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user-inactivated  ·  2617 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 0 of 38 members of the Texas congressional delegation support the border wall

Because they will be the ones living with the thing. Fun fact? US/Mexico trade is about 650 billion a year. 1/3 of that goes through Texas. Politics will always take second place in a sane mind to cash.





oyster  ·  2617 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We had some guests the other day from Texas mention that they live right on the border and nobody is really bothered by the mexicans. It kind of seem like making mexicans the boogeyman works best on people who don't actually live around them. Like it was easier to hate gays when they weren't our neighbours, co-workers and friends. Well they were, they just didn't come out so people didn't know it.

user-inactivated  ·  2616 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As my dad says "These people walk across 100 miles of desert to scrub toilets so that their kids can go to school and buy houses. Fuck it let 'em in."

lil  ·  2616 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I hope your dad is writing his representatives and phoning their offices every day.

user-inactivated  ·  2616 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I hope your dad is writing his representatives

I don't. Boomers are a tumor on the US Democracy. I love my parents, I really do, but man their generation has been bad for this country.

lil  ·  2616 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well you know your dad, so I suppose you have your reasons for giving up hope.

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allyg95  ·  2598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

OH YA preach preach

goobster  ·  2615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fuck yeah, brother. Preach it.

I should email this to my mom...

user-inactivated  ·  2614 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I should email this to my mom...

Don't work on my parents, most certainly won't work on yours. We need to get GenX and Millenials to vote everyone from the Boomers out of office and shove them to the sidelines of our government and culture.

allyg95  ·  2598 days ago  ·  link  ·  

i totally agree

tacocat  ·  2615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This should be expanded slightly and published somewhere it can be read widely

kleinbl00  ·  2615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

goobster  ·  2615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Shit. Warren Ellis wrote a comic book about Trump's election... in 1997!!

user-inactivated  ·  2615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nah, Trump is the Beast, not the Smiler. He's neither smooth not cunning, he's just Nixon part deux.

goobster  ·  2613 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nah, Trump is Heller.

Scarily close to Heller, actually.

user-inactivated  ·  2614 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This book is sitting on my book shelf, signed, right next to Generation debt and Welcome to the Jungle

kcWDD  ·  2612 days ago  ·  link  ·  

you're a tumor boomers sacrificed their dream so that we could have ours you think that wouldn't make you into an asshole?

user-inactivated  ·  2612 days ago  ·  link  ·  

kcWDD  ·  2610 days ago  ·  link  ·  

thanks folks

OftenBen  ·  2613 days ago  ·  link  ·