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One hundred percent. How this guy was found not guilty with just that transcript as evidence is beyond me

 

The jury standard is that if you are frightened for whatever reason, using deadly force is not a crime for police officers.

 

Guy who has been unemployed 25 years wondering how he'll keep a job if Medicaid has work requirements. At some point, it's "your" fault and not the economy.

Medicaid overhaul faces tough test in Trump country

 

Tough shit! Bootstraps! We're gonna put those lazy slack ass mooching neegros to work!

Your uncle Elroy who hasn't worked for 20 years? Suck it up buttercup!

 

Then leave "here", and go "there." Geez.

 

You've got to work awfully hard to stay unemployed for 25 years.

 

One of the great conservative tropes is the idea that jobs are there for the taking and lazy poor people simply refuse to take them. Red states devalue education at all levels and their elected officials then whine when people are unemployed. People without training aren't in position to get the sort of jobs that will get them off public assistance.

 

"Thought about moving away
But what would my mama say?
I'm all that she has left and I'm with her every day
As soon as the sun goes down
I find my way to the Mustang Lounge
And if you don't sit facing the window, you could be in any town ... "

--Jason Isbell, "Cumberland Gap," 2017

 

I don't necessarily disagree. But we've got production jobs that pay $14-15 an hour and have a difficult time filling them all.

 

Move out of the basement, get a job, and a girlfriend.

Study finds young men are playing video games instead of getting jobs