It’s a typical scenario this time of year: Ol’ Grandpa has a festive wreath on his door, delivery driver drops off a package at his door, Ol’ Grandpa emerges to call ICE and 911 because the driver speaks Spanish.
Ol’ Racist Grandpa explains that this is Wyoming, not Colorado, while the driver says “thank you,” and just tries to get in his car and leave, which Ol’ Racist Grandpa doesn’t allow.
I think someone ought to call the police on Ol’ Racist Grandpa.
Ol’ Racist Grandpa needs to be arrested and fined for wasting the time of 911 services.
Ol’ Racist Grandpa needs to be retired to an old folks’ home, before his hatred hurts someone.
I hope Ol’ Racist Grandpa isn’t allowed to have a gun in his home, although this is Wyoming, they probably allow it.
MAGA has really poisoned the country, hasn’t it?
They…the state…probably allow him to have a gun. Whether his family is dumb enough to let him have it is another story. Families do sometimes hide guns. I had a patient briefly who was a deputy sheriff in the county. He was admitted to the hospital because he had pancreatic cancer. During notes the head nurse told us he had not been told his diagnosis. Still, because he had often threatened suicide if he had cancer, his family hid his guns. So we were careful not to reveal what was going on with him. No matter, his doctor got one of the well-known, cancer doctors in the area to look in on the man. After the doctor left, the man turned his face to the wall, stopped eating, and was dead within a few days.
Ol’ Racist Grandpa also describes my father. He too lives in Wyoming, is heavily armed, and would likely do this very thing given the chance.
Sigh.
This may be surprising in all the wrong ways, but awful as the situation is it could be far worse.
After all there are more firearms than Americans floating around. That the whole country is not a gunfire free-for-all shows that most Americans are faaaaar better behaved than stereotypes would suggest.
Racist grunpaw is still around after all, the driver didn’t blow his useless head off.
Also this:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-masked-border-patrol-agent-chasing-woman-louisiana-marrero-rcna247756
the father refrained from air-conditioning those idiots, and seeing a group of thugs assaulting one’s daughter is exactly the catalyst to bring about that kind of reaction – and not only in the US.
So it’s a consolation, however forlorn, that we haven’t seen widespread rioting or worse (yet).
Jeez, must all hispanics start wearing kevlar vests now? I know blacks probably have needed kevlar vests all along, but if a different language is enough to set off the kooks there are another 30-50 million in danger.
BTW Spanish was spoken in north America long before Plymouth Rock landed on the Indians and the blacks.
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Related: Stephen Miller and his merry ICE men have totally wrecked years of Republican outreach to the hispanic community. It may even sabotage the Texas Gerrymander, which would be hilarious!
SHADY PINES, PA!
Apparently less than one third of Americans own a firearm. It just happens to be that lots of them own lots of guns.
“BTW Spanish was spoken in north America long before Plymouth Rock landed on the Indians and the blacks.”
Ponce de León in Florida, 1513, then Plymouth founded in 1620.
Yes, the Spanish were the original colonisers.
You mean that Spanish was spoken in north America spoken in north America not long before Plymouth Rock landed on the Indians and the blacks.
Also, I find The blacks rather telling.
I just took a look: https://aaregistry.org/story/the-first-recorded-african-slaves-arrive-in-the-united-states-of-america/
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On this date in 1526, the first African slaves in what would become the present-day United States of America arrived in Winyah Bay, South Carolina.
Spaniard Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón led around six hundred settlers, including an unknown number of slaves, in an attempt to start a colony. The attempt failed after a month, and Ayllón moved the colony, including the slaves, to what is now the state of Georgia.
The enslaved Africans escaped to live with the local Native Americans, and the 100 other survivors returned to Santo Domingo.
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You also slightly disappoint:
“An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.”
(You’re European, you should have perspective)
@birgerjohansson:
Well, some of them have… Because I’ve seen reports that many latino men have actually begun to join ICE. It may be an “if you can’t beat them, join them” kind of deal, but I don’t fool myself -us latinos tend to be very racist, especially between different nationalities and skin tones. It’s the foul legacy of colonialism and the racial castes that it invented, and it has been holding us back for centuries now… It makes achieving unity a difficult task and makes us easy prey for fascist propaganda, as evidenced by current developments in South America, where the far right is making enormous gains.
This filthy country has always been poisoned from its start. MAGA is symptom of that venom.
@6, Timgueguen:
you are right, those who are really gunned up are a minority, fortunately.
But those firestick-folks, oh my oh my. At this point I cannot resist:
https://gabrielegalimberti.com/projects/the-ameriguns/?i=0
Beggars belief.
Can you be banned from getting deliveries?
That in itself sounds like a crime.
2024 Wyoming Statutes
Title 6 – Crimes and Offenses
Chapter 2 – Offenses Against the Person
Article 2 – Kidnapping and Related Offenses
Section 6-2-203 – False Imprisonment; Penalties.
I’m certain he has excellent healthcare which will in no way be affected by anything the current administration, he voted for, might be doing.