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Freaking Crumbum posted:if you own a business but you've never spoken to trump personally at a manhattan penthouse party, he doesn't give a poo poo about you and his policies are not intended to benefit you. doesn't stop every dude who is "CEO" of his own business employing 5 total people from acting like they're his best personal friend, but it does make their inevitable flaming tailspin hilarious to watch Florida has the most "CEOs" per capita of any state. Therefore Florida is a very entrepreneurial state.
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FMguru posted:https://twitter.com/ErikLoomis/status/1228883855639240705 this is quality, 5-star schadenfreude doingitwrong posted:Let's not let this steel mill story overshadow the food stamps guy unironically using GEOTUS in place of POTUS. what does GEOTUS stand for?
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Mr Interweb posted:this is quality, 5-star schadenfreude Can't make up my mind if that story is more hilarious/sad than the Chaldean Iraqis for Trump story.
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Mr Interweb posted:what does GEOTUS stand for? It's a Warhammer 40K reference (which is itself cribbed from the Dune novels)
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FMguru posted:God Emperor of the USA. Heresy!
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FMguru posted:God Emperor of the USA. ah of course. ugh etalian posted:Can't make up my mind if that story is more hilarious/sad than the Chaldean Iraqis for Trump story. quote:Rodriguez joined the Navy in 1992. As a recruit, he cleaned floors and toilets, cooked, and drove a bus. Visiting his parents in Mexico, he wore his uniform. They didn’t say they were proud, but the looks on their faces made him feel as though growing up in Texas really had been worthwhile. And whenever he headed back across the border in uniform, he approached the agents on the bridge and thought: Now they're going to have to accept me as an American. i think i'm going to have to give it to this guy 
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Noblesse Obliged posted:Heresy! So, really, no comparison to Trmpu
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FMguru posted:Leto II (the titular god-emperor) was a grotesque and massively obese human/worm hybrid who could barely move around unless he was sitting his customized heavy-duty wheelchair/cart. if only trump wore hearing aids he'd have understood clearly what was meant by the golden path
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so many  moments in here:quote:Former colleagues who noticed Rodriguez’s absence but were not privy to the details of his case figured that he’d been fired for corruption. He’s always been “chueco,” a retired agent named John Garcia told me he overheard someone say at work. Crooked. Just as Rodriguez had once cut ties with his undocumented family members, agents began to avoid eye contact when they saw him in public, at restaurants or the grocery store. “They treat him like he's a pariah,” Anita told me. womp womp quote:He expected no special treatment, just the pension, health benefits, and safety from deportation he felt he’d earned through his nearly two decades at CBP. oh IS THAT ALL? quote:Rodriguez says he can now see the impacts of immigration enforcement that he once preferred to leave unexamined. “I can relate to people who I turned back, people that I deported,” he said. “They call it karma.” drat right, BITCH quote:Still, he doesn’t regret his service, and distinguishes himself from other unauthorized immigrants. “There are a lot of people trying to do it the easier way,” he told me. “I just found out, and I’m trying to do it correctly.” OF COURSE quote:If deported, he would live on family property in Tamaulipas. The State Department’s “Do not travel” warning to U.S. citizens says of the area: “Murder, armed robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, extortion, and sexual assault [are] common along the northern border.” As an agent, Rodriguez had put traffickers in jail, and his face is widely recognizable from his years on the bridge. “I don’t know how long I can survive,” he told me. drat, sucks to hear fella quote:Despite those risks, Rodriguez dismissed the idea that he should apply for asylum—a legal pathway to U.S. residence that the Trump administration has sought to eradicate, claiming it is rife with fraud. “I'm not going to do it that way. I'd rather get deported,” Rodriguez said. “I'm going to practice what I preach.” i mean, i guess that's somewhat admirable for an undocumented chud quote:Still, Rodriguez held out hope that he could convince the agency to reverse its decision. Immigration lawyers told me, however, that federal officials are granting fewer exceptions across the board. “Apply the right laws, and apply the right rules,” Rodriguez told me. He believed the agency was singling him out unfairly. “Treat me the same—that’s all I want.” His problem might be that it already is. beautiful way to end it.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Yeah somebody find the quote about this from that Kansas lady in the classic story from years ago. quote:“I’m not ready to give up. I’m a hard worker,” [Charmaine] says, before breaking down in tears. She’s been taking anti-depressants for the first time in her life. “I’ve worked 30-some years and paid my dues, and here I can’t get any help? And all these years that people get food stamps and medical cards for their children, I helped pay for that. So what about me? What did all my hard work get me?” quote:When Mike got laid off, they assumed Martha could get Medicaid. And that would have been true if Kansas’ political leaders had not rejected expansion. But the part-time gigs Mike had cobbled together made them a few pennies too rich under Kansas’ current tight eligibility rules. “We probably had $1,000 a month coming in,” Martha says. “I couldn’t imagine that being too much, but that’s what they said.” https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/life-and-death-red-america/
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etalian posted:Can't make up my mind if that story is more hilarious/sad than the Chaldean Iraqis for Trump story. quote:"She heard the sound of her dad cursing in Aramaic before the line went dead." That could be the final line in some tale of cosmic horror and existential depredation. Chills.
