i regret telling a coworker i was vegetarian because now a year later theyre vegan and they live in portland and every single day they post a video on facebook of them like running up to a truck full of cows and crying and apologizing to them

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Obviously I want you to take care of your pets and make sure they get food and fresh water on a regular basis, but cats being huge drama queens and screaming hysterically at you and acting like they’re tragic famine victims who haven’t eaten in weeks and are about to drop dead from starvation right mcfuckin now, because you’re 10 minutes late feeding them is always going to be one of the funniest things to me

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the cat who lives at the vet clinic i volunteer at was mad yesterday because his dinner was half an hour late due to a busy day. he proceeded to go to all the (empty dw) garbage cans and tried to knock them over and started desperately scavenging for scraps of food because obviously no one loves him or cares about him and if he must eat garbage to survive then so be it

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woman: i miss you like the deserts miss the rain

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woman: i've adapted to existence without you, buried everything we made together, and prolonged exposure to you would be disastrous.

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This is the easiest way to piss a conservative off though… Like ask for a specific source and they FLIP

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So, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio yesterday. Some people might not know who this is or exactly what it is he has been pardoned from.

Last month, Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt. In 2011 he knowingly violated a judge’s order to suspend his county’s anti-immigration operations, removing their federal power to detain undocumented immigrants. The sheriff’s departments tactics were found to be racist and were, indeed, racial profiling. Arpaio, however, ignored the court’s orders for over a year, continuing to unlawfully detain Latino immigrants who lacked legal status.

Arpaio’s policies for finding and detaining undocumented immigrants was basically to just stop any cars that were being driven by Latinos under the assumption that they were likely smuggling other Latinos over the border. He also targeted areas with high Latino populations and businesses which were known to have Latino employees.

Basically, a judge told Arpaio that he was so racist it was against the law and that he had to stop, and Arpaio was so racist that he ignored the judge and kept doing whatever the fuck he wanted to do.

This is the only conviction Arpaio has ever received. He defied a judge’s order to stop unfairly discriminating against Latinos. Trump thinks that ignoring a judge’s orders and blatant racial profiling is a pardonable offense.

But while he hasn’t received any other convictions, the issue with Arpaio, and Trump’s defense of him, goes far deeper than that. In the statement issued, Trump and the White House claim that Arpaio gave “more than 50 years of admirable service to our nation”, that his work was “protecting” the public “from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration”

These are the things that Trump is claiming constitute admirable service and protecting citizens that Arpaio did during his tenure as sheriff beyond the unlawful racial profiling of Latinos:

