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2020-05-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Illegal Aliens Jam Phone Lines as California Offers $500 Each in Coronavirus Relief

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Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-05-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Send them $500 equivalent payment-in-kind: an Uber voucher to the nearest Greyhound station + a one-way ticket to Michoacán and the rest in Mexican lottery tickets.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-20 00:22|| 2020-05-20 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't know if states have their own food stamp programs (or if it's solely run by the Feds), but how about (if/since they are going to do such an insane thing) just giving these illegals food stamps or vouchers or something besides cash? I don't agree with any of this, but to simply give ~~future voters~~ illegals cash is absurd.

Posted by Clem 2020-05-20 00:30|| 2020-05-20 00:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Given Gavin will not change...

Posted by crazyhorse 2020-05-20 00:52|| 2020-05-20 00:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Can the phone numbers be used as evidence, and those assisting these criminals also be charged with federal crimes?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-05-20 06:54|| 2020-05-20 06:54|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ That would be a criminal conspiracy to commit fraud, No? RICO possibilities abound.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-20 08:17|| 2020-05-20 08:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Para espanol - oprima uno, dos, tres, cuatro, y cinco. Es todo bien.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2020-05-20 09:25|| 2020-05-20 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 With hold all federal aid then.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-05-20 10:35|| 2020-05-20 10:35|| Front Page Top

#8 Misprision
the deliberate concealment of one's knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony

We could actually ask for people to act to avoid committing misprision and get a really rare look at dictionary use at the same time!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-05-20 11:40|| 2020-05-20 11:40|| Front Page Top

#9 So don't they need to register to get the check?

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-20 13:05|| 2020-05-20 13:05|| Front Page Top

#10 All we have to do is spread word that the line is really a trap and everyone calling it gets deported.

Posted by Silentbrick 2020-05-20 13:11|| 2020-05-20 13:11|| Front Page Top

#11 #10 Or set up a "flypaper" version of our own.

Not that this would ever happen. Mitch McConnell's paymasters would get the vapors.

#7 With hold all federal aid then.

We should, but I guarantee that there's a bunch of "practical" Republicans who will want to pay the Mestizogeld, either because the COC wants it, or because they think they'll earn brownie points with people who utterly despise them, as is Republicans' wont.

Don't forget -- the GOP House Minority leader is a Californian, just like Nancy.

It'd be naive to think he's not angling for pork for his state too.

And if the GOP wins the House, he'll be the Speaker, so Cali is covered either way.

We're all just tax cattle for Blue America, and at least half of our brave conservative opposition is only too happy to deliver us into servitude.

Posted by charger 2020-05-20 14:26|| 2020-05-20 14:26|| Front Page Top

#12 "practical" Republicans who will want to pay the Mestizogeld

Lexical Snark O' The Day!

Posted by Lex 2020-05-20 16:09|| 2020-05-20 16:09|| Front Page Top

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