Yeah. As melodramatic as it sounds, we might be experiencing the opening stages of the creation of the largest ghost town in American history.

If the powers that be were smart, they would make Flint a showpiece for what America is capable of by not only fixing the pipes but all the infrastructure in the area.

Right. Is there going to be a massive collection and recycling effort for all those plastic water bottles, or are they just going to be thrown away and end up in landfills?

Really? Even the tap water that can be lit on fire due to the leaching into it from fracking operations?

There’s no need for hyperbole here. Flint is about 55% black, not 99%, and the city has a little over 100,000 people total, not 200,000 children.

I agree with you to a point. How many times in the past 10 years have we seen videos of poor, rural whites in areas dominated by fracking who’ve been able to light their tap water on fire due to the levels of toxic pollution in it? But those instances haven’t sparked the levels of national outrage and the response…

Exactly. Also, does General Disarray speak a Scandinavian language? I’d bet not LOL

This horror show in Flint is a bright, shining example of the results of unchecked right-wing extremist governance. Resignations and lawsuits are not going to be enough; there had better be some prosecutions of state and local (i.e. state appointed) officials for this. Finally, as icky as it makes me to say so, the…

This horror show in Flint is a bright, shining example of the results of unchecked right-wing extremist governance. Resignations and lawsuits are not going to be enough; there had better be some prosecutions of state and local (i.e. state appointed) officials for this. Finally, as icky as it makes me to say so, the…

I grew up in the Midwest (not Michigan) and every school in my district had a nurse on staff as a matter of SOP.

What, no Co-ed Cumsluts 17? I am disappoint.

Finally, back to the thread started by Brawltimore:

Moving on to a thread started by Whiskeyprayer:

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the thread started by Brawltimore:

I don’t think that Sanders supporters are “largely young misogynist dudebro men who support him because he has a penis”, I think there there are men like this supporting Bernie, but believe that they are a minority of his supporters.

Moving on to a thread started by Brawltimore:

LOL, gawd you truly are comical. I don’t think I’ve said a single thing about Clinton’s baggage and how it might harm her in the general, largely because it’s all old news, all baked into the cake, and voters have heard it all before. Any voter who wouldn’t support Clinton because of her “baggage” already feels that…

Moving on to the thread started by Orionsangel:

To which I replied:

To which PersnicketyPants replied: