According to Republicans, every so often, the tree of liberty needs to be watered with the blood of elementary school children.

Trump has his Sharpie ready to go.

if this is the bar for cause to resign there would be no one left in DC or on ANY LEFTIST site and THIS PLACE would have been
shut down before I ever got here.
--this has to be a joke...BABYLONBEE PERHAPS ?

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan

You want people to resign from websites?

I challenge you to find an example of a Democrat REPRESENTATIVE doing the same thing (at least, without retracting and apologizing later).

The problem is just as you demonstrate. That Republicans expect the same out of their representatives as they do out of every random wacko on the Internet. Which is why Republican representatives are so absolutely stupid and ------. Democrats actually expect their representatives to be better than not just random wackos on the Internet, but better than the average citizen. Which is why the quality of the people that Democrats elect is so much higher.

Which begs the question... If they don't REALLY want to stop illegal immigration, what is the point of all the rhetoric?

It has always seemed to me like the purpose was to whip up racist votes while while creating an exploitable underclass. But if you have another theory that fits the facts then I would love to hear it.

Seriously though this is good news for us bacon lovers.
Does anyone else like bacon?

#8 | Posted by oneironaut

Likely to send the price of bacon up.

I am not familiar with the economics of pigs, but I do know that Americans eat a lot of bacon. So I would not be surprised if we were mostly keeping the bellies, and exporting the other parts of the hog. If that is the case, the prices of what we do export would drop in the USA due to oversupply (especially things like hocks, knuckles, tails, ears, tongue, head... which Americans probably don't eat) but the price of the things we generally keep will rise to make up for the reduced profit they are making on the other parts. In the short term it may fall just because of temporary oversupply of the bellies we do send, but in the long term we would just produce less hogs because they are less profitable, which means a reduced supply of bacon in the US. So you can look forward to higher prices.

I know that chicken feet exported to other countries "subsidizes" the price of chicken in the US. That when chicken processors started selling them for a profit over seas it allowed the price if chicken to go down.