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The Hill, Opinion: "America Held Hostage By Flyover States"
As @BookofTamara said, "It's now week 5 [post-election] and their commitment to Not Getting It has not weakened one bit."
A special word from the Adult Babies:The predominant narrative coming out of the 2016 presidential post-election analysis is: The flyover states have spoken. A flyover state is the huge region between the coasts. As opposed to the eastern seaboard, northern post-industrial states and Pacific Ocean states. They’re overwhelmingly Republican, stanchly conservative, regressive right wing, evangelical Christian and working class, well, the loudest, most ill-informed of them are. The term wasn't commonly used in a political manner until recently with the emergence of the Tea Party and the election of Obama. A visit to Wichita, Kan., isn't on the bucket list of many Americans. Whereas most travelers fly over Fayetteville, Ark., and Springfield, Mo. They’re not destination spots. The flyover state gripe has nothing to do with the tourist industry of Oklahoma or Nebraska or Iowa. This is about their perceived feelings of abandonment and disrespect from their government. Never mind they've elected local, state and national representatives that should reflect their values and interests. Forsetti's Justice writes: "Government has not done enough to help them in many cases but their local and state governments are almost completely Republican and so too are their Representatives and Senators. Instead of holding them accountable, they vote them in over and over and over again." Now they've elected Donald Trump, the ultimate coastal elite. Trump pandered to their bigotry, and anger at Washington, D.C. The more entrenched the flyover voting bloc becomes in their voting habits, the further they fall behind economically, by voting against their own interests, the more they blame Washington, D.C. and coastal "liberal elites" for their issues.Takes some balls for a Social Justice Warrior to accuse someone else of being "indignant" or "enraged." These babies are still shrieking, but they think their opponents are "enraged"?
This is a voter demographic fond of describing themselves as hard-working middle-class Americans. Which they are. They’re overwhelmingly middle-aged to senior, white, semi-rural, increasingly suburban and indignant. They seem to be perpetually enraged every election cycle, and after, according to the results.
Note this unhinged screed appears proudly in The Hill, an ostensibly neutral, sensible publication.
They either want their country back or they’re tired of being ignored. They regularly blurt the latter as justification for electing right-wing theocrat/closed minds, austerity minded, cultural fascists to office. These are people that use more government subsidy than any segment of the country, but they hate "handouts" to anyone else. They are the largest consumers of SNAP benefits, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
Since the inception of the term silent majority almost 50 years ago, and all of its iterations since, this block of voters was hardly a majority and never silent. This group has been exceedingly adept at dominating the narrative in virtually every election cycle. They’re proficient at dog-whistle propaganda, and since the mid-1980s, they've created their own media echo-chamber which exponentially multiplies the sound of their own voices, with no interference from outside sources.Again: the Balls.
This guy isn't going to win any points for original thinking. This post is so devoid of anything original or factual -- it's just pure regurgitation of well-known leftist lore and emotion, specifically, hatred and racism -- that one wonders why any journal would bother publishing it. Here's my idea: because this turgid, empty pile of hatred and racism represents the view of The Hill's editorial staff, and they want this Primal Scream out there, even if it makes no sense.
This was accomplished mainly with coast to coast a.m. radio stations broadcasting 24/7 right-wing indoctrination, to conservative patriot and alt-right conspiracy theory websites of the last 15 years which disseminate tragic half-truths and whole fake news.
Balls.
The alleged silent majority is deafening and easily provoked. They reside in their own echo-chamber bubble of indignation about everything from "New York values" (urban, ethnic rights, LGBT, social justice), to the war on Christmas and Black Lives Matter.
They mocked and derided all people's protests from Occupy to #NoDAPL. Their old standbys are opposing a woman’s right to choose, reinstituting school prayer and eradicating "big government." They hate progress. Their idea of American values is straight from circa 1870.It's a Grand Canyon of absent self-awareness. Check this out:
... They're delusional in their belief that their views are more important, more valid, more ethical, and more patriotic than any other groups. They claim American Christian values, home, God and country. White values. Any dissenting viewpoints are taken as literal acts of war.Funny, I know a group that answers precisely to that description.
Like hounding and purging everyone for dissenting from the leftist line? By the way, you may be wondering, what position does this obvious lunatic hold that would spur The Hill to publish his spittle-drenched hateful rant? Well, the answer is: None at all. Apparently his credential is that he is a "resident" and "observer:"
It's clear cultural fascism.
Duane Townsend is life-long resident of Detroit, Mich., and an experienced observer of the American social/political landscape.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at December 14, 2016 02:02 PM (3jGss)
How long did it take for us to calm down and start focusing on work?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:03 PM (XyT/Z)
It's not
Republicans Calling for Investigation Into Voter Fraud In Detroit After Jill Stein's Recount Turns Up More Votes Than Actual Registered Voters in 37% of Detroit's Precincts
Delete "Registered"
Posted by: m at December 14, 2016 02:03 PM (3jGss)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 14, 2016 02:03 PM (nIGPZ)
Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2016 02:04 PM (PeNEi)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 14, 2016 02:03 PM (nIGPZ)
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"Real America hates America, its history, founding, and everything it has ever stood for except freedom of speech when we aren't in power."
