• PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works
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    But he drew criticism during the campaign for suggesting that the United States should build a fence at the Mexico border and “start shooting” at immigrants suspected of entering the country illegally.

    Fuck that guy.

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          Or a plane ticket.

          The vast majority of illegal immigration from Mexico into the United States is done by people simply overstaying their visas. So building a wall would have literally no effect because they’re not actually wandering across the border in any significant number.

          Obviously some people do come across that way, but not the majority.

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          this is why you shoot the ones with the ladder first. C’mon, haven’t you ever watched LOTR?!

          (For the record I hate the thought of this. but this guys…entire thing was shooting them from atop the wall.)

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            I watched far too many Trump speeches, and he never suggested shooting them off the wall, instead he said the wall would be so insanely high that once they got over it there would be no way to get down. Of course he forgot about rope.

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              trump didn’t have to. It was implied. All of his little ass-lickers knew that was the next step. Plumber and the others advocating for walls know that there’s no point in having a wall if nobody is defending it.

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          Its actually a well researched topic, the Chinese originally got the idea for their wall from Joe the Plumber.

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      Yeah. Literally who? Maybe if he was some antivaxx crackpot who ended up dying of a vaccine preventable disease. At least that’d be some leopards ate my face content.

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    Like what happens to most Americans in the US healthcare system: The cancer that killed him also wiped out his family’s savings.

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      Is that true? I didn’t see that in the article. I was hoping he had Obamacare because I enjoy irony

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        From the 2nd paragraph of the OP:

        “His family announced this year on an online fundraising site that he had pancreatic cancer.”

        The way Americans deal with medical bankruptcy are the ‘online fundraising’ sites. If things are well financially, they don’t use them.

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    This is the most non story ever.

    If we’re going to have a news story every time someone who had a bad take on the TV 15 years ago dies, we’re never going to have time to report on anything else.

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          Nah.

          There’s a whole host of people I’ll outright fucking party for when they die, such as Rupert Murdoch for example.

          This is more of a good riddance.

          You get the respect in death that you make in life.

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            It’s not about respecting a purpose it’s about celebrating the suffering of others, their families, their friends, etc. That’s the part I question.

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              One could argue it’s celebrating the departure of another vector of suffering from the world. No one mentioned being happy about his family etc.

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          Let me go let the Munchkins know that they’re sociopathic for celebrating the death of the Wicked Witch of the West.

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    Oh yeah. I remember this fucking stooge. RIP in Piss (also shit) Joe The Plumber; may your afterlife be uncomfortably unclogged

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    I didn’t even realize he was a real person. I thought that “Joe the Plumber” was just a name they used in the debates to signify some kind of common person.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    His oldest son, Joey Wurzelbacher, said his father died Sunday in Wisconsin after a long illness.

    “The only thing I have to say is that he was a true patriot,” Joey Wurzelbacher — whose father had the middle name Joseph and went by Joe — said in a telephone interview.

    He went from toiling as a plumber in suburban Toledo, Ohio, to life as a media sensation when he asked Obama about his tax plan during a campaign stop.

    Days later, Obama’s Republican opponent, U.S. Sen. John McCain, repeatedly cited “Joe the Plumber” in a presidential debate.

    He also wrote a book and worked with a veterans organization that provided outdoor programs for wounded soldiers.

    But he drew criticism during the campaign for suggesting that the United States should build a fence at the Mexico border and “start shooting” at immigrants suspected of entering the country illegally.


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