Best part about the "Lawyer calling ICE on two employees speaking Spanish" story...

[ExciteBike66]

The best part, to me, is that the lawyer claims he "paid for their welfare", when they are in fact working a paying job right in front of him.


https://abovethelaw.com/2018/05/jerk-videotaped-threatening-to-call-ice-on-two-women-speaking-spanish-to-each-other-obviously-hes-a-lawyer/

[oberliner]

1. There are work requirements for welfare

People who receive welfare must be working or looking for work.

[FBaggins]

12. But there are other requirements too

You have to be legally allowed to work in this country.

His assumptions seems to be that they are, simultaneously, illegals and receiving welfare.

[lunasun]

13. So everyone working that can speak Spanish is on welfare ?

[IluvPitties]

21. I am wondering the same damn thing.

[malaise]

43. Including my brother and his two children

Ah well

[leftynyc]

49. Why on earth would you

make the assumption that the poster was saying that? Pointing out that the lawyer moron was speaking out of his ass about what the laws actually are doesn't mean you get to shove words into their mouths. It's like everyone here is looking for things to get outraged about when there is plenty right in front of your faces to outrage you.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. You just can't fucking help yourself, can you. nt

[geardaddy]

40. +1

[mcar]

24. I thought welfare didn't exist anymore?

[EffieBlack]

25. You assume these people are on welfare?

[Kingofalldems]

31. Every day and on any thread critical of republicans.

[EffieBlack]

34. And if it includes an opportunity to defend racist behavior, all the better

[The Polack MSgt]

44. ++++++++

Be careful, noticing this behavior is why there's racism

[awesomerwb1]

54. Looking for work is not the same as working.

[ExciteBike66]

3. Kinda like when black dudes talk jive in front of you...

amirite? (/sarc)

You were joking, right?

[JHB]

4. "arrogant, snobby and annoying"?

Ok.

My own opinion is that it's arrogant, snobby and annoying when people insist they be included in a conversation no one invited them to join.

[demmiblue]

5. ...

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. LMAO.

[Vinca]

8. Wow - I should really be bent out of shape. A couple had a conversation in Japanese

near me when I was browsing a thrift shop yesterday. Lock them up!!!

[demmiblue]

9. Buh-Bye!

[LuckyCharms]

10. Lo Siento.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. Oh fuck off! See? At least I said it in English. Funny thing is you thought this stupid shit was

worth posting twice.

[lunasun]

14. It is clearly all part of his economic anxiety that is all. He can be talked out of it .

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[ExciteBike66]

15. You know he was coveting that cashier position!

The Spanish-speaking cashier was picked instead of him, because of affirmative action, no doubt...

[Solomon]

26. Lol

(snark)

Well done!

[lunasun]

33. Also they only got the job because they are forced to work for welfare All black and brown are

on welfare . That is the other part of his economic anxiety . He just needs some understanding of where he is coming from and why . Then by the midterms he can change his anger in to a more positive vote

[missingm]

16. It should be obvious that there is no reasoning with Trump supporters

This guy has been a central Trump supporter screaming at people for a while.
[link:https://aplus.com/a/man-berates-people-speaking-spanish-new-york-fresh-kitchen.amp#click=https://t.co/TsCJ2y8itV|]
[link:https://heavy.com/news/2018/05/aaron-schlossberg/|

[MGKrebs]

18. Well that certainly deserved a whole new thread.

[ExciteBike66]

19. If you don't like it, don't read it!

[MGKrebs]

20. Don't have much choice since it pushed other threads about it down the list.

[ExciteBike66]

22. You cannot choose whether or not to click on a topic at DU?

Perhaps if you block me you won't see my posts anymore, then your list will be pure as the driven snow...

[asiliveandbreathe]

53. No block - you are entitled to your opinion..eom

[Galileo126]

23. Que?

No se....

[phylny]

27. Nope, the best part is that I read someone paid for a Mariachi band to serenade his office.

People are so freaking smart. There might also be a taco truck.

[2naSalit]

29. Now that would be the best part.....nt

[FSogol]

28. Notice this in the story: "one-fifth of the people ICE detains turn out to actually be citizens"

Add major reform of ICE to our to-do list.

[2naSalit]

30. +1

[kag]

37. Indeed!

I had not seen that statistic before. It is shocking! Those fuckers have way too much power and way too few functioning neurons.

