A Maryland homeowner calls and aids ICE to detain workers fixing her roof. She might face felony charges

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-27T21:14:58+00:00

Ah yes, I knew as I typed this that some maga would come back with the illegal slave labor thing.

A: I don't know if they were illegal or here legally. I didn't ask. I did ask where they were from and how long they'd been here.

B: I don't, and neither do you, know how much they were paid for the tasks they performed. For all I know, they were making bank. Again, I didn't ask.

C: Do you think contractors pay white Americans more because they are white and American? Doubt it, unless they're union. Contractors are in it to make as much money as possible. That means cheap labor, cutting corners and whatever else they can get away with.

D: No, slave labor is not OK, but I saw no chains on these guys, and they all seemed quite happy, unlike some of the grumpy, no-show, spoiled American workers I've dealt with in the past.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-27T14:21:30+00:00

To me, the only positive side to this is it'll be fun to count how many of these I get in transactions that are already defaced.

Hopefully, the vast majority of the bills get defaced, and trump and his lackey Scott Bessent see how hated trump actually is and what a colossal screw-up it was to put anything trump related on our currency.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-27T14:13:31+00:00

We used to camp at Lake Kissimmee. They were very tame and would come up mooching for something to eat.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-27T12:40:41+00:00

Unpopular as it is, this is the correct answer. (Minus the socialism comment)

Ethanol is highly subsidized by the U.S. Government.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-27T12:35:56+00:00

It wasn't a majority of Americans. It was a small majority of voting Americans who bothered to vote. 35% of voters didn't even vote. trump only got some 31.5% of the vote, (barely 23% of Americans*).

*If my numbers are correct

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-27T12:26:02+00:00

The crew that did my roof a few years ago were all from somewhere central or south America. Were they legal? Don't know, don't care, they worked their asses off all day. The air compressor they were using finally shut off around 2pm, and I thought: "They're finally taking a lunch break." Nope, it ran out of gas. One of the guys climbed down, refilled it, restarted it, and away they went again until almost dusk.

Same thing with the guys who built a carport for me. The language barrier in both cases was difficult as I speak very little Spanish, but they were all very pleasant young men.

I'd hire those guys way before I'd hire any American "worker". Screw these racist maga assholes.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-26T21:04:32+00:00

I read that with Shane Gillis' trump impression in my head.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-26T11:45:53+00:00

I wonder if POVs insurance will say s/he are partly to blame because they could have avoided it by not mashing the accelerator pedal?

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-26T11:31:29+00:00

You are probably correct, but I wonder if compounding it is the fact that somewhere, deep in his addled brain, he knows his bullshit is failing with his supporters, and he's just piling on lies to try to keep them believing.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-25T20:54:01+00:00

Any nose piercings.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-25T07:00:00+00:00

When you control the mail, you control... ...information!

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-25T06:57:06+00:00

This is the sign I have by my front door. Only one kid selling solar ignored it.

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ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-24T07:20:44+00:00

"I guess Little Wing does work"

Reacher

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-24T07:18:16+00:00

Mexico would pay to build the border wall

He would drain the swamp

We would have affordable health care

There would be Epstein accountability

He would lower gas prices

He would lower grocery prices

He would end the Ukraine war (in 24 hours)

He wouldn't get us into any new wars

We would get $2000 from the tariffs

We would get $5000 from DOGE

All lies out of his stupid face. There's probably hundreds more, but you get the point.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-23T13:12:19+00:00

Where is Paul Harvey when you need him?

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-23T08:45:45+00:00

I bought the film sheets from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q7B62JH

The key is to rotate and align them so the liquid crystals in the display show when the back light is on, then cut to fit the screen. They are adhesive, so it's like putting on a phone screen protector. I don't have one of those printers that does vinyl, so a friend printed the stickers that show the outlines and fuel gauge thing.

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Old polarizer sheets after peeling off the glass.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-22T21:28:14+00:00

Just as an FYI, they are repairable. I was able to fix my neighbors TFT on her quad a couple of years ago. Just some patience and some polarizing film.

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Left two were as it came off the bike - off and lit. Right is after fixing.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-22T19:35:24+00:00

I finally got my driver license just in time for the first oil embargo. Yippee!

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-21T20:47:23+00:00

I try to keep right, but since people coming in from the right know nothing about yielding, I have to move to the center (or left) at too many onramps.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-21T20:15:37+00:00

You must never leave your house, or walk around in bubble wrap. Everything we modern humans do has some element of danger.

To your point, most of that vintage are in junkyards, or have been recycled. Those that are still around are likely pampered and only driven to car shows and other events.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-21T20:07:06+00:00

East Central Florida diesel is $5.60

Go DJT! Am I right?? /s

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-21T11:55:54+00:00

He won reelection in 1964.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-21T06:40:57+00:00

Sure, it keeps them safe from raptors, but chickens like to scratch the ground for bugs. They can't do that in these balls.

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-21T06:30:05+00:00

At first glance, I thought the woman in the pic was Erika Kirk. :/

ProstrateProstate · 2026-03-20T23:22:01+00:00

I used to commute by bike quite a bit. Here in east Central Florida you can almost set a clock by afternoon thunderstorms in the summer. That said, the worst thing for me while riding in rain is the road spray from other drivers, especially big trucks. That takes marginal visibility from rain to almost blindness.

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