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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that Trump’s mass deportation policy could lead to labor shortages and higher grocery prices.

Experts say agriculture, construction, and healthcare will be hardest hit, with farm output losses estimated between $30 and $60 billion.

Deportations could cost the U.S. economy up to $88 billion annually.

AOC argued that immigrant labor is vital to economic stability, urging Congress to pursue immigration reform.

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[-] prole 41 points 1 day ago

Surely they mean shocked by how affordable eggs are now, right??

How much could an egg cost? 10 dollars?

[-] prole 7 points 1 day ago
[-] astrsk@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago
[-] prole 4 points 1 day ago

It's as Ann as the nose on Plain's face

[-] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

There's always money in the egg stand!

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Should be criminal

[-] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago

Will Americans learn that they dont need to buy meat, and it'll be lighter on their pocket book and on the climate?

[-] lori@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

You do realize that the foods we are going to have a crisis over includes literally all the stuff you eat instead of meat too right

[-] null@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago

Just FYI, jagged_circle is a ragebait troll.

[-] lori@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

That tracks

[-] Rubanski@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

I am no vegetarian but I rarely buy meat, because I can make a succulent meal without meat. I enjoy the occasional BBQ but cooking with tofu and other protein replacements is just so much cheaper and healthier than buying shitty meats on the regular. Just enjoy the occasional, high quality meat

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago
[-] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I like AOC, but I don’t understand why she just says stuff and doesn’t do anything.

She could introduce new legislation everyday, be an obstructionist to the ~~neonazi~~ republican agenda.

Get them on the record voting no to the simple things. Will this stuff pass? No, but that’s not the point.

Do something, don’t just say sound bites

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[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Stop giving Trump a heads up on his mistakes

Can't get rid of him if we keep preventing his fuck ups for him

Same thing happened his whole first term

Pick an obvious huge blunder of his that isn't going to cause global catastrophe for generations to come and just let it happen

Don't help it happen, just silently let it happen.

The courts, congress, secret service, none of it will matter if 150+ million people rush the capital to dispose of this goon

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Stop giving Trump a heads up on his mistakes

Can't get rid of him if we keep preventing his fuck ups for him

I think you're overestimating how much he listens to or cares for what the public thinks. He surrounds himself with yes-men and people beaten into submission. As long as they're going to keep telling him that his policies are making America great, he'll keep doing both whatever dumb shit he thinks of and executing the plans Putin and the Project 2025 authors give him.

[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Most of these idea aren't even Trump's, they come from deranged and corrupt special interest groups

Trump also has a team that manages his image. Mostly because this is what Trump really cares about the most, vanity.

If these two come into conflict, the image team will always win.

Whatever makes Trump look good, that's all he cares about.

Letting him fuck up will force him into damage control and he will never admit being wrong which will only serve to dig himself a deeper hole

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