etalian posted:

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

dunno, it would've been even more bizarre if a southern sheriff spent all his time harassing two good 'ol boys in a county where black people existed

Agean90 posted:

holy lmao mississipi

*to the tune of sweet caroline* whiiiiiite genocide DA DA DAAAA

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Doesn't that place have a shitload of black people

Doc Hawkins posted:

Make the Duke family black in the remake. Boom, you're welcome, I'll pm you an address for my royalty checks.

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

the same colored car, but instead of stars it says

code:

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  k h 
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y

on the top

etalian posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/us/politics/trump-affordable-care-act.html

A very cool report by the CDC posted:

More than 100 million U.S. adults are now living with diabetes or prediabetes, according to a new report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report finds that as of 2015, 30.3 million Americans – 9.4 percent of the U.S. population –have diabetes. Another 84.1 million have prediabetes, a condition that if not treated often leads to type 2 diabetes within five years...

• In 2015, an estimated 1.5 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed among people ages 18 and older.
  
• Nearly 1 in 4 four adults living with diabetes – 7.2 million Americans – didn’t know they had the condition. Only 11.6 percent of adults with prediabetes knew they had it.
  
• Rates of diagnosed diabetes increased with age. Among adults ages 18-44, 4 percent had diabetes. Among those ages 45-64 years, 17 percent had diabetes. And among those ages 65 years and older, 25 percent had diabetes.
  

Significant Ant posted:

lol this timeline owns

Ripoff posted:

we gotta go whole hog and rename Diabetes “American’s Disease”.

also if we ever get an insulin shortage from Tromp loving international trade sideways and American Pharma deciding to Martin Shkreli the price of the remaining supply we’re gonna have a whooole lotta dead Americans in 3-4 years

I knew of a non-complaint type II diabetic at a job and holy poo poo that’s a brutal way to go

Ripoff posted:

we gotta go whole hog and rename Diabetes “American’s Disease”.

also if we ever get an insulin shortage from Tromp loving international trade sideways and American Pharma deciding to Martin Shkreli the price of the remaining supply we’re gonna have a whooole lotta dead Americans in 3-4 years

I knew of a non-complaint type II diabetic at a job and holy poo poo that’s a brutal way to go

Ripoff posted:

we gotta go whole hog and rename Diabetes “American’s Disease”.

Doc Hawkins posted:

Make the Duke family black in the remake. Boom, you're welcome, I'll pm you an address for my royalty checks.

Jose posted:

lol i posted this in the doomsday economics thread but its timely for this one

https://twitter.com/bopinion/status/1005040583889620993

Gringostar posted:

so you want a one show special because rosco and enos will loving shoot them with all the military hardware he got for free and the put out a statement that it was a clean execution shoot because enos feared for his fragile white life

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

yeah about that

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

yeah about that

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

yeah about that

priznat posted:

Insulin, developed as medication by Canadians. yer welcome, fatties.

Gringostar posted:

so you want a one show special because rosco and enos will loving shoot them with all the military hardware he got for free and the put out a statement that it was a clean execution shoot because enos feared for his fragile white life

zegermans posted:

was that one of those heritage minutes shorts

quote:

Trump's Tariffs Worry A Small Steel City In Pennsylvania

Dan Moore, a 58-year-old steel mill worker, gives the president an A+ on everything from tax cuts to foreign policy, but he is not so sure about tariffs.

“We need tariffs, but when it starts to impact the company where you work … you’re thinking, well wait a minute, time out!” he said.

Moore is worried the tariffs might cost him his job. The mill where he works, NLMK Pennsylvania, in the town of Farrell, not far from the border with Ohio, employs 750 workers and is a subsidiary of Novolipetsk Steel, or NLMK, Russia’s top steelmaker.

But even though NLMK is creating American jobs, the company is being hit with a 25 percent tariff on steel because it imports raw steel slabs from Russia before turning them into coils in Pennsylvania and then selling that steel to customers that manufacture cars or pipes, for example.

Bill Almashy, a 48-year-old crane operator at the mill, worries that NLMK might not be able to survive the tariffs.

He knows what it is like to lose a steel mill job. This is the third mill he has worked at in recent years. One of the previous mills went bankrupt; the other moved most of its jobs to Mexico. Along the way, Almashy lost his home, his pension and his 401(k).

“A lot of steel in America is gone,” he said. ” Basically our politicians failed us.”

And so when he first heard about President Trump’s tariffs, he “applauded” the president. He says he still does but doesn’t understand why his company should be punished for importing steel.

“Even if they’re foreign-owned, but they have a factory in this country and they’re employing American workers, to me, that’s an American company,” Almashy said.

To him, exempting this Russian-owned steel mill from tariffs would be a matter of putting “America First.”

And that’s the crux of the debate.

Moore voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, but during the last presidential election, he became enamored with Donald Trump’s promise to bring back jobs and renegotiate trade deals. He thought tariffs in the abstract would be beneficial, but now that they could hurt the company he works for, he thinks the Trump administration needs to re-evaluate the idea.

“Tariffs — they may help some people, but they’re gonna hurt a lot of people too. I don’t know exactly how you balance that,” Moore said. “Maybe it’s not the right time for tariffs.” Maybe, he says, the president ought to focus more on wages and jobs instead.

Moore is about to head into the mill down the road for his shift. He is wearing a dark blue work uniform shirt over his round belly and a Trump hat over his graying hair. It’s a souvenir he picked up during Trump’s inauguration.

Moore insists he has “no regrets” about his vote, even though he knows some might think that’s strange given the precariousness of his current employment due to the very tariffs Trump introduced.

FMguru posted:

Yes...ha ha ha...YES!

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/08/617200482/trumps-tariffs-worry-a-small-steel-city-in-pennsylvania

FMguru posted:

Yes...ha ha ha...YES!

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/08/617200482/trumps-tariffs-worry-a-small-steel-city-in-pennsylvania

PostNouveau posted:

A+, other than that I'm going to lose everything.

Like this one thing is going to completely ruin my life, but all the other things are good so

The president's death squads hung my wife, but other than that, yeah I'd say I'm better off than I was 4 years ago *pulls lever for TRUMP 2020*

FMguru posted:

Yes...ha ha ha...YES!

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/08/617200482/trumps-tariffs-worry-a-small-steel-city-in-pennsylvania

Epic High Five posted:

thank you, NPR, for continuing your quest to sympathetically profile every single blue collar white guy who voted for Trump and literally no other type of person of any other ideological bent, and justifying more and more every single day my decision to never listen to you again and to encourage everybody else I know to do the same

Iron Crowned posted:

The only thing I still listen to from NPR is Fresh Air

Epic High Five posted:

I don't even know what the local stations here play because every time I tune in it's either classical music or a Trump Country Safari pitched at affluent white listeners over 50

Iron Crowned posted:

I download the episodes through the podcast feed

Epic High Five posted:

thank you, NPR, for continuing your quest to sympathetically profile every single blue collar white guy who voted for Trump and literally no other type of person of any other ideological bent, and justifying more and more every single day my decision to never listen to you again and to encourage everybody else I know to do the same