“What happens if everyone who is Hispanic thinks they’re at risk? There’s fear now that didn’t exist here before. I don’t know how you make that go away,” he said.
Have you tried not voting for shitheads? You never can tell. It might just work. It certainly hasn’t been tried yet.
RIP “not voting for shitheads” July 12, 2016
Goes way further back then that lmao
But is the most recent possibility. Probably the only one I can remember in my adult life.
60% latino community, voted largely for Trump…
Well that just sounds like masochism with extra steps
Whoever heard of nazis using gambling as a pretext for oppression?
I’m shocked. Shocked!
Chris Gross, a second-generation mint farmer in Wilder, told the Times that the town relies on Hispanic labor. “Nobody thought something like this could happen here,” he said.
Nobody thought is right.
I mean… HE didn’t think it could happen. I’ve been waiting for this for a year.
One of the defining characteristics of conservatives is their inability to understand that not everyone else is as shitty as they are. If you pointed out to them that yes, other people did in fact think something like that could happen, they’d just assume you were lying.
When conservatives say “nobody,” they mean none of them and their buddies
‘if you don’t believe in hell what stops you from raping and murdering people?!’
Uhh. Empathy?
“I rape and murder just as many people I want, which is zero because I’m not a horrible person. How many is it for you, that only fear of metaphysical punishment is stopping you?”
I can hear the responses already…
- “Empathy ain’t shit in a gunfight.”
- “Mexican food won’t help with that, dumbass.”
- “Fucking commie”
You forgot “fuck you”.
Nono, see, he didn’t think it couldn’t happen, he thought it couldn’t happen there.
His undocumented workers are “the good ones”
Think for a second about mint. Farming mint? In my experience it’s more like “how do you stop the mint?” Except for cutting some off and selling it there’s nothing needs done.
And he’s the 3rd generation of those people.
Mint is eternal but going and getting enough of it to make the world’s supply of Crest is still a big job.
I’m an artisanal dandelion and crab grass farmer. Just need to get some of those sweet farm subsidies.
Hey yeah, I should put in a claim for my sowthistle crop!
Nobody thought is right.
Reminds me of the time when Obama visited Flint, Michigan and a lot of people got really, really excited. Then all he did was give a speech, pretend to drink a glass of water, and then let the polluters carry on.
LOL
Obama did all of this on camera, and it was documented in one of Michael Moore’s films.
Obama found money for more than 26,000 bombs in 2016, just couldn’t find the effort to do more than pull a dramatic, fake-ass stunt in front of Flint’s people.
I’ve been waiting for this for a year.
So… you either didn’t read the linked article, or you decided it was a lie because it differed from your “gut feelings”… or maybe you just didn’t understand what it was saying?
This isn’t a gut feeling.
It’s giving Obama proper credit for siding with polluters, and not only that, but debasing himself with this fake water-drinking stunt in front of people who needed real help.
I don’t care what his intentions were. Flint had to wait another ten years for the lead pipes to be removed because Obama as evidenced by his actions didn’t give a fuck.
How did declaring an emergency (per the Stafford Act) make it his responsibility to fix it? Last I checked, in a federal system it is the local authorities who are responsible for doing the work. The feds supply public funding and potentially manpower if FEMA gets involved.
The local authorities in fact caused the problem by trying to cheap-out on water treatment. Replacing huge quantities of buried pipes is not a short-term operation, even if they put all their attention on it. In fact, it was the city that had to be sued multiple times to get the job mostly done:
Well, we’ve had to go back to court now six times and constantly been tracking to see if the city was actually following through on this settlement agreement. Finally, the court actually held the city in contempt and the state took over most of the finishing up of this project.
So, what actions did he take to show he “didn’t give a fuck?” Maybe you’re referring to this drink of water someone put him on the spot to drink?
“This used a filter,” Obama said of the water. “The water around this table was Flint water and it just confirms what we know scientifically, which is, if you’re using a filter, if you’re installing it, then Flint water at this point is drinkable.”
Properly filtered water was safe, exactly as he said. It is the responsibility of the local governments to ensure they’re available to their residents - with federal help per emergency funding.
Here’s a full breakdown.
The matter of blame appeared to be settled conclusively in March 2016, however, when Snyder’s nonpartisan task force released its blistering final report. Primary responsibility for the crisis in Flint was placed on the state, and particularly on the MDEQ, and task force members called for a thorough review of the emergency manager system. The report also characterized the crisis as a clear-cut example of environmental injustice, as evidenced by the fact that Flint’s poor, largely African American population “did not enjoy the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards as that provided to other communities.”
Now, I am fairly sure you will completely discount any evidence of the reality I posted here. Truthfully, I mostly did this to inform anybody else who stumbles upon this so they can verify it for themselves.
