Cause otherwise midterms discussion will be scattered around a bunch of separate Culture War thread posts. And it's nice to have more off-the-cuff rapid reactions in a dedicated megathread.
The first thing I've noticed so far: if the exit polls are correct, Americans are very pessimistic about AI.
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I wonder if this is a veiled threat.
Hypothesis: He knows that business interests will see an opportunity to pursue de facto amnesty, etc., as a way to drive down wages, and he thinks that they will try to maneuver the administration into accepting it. By presenting a fallback plan that is a threat to their interests, he hopes to get them to back off. As a fallback plan it may be politically costly to Trump and Vance, but no more costly than backing down on immigration enforcement would be.
Maybe I am just tired and reading too much into the subtext. But it seems plausible to me.
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