H.P. Hovercraft posted:

https://twitter.com/gavin_mcinnes/status/334484747571060738

bloom posted:

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/HelloooSusan/status/1021417393900474369

SMILLENNIALSMILLEN posted:

Plenty of space against the wall. cigarette?

quote:

How long can the farmers endure these tariffs?

“To the death,” one said.

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/HelloooSusan/status/1021417393900474369

old.flv posted:

"You are starting to embarrass me" - July 23rd, 2018

quote:

Kris Kobach likes to tout his work for Valley Park, Missouri. He has boasted on cable TV about crafting and defending the town’s hardline anti-immigration ordinance. He discussed his “victory” there at length on his old radio show. He still lists it on his resume.

But “victory” isn’t the word most Valley Park residents would use to describe the results of Kobach’s work. With his help, the town of 7,000 passed an ordinance in 2006 that punished employers for hiring illegal immigrants and landlords for renting to them. But after two years of litigation and nearly $300,000 in expenses, the ordinance was largely gutted. Now, it is illegal only to “knowingly” hire illegal immigrants there — something that was already illegal under federal law. The town’s attorney can’t recall a single case brought under the ordinance.

quote:

Valley Park had hardly any immigrants to speak of at the time Kobach was called in. The town’s Hispanic population had ticked up from 2 percent of the population to around 3 percent in 2006. That amounted to an increase of about 50 people in a town of 7,000.

That was enough for the town’s then mayor, Jeff Whitteaker. He took to local media to fulminate about overcrowding. “You got one guy and his wife that settle down here, have a couple kids, and before long you have Cousin Puerto Rico and Taco Whoever moving in,” Whitteaker told the Riverfront Times.

He championed an immigration ordinance and advocated hiring Kobach. Valley Park and Hazleton both passed ordinances within days of each other in July 2006.

The ACLU had warned both towns that they’d face lawsuits if the ordinances passed, and the organization quickly followed through on the threat.

Hazleton lost decisively. The city of fewer than 30,000 people was defeated both at the trial court level and on appeal. Its ordinance never went into effect.

Even then, Kobach maintained a serene confidence. By 2013, seven years into the litigation, a privately raised legal defense fund that had paid Hazleton’s bills (including $250,000 for Kobach’s fees) had run dry. The U.S. Supreme Court had declined to hear the city’s case. The ACLU had asked an appeals court to order Hazleton to reimburse it for $2.4 million in attorneys fees.

quote:

Hazleton was declared financially distressed in September 2017 by the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and entered into a recovery plan with the state.

Business Gorillas posted:

Stoplights - $400
Dogcatchers - $500
Cousin Puerto Rico Prevention - $2,400,000
Firefighter Helmets - $800

Please help me my small town is dying

Business Gorillas posted:

Stoplights - $400
Dogcatchers - $500
Cousin Puerto Rico Prevention - $2,400,000
Firefighter Helmets - $800

Please help me my small town is dying

Heath posted:

Allow Taco Juan to live in your town

Business Gorillas posted:

Trumpism can be distilled into some guy violently making GBS threads his pants while demanding to know why he isn't being taken seriously

Al! posted:

oh man i saw Taco Whoever open up for the Aquabats in 99

Jose posted:

I was 11 in 99

AngryBooch posted:

Love to bankrupt my small town for no reason based on the promises of a racist grifter con-man:

https://www.propublica.org/article/kris-kobachs-lucrative-trail-of-courtroom-defeats

Business Gorillas posted:

Stoplights - $400
Dogcatchers - $500
Cousin Puerto Rico Prevention - $2,400,000
Firefighter Helmets - $800

Please help me my small town is dying

Epic High Five posted:

lol, in past epochs these people would be stringing Kobach up after razing his mansion

now their lives are so atomized that their doctrine does not come from their own dying community, but rather from talking heads in the employ of billionaires, so this will all squarely land on the dastardly shoulders of Cousin Puerto Rico, citizen provocateur

Epic High Five posted:

lol, in past epochs these people would be stringing Kobach up after razing his mansion

now their lives are so atomized that their doctrine does not come from their own dying community, but rather from talking heads in the employ of billionaires, so this will all squarely land on the dastardly shoulders of Cousin Puerto Rico, citizen provocateur

AnoHito posted:

@hazelton spend less on racism

FMguru posted:

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1024651449417048064

AngryBooch posted:

Love to bankrupt my small town for no reason based on the promises of a racist grifter con-man:

https://www.propublica.org/article/kris-kobachs-lucrative-trail-of-courtroom-defeats

Business Gorillas posted:

Stoplights - $400
Dogcatchers - $500
Cousin Puerto Rico Prevention - $2,400,000
Firefighter Helmets - $800

Please help me my small town is dying

FMguru posted:

Back to Brexit for a moment, I liked this summary of the possible no-deal fallout from Charlie Stross, a sharp and talented (and left-wing) Scottish SF author

I ride bikes all day posted:

Counterpoint: This racist asshat will have a very hard time bankrupting us worse than Brownback already did.

ikanreed posted:

Tater tots and tacos go together

Eat This Glob posted:

"monoculture!" follow up was pretty solid, imo