but even regular travelers on tourist’s visas are getting the 9th degree when entering the country. My daughter’s UK boyfriend was grilled for 90 minutes with questions like, “Why don’t you have more underwear packed?”

      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        44 minutes ago

        Why don’t you have more underwear packed?

        Equally funny whether you interpret it as a nagging motherly figure worried about this young man having enough clothes, someone who really wants this guy to stay longer, or someone who doesn’t understand that laundry is a thing you can wash

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        He seems to be mostly making a big show

        This but amplified from the rooftops. In the criminal business, they call someone like Trump a “distraction.”

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
    15·
    7 hours ago

    Lol illegal crossings caught / reported. The majority of illegals come over legally and just overstay their vacation, education, work, business, or deplomat visa. Why bother crossing illegally when you can just request a vacation visa or day visa and just disappear into the country. (Yes those without passports will have to sneak across but it’s way easier than the Trump administration will have you believe.) Yes thousands get caught but millions go back and forth without. Yes most go back without needing the US government to force them.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    491·
    9 hours ago

    Numbers nobody has seen before. Lol.

    Every Trump action is appearently the best ones ever made in the history of civilization.

    If Jesus would come back, he would be second to Trump in how amazing he is.

    • ooli2@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      55·
      4 hours ago

      this is not political at all. beside the fact that the white house is making the joke! next time the white house is funny, I’ll post on political humor, sorry

  • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    12 hours ago

    numbers that nobody has ever seen before

    Like eleventeen, thirty-twelve, and all those.

    • notabot@lemm.ee
      42·
      11 hours ago

      Good grief, I thought this post was just a joke, but he actually said it. It’s ok though, his term’s nearly over, right? Right??

          • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            3 minutes ago

            It’s gonna be an awful four years, but I genuinely think if he tries to stay in office past 2029, there will be violence. The media would have you believe that his supporters are more galvanized than ever, but here in three and a half years after every country other than Russia has cut all trade ties with us, conservatives are going to realize just how bad Republican politicians are.

            Trump got elected because Biden failed to improve conditions for the vast majority of voters. The next Democrat will win because Trump is making shit so much worse.

            Of course you’ll interact with some extremely prideful Trump supporters who think a tanking stock market and exponentially more expensive eggs are good, but the vast majority of his supporters aren’t out there with MAGA flags and hats and stuffed bears.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    72·
    12 hours ago

    So… how do you reduce something like people crossing a border beyond one hundred percent ?

      • Mothra@mander.xyz
        2·
        54 minutes ago

        I thought of this one but a deportation or just leaving aren’t illegal crossings… So it wouldn’t work!

        And trying to get out of the country crossing illegally is still an illegal crossing, so, it doesn’t make sense

      • Mothra@mander.xyz
        1·
        58 minutes ago

        I also considered this one, illegally crossing in the opposite direction is still illegally crossing, so, it doesn’t explain the math

    • CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de
      3·
      10 hours ago

      For some reason, people will sometimes flip the fraction when calculating decreasing percentages, so this roughly means that the old number of crossings is beyond one hundred percent greater than the current number of border crossings. It’s really dumb