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pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
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> On 2025-02-26, AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:07:46 -0800,  Alan says...  
>>
>>> 
>>> On 2025-02-25 15:43, AlleyCat wrote:
>>> > 
>>> > Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA): "We can't let them deport the
>>> > millions of families across this country... Look at the food on
>>> > your table. Think about who picked it."
>>> > 
>>> > Hmmm... if a Conservative says that only Hispanic illegals pick
>>> > our food, how many seconds do think pass, before a liberal tries
>>> > to get him canceled?
>>
>>> It is not racist to recognize a reality, Phil.
>>
>> You mean, just like crime statistics?
>>
>> THANK YOU!
>>
>> Hypocrite.
>>
>> But it IS to think that ONLY immigrants pick crops.
>>
>> How racist was this... thinking ONLY Indians work at 7-Eleven or
>> dunkin' Donuts? 
>>
>> "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a
>> slight Indian accent. I'm not joking." - Joe Biden 
>>
>> or...
>>
>> Thinking ALL Blacks and their children are poor?
>>
>> "Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids" -
>> Joe Biden 
>>
>> orrrr...
>>
>> Thinking that all Blacks are not articulate, bright and clean?
>>
>> "I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is
>> articulate and bright and clean." - Joe Biden 
>>
>> When WHITE and/or conservatives make jokes about the only people
>> picking crops are immigrant, legal or not, and Hispanics, they're
>> called racists, but when a minority or "liberal" takes that joke and 
>> makes it into a "reality", why she gets a standing ovation.
>>
>> The point was hypocrisy, moron... and you proved it beyond a shadow
>> of a doubt. 
>>
>>=====
>>
>> Can you imagine if a conservative late night host said ANY of this?
>>
>>
>> Stephen Colbert Offers Comedy Shtick In Farm Workers Testimony, Fails
>> To Amuse Lawmakers 
>>  
>> Stephen Colbert's satirical routine as a conservative commentator on
>> "The Colbert Report" leaves 100s of his fans laughing every night,
>> but the comedian failed to amuse lawmakers Friday during a House
>> panel hearing on farm jobs and illegal immigrants. 
>>
>> The Comedy Central star stayed in character during testimony as he
>> made light of his experience working for one day as a migrant laborer
>> on a vegetable farm in New York. 
>>
>> "America's farms are presently far too dependent on immigrant labor
>> to pick our fruits and vegetables, " Colbert said. "Now the obvious
>> answer is for all of us to stop eating fruits and vegetables, and if
>> you look at the recent obesity statistics, you'll see that many
>> Americans have already started." 
>>
>> While some audience members laughed, most of the members of the House
>> Judiciary subcommittee barely cracked a smile. 
>>
>> "This is America, " Colbert continued. "I don't want a tomato picked
>> by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a
>> Guatemalan and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives
>> me a Brazilian." 
>>
>> Buzz has surrounded Colbert's appearance ever since United Farm
>> Workers announced Wednesday that its president would testify
>> alongside him in Washington for a hearing on "Protecting America's 
>> Harvest."
>>
>> The House Judiciary subcommittee hearing is about migrant farm
>> workers and is touching on the so-called AgJOBS bill, a proposal that
>> would give illegal immigrant farm workers a pathway to legal status.
>>
>> While some Republicans criticized Democrats for inviting Colbert,
>> House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Fox News that she believes it's
>> "appropriate." 
>>
>> "Of course I think it's appropriate, " she said. "He's an American.
>> He can bring attention to an important issue. I think it's great." 
>>
>> In his testimony, Colbert discussed his one-day experience as a
>> migrant laborer. 
>>
>> "I started my my workday with preconceived notions of migrant labor,
>> but after working with these men and women picking beans, packing
>> corn for hours on end side by side in the unforgiving sun, I have to
>> say - and I do mean this sincerely - please don't make me do this
>> again, " he said. "It is really, really hard work." 
>>
>> Colbert said his day on a farm left him traumatized.
>>
>> "I don't even want to watch Green Acres again, " he said.
>>
>> Colbert turned serious for a moment when he was asked why he chose to
>> focus on this issue. 
>>
>> "I like talking about people that don't have any power and it seems
>> like one of the least powerful people in the United States are
>> migrant workers who come and do our work but don't have any rights 
>> as a result, " he said. "And yet we still invite them to come here
>> and at the same time ask them to leave." 
>>
>> At the beginning of the hearing, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., chairman
>> of the Judiciary Committee, tried to pull the plug on Colbert's
>> testimony in an effort "to get to the bottom" of the issue. 
>>
>> "I would like to recommend that now we got all this attention that
>> you excuse yourself and you let us get on with the three witnesses
>> and all the other members there, " he said. "I'm asking you to leave
>> the committee room completely, and submit your statement." 
>>
>> But Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., the subcommittee chairwoman who
>> invited Colbert to testify, intervened. 
>>
>> "Many are eager to hear his comments, " she said.
>>
>> Colbert replied that he would leave only at her request.
>>
>> "I'm here at the invitation of the chairwoman, and if she would like
>> me to remove myself from the hearing room, I am happy to do so, " he
>> said. "I'm only here at her invitation." 
>>
> 
> You beat me to it !
> It's more of the libbys picking and choosing.
> 
> IMHO people like Jaypal, Illhan Omar should be impeached as they
> clearly hate the USA and have other motives than supporting THIS
> country and it's LEGAL citizens. 


    House reps cannot be impeached. 

    Article II, Section 4, US Constitution. 

    Get your facts straight.