Surprises coming for voters for the Leopards-Eating-Faces Party

Wild applause.

This is about on-point: https://youtu.be/NxM7jiUQKRM

(Includes pitch at end to donate to Southern Poverty Law Center.)

The last paragraph (bolded by me) relates to this thread topic. This story made me angry and nauseated from multiple directions. :nauseated_face: :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:

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Nebraska’s ‘Cornhusker Clink’ for migrant detainees upends rural town

Nebraska residents and former inmates are frustrated by plans to turn a Work Ethic Camp into an immigrant detention center called the “Cornhusker Clink.”

https://wapo.st/4o6Sp1j

MCCOOK, Neb. — For nearly 25 years, prisoners like Mitch Stone moved furniture, mowed lawns and renovated buildings at no cost to residents of this small city in western Nebraska.

Stone, 50, spent two years at a local Work Ethic Camp, where he maintained a county fairground for $3.78 a day while serving time after a DUI conviction. “The camp helped me out a lot,” said Stone, who is now a full-time employee at the same facility where he worked as an inmate.

By the end of this week, Nebraska’s governor, Jim Pillen (R), says the state will turn the camp into the “Cornhusker Clink” — a Great Plains version of Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz where the state plans to house up to 300 undocumented immigrants awaiting deportation.

The closure has McCook officials and local nonprofits that depended on the prison labor scrambling to find a new workforce. (Camp wages were paid by the state.)

[Stone is] also worried about keeping up with the workload at the fairground without the additional camp labor. “We had to scramble. We’re losing all our crew for cleans and installs,” he said. To replace them, the county fair board bought a $44,000 vacuum to suck* out the hundreds of horse stalls, which the crew sometimes only has two days to clean before the next event, he said.

He’s not opposed to the Trump administration’s immigration policies, Stone said, but “losing the camp to an ICE detention facility is asinine for this community.”

My bold.

Right, Bubba, let trump’s goons wreak havoc in other people’s lives and communities, but “I didn’t think the leopards would eat my town!” :sob:

Boo-fucking-hoo.



* I’m not a horsey person, but isn’t the correct term “muck out the stalls”?

I’ve looked at cows from The Far Side.

Look at you, you’re a cowboy. Howdy! Howdy! Howdy!

Solid.

ETA: Not an obscene amount of subscribers. But she is still active and has some million plus viewer hits. For example: I Thought the Tariffs.

If you do it with a muck fork, yes, it’s mucking. But since they’re doing it with what’s essentially a giant shop-vac, “sucking” is appropriate. Also a much faster but also disgusting, loud, obnoxious way to do it.

One of my (many) faves.

Can you rent one of those at Sneed’s Feed & Seed (formerly Chuck’s)?

When I first started dating the woman who would be my girlfriend for most of college, we bonded over that panel, and it became a catchphrase of sorts for us.

I never understood that one. I mean, I get what the joke is supposed to mean, but it just doesn’t click in a clever Far Side way.

Same here. Felt it was “below” the level of expected Simpsons humor. But then again, was it meant to be noticed, or just a little inside joke?

Goddammit, Johnny! You’ve ruined the joke by alluding to a plausible alternative.

No fun anymore. :face_with_bags_under_eyes:

Ahem. Quoting from the Know Your Meme website:

The earliest archived discussion of Sneed’s Feed & Seed comes from a thread created by The Straight Dope user The Great Zamboni_on April 17th, 2003 (shown below).[5]

[![04-17-2003, 09:12 PM #1 Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: The Great Ice Rink Posts: 866 The Great Zambonio Guest Sneed’s Feed and Seed (formerly Chucks)…I don’t get it Several times on this board I have seen references to this store that was on The Simpsons. Everyone here seems to think it’s funny and clever and I don’t know what it is. even saw the episode and the store itself in the episode, yet I still don’t get it. What does it mean?

You need a Sneed.

I feel the need…the need for Sneed!

It’s a thing that everyone, everyone, everyone needs.

So, Brawndo?

“You’ve turned Springfield into America’s trash hole!”

“Marge, ix-nay on the ash-hole-tray!”

Millions of Trump voters ‘are about to get punched in the face’

“I’ve spoken to many of them in Arizona. There are going to be people that are paying $250 or $300 who are going to be paying $1,100 or $1,200,” [Sen. Mark Kelly] continued.

Kelly then observed that the cost difference was even more substantial in Republican-controlled states. …

In addition to premiums rising by 346 percent in Alaska, they’re also projected to go up by 150 percent in Louisiana; 314 percent in Mississippi; 235 percent in South Dakota; 320 percent in Tennessee; 387 percent in West Virginia and 382 percent in Wyoming.

Trump/MAGA cultists: ‘Hey, let’s pay three or four times as much for our health insurance! That’ll own the libs!’ :joy: :leopard: :joy: :leopard: :joy: :leopard:

With this, and the cuts to SNAP and the like, I’m once again coming dangerously close to “Let them burn it all down, and then watch them try to live in the ashes” territory. It seems like the only way any of them will ever come to their senses.

I’m still somewhat restrained by the existence of all the other people who already realize how bad this will be, but will also get caught up in it all. Individual Blue States need to come up with plans to replace all this stuff locally, and let the Red States die.