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DENVERPOPS

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11. To get a harbinger of what's to come

Reply to Lovie777 (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 11, 2025, 11:06 PM

Jun 11

Read, (Or Re-Read) the Grapes of Wrath..........a day by day description of living in Hoovervilles and the plight of tons of people just trying to get enough food everyday to subsist, And the crime increases.........

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Anybody here from Ventura County, CA? [View all] PlanetBev Jun 11 OP

All over the country.............. Lovie777 Jun 11 #1

To get a harbinger of what's to come DENVERPOPS Jun 11 #11

Wish we could make these ICE agents pick the strawberries. They would die of exhaustion after the first day. Walleye Jun 11 #2

I've been thinking about this. ananda Jun 11 #3

This is an extremely serious problem that the asshole Klarkashton Jun 11 #4

Calilfornia should impose tariffs on all Abolishinist Jun 11 #5

Is that by any chance legal? Hekate Jun 11 #7

It would violate the commerce clause of the constitution. I think it's intended as wishful thinking. Gaugamela Jun 11 #12

No, wishful thinking as noted. Just venting. Abolishinist Thursday #22

Right here -- plan to be on Victoria Street in front of the County buildings on Saturday... Hekate Jun 11 #6

That video of ICE trampling through misty Ventura County fields to takle a helpless strawberry picker... SunSeeker Jun 11 #10

Those farm owners voted for Trump. They thought he'd only deport "criminals." SunSeeker Jun 11 #8

You sure about that? Beaverhausen Jun 11 #9

California farm owners are predominantly GOP, unlike the California voters as a whole. SunSeeker Jun 11 #17

Yes I have driven up there many times Beaverhausen Thursday #18

I wish it wasn't true. SunSeeker Thursday #21

All the Trumphumper voters DENVERPOPS Jun 11 #13

Shit FirstLight Jun 11 #14

We have got to kick these fuckers out of the White House. Initech Jun 11 #15

The shortages are already happening. Sogo Jun 11 #16

Ventura ventuckian Thursday #19

I grew up in Fillmore, in Ventura County. MineralMan Thursday #20