On 2019 Jun 28 22:06:48, you wrote to me:

 ml>> sorry, i'm not twisting any words around...

 at> It's ok, I forgive you. It's a relief that you won't be doing that
anymore.

dude, i never mince words or twist things like that...

 ml>> firstly we can stop locking them up in cages...

 at> We can't do anything about that; that's up to border patrol.

ummm... yeah... how many of them are there compared to how many of us??

 at> I'm asking *what can we do* not *what can we stop others from doing.*

what we can do is make them stop doing that...

 at>>> We can start a food drive for them? I'd donate to that. Wouldn't
 at>>> you?

 ml>> i would if i had disposible $$$ i could do that with, sure... the

 at> Come on Mark, we all know you live in Maryland.

you have me mixed up with some else... i've lived in central NC most of my 50+
years...

 at> That's one of the most expensive states in all of the USA. You can't
 at> spare a can of peas

if i had a fucking can of peas, i would definitely share them... as much as i
hate them, i'd eat them if that's all i had... split peas? sure, i love them...
 but not canned peas... right now i'm trying to figure out what i can do to get
 food for my cats (3), my guinea fowl (2), my remaining two chickens (since the
 coyotes got ten of them some weeks ago so now i don't get eggs as much as i
did), my rooster, my toulouse geese (20), and my dog... if i had canned peas,
i'd have a little something to feed to my chickens... i'm sure they'd eat
them... not sure about my geese eating them, though... i don't even have money
for gas so i can get back out job hunting... i'm 30 minutes from the nearest
town with any sort of work to offer and it costs me $10US just to go to town
and come back without doing anything else... if i go to town, i'd better be
spending or bringing back more than $10US to make the trip worthwhile... i was
my father's care giver until he died back in august... i spent the last 30+
years here with him and i don't have access to those resources any more...
don't come fucking talking to me about being hungry or not having any god
damned money for basic necessities... i'm damned well living it!

 at> or a tube of toothpaste to help the people you're here crying for?

i have a half a tube of toothpaste... once it is gone, i'm out with no current
prospects of getting more... after that, it'll be salt and baking soda to brush
 my teeth with until i run out of them... i prefer not to use that because salt
 is better with food and the baking soda is better used in flour as levening...

 at> Because you're afraid the evil republicans will spill the beans on the
 at> floor, and have an orgy in it, in front of starving illegal alien
 at> children?

dude, i've lost 50+ pounds in the last 10 months *because* beans are pretty
much all that i've had to eat... a 20 pouind bag of dried pinto beans is about
gone... every once in a while, maybe some pork neckbones get thrown into the
pot... or maybe some turkey necks... but neither one of them come around very
damned often... sometimes i'll throw a handful or two of rice into the pot to
stretch it along... that was a 10 pound bag of rice when i started... maybe
some frozen vegetables that have been in the deep freezer for 4 or 5 years will
 get thrown into the pot... but you know what? even though i don't have
anything and i could use some assistance myself, i *STILL* help others as much
as i can when i can and how i can... i share my pot of beans with others... i
drive my truck carrying folks back and forth to work or to the grocery store
even though it costs them $10US a trip... that's what it costs me so i have to
charge them or there won't be any fuel to even do that... i don't even make any
 extra on it... i'm not trying to... i'm helping them as best i can with what
little i have... i get them to work so they can make some little bit of money
to try to get out of the hole they are in... and one day, just one day, that
help will come back to me... some how, some way, it will come back...

i haven't drowned in a river with my 2yo daughter but if i had to swim across a
 damned river with my young child to try to save them, you better believe i'd
do it... i'd do it in heart beat because i'm a parent and i'll do anything i
can to try to find a better place and life for my kids... i've already lost my
oldest son... buried him ~10 years ago... he asked me to bring his motorcycle
to atlanta for him so i did... 72 hours later, he was gone... now i'm losing my
 other son to god damned heroin... i tried to help by letting him stay here
instead of on the streets... what'd he do? he lied to me over and over and
stole stuff of his grandfather's from here... i had to kick him and make him
get into a program... i don't even know if he's still in that program or how
he's doing... i hope he's doing good but he's got a long way to go... i haven't
 seen any of my five grand children in 10 years... yeah, if i had to carry them
 across a river on my back, i'd absolutely do it if there was no other choice
that i could see... i applaud that father for trying... i hate that they died
in the attempt but at least he tried to do something to make his daughter's
life better than it was where they came from...

don't be telling me what selfish assholes can do... i've seen it for 50+, i see
 it all the time today, and i'm gorran damned sick of it... get off your ass
and go help someone instead of sitting there moaning and whining about some
immigrants coming into our country... this country was built on immigration!
damned near everybody here in this country is here because of immigration!
immigrants need help as much as anyone else... i don't fault them one iota for
doing everything they can to come here to what was the greatest country in the
world... the land of the free and the home of the brave... yeah, right... sons
of bitches won't even take care of our veterans like we were promised... yeah,
i'm an honorably discharged veteran... i, my father, several aunts and uncles
all were promised lifetime health care... greedy assholes like trump, conning
people left and right, taking the money and spreading it around his friends and
 associates... can't even speak a coherent paragraph but he's going to save the
 country... bullshit, lying sack of shit... $700+US a day to take care of the
people illegally taken and locked up in cages and where's that money going? it
ain't going to take care of those people! if it were, they'd have food,
blankets, cans of peas, and toothpaste! trump sounds like my son when he's all
drugged up on that shit... talking a big game and failing at everything he
touches... ruining everything for everybody else... fuck that! get outta my
yard!

are you fucking happy now?

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