Prisoners, most of whom had been convicted of relatively minor offenses like drug use and shoplifting, and many of whom were Latinos who had been detained for being undocumented, were kept in an outdoor jail in Arizona that at one point housed 1700 inmates. Conditions were dangerous and inhumane. Temps in the summer reached up to 130 degrees. Temps in the winter dropped to around 40 degrees. While there was an indoor unit in the complex that the inmates could take refuge in from time to time, they were forced to sleep outside, regardless of how hot or cold it was. The tents used were old, dating back to the Korean War, and when they became damaged they were not repaired, leaving holes in the fabric that allowed the sun, wind, and rain in, leaving the inmates vulnerable to the elements. The practice of chain gangs was common in the prison despite the fact that it had been banned mostly nationwide decades prior. To save money, Arpaio limited meals to twice a day, usually without any meat or significant sources of protein. Arpaio himself joked that it was a “concentration camp”, and when pushed said, “What difference does it make? I still survived. I still kept getting reelected.”
Inhumane conditions extended to indoor jails as well. Inmates were refused healthcare and medications, and their access to toilets, sinks, toilet paper, and soap was limited. Pre-trial detainees were often fed contaminated food, moldy bread, and rotten fruit, and were kept in indoor facilities that had no air conditioning, so temperatures were sweltering and unsafe, with inmates packed in “as tightly as sardines”. Inmates with severe mental illnesses suffered the most from the refusal of Arpaio to grant the prison population adequate access to healthcare and medications. A federal court ordered Arpaio to improve jail conditions and Arpaio brazenly ignored the order.
Under Arpaio, the sheriff’s office of Maricopa country had an incredibly high clearance percentage, but in reality, that was a lie. The department was closing many cases without making arrests or, in many cases, even truly investigating. Up to 89% of cases cleared were closed without an arrest. Many of these cases were claimed to be closed “by exception”, which generally means that the perpetrator of the crime is known and the department is aware of their location, but circumstances such as the perpetrator dying or being in a non-extradition country make an arrest impossible. A closer look at the cases closed by exception show that, in many instances, cases had not even been investigated enough to come up with a credible suspect.
Many of these cases involved young women who had been sexually assaulted. In one case a 14 year old was raped by multiple people at a party, and the case was closed because one of the suspects didn’t show up for questioning. In another case, a 15 year old girl was attacked and raped by two strangers, and no investigating was done whatsoever, the case being closed while they were still waiting for DNA testing to be completed. In general, rape victims were ignored by the Maricopa county sheriff’s department under Arpaio. In a three year period there were more than 400 sex crimes reported to the department that were either barely investigated or not investigated at all. At least 32 of those cases were cases of child molestation, and in all but six of those 32 cases the suspects were known. Unsurprisingly, the victims in many of these cases were children of illegal immigrants. Resources that should have been used to investigate these cases were diverted other things, like Arpaio’s racial profiling program and cases that involved celebrities and people with political power.
Arpaio used his position to target and harass political rivals and reporters who were critical of him. The owners of the Phoenix New Times were arrested after they published an article reporting on legal disputes the paper had with the sheriff’s department in regards to an series of stories about Arpaio trying to hide his real estate assets. Arpaio and an attorney, Andrew Thomas, attempted to have a grand jury indict his political opponents, including multiple judges, country supervisors, administrators, and employees of the Maricopa County Board of Directors despite a complete lack of evidence. Thomas was eventually disbarred for these attempts, and many of the victims of Arpaio’s targeting sued. Overall, Arpaio’s attempts to silence his critics and opponents cost the taxpayers over $45 million.
Arpaio and his department misused around $100 million of taxpayer money. Going back to the poor conditions in the county’s jails, at least $50 million that had been allocated for jail operations, which included providing food for the inmates, had been taken from the fund, and much of it was used to pay for investigators and deputies who worked on the above discussed cases that targeted Arpaio’s opponents. Money for jails was also misused to pay for perks for members of the department, including out of state training, stays in luxury hotels, and a staff party at an amusement park. This issue led to dishonest book keeping, where deputies were recorded as working job assignments they didn’t actually work, because the jobs they had been assigned could not paid for using certain tax money. County credit cards were used for things like hotel and airfare upgrades, multiple trips, entertaining officials from Honduras, and a trip to a Disneyworld resort. Other issues with misspending and money were discovered, such as excessive spending on extradition, money belonging to prison inmates disappearing from their accounts, and using outside banks to keep county officials from being able to keep tabs on where the money was going.
In 1999, Arpaio participated in a plot to stage an assassination attempt on his life. Arpaio’s staffers bought supplies to build a bomb and then entrapped a man named James Saville, who had no inclinations toward committing any crime against Arpaio, into building the bomb. The money used for the parts came from the sheriff. Saville was chosen because he had problems with pyromania and had prior felony convictions. The stunt was all a ploy to get Arpaio more media attention and sympathy.
Arpaio has a preoccupation with proving that Obama’s birth certificate was forged, continuing the crusade to “prove” it even today. In 2012 Arpaio and his associates held a press conference announcing that they had undeniable proof that Obama’s birth certificate was a forgery, citing a 1961 Vital Statistics Instruction Manual they claimed to have, saying it showed that the coding system, which was done in pencil, proved it a forgery. However, it was proven that what they claimed had come from a 1961 manual had actually come from the manuals published in 1968 and 1969 and that they had knowingly misrepresented their information.

