nm posted:

What is fun is that he gave California aid after that dam thing.

Agean90 posted:

hahaha if i was a republican in NC id immediatly start demonizing trump for this to try and primary some fuckers to start my own career holy lolly

Hodgepodge posted:

nm posted:

What is fun is that he gave California aid after that dam thing.

Epic High Five posted:

I wonder if that spook that Trump got killed voted for him

Epic High Five posted:

I wonder if that spook that Trump got killed voted for him

Epic High Five posted:

I wonder if that spook that Trump got killed voted for him

got any sevens posted:

Why would he remove one system fighting opioids just to make another? If he just wants to weaken it he can do that already

Kung Food posted:

One system tries to limit access to opiods as well as fund treatment for addicts. The other makes them easier to get and jails addicts. Kinda opposite approaches really.

Freaking Crumbum posted:

more directly, there ain't no money in the cure

where-as using opoid use/abuse/addiction as a pre-qualifier for incarceration and forced participation as free-labor for the private prison system has the potential to generate a gently caress-ton of money

plus it disproportionately targets minority communities, but that's actually the cherry on top of the fuckoff amount of money they can make

nm posted:

The opoid abuse issue is much more wealthy and white than prior drug issues (meth is white, but poor). This may end up being a bad play that hurts the republicans as many of the people involved will be trump supporter's children, grandchild, etc.

Agean90 posted:

supposedly the source was Egyptian and not a direct US source, but my only source do that was Twitter so take it as you will

quote:

Rudy Blanco was only eight years old when he left his home in Cuba, stealing away on his grandfather’s shrimping boat with his parents and sister during the Mariel boat lift in 1980.

They landed in Key West, then headed to Miami, where his grandfather and uncles lived. His parents made lobster traps for his grandfather’s fishing business, all the while saving enough money to eventually strike out on their own.

For a couple of weeks, they lived out of a Gremlin hatchback they’d bought. Eventually, they settled in the small Upper Keys town of Tavernier. His parents worked long hours to put food on the table. Rudy started working when he was old enough at a Marlin food store.

When he was 20, he met Shelly Ferguson, a pretty girl from Perry who went to the Keys from time to time to visit her mom. They would go on to get married, have two children, start their own businesses and build a life together in her hometown in North Florida.

But now, Blanco, 44, is in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sitting in a detention pod in Crawfordville and awaiting deportation back to Cuba. With no forewarning, Blanco, who had a scrape with the law 20 years ago, was taken into custody May 9 after going for his annual check-in with ICE in Tallahassee.

[...]

He faces an uncertain and potentially stark future as one of the hundreds if not thousands of immigrants who have been rounded up and taken into custody since President Donald Trump took office. Blanco and his wife, both Trump supporters, fear their business, their lives, their family itself could fall apart in the meantime.
The family worried about some of Trump’s immigration proposals during last year’s campaign. But they supported him for the same reasons many others did: he was the lesser of two evils, an apparent non-politician who espoused pro-business beliefs.

They figured under Trump, Blanco and his immigration situation might actually improve. They believed at the time the new administration would weigh immigration cases on an individual basis.

“Nobody expected ICE to just go out and start picking people up,” Blanco said. (lmao)

The family still supports Trump. They put some blame for his predicament on former President Obama and his decision to end the wet foot/dry foot policy that allowed Cubans to stay in the U.S. if they made it to dry land.

TWIST FIST posted:

https://twitter.com/NadavPollak/status/864557994578763777

Mantis42 posted:

A scorpion and a frog...

VitalSigns posted:

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion says, "These frogs, they're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. There's a lot of bad froggies out there and I'm going to round them up and sting them to death."

"I'm a good froggy, anyone can see that," the frog reasons to himself, "if the scorpion stings frogs on a more individual basis, I might even benefit from this!" So the scorpion jumps on his back, and immediately starts stinging the frog. He stings him and stings him. Blood frothing from his lips, the frog croaks "nobody expected the scorpion do this, and I still support him," but with his dying breath the frog admits it was all Obama's fault anyway.

And then the frog's family all scramble over each other to be the next to carry the scorpion.

VitalSigns posted:

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion says, "These frogs, they're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. There's a lot of bad froggies out there and I'm going to round them up and sting them to death."

"I'm a good froggy, anyone can see that," the frog reasons to himself, "if the scorpion stings frogs on a more individual basis, I might even benefit from this!" So the scorpion jumps on his back, and immediately starts stinging the frog. He stings him and stings him. Blood frothing from his lips, the frog croaks "nobody expected the scorpion do this, and I still support him," but with his dying breath the frog admits it was all Obama's fault anyway.

And then the frog's family all scramble over each other to be the next to carry the scorpion.

Fullhouse posted:

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/05/20/deportation-dragnet-ensnares-north-florida-man/101843196/


thanks, obama!!

Fullhouse posted:

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2017/05/20/deportation-dragnet-ensnares-north-florida-man/101843196/

fits my needs posted:

Honestly, gently caress Cubans. Only reason they even granted that poo poo was because they were on lock Republican minority voters.

Burt Sexual posted:

Yeah, gently caress them eight year olds.

Freaking Crumbum posted:

it's crazy how hard people were willing to project their own beliefs onto the actual words tangerine pissbaby was saying.

"We'll round them all up and send 'em back to Mexico! = We will create a thorough and principled process whereby the relative economic merit of each individual will be weighed against a cross-section of their 12 best personal references. Surely, we will only deport the individuals that are responsible for violent crimes, and not otherwise harmless people who pay taxes and work hard".

quote:

"I am still happy with President Trump," says Barbara Puckett, who lives in Beattyville and has been on Social Security disability since the late 1990s because of sclerosis. But she says she would worry if the budget becomes law and she loses her benefit.

quote:

Pastor Owens has made it his life's mission to lift people out of poverty. He runs the Kentucky Mountain Mission, which has a bowling alley and gym where a lot of teens hang out after school. He can see both sides of the debate on government aid.
He grew up in an extremely poor family as one of 14 kids. They got "about $300 a month" in Social Security because his father was disabled and couldn't work. He works with families today that truly need the aid, but he also sees some that get dependent on it.
"I think some of it should go away," he told CNNMoney in January when we visited him. "I believe in a hand up and not a hand out."

VitalSigns posted:

I voted for Trump. Now he wants to cut the aid I need

VitalSigns posted:

I voted for Trump. Now he wants to cut the aid I need

quote:

For instance, America's "poorest white town" -- Beattyville, Kentucky -- voted overwhelmingly for Trump. Any cuts to the safety net would be felt acutely by its residents: 57% of households in Beattyville receive food stamps and 58% get disability payments from the government.

Crocoswine posted:

you forgot to quote the best part:

VitalSigns posted:

I voted for Trump. Now he wants to cut the aid I need

uber_stoat posted:

they can't even admit that they hosed up. loyal as dogs. gonna be grim as hell when the checks stop coming and these rural whitey towns all simultaneously drop dead. they'll just pile all the dead Trumpies into a ditch and set them on fire. too many to bury.

Uncle Wemus posted:

I cant feel bad for these people anymore

Epic High Five posted:

As someone familiar with the economic underpinnings of rural America, once the food stamps dry up they're all going to collapse bigly