[Caliman73]

59. 20% one-fifth is 20%.

Can you imagine if any other federal program had a 20% failure rate? Seriously, Medicaid and Medicare and other health and welfare programs have about a 2% to 3% fraud rate. Year in and year out the Republicans try to find "MASSIVE" fraud and they find 2% to 3%. Imagine if they found 20%. They would be screaming bloody murder (behind their orgasms of course) and call to halt all funding of those programs.

Conservatives want to "reform" programs with relatively little wasted and fraud, but they want to expand a program that has a 20% error rate and violates the civil rights of citizens. Priorities.

[FSogol]

61. Seriously, if 20% of my work was errors and mistakes, I'd be out of a job toot sweet.

[ProfessorGAC]

64. A Quarter Of That Would Sink Most Any of Us

20% is a preposterous estimate. That kind of thing doesn't seem like a mistake. It seems like it's made up.

[FSogol]

66. I dunno, post-Obama, ICE has been an unregulated Federal police force. Instead of ICE jackets

and hats they wear Police jackets and hats. They are engaging in racial profiling and even entering Churches. They round up people without regard to whether they have committed crimes or not. It has also been reported that when a police department calls them about someone in custody that is accused of serious crimes, and is undocumented, ICE is lax in picking them up, leaving the cost of incarceration up to the local jurisdictions.

All of this has been reported. It is easy to believe these piss-poor methods are rounding up a lot of legal minorities and citizens. I have no problem believing about 20% are mistakes.

[ProfessorGAC]

72. Unfortunately, You're Likely Right!

But 5% failure rate should mean your job is history
Well for 99% of us!

[IronLionZion]

69. More info on this disturbing problem

ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He’s not the only one who had to prove his citizenship
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180427-htmlstory.html

1,488 U.S. Citizens Mistakenly Arrested, Detained by ICE Since 2012
https://www.thedailybeast.com/1488-us-citizens-mistakenly-arrested-detained-by-ice-since-2012

Unfortunately much of it happened under Obama's watch too.

[FSogol]

32. Karma might be coming around quick in this case:

Link to tweet

My office will be filing a formal legal grievance to the State Grievance Committee against #AaronSchlossberg due to his misconduct.

- Congressman Adriano Espaillat

[Kittycow]

35. YaaaaY!!! By a Congressman no less! That has some bite!

Throw some sunshine on this little roach!

[kag]

38. Excellent!

These idiots need to feel some of what they're dishing out.

[Kittycow]

47. On Shaun King's Twitter, there's a new video of this guy

shoving himself into a stranger on the street and demanding to know what country he's from. He's holding his phone up and calling the guy "an ugly fucking foreigner".

My God, this guy's unhinged!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

55. The guy definitely has a major screw loose.

I’m wondering if that previously filmed battery could have more weight when it comes to his law license.

A New York law professor was quoted yesterday saying the most Snowflake Bigot would probably receive regarding the bigoted outburst was a private admonition from The Bar. Actual physical contact might change that outlook.

I wonder what the statute of limitations is on battery with a hate crime add on? It’s obvious from the video his actions were based on the victim’s perceived ethnicity.

[Kittycow]

56. I hope he does get more than a slap on the wrist!

Maybe other people assaulted in the street will come forward since it's viral and these actions will hold more weight. Fingers crossed.

[rusty fender]

60. So he's against all tourism

as well as immigrants and American polyglots

He certainly is an unhinged racist

[George II]

36. Saw that video yesterday, but didn't realize he is a LAWYER! Shitty attitude to take to court.

[kag]

39. Unless that moron speaks Navajo or Siouan or some other native dialect...

I think he should deport himself the fuck out of "my" country.

[geardaddy]

41. Bingo.

Mii gwech.

[geardaddy]

42. Welsh speakers deal with getting the language thing every day in their own damn country.

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/anti-welsh-language-complaints-restaurant-13245894
Anti-Welsh language complaints at restaurant 'on a daily basis'

A Gwynedd restaurateur says he is having to deal on an almost daily basis with complaints from English customers about his staff speaking Welsh.

Tudur Owen says he’s tired of having to defend the language after the latest complaint in a review posted on TripAdvisor.

