Boomer mother started going off about voting Trump because “illegals”.
“Nah, we handled that shit in Florida. Passed legislation scaring 'em right the fuck out of here. Of course our crops are rotting in the fields, we got no medical helpers, maids or janitors. But they left! Sure, there were 100 business owners interviewed saying they supported the bill, but didn’t think the consequences would work out like that. They need to hire real Americans. If they can find 'em for $5 an hour…”
We also got the “gay agenda” under control around here. Woke companies taking their convention business, and business in general, away, but at least we made a stand!
This is the reality GOP voters don't want to confront. The migrants are the fucking backbone of America - moreso than anyone born in this country. If it doesn't have an underclass to exploit, this country cannot be as successful as it has been. They provide the underpaid workforce that has allowed for wage stagnation to persist for decades.
It’s almost like no one wants to live in a red state shithole, geez. What’s wrong with you people, they’re doing their best to make sure your kids are raised without critical thinking, science or history (whatever content suits the old shits in the state legislature is fine, though). Hell they even kicked a million kids off of Medicare this week. Why isn’t everyone flocking to this paradise, can’t you imagine how great it is?
The company I work remotely for is headquartered in TX. It was actually in another state when I joined, and they consolidated to TX a few years ago.
They have a policy of helping relocate employees, no questions asked. One of my trans coworkers recently moved from Austin to California. I won’t be surprised to hear of more moves out of TX over time.
The DNC has ceded Texas to the GOP. Especially after Beto lost his bid for Governor on the heels of the Uvalde mass shooting and Abbott's bungling of the aftermath. This state is owned by Republicans lock, stock, and barrel.
Ehh... the headline is sensational and speculative. If the judgement against Trump is for the $250M James is suing for or even more, and if Trump Organization properties are liquidated to pay the judgement, then Mar-a-Lago, one of the Trump Organization properties, could be taken from him.
Some other framing would have been better. The juicier story is James' team goading Trump into his numerous unwise admissions. Ideally, Trump will be left entirely destitute once all the cases against him are tried, but it is idle to speculate about financial verdicts before the trials are even over.
As much as I despise this dude and think he definitely deserves to be in prison for his role in J6, it rubs me the wrong way that somebody can be thrown in prison for refusing to testify. The first, fourth, and particularly fifth amendments were designed to protect against this even if courts have not interpreted them that way.
Sometimes refusing to testify is absolutely the morally right thing to do. Those who refused to rat on others during the McCarthy hearings did the right thing. Those who refused to testify to their knowledge of other people’s sexual orientation when being gay was a crime did the right thing. Those who refused to help the government locate and imprison people of Asian descent into internment camps did the right thing.
A person’s choice to testify is a check-and-balance on the power of the government, it must rely on people’s voluntary cooperation and their own investigative resources. People refusing to cooperate is a way to resist a prosecutorial effort or police force they find unjust, and it provides an incentive for the government to make sure it is doing the right thing all the time because they might need to lean on that goodwill later.
What exists in your head should be at your discretion to disclose, the government shouldn’t be able to throw you in prison simply because you refuse to talk, just as they can’t compel you to speak something you disagree with or worship a god you do not believe in.
Ahead of the hearings, Schoen told Newsweek: “No matter where anyone stands on Mr. Bannon, everyone should hope the conviction gets reversed on appeal. It is a very dangerous proposition to hold someone criminally culpable and send them to prison without a finding that he or she ever acted in any way that he or she believed was against the law or wrong. That is what happened here.”
This guy is taking crazy pills like his client right? My (very non expert) understanding is that “I didn’t know it was against the law” is in no way a valid legal defense. Are there circumstances where that is not true?
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