“White pride” is a code-word for “white supremecy”. “Whiteness” isn’t an ethnicity, it’s a social construct created in the early/mid 2oth century to unify Americans who come from different European ethnic groups, in order to maintain a white majority in the US.  

And in most parts of the US, $30,000/year is enough to rent an apartment and own a car. In DC, it’s really not, unless maybe you can get an income-restricted apartment.

DC is expensive. High cost-of-living, high rents, and high wages. $30,000 is not much there, especially if you have a college degree. Like most government jobs, you can almost certainly make a lot more in the private sector.

Would it help to have multiple people there to check the names off? That’s what they do where I live - they have the list broken down by last name, so that they can have a table with few different people checking names. But, I usually end up voting in the mid-morning anyway, when it’s not very busy, so I’m not sure…

They were, apparently, expecting 50,000 attendees.

Then we should all get trained as poll workers, and turn out in large numbers to help at the polling places.

Do you live in DC?

Well, if the new future is to have zero illegal immigrants in the US, they better get fucking used to it, because American workers sure as shit won’t pick lettuce 12 hours a day for $5/hour.

And for American consumers to continue to buy things from Mexico at the same level when they’re all 20% more expensive, too.

Yup. This is basically a 20% federal sales tax on all goods imported from Mexico. Fan-fucking-tastic.

Worse than that. This is basically a 20% federal sales tax on all goods imported from Mexico. Americans will be paying 100% of the cost of this wall, surprise surprise.

Maybe you should do the whole prepper thing and buy a generator and a bunch of canned goods and stock it up. I think that’s what I’d do, if money weren’t an issue.

Richard Spencer approves that sentiment.

Why this whole thing is especially stupid and frustrating - #4 will lead to the opposite of #3. NAFTA created a lot of jobs in Mexico, which is a part of why we now have more undocumented Mexican immigrants leaving the US than entering. Undo NAFTA, and we’ll most likely see a big rise in illegal immigration.

And the crazy thing is that this is completely counter to anything useful towards their stated goals.

Yup. He’ll institute a 5% tariff or something, and call that “Mexico repaying us” and claim it for a win.

It means he’s going to try to claim that something that’s not actually payment for the wall is payment for the wall.

If she’s this violent and remorseless, she may end up attacking other prisoners and guards, which would see her sentence extended.

A friend was also at the protest, and said it sounded like explosions, initially thinking maybe it was a terrorist attack.

Nah, it’s clearly 1.5 million stars. It’s the most stars ever.