The Anglesey-born comic, who owns Ty Golchi near Y Felinheli , said the criticism was “relentless”.

Lesley J, who has written 15 reviews for the travel site, wrote: “Called here last year mid afternoon and thought what a nice place to stop. So we made a special trip this week for mid morning drinks as we were staying in Llandudno.

“We were seated with menus, however two pairs of the young waitresses seemed to want to catch up on chat and we waited quite a while. Evenentually we caught someone’s eyes and she took our order without much enthusiasm. The drinks arrived and again not with too much gusto. The place was filling up and we noticed all conversations was in Welsh, both with staff and customers. It appeared it was a place that gave preferential treatment. Our party of four was English and felt very isolated. Will not be returning here.”

The couple gave a rating for the eaterie as two out of five.

Tudur said: “I’m finding this relentless criticism of the Welsh language draining, it feels at the moment like we have to defend it on a daily basis.

“A minority of English people do seem to be quite ignorant of the fact that people speak Welsh as their first language-that’s it’s not a hobby and we don’t speak it to make English people feel isolated.

“It’s not a secret code.”

Also, that lawyer's a piece of shit.

[Brother Buzz]

48. That used to happen in Boonville, California, too

I experienced it in the Horn Of Zeese (Cup of Coffee), one of the greater greasy spoons in Northern California. Unfortunately the restaurant has closed and the language, Boontling, is dying. I guess the one difference is that Boontling was totally steeped in secret code.

Boontling is a dash of English, with a whole lot of boont. Technically, it’s a mixture of Scottish Gaelic, Irish and even some Pomoan and Spanish and was once taught in the local schools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boontling

[geardaddy]

50. The thing about Welsh, though is that it has legal status in Wales.

It's one of the official languages. People coming in and getting their knickers in a twist over people speaking their own language to each other is really galling to me.

[tonedevil]

58. Boontling isn't quite Welsh...

but it is way cool. I love Boonville for the language lore and Anderson Valley Brewing.

[Brother Buzz]

62. Some great wine grapes are grown in the area, too

Oh, and back in the day, some grand people produced a lot of spectacular, yet economical marijuana.

Anderson Valley Brewing Company is doing a good job keeping Boontling alive with their beer names.

Bahl Hornin'!

[tonedevil]

67. I love all that area...

Anderson Valley Brewing is one of the OGs of craft brewing for sure.

[barbtries]

45. well, Michael Cohen

and giuliani had already proved that lawyers can be stupid.

also, fox makes people stupid.

[DFW]

46. That lawyer had better never take a vacation to see the Prado museum

It's in Madrid, where I have to be every few months for work. You would not BELIEVE how many people speak Spanish there. He'd probably call the defense department to demand an immediate nuclear attack.

[Tipperary]

52. Supposedly he lived and studied in Madrid for some time.

Go figure. The guy is crazy imo.

[dalton99a]

51. Yep. Schlossberg is a crazy asshole

like his hero Trump


New York Daily News
JUST IN: We caught up with big-mouthed bigot Aaron Schlossberg a day after he went viral (and earned a spot on our cover) for berating Spanish-speaking employees at a Manhattan Fresh Kitchen. https://nydn.us/2rNyPgv

[Kittycow]

57. Oh good Lord.

He blocks people on the street and harrasses them. Then calls Whine-1-1 ( saw that in a comment) and claims he's being blocked on the street.



If he was blocked, oh well, he got a taste of his own medicine presumably without the ugly cursing and name-calling he inflicts on his targets.

[gollygee]

63. A lawyer would have to know that someone can't be undocumented AND collecting welfare regardless

It was a senseless racist rant.

[ExciteBike66]

65. I just figured this out,

as a lawyer, you always are prepared to "argue in the alternative".

Oh, my first argument didn't work? Here is another one...

[IronLionZion]

68. Shrodinger's immigrant is both stealing jobs and too lazy to work

[Scurrilous]

70. He'd better not come to Miami.

His pointy head would explode.

[A HERETIC I AM]

71. The BEST part is that from now on, potential clients can know this guy is too stupid to hire

How fucking stupid do you have to be to get knowingly video recorded saying hateful things and NOT expect to have it go public?

The best part of all this is this guys law practice is going to be in the shitter, and it wouldn't surprise me that he changes his name and moves out of state.