babies were found with rat bite marks on their bodies

[BoSoxGal]

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How did you mess up this photoshop so badly, Joe? Aren't you spending any time monitoring MAGA online?

Clearly you should have used the MAGA term of affection, DemonRat, to perfect your photoshop.

[Joe Guy]

How did you mess up this photoshop so badly, Joe? Aren't you spending any time monitoring MAGA online?

Clearly you should have used the MAGA term of affection, DemonRat, to perfect your photoshop.

You're probably right. I actually considered 'DemonRat' but decided against it. Looking back, I realize I should have thought more like a MAGA....

[Big RR]

I would think that, since they're young, poor, and live in a city,

FWIW, they are said to live in Belton, SC which is hardly a city (at least when I drove through it around 5 years ago; a small town at best.

As for

It could be that these people simply didn't have the money to do anything. When you're poor, every penny counts—I know because I was once poor.

, poverty is not a reason to do nothing--you have to at least make some reasonable attempts to resolve the situation. Yes, I realize that many of the safety net safeguards have been done away with by the people who just don't care about others, but there still are some things that can be done. And whether they have taken those reasonable efforts is what the court will have to decide. Imagine what it would be like if someone could simply say "I didn't want to starve my child to death, but I didn't have the means to get food", you have to try something (e.g., contacting food banks, state welfare, ..."; the same is true when rats attack your children. I have been poor as well, not knowing where the next meal is coming from, but you can't just throw up your hands and abdicate your responsibilities. I have seen cases of neglect that make this look mild, and in many of those cases the parent(s) wasn't/weren't bad person(s)--just people who were sick (often drug addicted, sometimes mentally ill, sometimes of borderline intelligence), but the children do have to be protected and deserve to have parents who do their best to protect them.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I stopped and thought about it. It could be that these people simply didn't have the money to do anything. When you're poor, every penny counts—I know because I was once poor. If we’re not careful, we all could be poor again, too. So, I wasn’t as quick to judge as most other people.

Gosh, lib is a closet liberal. Whodda thunk?

[Sue U]

I don't know if the parents are MAGA or not. I would think that, since they're young, poor, and live in a city, they're most likely Democrats.

With a population less than 4,500 (our high school has nearly that many students), the "city" of Belton is located in rural Anderson County, SC. With fewer than 100,000 people in the entire county voting in 2024, the county went for Trump 73%-25% (218 people voted for Jill Stein). Belton is in County Council District 3, whose Republican councilman ran unopposed. The council district population is 86% white, 11% black. The county's minority population is concentrated in CCD 2, which is 49% black, so the statistical odds of anyone in Belton being a Democrat are close to zero.

They were charged with a crime because they didn't move after noticing they had rats. The problem is that some people don't have money—they can't move because they can't afford to. But that doesn’t matter to the system, the liberal system.

Ah, yes, the "liberal system" of the Anderson County Sheriff's Department. Because it's the noble conservatives who are so well known for providing public housing, child care, medical assistance, income assistance, food subsidies, education and job training programs for poor people.

[Burning Petard]

I love the Bo Diddley video--nice sentiment. Shows the versatility of the classic blues structure. And Finally Bo Diddley without the Bo Diddley Bop.
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