Woke Squad member Ayanna Pressley claims Walgreens is RACIST for closing stores in crime-ridden areas because it is a 'disruptive, life-threatening act of racial and economic discrimination' | Daily Mail Online

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Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley has condemned Walgreens for 'racial and economic discrimination' after closing a pharmacy in Boston.

Pressley, a member of the ultra-progressive 'Squad', said the chain was 'abandoning' low-income communities with the most recent closing in Roxbury on Wednesday.

Walgreens announced the closure of several stores nation wide due to what the company has described as 'rampant theft' in some areas.

Pressley said this decision targets areas with significant minority populations, calling for the company to reconsider their decision instead.

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'When a Walgreens leaves a neighborhood, they disrupt the entire community and they take with them baby formula, diapers, asthma inhalers, life-saving medications, and, of course, jobs.


'These closures are not arbitrary and they are not innocent. They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination. That is why I joined with Senators Markey and Warren to demand answers from Walgreens' CEO.

'Why was there no community input? No adequate notice to customers? And no transition resources to prevent gaps in health care? Shame on you, Walgreens.

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Walgreens is a multi-billion-dollar corporation that needs to put their money where their mouth is and stop divesting from Black and brown communities.'

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How about you stop the community from looting businesses, that would be a great start. Just when you thought progs couldn't get any dumber.

Maybe she could talk to said minorities about why they need to steal so much.

So much wrong with what she (and other like her) say, where do you even begin?

- You, citizen, business owner, etc. will be forced to tolerate crime. Resistance to this is hateful and will be treated as such. Anarcho-tyranny!
- Collective input from those who caused the issue to begin with
- Insinuating that being billion-dollar+ business means massive margins. It's retail- margins suck and anyone who has taken accounting 101 knows this.
- It is a human right to steal, take, destroy, etc.

People like her do not deserve to live in this country.

If she is worried that Walgreens is "abandoning" those communities, then cue ball should tell them to stop breaking the effing law. Marxist trash…

She will probably end up leading some federal government control program that takes over pharmacies when the Commies take control of the entire health system.

First it was called food deserts, now it's pharmacy deserts. Maybe address why businesses abandon certain areas and markets, rather than blame the business that doesn't want to lose money constantly to theft and economic disruption.

She should see it as an opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a small family-run pharmacy. Get rid of big evil corporation who she and her squad buds hate. Never need big corp till you realize it.

Why is that dude wearing huge hoop earrings?

What is really racist is blaming the business for checking out of an area full of crime and not the individual's who are committing said crimes

Cry moar please!

If she doesn't like it maybe she should start a business in these neighborhoods to provide such a valuable and profitable service?

If there's a need for a business, why not open a pharmacy herself?

Or is that racist, too?

Crazy coincidence how all of these stores, many having been in business in these low income areas for years, suddenly got racist when Soros DAs get elected and crime goes through the roof.

javajaws said:

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Cry moar please!

If she doesn't like it maybe she should start a business in these neighborhoods to provide such a valuable and profitable service?

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If there's one thing congress critters are more afraid of than term limits, it's actually have to earn money based on something that produces value for others, excluding themselves..

Every single one of them are losers. All 635 of them.

BadMoonRisin said:

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javajaws said:

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Cry moar please!

If she doesn't like it maybe she should start a business in these neighborhoods to provide such a valuable and profitable service?

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If there's one thing congress critters are more afraid of than term limits, it's actually have to earn money based on something that produces value for others. Every single one of them are losers. All 635 of them.

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Apparently they can't even run a money laundering business correctly either!

They definitely can! And they impeach the guy who raises an eyebrow to it all.

No matter how many times its obvious and you say it out loud: Ukraine is a money laundering operation where we (our gutless, loser politicians) give them (corrupt loser Mr. Bean comedians, that we hilariously elect in a color revolution) BILLIONS of unaccounted for TAXPAYER money, and then there's somehow a black box where those funds come back into coffers for the feckless politicians to run for re-election.

And there are college educated people on this very board, a great deal of them I respect, that are OK with this for some reason, because it's not as bad as the alternative somehow....never citing what the alternative might actually be.

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How about you stop the community from looting businesses, that would be a great start. Just when you thought progs couldn't get any dumber.

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She's not dumb.

She knows what she is saying.

Which takes believing your constituency, and people in general, are dumb.

Does Walgreen's sell wigs?

"I'm looking at her and I'm thinking 8-ball in the side pocket" - Phil Hartman's Frank Sinatra

The biggest problem with statements like these, is that Republicans are too chicken sheet to go out in public and refute this nonsense with facts. So her ridiculously stupid public comments go unchallenged or unchecked leading our country of "intellectually challenged" lemmings to believe her.

Sounds luke a platinum opportunity Presley... for you to commit capital/open up a drugstore in that location that's closing.

Remember... no tax payer funded or political contributions are allowed to pay for security. No risk no reward.

Im thinking we have lots of folks in this country that think everyone owes them something and that something ought to be served on a silver platter.

Hungry Ojos said:

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The biggest problem with statements like these, is that Republicans are too chicken sheet to go out in public and refute this nonsense with facts. So her ridiculously stupid public comments go unchallenged or unchecked leading our country of "intellectually challenged" lemmings to believe her.

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People have to start calling a spade a spade, and if someone gets their feelings hurt, maybe they should look inward as to why.

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Hungry Ojos said:

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The biggest problem with statements like these, is that Republicans are too chicken sheet to go out in public and refute this nonsense with facts. So her ridiculously stupid public comments go unchallenged or unchecked leading our country of "intellectually challenged" lemmings to believe her.

