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standingtall

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8. I think what your missing is their going to redefine it

Reply to The Blue Flower (Reply #6)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 04:49 PM

Jul 8

at their whims. Disabled now declared able bodied tomorrow. Who needs child labor laws get those 7 year old slackers in the fields. That's where we are headed.

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They're coming for those on Medicaid, to use as farm workers. [View all] Grasswire2 Jul 8 OP

Was there ever any doubt? And if that doesn't work Phoenix61 Jul 8 #1

So they'll have to fly after their shift ends at (for example) Walmart in Omaha to CA to work the fields, Sogo Jul 8 #2

Wow, this is some Trumpified 'Grapes of Wrath' bizarro world shit. sop Jul 8 #3

gross pamdb Jul 8 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author rsdsharp Jul 8 #5

Define 'able bodied' The Blue Flower Jul 8 #6

I think what your missing is their going to redefine it standingtall Jul 8 #8

They'll have to have accommodations in the fields for wheelchairs, the blind, and the Alzheimer's workers jmbar2 Jul 8 #7

They won't be getting much work from me. mucholderthandirt Jul 8 #9

Maddow Blog-Agriculture secretary suggests Medicaid recipients can replace immigrants as farmworkers LetMyPeopleVote Jul 9 #10

I say round-up all the Republicans at gunpoint and put them in the fields. Tell 'em, picking cotton is PATRIOTIC! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Jul 9 #11