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Pro-Trump Idaho Farming Town 'Nearly Destroyed' As ICE Raid Leaves Community Without Harvest Workers
Endlessmike56
(154 posts)orangecrush
(29,491 posts)gopiscrap
(24,640 posts)Initech
(108,106 posts)Or in the immortal words of Hamilton - "When push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!".
Moostache
(11,128 posts)He loved that one when my brother and sister and I were fighting as kids...I can still hear him intoning "The beatings will now commence and they shall continue until morale improves!"
Thanks for that, I needed it more than I can ever say right now as my dad is on hospice care and nearing the end of a fight with age, dementia and a broken heart since we lost mom to COVID back in 2020. It brought a smile to my face and I appreciate that enormously.
dalton99a
(92,998 posts)CrispyQ
(40,834 posts)PatSeg
(52,681 posts)Though clearly they just weren't THINKING at all.
popsdenver
(1,930 posts)or to spread Republican terrorism through a piss ant Republican State for some screwed up reason.
Maybe another farm owner who competes with him, wanted him taken out as competition.....
Or a neighboring farm wants his land at a cheap price, so he causes the bankruptcy of the farm, now with no workers.
Or maybe a neighboring farm owner didn't hire illegal aliens, but this guy did, so he called in a favor and got this farmer destroyed...
rampartd
(4,338 posts)Scubamatt
(276 posts)We have a winner!!!! MAGA minds see no inconsistency between cheering on a policy that hurts their perceived enemy and then being shocked/outraged when that same policy gets used against them. They are incapable of empathy beyond their immediate "clan." (no wonder they loved Charlie Kirk and Elon).
Dave Id
(260 posts)... you're gonna get some on your shoe.
Coventina
(29,490 posts)
Botany
(76,785 posts)Mr. Leopard, Idaho face tastes like potatoes.

Coventina
(29,490 posts)joshdawg
(2,939 posts)PufPuf23
(9,727 posts)is a shortage of face-eating leopards at present.
SocialDemocrat61
(7,226 posts)but were probably ok with it happening in other towns. Typical conservatives.
UpInArms
(54,517 posts)Never understand the big picture
they always think they are special
The trouble is that they are truly special, just not in a good way
MiHale
(12,804 posts)I know it was that paperback I picked up at a Sinclar gas station.
sueh
(1,945 posts)Johonny
(25,810 posts)Who hired all the immirgants...
liberalgunwilltravel
(1,138 posts)FIFY.
MustLoveBeagles
(15,323 posts)hadEnuf
(3,573 posts)They will be completely false answers, but no matter. Just don't believe what you are seeing, hearing and actually speaking. Then it will all go away and anything bad will be Joe Biden's fault!
Stew in in, assh@le.
rampartd
(4,338 posts)trump tells these people that all 20 million or is it 40 million immigrants are murderers , rapists, and insane people looking for an asylum.
"they are eating the dogs. they are eating the cats" trump
liberalgunwilltravel
(1,138 posts)FAFO.
LetMyPeopleVote
(177,211 posts)2naSalit
(101,260 posts)Botany
(76,785 posts)The lead singer with her ukulele and awesome pipes, the choir with the voices along with an attitude to
seat six, and more than a little show boat in them. That was great.
That made me happy.😃
orangecrush
(29,491 posts)AllyCat
(18,674 posts)Meant the leopards would eat my face.
Codifer
(1,189 posts)that thought that this could happen here was Sinclair Lewis.
And that was in 1935.
Initech
(108,106 posts)2naSalit
(101,260 posts)Haven't heard that in ages.
Initech
(108,106 posts)La da da da da da da DIE da da da da DIE da da da...
ColoringFool
(458 posts)Ol Janx Spirit
(854 posts)First of all, there is the white privilege that has for so long defined life in rural America:
But even more telling is the venue of the raid itself:
...
John Carter runs a security company that worked at the racetrack, and he's a Trump supporter himself.[1]
So this unlicensed racetrack--read: illegal betting--that had a distinctly Hispanic name and was run by immigrants was "part of the social scene" and protected by a security company run by a conservative, but "[n]obody thought something like this could happen here"?
This sort of thing is endemic in rural red areas across this country: their white privilege tells them that they have the right to do all sorts of things that others should not enjoy the same right to.
Whether it is illegal moonshine, drugs, gambling, animal fighting, tax evasion, etc., rural white America enjoys their privilege--and it is so embedded in the culture now they are often shocked when it breaks down.
But the malAdministration is so dedicated to their racism that even white privilege is being pushed out of the way to satisfy their lust to inflict pain on immigrants.
It might move the needle eventually....
[1] https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pro-trump-idaho-farming-town-nearly-destroyed-ice-raid-leaves-community-without-harvest-workers-1777595
leanforward
(1,132 posts)I liked your explanation of privileged thinking in rural areas.
Thank you
aggiesal
(10,654 posts)Each "body" means money and you're just getting in their way to collect those 💵💸💰'💲
SWBTATTReg
(26,153 posts)And I wonder how they'll be authorized, since Congress is the only entity that authorizes expenditures.
calimary
(89,355 posts)that Trumps promises mean NOTHING. And he doesnt give a whiff about ANY of them.