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FMguru posted:https://twitter.com/ErikLoomis/status/1228883855639240705
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FMguru posted:https://twitter.com/ErikLoomis/status/1228883855639240705 our kapos literally never made it off the trains to the camps. see you on the news, motherfucker
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Relin posted:i love it. why is his son hosed tho, his wife's a citizen and he was born in the US so? i only listened to the This American Life on this clown His ex-wife is the mother of his child, and she was not a citizen. And his son was born in Mexico and only got that child-of-an-american citizenship.
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Relin posted:i love it. why is his son hosed tho, his wife's a citizen and he was born in the US so? i only listened to the This American Life on this clown quote:In 1990, Rodriguez’s first wife, who was a Mexican citizen, gave birth to Raul Jr. in Matamoros.
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Relin posted:probably shouldnt have knocked up a foreigner but that's too bad, unless jr. is a chud too he suspended his application to the cbp when he found out so yes he's a chud
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quote:If deported, he would live on family property in Tamaulipas. The State Department’s “Do not travel” warning to U.S. citizens says of the area: “Murder, armed robbery, carjacking, kidnapping, extortion, and sexual assault [are] common along the northern border.” As an agent, Rodriguez had put traffickers in jail, and his face is widely recognizable from his years on the bridge. “I don’t know how long I can survive,” he told me. Ahahahaaaaa
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Hillary 2020 posted:Chuds are a universal constant. The idea of the president as a daddy cop of some kind is definitely 100% amongst chuds
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thicc_waluigi posted:The idea of the president as a daddy cop of some kind is definitely 100% amongst chuds I tried to explain that a president is not any individual citizen's ruler or, in fact, anyone's ruler to an American once but in the end I just gave up and called him a pissbaby for the likes. Funny how this never came up during the Thanks Obama administration 
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EVGA Longoria posted:he suspended his application to the cbp when he found out huh. somehow missed that. on the plus side now that i know there aren't any victims in this story, i don't feel so sad
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Jerry Cotton posted:I tried to explain that a president is not any individual citizen's ruler or, in fact, anyone's ruler to an American once but in the end I just gave up and called him a pissbaby for the likes. Funny how this never came up during the Thanks Obama administration To be daddy to chuds you have to be a strong daddy who spanks hard. Obama was a strong mommy who tried to boss them around, which is the worst kind of abomination to chuds.
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:To be daddy to chuds you have to be a strong daddy who spanks hard. Obama was a strong mommy who tried to boss them around, which is the worst kind of abomination to chuds. Thanks, Omama.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Thanks, Omama.
