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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It's their little money pageant. Dance the best for us and we'll fund your campaign.
Not true from my experience.
Only people like that I ever met were second and third generation Cuban-Americans.
First generation immigrants and even second generation Americans tend to be ENORMOUSLY supportive of legal and illegal immigrants.
edited 28th Jul '15 8:28:25 AM by BAFFU
POLITICAL AFFILIATION OF HISPANIC FOREIGN BORN PERMANENT RESIDENTS:
dem:49
rep:8
POLITICAL AFFILIATION OF HISPANIC FOREIGN BORN U.S CITIZENS:
Dem:54
Rep:11
edited 28th Jul '15 8:32:48 AM by BAFFU
It's hard to enthusiastically support a political party that thinks your kind should all be sent home.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Now the dirt about Trump is starting to surface, and Trump's lawyer claims, "You cannot rape your spouse."
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Let's make sure we are clear about the parameters of the game that's being played. Obviously, Tea Party Republicans want all the Hispanics to go home because they are "Stealing Our Jerbs". Plutocrat Republicans, however, realize that's not a realistic option, and besides they love themselves some illegals.
Why? Because they are cheap labor: cheap to hire, don't need to be insured, can have their payroll taxes dodged, can't complain about working conditions, can't unionize, and are infinitely replaceable.
Kicking all the illegals out would be devastating to a number of industries, ranging from construction to housekeeping to child care to fruit picking and more, as they would suffer a tremendous labor shortage. We've already seen that happen on a micro scale in some states that tried to "get tough" on illegals; some crops had to be abandoned because nobody showed up to pick them.
However, raising their labor standards to the point where they command the same wage/benefit requirements as U.S. citizens would be very costly to the bottom line — it might make our precious supermarket tomatoes more expensive. So Big Business adores the status quo. The problem is that the status quo is not tenable thanks to the same forces that are driving the Republican party into other forms of extremism.
That won't drive off his supporters. Most of them probably also believe that you can't rape your wife.
edited 28th Jul '15 9:37:41 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Are you kidding? The Tea Party mentality is rooted in Ye Olden Days when larnin' your wife was just a part of the husband's duties.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I don't know, but "marital rape" is still a crime that is recognized only sporadically by the legal system.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Yeah it's a grey one, she seems to have flipped flopped on what exactly it is she's describing. Still that's all beside the point, regardless of if a rape happened or not the statement "by the very definition, you can't rape your spouse" is still fucking horrible and totally false.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAccording to the book, yes, it was actual rape, not just emotional. Here's a review of it from 1993
, just so we have something a little older than all the news stories today. And if that's not sufficient, here's an excerpt from it.
edited 28th Jul '15 11:17:22 AM by speedyboris
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What I mean is that the anti-immigrant fervor is part and parcel of the same Tea Party insanity that has taken over the GOP primary process and is sending politicians to Washington who genuinely believe that they need to be rounded up and deported, as opposed to paying lip service while sitting on the issue so that their business sponsors can keep their cheap labor.

Bobby Jindal scares Westboro Baptist Church away from shooting victims' funerals.
Bobby? Please do something stupid, quick. I'm starting to like you.