SWBTATTReg
(26,153 posts)Justice matters.
(9,572 posts)Q
atar.
SergeStorms
(20,241 posts)with King Kon, buddy.
You actually thought Drumph was on your side and had your back?
What a maroon!
WestCoastDem42
(69 posts)Hard to believe that ANYONE could have voted for the idiots.
twodogsbarking
(18,054 posts)Stupidity doesn't come and go, it stays and stays.
TygrBright
(21,333 posts)relayerbob
(7,398 posts)Too bad, farmers, so sad. Hope the immigrants are ok.
MineralMan
(150,922 posts)They're only going for the Blue states and cities. We're good...
Famous last words...
Soul_of_Wit
(51 posts)If you fail to learn from your mistake, then shame on you. If you learn from your mistake, then it had all of the value in the world.
Initech
(108,106 posts)It didn't have to get this bad before people realize what a mistake it was to elect the asshole for a second term. But I hope that people continue to wake up to the damage this insufferable turd and his goons are doing to our country.
idahoblue
(451 posts)They bitch about losing access to public land but vote for those closing it.
They complain about too few doctors but vote for those causing the mass migration of doctors out of the state.
They scream local control but vote for those placing government control on everything.
California and Texas are not sending us their best.
betsuni
(28,908 posts)Oops, confusing. Sad!
OldBaldy1701E
(10,739 posts)
JustAnotherGen
(37,798 posts)pull this finger and I . . .
They knew - they just thought their cheap labor would be spared.
Farmer-Rick
(12,545 posts)Why are we only hearing of it now? The date on when the site published the article is 9 February.
Four months later we hear how rural towns are being decimated by Pedo Trump's federal goons. I heard some folks here in rural East TN say the pedo was sending his goon squads here. I thought it was just conspiracy thinking. But now, I'm not so sure.
October is prime harvest season. I wonder if all the crops were picked and collected? February and March is freaking cold in Idaho so not much for immigrant farm workers to do. Though here in East TN, March is prime planting season. Yikes, I wonder if any planting will get done?
sueh
(1,945 posts)Clouds Passing
(7,587 posts)Vote For Pedos, You Get F~cked
bobalew
(420 posts)decimated his economy when he shut down & removed all of his Quiosk vendors for being socially underclassed. ( he referred to them as scumbags), but when he did that, he cut the bottom pillars out from his economy, causing a deep dive into really bad inflation, & killing his country's economy. This is what Tr@mp is doing to ours, cutting the bottom out of our economy. He is doing a "Mugabe" to us by removing an economic layer.
North Coast Lawyer
(249 posts)Did these guys really think they were special? Mass deportation is what Trump promised. They're getting exactly what they voted for. Hope they enjoy their continued slide into economic obviation.
Norrrm
(4,459 posts)Good news, Republicans. You get your jobs back...
All those jobs the immigrants took from you.

Aussie105
(7,733 posts)If you consider his aim is to do maximum disruption to American society, you will see more clearly.
Add in the fact he hates everyone, no matter who you voted for, and things make sense.
The thing that worries me though, is not that an insane person is doing insane things, but that a lot of his past and present supporters somehow think they can benefit from him being in the White House.
Critical thinking and buyer beware due diligence unfortunately aren't common features of a lot of Americans.
(I blame the education system.)
rpannier
(24,877 posts)It's only nearly destroyed. I was kind of hoping it was totally destroyed. Maybe if we give it time
Rent a black SUV and drive through town
Youre saying they got what they voted for but its not what they want now? Too bad, so sad, they were had, and now theyre mad. F them
Just Jerome
(457 posts)what kin think sure nuff thunk it!
Johnny2X2X
(23,877 posts)Was when he talked about how he thought this would only be in the cities. He was all too happy if some other peoples communities were being terrorized and destroyed, but not his own.
These people are truly sick and deserve to lose everything.
malaise
(294,423 posts)Rec
Aussie105
(7,733 posts)was he really thinking of taking America back to a depression, like the one from 1929 until the onset of World War II in 1941?
Hassler
(4,840 posts)But they didn't believe it. If they change their minds and vote better next time this horror can be stopped...but who am I kidding?
mdbl
(8,342 posts)RVN VET71
(3,166 posts)These are people who don't think, they just look to those they consider their intellectual betters for instructions and protection.
So when Trump's thugs attack them just like they were Blue State people, their whole belief system crashes and they are just lost and confused --- and frightened, too, because they suddenly realize that the pain they enjoyed being visited on others is now being visited on them, and there's no where to turn for protection.
It's "bottom half" panic.
But come election day, these same people will vote for Republicans again, maybe with tears in their eyes, hoping they'll be readmitted to the protective arms of the GOP. Think of a poor beaten wife, black of eye and puffy of lip, begging her drunken (with power in this case) husband to forgive her.
Bottom half mortification.
Beartracks
(14,477 posts)Joinfortmill
(20,557 posts)As a country and as Americans, we need to be done with this fascist shit. RESIST.
