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Goredho

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  1. The statue of liberty is going to come to life and impale his head on the rays of her crown?
  2. This is worth a read and seems pertinent to this thread. Its about the deportation of over a million Mexican Americans during the Great Depression in the name of jobs for Americans. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2024/02/21/herbert-hoover-deportation-immigration-trump/ The president who deported 1 million Mexican Americans nearly a century ago On Feb. 26, 1931, a sunny Sunday in Los Angeles, hundreds gathered for an afternoon of relaxation in La Placita park in the heart of the city’s Mexican community. Suddenly, a large group of plainclothes officers armed with guns and batons entered the park. Two officers were posted at each entrance to La Placita so that no one could leave. Dozens of flatbed trucks circled the park’s perimeter. Officers rounded up all the people with darker skin, said Joseph Dunn, a former Democratic state senator from California, who researched this forgotten episode of U.S. history. Panic swept through the crowd. About 400 park patrons were lined up and asked to show proof of legal entry and citizenship of the United States. The Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans who could not produce proper documentation were detained. Then, some were put on the trucks and sent to the city’s main railroad station, Dunn said. Once there, they were ordered onto previously chartered trains and taken deep into Mexico, according to Dunn. The raid came at the height of the Great Depression and on the heels of President Herbert Hoover’s announcement of a national program of “American jobs for real Americans” — code words for “‘getting rid of Mexicans,’ who weren’t considered ‘real’ Americans,” said Dunn, whose staff spent three years delving into federal, state and local records in the United States and Mexico to document this little-known tragedy of the Latino experience in the United States.
  3. Needs follow up questioning. How do you know he works for Gaaahd? Has everyone who has ever believed themselves to be on a mission from Gaaahd truly been on a mission from Gaaahd? Why aren’t you voting for Jake & Elwood this November?
  4. When he gets bored with this whole politics thing, he’s got a future as the host of an Americanized “Cunk on Earth.”
  5. If there is one thing our present state of humanity should have taught us is that A) a planet and the life on it is fragile and B) intelligence is very often commingled with hubris. It is far, far, far more likely that intelligent life destroys itself before it ever advances enough to make the universe small.
  6. Your son made a very profound and astute observation in how Elon Musk and people like him view the world around them.
  7. This is exactly what "the media" should be and often fails at these days when its more profitable to curry favor with a demographic. Its exactly what is meant by the press being the "4th branch of government." It is an integral part of the system of checks and balances that maintains homeostasis in a healthy democracy. Bravo.
  8. Son sólo otras 38 cabezas en la pila.
  9. Wait a minute, how can she lead a country if she isn't 75+ years old?
  10. @immamac is not wrong. Trump isn’t finished yet, and even if this conviction proves to be his downfall with voters, it would be a huge mistake to take that as enthusiastic support for Biden and everything he’s been doing. Both parties are very disconnected from the average voter, and a huge swath of the population is >< close to voting for Adolf Shitler just to see something, anything, change in the seemingly oblivious leadership of the country. If the Dems ignore that, we’ll continue this dance with democratic death for the foreseeable future.
  11. The funniest thing about this meme is that Babbit is making the YOLO sign.
  12. I like my Vow Press. Can serve as a wah, volume or expression pedal. It’s got a small footprint, which may be a plus or minus.
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