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Grocery stores in economically depressed areas don't carry apples, oranges, lemons, asparagus, lettuce, kale, broccoli, etc.?

This whole "poor people have to eat Big Macs and fries" thing just escapes me.

 

With all that build-up, Yates’s testimony might have been anti-climactic. It was not. She described two in-person meetings with Trump White House Counsel Donald McGahn. Both meetings were attended by one of McGahn’s associates and a Justice Department career civil servant from the national security division. In other words, there were plenty of witnesses. Yates testified that she told McGahn on Jan. 26 that Justice was aware that what Flynn was telling Vice President Pence about contacts with the Russians was untrue. She explained the “underlying conduct was problematic in and of itself,” and that it set up the potential for Flynn to be “compromised.” McGahn called her back to the White House on Jan. 27 when he asked questions including what was the concern about one White House official lying to another, whether Flynn might be criminally prosecuted, whether taking action would compromise the investigation and whether the administration could see the underlying data. On Jan. 30, Yates told McGahn the intelligence could in fact be reviewed.

The mystery as to why Flynn remained in place for 18 days remains. Did McGahn tell Trump about his meetings with Yates? Did McGahn ever review the underlying intelligence? Who made the decision that keeping Flynn on the job until four days after The Post broke the storythat Flynn had lied to Pence? Why did they not believe his ongoing presence in the administration was a problem — or set Pence straight that he was telling untrue things to the American people because Flynn had lied to Pence? ...

Clapper’s testimony should not be overlooked. His description of the thoroughness and certainty of the intelligence community’s assessment of Russian interference belies President Trump’s bizarre and entirely unjustified efforts to call into question his intelligence community’s findings. The findings and conclusions some four months after the report concluding Russia had interfered in the election to help Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton was issued “still stand,” he said. Clapper stated, “They must be congratulating themselves for having exceeded their wildest expectations. They are now emboldened to continue such activities in the future, both here and around the world, and to do so even more intensely.” He warned, “If there has ever been a clarion call for vigilance and action against a threat to the very foundations of our democratic political system, this episode is it.” ...

And this item stands out, too:

UPDATE, 4:30 p.m.: Yates is giving a tutorial in committee testifying. She just walloped not one but two GOP senators. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) tried to accuse her of misconduct in refusing to defend the Trump administration’s travel ban, which was ultimately blocked by multiple courts. Yates reminded him that at her confirmation hearing, Cornyn had asked if she would refuse to carry out an illegal or unconstitutional order. She recalled she had promised him she would indeed refuse. Ouch. Then up came Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) sleazily trying to get her to opine on Huma Abedin’s email habits(!). When that led nowhere, he took to quoting the statutory basis for the travel ban. She corrected him by pointing out that there was subsequent congressional action that specifically prohibited religious discrimination. Moreover, she took the opportunity to drop the news bomb that the administration ordered the Office of Legal Counsel to not even tell the acting attorney general the ban was in the works. Game, set, match.

Opinion | Sally Yates just threw the White House under the bus

 

You're assuming that grocery stores exist in certain areas. It's not like there are push carts selling apples and pears in the streets. Many low income areas have convenience type stores, small, with minimal perishable items. More black and mild cigars than green beans. Maybe milk. It takes bus transportation to get groceries as many low income folks in cities don't have cars.
Do poor people have poor eating habits? Sure. Do they have many easy options? No.
It ain't easy being poor and it's even worse when you're told it's your fault. Generation after generation. And what did a 5 year old do to deserve misery ?

 

The food ghetto effect (not a term I'd use, but it's common) is way more pronounced in rural poverty areas than urban ones.

 

I'm fairly familiar with certain sections of Baltimore and Southeast DC, and while markets exist, they are very spread out and for those without cars grocery shopping is hard.

 

My mother used to go shopping with as many as five kids in tow without a car.

 

Isn't the term "food deserts" used to describe those areas that have no supermarkets that provide the healthy foods?

 

The teabags were much more concerned with blaming somebody for the release of information that the fact that Fucko kept an operative/ puppet of an adversarial foreign government in one of the four or five most security-crucial jobs in the entire nation, even after learning he was compromised.

But as Al Franken pointed out, Fucko couldn't get too worked up over Flynn being a pawn of the Russians, because that's hardly even unusual in this shitshow operation.

 

I don't have to google them. That's the point.

She's got a whole team trying to make her relevant, and a compliant media is happy to lap it up.

 

Nah. Why would I when I wasn't even involved in the discussion? This was just another example of you folks granting me far too much space in your heads. LTL's obsession becomes comical at times.

 

I think food desert is the PC term.

 

Nobody of either party can even say out loud what they're really worried about.