Now he can hire American workers, right?
What do you mean that American workers don’t want to work for less than minimum wage and no benefits?
No one wants to work anymore!
While being arrested, right? Because they arrested the business owner who broke the law several times, right?
Adding to Scardina’s annoyance, the men had valid work permits and pending asylum applications, according to their attorney Regilucia Smith. “They are legally here,” she said. “Valid work permit, not even close to expired… again, no criminal records—not here, not in Nicaragua.”
Vincent is another MAGA POS, zero sympathy. Hopefully this asswipe ends up on a roof with 30 C + temperatures.
“It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,”
This guy doesn’t understand how friendship works. You guys are my friends, and that’s why I’ve voted in someone to ruin your life, because I care about you! But this is mildly inconvenient for me too guys, c’mon think about me.
The real problem is that the MAGA movement doesn’t really believe Trump’s literal words. Because the man lies so often, they seem to just go on vibes. But then when Trump actually does something he said he’d do, the voters are suddenly all surprised Pikachu when Trump’s actions don’t match their personal interpretation of what they thought he meant.
This is quite amazing to me since it seems to be the actual case. The people who were saying we shouldn’t listen to him, but watch what he does, were openly advocating for a man whose word they know means nothing. It’s perplexing. Politicians are an untrustworthy lot one and all, but god damn, the open and naked willingness to vote for someone whose position they can’t know, whose promises carry absolutely no weight, that’s truly stupendous.
They are at once admitting Trump says horrible shit, but also that he’s an inveterate liar and that makes it better somehow. Both him being honest and dishonest should be equally disturbing. That’s some next level cognitive dissonance.
He’s a hypocritical pos
They should ask these people the real question: “Will you now start listening to the people who have been warning others of Trump?”
Guy is a fucking roofer, and he’s voting to kick out all foreigners. What a putz.
I was in roofing for a few years, and believe me, you want a Mexican ( or some other south of the border) crew working on your roof. They are fast, quiet, efficient, and fast. They will get it done, and get it done right.
Only a terrible businessman, and really stupid person would vote for the guy who is expressly saying that he intends to hurt your workers, and your business. “Yep, Im voting for the guy who is promising to ruin my business!”
This guy deserves everything he gets.
They are fast, quiet, efficient, and fast.
Wow that’s really fast
They call him Gonzales for a reason
Muy speedy
yeah… ya’ll really dumb enough to ignore every sign this was going to happen. Thing is, you were always racist. You’re just upset that your wealth is at risk from voting in a psychopath that doesnt care about anybody but himself.
“I didn’t vote for this”
Won’t someone please think of the business owners!? These are actual businesses being impacted by this shit. :(
Small businesses don’t count, we only care about large multinational conglomerates!
I hope all these maga trump supporting idiots go bankrupt
i could only hope.
but it’s not even close to the amount of punishment they deserve.
they ruined the lives and communities of so many people, and are upset that they hurt them so much they can no longer exploit them.
HE’S their EMPLOYER! If there were any justice he’d be in jail for employing them.
Adding to Scardina’s annoyance, the men had valid work permits and pending asylum applications, according to their attorney Regilucia Smith. “They are legally here,” she said. “Valid work permit, not even close to expired… again, no criminal records—not here, not in Nicaragua.”
Remember, it’s not only the people who are here illegally that are being arrested/deported.
It’s important to remember that it isn’t your citizenship or documentation that is the problem, it is your origin. If you were born somewhere else, they want you out, no matter what your legal situation is. Once they get done rounding up the undocumented, they will come for the rest. They don’t even respect birthright citizenship, which is baked into the Constitution, they certainly aren’t going to respect green cards or naturalized citizenship.
If you were born someplace else, you are unwelcome by the MAGA Nazis, and they will send you back, citizen or not.
Elon Musk has been a US citizen for more than 20 years, and they were talking about deporting him after he questioned Dear Leader and some of the Project 2025 agenda. And he’s not even a person of color.
They definitely don’t care about the law. They only care about homogeneity in both thought and appearance.
Trump voter can go fuck himself. Then get back to fuckin work doing what his employees used to do before he voted for Trump.
Himself
Vincent Scardina supported Donald Trump’s tough stance on immigration at the ballot box. But that decision came back to bite the roofing boss when ICE detained a third of his workforce.