These are the actions that Trump seems to think are “admirable” and that protect the people. Trump thinks it’s admirable that, in addition to racially profiling Latinos and ignoring a court order to stop, Arpaio denied inmates edible food, humane living conditions, and access to health care; lied about cases being solved to up his department’s clearance rate; ignored victims of sexual assault; used his power to target political opponents; used taxpayer money for unlawful operations and practices and to provide luxuries and perks for department employees; staged an attempt on his life and framed an innocent man; lied about official documents in his racist crusade against Barack Obama; and wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ dollars to do these things.

This is the man that Trump thinks is worthy of a pardon.

There is one silver lining here, though. Arpaio has continued to refuse to admit to any wrongdoing in regards to his unlawful racial profiling and his refusal to follow a court order. By accepting the pardon he is, finally, admitting his guilt. The decision in Burdick v. United States details that there is an implied confession of guilt in the acceptance of a pardon. So by accepting the pardon, whether he realized it or not, Arpaio is admitting he is a racist who instituted practices that were so racist they were unlawful, and that when he refused to follow a court order telling him to stop, he was wrong. And racist.

Sources:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/31/540629884/ex-sheriff-joe-arpaio-convicted-of-criminal-contempt

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/aug/21/arizona-phoenix-concentration-camp-tent-city-jail-joe-arpaio-immigration

https://www.aclu.org/news/ninth-circuit-court-appeals-orders-sheriff-arpaio-fix-unconstitutional-conditions-maricopa?redirect=prisoners-rights/ninth-circuit-court-appeals-orders-sheriff-arpaio-fix-unconstitutional-conditions-m

http://archive.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/10/23/20081023ruling1023.html

http://archive.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/04/08/20100408maricopa-county-jail-conditions.html?from=global

http://archive.azcentral.com/12news/news/articles/20100115mcsocases01152010-CR.html

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/opinion/article_0d55b363-2ce6-500e-9f57-372d884e96bd.html

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/how-the-mcso-neglected-a-14-year-old-rape-victim-and-went-to-town-on-phoenix-mayor-phil-gordon-6438580

https://web.archive.org/web/20130303215400/http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/8377

http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/12/04/critics_tough_sheriff_botched_sex_crime_cases/?page=full

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/blogs/joe-arpaios-deputy-told-to-work-fraud-cases-instead-of-child-rape-crime-6500460

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/us/sheriff-joe-arpaio-criticized-over-handling-of-sex-crimes-cases.html

http://www.pulitzer.org/winners/ryan-gabrielson-and-paul-giblin

http://archive.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20131218maricopa-county-supervisors-settle-lawsuit-new-times-founders.html

http://archive.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2010/09/15/20100915maricopa-county-officials-feud-costs-millions.html

http://archive.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/12/06/20101206andrew-thomas-discipline-arizona-supreme-court.html

http://archive.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/20140127maricopa-county-arpaio-costs-tallied.html

http://archive.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2010/09/21/20100921joe-arpaio-sheriffs-office-funds-analysis.html

http://archive.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2010/09/22/20100922joe-arpaio-misused-funds-maricopa-county-says22-ON.html

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/in-the-crosshairs-6431626

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/a-phony-murder-plot-against-joe-arpaio-winds-up-costing-taxpayers-11-million-6629798

http://www.obamabirthbook.com/http:/www.obamabirthbook.com/2012/07/exposed-sheriff-joe-arpaio-corsi-birther-scam-heres-the-proof-that-arpaios-posse-fabricated-evidence-and-lied-to-the-nation/

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/236/79.html

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It’s 7am and my brain hurts looking at this

WHY IS THIS EVEN IN A BATMAN CARTOON?!!!

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I wasn’t asked to a single dance in high school and didn’t have a serious romantic relationship until I was 22. And like, yeah that shit hurt when I was younger. I had a lot of fears that I was unlovable and that I didn’t deserve to be happy. And every time I would try to talk to anyone about it, the conversation became, “you’ll find someone”, when it should have been, “you don’t need a relationship or a date, you’re lovable & complete & beautiful on your own”.

So yeah, please normalize young people not dating, and please stop shaming them for it. There’s more to life than romance, despite what the media wants us to think.