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Related: About this forumGOP lawmaker flails wildly after Camerota corners him on Trump's fake national emergency
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)How stupid he'll look when the Trump years are over, if anyone goes back to watch things like this.
lark
(23,182 posts)There are no hundreds of thousands of people pouring over the border at this minute. The drugs come through ports of entry, not through the desert on someone's back, Repugs don't care if women are raped, none of them are being brought over the border with duct tape on their mouths. He complains about the children's treatment, then they are stolen from their parents by his admin. drugged, raped here, tortured, drugged and even killed.
Evergreen Emerald
(13,071 posts)fund it when they had control of everything?
Because it is a bigfat political lie.
PatrickforO
(14,602 posts)is doing to this country, blah, blah, blah.
Sadly, this is the MAIN issue for a whole swath of Trump supporters, and it is probably right to say that the underlying fear of these horrible, awful, terrible illegal immigrants 'storming the border' and 'invading us' is that most of them have brown skin.
But to conflate illegal immigration over the southern border with an opioid epidemic is Wisconsin is pretty off-base. About 40% of opioid abuse in the US is from taking prescription painkillers for recreational use. Forty percent. And those don't come over the southern border. They come from the pharmacy. Or your parents' medicine chest.
And here's something else to think about. The US makes up 5 percent of the worlds population and consumes approximately 80 percent of the worlds prescription opioid drugs.
What could be contributing to this?
Meaningless jobs.
Low pay jobs.
Crappy healthcare.
Stratospheric costs of college.
High student loan debt.
Politicians that say what we want to hear then don't do anything.
Feelings of powerlessness over policies that affect our lives.
Worry about losing job.
Worry about finances and not having enough to make ends meet.
Worry about healthcare.
Vague worries about global warming disaster.
Vague worries about the national debt.
In a word - our capitalistic system's emphasis on the primacy of the shareholder. To my mind, this systemic and forced greed breeds sociopaths, creates few winners and lots of losers, fouls the environment, busts unions, drives wages down, gives us crummy, diluted, downsized products at the store and so on.
Greed is an illusion. We have a few very freakish billionaires who feverishly amass wealth as if they will live forever, but they won't.
We are mortal. Let's organize ourselves around human need, not Wall Street greed.
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)and applauding Camerota. She was brilliant.
I wished that Jake Tapper had done that to Pompeo yesterday.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)Sweet Jesus....what state sent this total dolt to Washington? Pathetic!!!!
videohead5
(2,185 posts)Because the U.S. has caught many more terrorist coming from Canada than Mexico.
usaf-vet
(6,232 posts)Did I say tool I meant FOOL.