He can hire other Magats. They will do the job even better!
My Dad did construction for 40 years. Even before the companies started hiring a lot of immigrants, it’s hard to find roofers.
It’s a hard to find people with the knowledge or ability to learn - that are also not afraid of heights and have the coordination to not fall off and the attention to detail to not make the conditions for other people to fall.
Plus it’s a horrible job. My dad was also a general contractor, and where we live is very hot and dry in the summer. I remember, as a kid, seeing roofers on top of a house in 100+ F heat, mopping hot tar; I thought that must be the worst job there was. When I got older and started working in aerospace, when my boss would say he needed someone to do some unfun task, I’d always volunteer because I’d be thinking, “this is so much better than mopping tar on a hot roof.”
I’d take a tar mop in the summer over the winter any day
I used to work outside in -10F regularly. Far preferable to 100F.
Its easier to get warm than cool.
Try -20F, and soaked in sweat. Winter flat roofing sucks
But no Amuricans want to do back breaking labor for only $5 an hour, and without healthcare or three weeks vacation. Where am I supposed to find new labor to exploit so cheaply?
AI
It’s not even want it’s can’t afford to.
Yeah, those American workers get kind of pissed when they get handed a 1099 at the end of the year and owe Taxes, Social Security/Medicare, and fees. A US citizen gets injured & starts to seek benefits because of it the state or feds probably likely to review if they are not just classifying employees as contractors.
DOH thanks!
“It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,” he told NBC6
After he said he didn’t really have buyer’s remorse. Fuck this guy.
trumpers never admit buyers remorse, than they will have to reflect on thier decisions.
Scardina says he voted for Trump and still supports many of the former president’s policies, but this isn’t what he signed up for. “Buyer’s remorse? I don’t know, a little bit,” he said.
Maybe a little bit. I mean, that detention and deportation stuff might be just a touch heavy handed. One of these roofers had a little girl! I think. Oh well. Trump must have a plan or something.
I am trying to make it satire, but I don’t think I am managing…
Starting to feel cheap getting so much use out of this
Should have used the version of this picture that makes his face bigger
They’re the same picture.
thanking intensifies
No I think using memes featuring the guy’s real face are important.
But that is his real face. /s
Pure leopard material yes, but this also highlights where the goalposts have shifted. The business owner fell for “were getting the criminals and rapists” lie, while the admin is rounding up everyone.
According to his lawyer, these employees had their papers in order and no criminal records domestically or in home country. So why were these employees collected? and why are so many republicans okay with this behaviour?
So why were these employees collected? and why are so many republicans okay with this behaviour?
it’s racism. always has been. cult leaders give their followers an easy target to blame their shitty lives on, and it works. legal, illegal–doesn’t matter. they’re brown. that’s literally the reason
how can we get to the point where the “why are they doing this?” no longer needs to be asked?
The sad part is that even if the lives of these MAGAs get worse - worse than the lives of the immigrants they look down upon in their home country, they would likely still be racist.
There are pockets in rural America, an obscenely rich country, that are borderline third world country conditions, and they still vote Republican with a sense of superiority and extreme ignorance of their relative standard of living compared to rest of the world.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if some of them were okay with trading electricity and sewage systems (return to 1700s) for racial and religious homogeny.
President Lyndon B. Johnson was correct when he said:
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
That was 60 years ago. It hasn’t changed. The rich and the political elite like it this way.
I might be naive, but many Republicans are okay with it just because it hasn’t affected them yet.
Oh, this guy knew these workers, thought of them as friends? Clearly they were just hiding their criminal lifestyle from him. Not like MY friends. Hey, why are there a bunch of white vans outside their house?
So why were these employees collected?
Brown people.
That, and the fact that there just aren’t as many undocumented immigrants in the US as Trump and his advisors have claimed. So to stoke fear they need to keep the numbers up. Any innocent, law-abiding, legal residents caught up in their net are acceptable collateral damage (in their view).
One can only hope that in 50 years, Trumpism and mass deportations will be a short-lived historical anomaly like McCarthyism and the Red Scare.
They’re OK with it because on the surface level, it’s what they want. Any single little bit of inspection and it falls apart, but they get to call them illegals, criminals, etc and talk about how good a job Trump is doing. They get to claim a win over the Libs, and that is the height of what they want from this presidency.
