Nope. In fact, the 13th amendment enshrines it as long as someone has been “duly convicted” of a “crime.”

I think calling this a controversy would be a stretch!

Thrown into solitary confinement for refusing to do voluntary labor.

problem number one: for-profit prisons

i didn’t like the movie. meh.

when somebody runs for president you ought to check their background, so this won’t happen again

The admin is the definition of tone deaf, though! Probably sent him because Michigan has a strong vein of Dutch heritage, and I believe that Hoekstra is of Dutch heritage, so this is a sort of favor posting.

Haha! The White House Press Corps has always been complicit. That’s how they get to stay in the room and rub elbows at fancy parties.

THIS. Why aren’t they calling her on that crap?

That’s the second best deer-in-the-headlights “DAWK” we’ve had yet this year! What a fucking dolt. His expression says “I don’t get it... lies work so well at home...”

“This is the Netherlands,” another added. “You have to answer questions.”

Have to admit, I felt kinda proud to be Dutch here.

DUTCH PRESS: THANK YOU.

Holy Cow, how tone deaf does an administration have to be to send this guy to the Netherlands? Who wouldn’t have seen this coming?

When whites become a “racial minority,” they won’t be treated well, because minorities are never treated well

Uh-huh...I keep telling people about these towns outside of Philly. Having grown up there, I KNOW what kind of separatists/Nationalists/Supremacists dwell in that state. And if you don’t encounter them, you’ll run into the all-kinds-of-other-batsh!t-craziness Amish. I hope the white woman who tried (but failed) to…

“She was always belittling him”

Whaa?? These kids ARE their parents! This shit is learned at home from day fucking one. It takes a village....and that village is racist.

Hey cut the parents some slack. Those crosses aren’t gonna burn themselves.

I think you need to know your audience on this one. I have known hiring managers that would have responded with, “Ha, ha, ha, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.”