I saw a story on Facebook about a Trump supporter who supports the deportations being deported. One of the comments said of course the law should be applied equally to everyone but they should start with criminals first. Hold the phone. Am I misunderstanding or are they admitting that they want the law to be that non-criminals get deported eventually? Apply the law to everyone but criminals first. As if there’s some reason to apply it to non-criminals. Yes, the law applies to everyone, but if someone hasn’t broken the law then applying it to them is irrelevant isn’t it? The law against murder applies to everyone but murderers first. Well, if I’m not a murderer than it’s kind of irrelevant to say the law against murder applies to me. What would applying it to non-murderers even mean? Am I misunderstanding something because of my autism or is that commenter admitting that they want the law to eventually punish people who have done nothing wrong?
It’s simple what they were sold
You vote for Trump, he’ll remove all those violent criminals. What they couldn’t see is in the administrations eyes, anyone not white, or white and not complying are painted as criminals.
there’s an information vaccuum created by all media being designed not to inform, but to persuade
information vaccuum
Yeah between that and the 297,000 idiotic things that are being said and done. I tried curating just the real vile shit for a while, but it’s absolutely exhausting.
What they’re referring to are people who broke no laws other than being in the country illegally. I dont agree with it, but that is the reasoning.
Yeah, maybe I was overthinking it a bit and they were saying they want the law against illegal immigration applied to everyone equally but people who have broken additional laws first. I’m very literal minded and thought by “criminal” they meant people who have committed crimes and that illegal entry into the country qualified as a crime. In my mind, they were implying the law should eventually be applied to people who have broken no laws, not even being in the country illegally.
But regardless of what that individual meant, I think the ultimate goal of Trump’s regime is to criminalize even people who have broken no laws at all
Illegal entry is a misemeanour, rather than a felony, which in the minds of many Americans, is only barely a crime.
Sadly, the great strides we have taken against racism have led many Americans to support the racists, thinking they and their loved ones will not be affected.
Growing up surrounded by these racist assholes, they consider coming into this country illegally, which is a civil offense, to be a more severe crime than violent criminal offenses like assault. It’s because they are racist but they will crow from any rooftop screaming about illegal immigrants and transients ruining this country. It’s disgusting but they will never cede their racism.
Leopards are full Another face? Okay I guess, munch munch munch.
Pro-Trump Town
On October 19, dozens of federal agents wielding automatic rifles and flash-bang grenades descended on La Catedral Arena, a horse-racing track outside of Wilder. The track had long been a hub for the town’s Latino community
This isn’t LeopardsAteMyFace. This is 100% what those Pro-Trump voters wanted.
Meanwhile, Wilder’s Mayor Steve Rhodes has dismissed the effect the raid had on his community. “These were not our people,” he told the Times. “What happened out at that track had nothing to do with Wilder.”
The fucking Mayor. Guess who voted for him.
These were not our people!? Oh yeah, I get it. They weren’t white!
Meanwhile criminal Nazi chomos are running the local government.
Pro Trump town? That’s a pro nazi town.
Is that little kid throwing a fucking Nazi salute? God damn.
Hate is learned, that poor child.
Where’s a book depository when you need one?
Is this fucking real? Don’t they know that actual American patriots have a rich history of killing the Nazis?
And giving them sanctuary in the US. It is almost like we invited a ton of Nazi to join the US. Oh wait, we did literally do that.
“What happens if everyone who is Hispanic thinks they’re at risk? There’s fear now that didn’t exist here before. I don’t know how you make that go away,” he said.
Really? You don’t know how to make that go away?
Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.
Those stupid fucking hicks are just unredeemable people, at least in my eyes. Fucking loser assholes.
Yeah like I try to have empathy, but these are the people that we’re expected to come to an agreement and work with?
An impossible task until they are personally affected.
And they’d vote for him again. Nothing learned here.
I hope it cripples their town and everyone that enabled this to happen
I’m sure the community will rally together to save their community against the invaders.
Oh, you mean helping each other and being empathetic are liberal traits, and they only value looking after themselves even when their community depends on cooperation? Well, I’m sure they can each farm their own food.
Leopards got a good meal
While state and federal officials praised the raid as a crackdown on an alleged gambling ring, only four people have been scheduled for trial on gambling charges. And agents seemed to have another purpose altogether.
“The one thing everyone got asked was, ‘Where were you born?’” Neal Dougherty, an immigration lawyer, told the Times in the story published Monday. “Not, ‘Did you see gambling?’ Not, ‘Did you participate in gambling?’ Just, ‘Where were you born?’”
While a black military-style helicopter circled the scene, federal agents zip-tied the hands of most adults and some teenagers. Several hundred people were detained for four hours. In the end, 105 people were held for immigration charges, and 75 people were deported.
I dont understand why they communicate on the gambling. Does anybody care if they’ve broken the law or not ?