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"With help from donations and a loan from Michigan’s Chaldean community, Ashourina was able to pay a $15,000 bond to free her father nine months after he was detained. Warda Slewo is home, and awaiting his court date in 2022. And though, as a noncitizen, he can’t vote anyway, he’s lost all his former affection for Trump." It took 9 months inmprisoned in a camp waiting to get deported to Iraq, (where Christians like him are not loved), and putting his daughter 15k into debt. But this one chud is reformed.* *He'll vote for whatever non-Trump the Republicans come up with. That's assuming he gets to stay. RBA-Wintrow has issued a correction as of 17:12 on Feb 19, 2020 |
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RBA-Wintrow posted:"With help from donations and a loan from Michigan’s Chaldean community, Ashourina was able to pay a $15,000 bond to free her father nine months after he was detained. Warda Slewo is home, and awaiting his court date in 2022. And though, as a noncitizen, he can’t vote anyway, he’s lost all his former affection for Trump." I hope President bernie gulags and/or deports his rear end
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RBA-Wintrow posted:"With help from donations and a loan from Michigan’s Chaldean community, Ashourina was able to pay a $15,000 bond to free her father nine months after he was detained. Warda Slewo is home, and awaiting his court date in 2022. And though, as a noncitizen, he can’t vote anyway, he’s lost all his former affection for Trump." Doesn't matter, he can't vote anyway. Now 9,999 more Michiganders to reform so Michigan turns blue again. And as an added bonus, this chud gets two to three more years of mockery before getting kicked out. Enjoy your choice, you stupid rear end in a top hat.
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Doesn't matter, he can't vote anyway. Now 9,999 more Michiganders to reform so Michigan turns blue again. I was thinking about this the other day, is there any way we could estimate based on stats how many trump voters have died in a certain state since 2016?
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FMguru posted:https://twitter.com/ErikLoomis/status/1228883855639240705 fun little side note about his integrity award though.
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InsertPotPun posted:there's not a word about how he passed a background check. thats the least surprising part. Lots of people get federal jobs and background investigations are so backed up that they either get done years later or not at all.
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FMguru posted:https://twitter.com/ErikLoomis/status/1228883855639240705 right into my loving veins holy poo poo
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InsertPotPun posted:there's not a word about how he passed a background check. Having gone through the US immigration system I instinctively sympathize with these people being put into totally hopeless situations. However one thing stuck out of that article for me: quote:He believed that he still qualified for an exemption provided by the law for those who make a false claim to U.S. citizenship unwittingly. But in its denial letter, USCIS said it could not make an exception for Rodriguez even if he was unaware of his status at the time, citing recent precedent.
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Trpmu continuing to deliver for rural voters:The Guardian posted:2019 was worst year for US rural hospital closures in a decade, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/feb/19/us-rural-hospital-closures-report
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FMguru posted:Trpmu continuing to deliver for rural voters: i used to bring this up with my family in alabama (before they moved away from that urine-soaked hellhole)  quote:Rural hospitals are closing their labor and delivery departments as a way to save money. What results is mothers having to drive 50+ miles in labor and sometimes forgo regular prenatal visits because the time off work, fuel, and childcare costs simply aren't economically feasible. Rural disadvantaged mothers may choose to schedule medically unnecessary inductions or surgical deliveries in order to avoid unassisted spontaneous vaginal delivery en-route to the hospital.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i used to bring this up with my family in alabama (before they moved away from that urine-soaked hellhole) They prefer "peepee soaked heckhole"
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Blackchamber posted:thats the least surprising part. Lots of people get federal jobs and background investigations are so backed up that they either get done years later or not at all. Why, even the president's family has faced this, yet more proof of the broken system needing torn down and replaced with private ventures
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pathetic little tramp posted:I was thinking about this the other day, is there any way we could estimate based on stats how many trump voters have died in a certain state since 2016? I think this came up before in the thread re: opioid deaths. It got me curious enough to dig around a bit for my state (PA) but have since lost the sites/data (I suck at numbers anyway). After quick googling though: Opendata PA OverdoseFree PA PA Opioid Summary I'd guess there would have to be a cross of that stuff with locations/demographics to get an outline of what's up. Also related: Emergency/First Responder services in rural PA have pretty much collapsed for lack of funding. There's a lot going on with "MaH TaxEs", privatization, dying small towns and FYGM but the point is quote:The first dispatch went to Union City Fire Co.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i used to bring this up with my family in alabama (before they moved away from that urine-soaked hellhole) This is clearly Obama's fault and only voting even harder for Trump will fix it!
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Erghh posted:I think this came up before in the thread re: opioid deaths. It got me curious enough to dig around a bit for my state (PA) but have since lost the sites/data (I suck at numbers anyway). After quick googling though: Yeah,  someone must subsidize it, we couldn't burden the taxpayers
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