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People have to start calling a spade a spade, and if someone gets their feelings hurt, maybe they should look inward as to why.

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Amen. And there are plenty of POC who would say BS to this type of crap, and they need to stand up too. All of our voices are being drowned.out by vocal malcontents.who are in the minority and are tools of the Marxists in our country and stir up unrest so the elite democrats can stay in power.

She would patty-melt down to discover that Denny's is closing its Oakland, CA restaurant due to crime. Joining Subway, In-N-Out, ad infinitum.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/dennys-closes-oakland-location-after-54-years/

I hope the CEO of Walgreen's is wiping his ass with her complaint.

Attention Democrats: fix the crime problems in your godforsaken ****holes, stop demonizing police, stop putting up barriers for law abiding citizens and businesses to arm themselves, stop punishing store owners and employees for defending themselves, and stop the free flow of the 3rd world dregs from coming into this country, and then maybe companies will stay put and serve the public with their offerings.

Hungry Ojos said:

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The biggest problem with statements like these, is that Republicans are too chicken sheet to go out in public and refute this nonsense with facts. So her ridiculously stupid public comments go unchallenged or unchecked leading our country of "intellectually challenged" lemmings to believe her.

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It's just a bs speech so she can show her voters in her likely 100% safe district the "stood up" and "spoke truth to power" or whatever.

It is absolutely meaningless and of no consequence whatsoever and there is no reason to pay it the slightest attention, much less dignify it with a response. Literally nothing will come of this.

Ayanna Pressley, racist dumb****, says xyz.

Who cares about xyz? She's a racist dumb*****

Isnt that how we treat the ubiquitous "white nationalist/supremecist" that the DNC manufactures every election season? That their thoughts are ******ed?

Hungry Ojos said:

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The biggest problem with statements like these, is that Republicans are too chicken sheet to go out in public and refute this nonsense with facts. So her ridiculously stupid public comments go unchallenged or unchecked leading our country of "intellectually challenged" lemmings to believe her.

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We must learn to treat the demagogue and aspirant dictator in our midst just as we should treat our external enemies in a cold war - with the weapon of ridicule. The demagogue himself is almost incapable of humour of any sort, and if we treat him with humour, he will begin to collapse.

Humour is, after all, related to a sense of perspective. If we can see how things should be, we can see how askew they can get, and we can recognize distortion when we are confronted with it. Put the demagogue's statements in perspective, and you will see how utterly distorted they are.

How can we possibly take them seriously or answer them seriously? We have important business to attend to - matters of life and death both for ourselves as individuals and for our nation as a whole.

The demagogue relies for his effectiveness on the fact that people will take seriously the fantastic accusations he makes; will discuss the phony issues he raises as if they had reality, or will be thrown into such a state of panic by his accusations and charges that they will simply abdicate their right to think and verify for themselves.

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Pressley, a member of the ultra-dumbass 'Squad',

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Fixed it for the article writer.

The irony is Walgreens got their big start in Prohibition. You could get a doctor to prescribe booze, it was one of the big legal loopholes. The doc would give you a prescription and you'd go down to Walgreens to fill it, one pint at a time.

BadMoonRisin said:

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but but but ms Pressley, you tol ernyone awn tiktawk dat dese whiteyiz had insuranice for da steelin and da fraudin cuz jaj flayd.

why nah dew we ha a food desat?

cuz da rekulkicans? aw lawd. yew gak mah vot

somehow, that was less racist on what bald idiot token black person just said.

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Is it wrong that I read that in a Shirley Q Liquor voice in my head?

ProgN said:

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Woke Squad member Ayanna Pressley claims Walgreens is RACIST for closing stores in crime-ridden areas because it is a 'disruptive, life-threatening act of racial and economic discrimination' | Daily Mail Online

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Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley has condemned Walgreens for 'racial and economic discrimination' after closing a pharmacy in Boston.

Pressley, a member of the ultra-progressive 'Squad', said the chain was 'abandoning' low-income communities with the most recent closing in Roxbury on Wednesday.

Walgreens announced the closure of several stores nation wide due to what the company has described as 'rampant theft' in some areas.

Pressley said this decision targets areas with significant minority populations, calling for the company to reconsider their decision instead.

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'When a Walgreens leaves a neighborhood, they disrupt the entire community and they take with them baby formula, diapers, asthma inhalers, life-saving medications, and, of course, jobs.


'These closures are not arbitrary and they are not innocent. They are life-threatening acts of racial and economic discrimination. That is why I joined with Senators Markey and Warren to demand answers from Walgreens' CEO.

'Why was there no community input? No adequate notice to customers? And no transition resources to prevent gaps in health care? Shame on you, Walgreens.

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Walgreens is a multi-billion-dollar corporation that needs to put their money where their mouth is and stop divesting from Black and brown communities.'

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How about you stop the community from looting businesses, that would be a great start. Just when you thought progs couldn't get any dumber.

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Thanks for posting.

lol. "Why make these decisions without community input?"

Umm what? The community has shown its input. It's called "we don't GAF and will loot and pillage your assets with impunity bc our elected reps like her have provided zero mitigation tools or feasible options to deal with us hood rat homeboys"

"Yo Andre. Want to get n the whip and go swangin with some purple drank. Maybe hit up that Walgreens or Target on the free and bang it at the club on the way back to the crib?"

"Who driving? Let's go playa"

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The doc would give you a prescription and you'd go down to Walgreens to fill it, one pint at a time.

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Which worked because you would pay for the "prescription", not steal it while doing $10,000 worth of other damage to the store and beating up the clerk.