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malaise

(286,795 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:30 PM Jun 11

Watching Chris Hayes

Just wait for the prices of fruits and vegetables to multiply in a few weeks as workers have fled the fields.
This is effin madness,

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Watching Chris Hayes (Original Post) malaise Jun 11 OP
SERIOUS madness!!!! elleng Jun 11 #1
Hope those " Alpha strong back males" are ready to replace those workers tulipsandroses Jun 11 #4
Look out for the private prison.chain gangs malaise Jun 11 #6
No cabbage, broccoli, anything good. elleng Jun 11 #10
And meat packing industry too... IcyPeas Jun 11 #2
Yep malaise Jun 11 #5
Russell Honore coming up now malaise Jun 11 #3
I remember him rescuing those twins and their mum Skittles Jun 11 #7
That was wonderful malaise Jun 11 #8
I will never forget watching Katrina in real time on a HUGE screen Skittles Jun 11 #12
Same here malaise Jun 11 #14
then the people fleeing Katrina and coming to Texas were called REFUGEES Skittles Jun 11 #15
I remembered when they separated families malaise Jun 11 #16
But...Babs Bush North Shore Chicago Jun 12 #24
I will never forget her comment malaise Jun 12 #25
I have a buddy and to this day when one of us screws up, the other will say "You're doin' a heck of a job, Brownie." Xavier Breath Jun 11 #17
Segment with Jacob S. in the fields senseandsensibility Jun 11 #9
He will destroy everything for power malaise Jun 11 #11
Just remember how good things were with Biden. multigraincracker Jun 11 #13
What fruits and veggies? If there's no strawberry pickers, there's no strawberries! SunSeeker Jun 11 #18
Yep malaise Jun 11 #19
I heard there was a Blackhawk Helicopter flying over slowly fermenting strawberry fields empty of pickers Cheezoholic Jun 11 #20
I don't get it. bagimin Jun 11 #21
For the ReTHUG party malaise Jun 12 #23
Yup seta1950 Jun 11 #22
We're buying and preserving. Canning and drying. marble falls Jun 12 #26

tulipsandroses

(7,692 posts)
4. Hope those " Alpha strong back males" are ready to replace those workers
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:37 PM
Jun 11

It ain't gonna be our black jobs. Nope.

malaise

(286,795 posts)
3. Russell Honore coming up now
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:37 PM
Jun 11

Put those weapons down - will never forget that during Katrina

Skittles

(166,089 posts)
12. I will never forget watching Katrina in real time on a HUGE screen
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:11 PM
Jun 11

was working all night in a room that looked like NASA

I specifically remember thinking, "Dubya says he can bring peace to the Middle East but he can't get a little girl off a bridge in New Orleans."

Skittles

(166,089 posts)
15. then the people fleeing Katrina and coming to Texas were called REFUGEES
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:21 PM
Jun 11

as if they were from another country....WTF!! They are our NEIGHBORS!!!

North Shore Chicago

(4,186 posts)
24. But...Babs Bush
Thu Jun 12, 2025, 06:29 AM
Jun 12

said:


She stated, "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them."

Xavier Breath

(5,850 posts)
17. I have a buddy and to this day when one of us screws up, the other will say "You're doin' a heck of a job, Brownie."
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:31 PM
Jun 11

senseandsensibility

(22,917 posts)
9. Segment with Jacob S. in the fields
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 08:51 PM
Jun 11

looks so familiar to me. You see miles of this traveling up and down CA and we are the 4th biggest economy in the world. Yet there is no one out there right now (still broad daylight) picking. They have scared the farmworkers off and food doesn't pick itself!

SunSeeker

(56,167 posts)
18. What fruits and veggies? If there's no strawberry pickers, there's no strawberries!
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 09:51 PM
Jun 11

And you can thank Trump's ICE for that!


Cheezoholic

(3,117 posts)
20. I heard there was a Blackhawk Helicopter flying over slowly fermenting strawberry fields empty of pickers
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:20 PM
Jun 11

Like some dystopian predatory animal waiting to swoop down and grab people

seta1950

(959 posts)
22. Yup
Wed Jun 11, 2025, 10:35 PM
Jun 11

40% of fruits and vegetables are grown in California, for the whole country, very simple math.

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