• MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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    21 days ago

    I would highly recommend you go to almost any other country than this one right now.

  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Idk why dems don’t discredit this as “Desperately importing wealthy foreign elites”.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      It doesn’t work.

      The right would celebrate that it was ‘triggering teh libs’.

      You can’t beat someone who is only playing to get a rise out of you.

      • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        Sure you can. When Trump breaks them and makes them poor, they’ll have to stop trolling and get serious. A ton of them are starting to wise up and pressure their congressional representatives to do something.

        • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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          20 days ago

          Nope.

          You vastly underestimate their hate.

          When they’re broken, he’ll let them loose on the browns who get all the blame.

          Exactly the same as happened during the first great depression.

          • SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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            19 days ago

            Sure but they’ll stop trying to be silly and get more serious (albeit hateful).

            As Chris Rock said, if a homeless guy has a funny sign, he hasn’t been homeless for long.

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    20 days ago

    At this point, you’d have to be badly mentally challenged if you’re willing to pay to live in U.S

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      20 days ago

      If they are really rich, the US is an amazing place to live and 5m is nothing to them. If one has to save up for that card, it’s a shitty deal.

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    21 days ago

    This is our actual present reality, people. Resist the urge to look away, it will still be there.

    Holy fuck.

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    20 days ago

    “sale of 1,000 Gold Cards this week, raising $5 billion in a single day.”

    Good for you, even if the number is true (it is not) and these keep saleing (it won’t), we just need a year and a half to make back the 2.5 trillion stock market lost in a week.

  • nthavoc@lemmy.today
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    20 days ago

    This is another grift to add to his portfolio of products. For example Trump Steak, Trump Phone, Trump University, Trump Coin, Trump shoes and so on. He never puts his name or face on something unless he knows he has a way to make a ton of money off it by screwing someone over and get away with it. He also doesn’t have to borrow money from banks anymore because the United States assumes the risk.

    Remember that billionaires never spend their own money. Trump always drops a chaff grenade for the media when he is getting ready to do something really stupid using the public’s money. This is one of those moments. So the question is not, “Who is going to buy this?” the question is “What is he about to grift next using tax dollars?”

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      20 days ago

      A EB-5 visa costs ~1 million dollars and has been available since the 1990s. So anyone who wanted one has had plenty of time to get one.

      The new “gold card” intends to replace the existing program.

      Increasing the cost from 1 to 5 million sounds like it would decrease the number of applicants, not increase them. I suspect part of this change will be loosening the requirements to justify the increased cost.

    • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 days ago

      And 5 million today is only half a million in purchasing power two generations ago. And even less three generations ago.

      So basically we are talking about middle class as it used to be defined. Problem in the USA is, very few people now have this money; so quite rightly it seems out of reach for many

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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      20 days ago

      The guy sold beans from the oval office, he’s selling tesslers and golden shoes. This isn’t even close to the weirdest thing he did.

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      20 days ago

      I’d imagine the government but Trump will take credit for it and use it to justify spending more of its money at his resorts

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    21 days ago

    And when you buy one you get a complimentary membership to Trump steaks. Trump steaks, when you want to eat ass without actually eating ass.