-The Left
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:04 PM (XyT/Z)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 14, 2016 02:04 PM (v9gSJ)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 14, 2016 02:04 PM (v9gSJ)
Posted by: kathysaysso at December 14, 2016 02:05 PM (43OZ6)
Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2016 02:06 PM (PeNEi)
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 14, 2016 02:06 PM (nKLZ2)
Duane Townsend needs to step out of his lil' blue bubble already.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 14, 2016 02:07 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 14, 2016 02:07 PM (nIGPZ)
Posted by: IC at December 14, 2016 02:07 PM (a0IVu)
You're not being held hostage if your hostage holders are begging you to go.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 14, 2016 02:07 PM (v9gSJ)
Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at December 14, 2016 02:08 PM (RKQ/v)
Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2016 02:08 PM (PeNEi)
Posted by: Keef Olberdork at December 14, 2016 02:08 PM (EVi2J)
Posted by: Jmel at December 14, 2016 02:09 PM (/Q+km)
Posted by: eleven at December 14, 2016 02:09 PM (qUNWi)
They were conciliatory and looked like they wanted to help.
Are we seeing that from the DNC? Not now since they're in the middle of a power struggle and their stance afterwards will depend on who takes control (is it wrong of my to root for Ellison?).
Or leading Democratic members of Congress? I'd say not in the least.
I just want to frame the reaction from the Left we're seeing now in more historical terms. Is this normal or not? Is this a sign of coming radicalization or moderation?
The fun of their wails has worn off on me, and I worry about them putting enough together to actually do some damage over the next few years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:09 PM (XyT/Z)
Posted by: Flyover Freddie at December 14, 2016 02:10 PM (IqV8l)
Free Speech, Free Exercise of Religion, Federalism - that old sheepskin Bill of Rights junk.
Posted by: Author is half right at December 14, 2016 02:10 PM (CGzbQ)
Posted by: tu3031 at December 14, 2016 02:10 PM (qJhUV)
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Not so much anymore. That's a little passé.
Now we are all "victorious, you muthfuckas"
Posted by: MTF at December 14, 2016 02:10 PM (LISuA)
Secretly, I am hoping they all go jump in a Volcano. Unoriginal, I know. But I really do enjoy closure.
Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2016 02:10 PM (PeNEi)
Posted by: mx4 at December 14, 2016 02:11 PM (hGAZa)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 14, 2016 02:11 PM (BlIKS)
Posted by: Carol at December 14, 2016 02:11 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2016 02:11 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Go Jolly Your Holly at the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2016 02:11 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2016 02:12 PM (czuvT)
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That whole "a job, not a handout" thing just doesn't penetrate, does it?
Posted by: MTF at December 14, 2016 02:12 PM (LISuA)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 14, 2016 02:12 PM (nIGPZ)
Posted by: Duane Townsend at December 14, 2016 02:12 PM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2016 02:12 PM (PeNEi)
Duane - Michigan is a flyover state also.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Go Jolly Your Holly at the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2016 02:12 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 14, 2016 02:12 PM (6gk0M)
Posted by: MTF at December 14, 2016 02:13 PM (LISuA)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 14, 2016 02:13 PM (SkR14)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at December 14, 2016 02:13 PM (kP16F)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 14, 2016 02:13 PM (NOIQH)
Um, I'm in my mid-40's and raised in a deep blue state. I have been hearing libs sneeringly use the term "flyover states" my entire life. This person is an idiot. Oh, and the grammar is terrible Do they have editors at the Hill?
Posted by: Benji Carver at December 14, 2016 02:13 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Idahioana at December 14, 2016 02:13 PM (zMnVK)
So, to answer your question about his credentials: he doesn't have to have any to write for the contributors' section. There are far-right rants as well as far-left rants.
Posted by: Anonymous at December 14, 2016 02:14 PM (CBGRs)
"They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing."
Posted by: GuyfromNH at December 14, 2016 02:14 PM (5zfq1)
,,,,
Take out the "White Values" part, and I don't really disagree. If you are anti-Christian values (that does not mean you have to be a Christian), anti-home (I guess that means family in the traditional sense, but I'm not sure), anti-God (again, not necessarily fervently religious, but definitely not ANTI-God), and anti-country...well, it seems as though you already declared war on me.
Posted by: ajmojo at December 14, 2016 02:14 PM (1H9ox)
To these losers, politics is all.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at December 14, 2016 02:14 PM (RHjCR)
Posted by: Brain Eating Amoeba at December 14, 2016 02:14 PM (PeNEi)
What's NoDAPL?
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Go Jolly Your Holly at the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2016 02:11 PM (hLRSq)
Pretty sure it was a call to boycott Prarie League double anal videos, but it didn't make a dent.
Posted by: mx4 at December 14, 2016 02:14 PM (hGAZa)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2016 02:14 PM (czuvT)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2016 02:14 PM (/tuJf)
Uh-huh.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at December 14, 2016 02:14 PM (FqgrG)
Posted by: Bull Wynn at December 14, 2016 02:15 PM (OD2ni)
The Left had to lose for America to become whole again.
Posted by: Author is half right at December 14, 2016 02:15 PM (CGzbQ)
Posted by: SMOD Keeper at December 14, 2016 02:15 PM (onq2p)
Posted by: Lamprey at December 14, 2016 02:15 PM (PeNEi)
They are eff'n insane with rage.. They have calls to "resist", like bathtub boy Olbermann.. it is so funny.. They promote blog posts calling for the electoral college to vote for someone else.. and they really think it is possible! Daily Kooks is the funniest..
I hardly have to work at getting them depressed and fuming all over again.. it's almost too easy.. but still enjoyable! And there is a bit of an art to it since you can go too far and get banned.. lol
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at December 14, 2016 02:15 PM (so+oy)
Posted by: redenzo at December 14, 2016 02:15 PM (5wSNN)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 14, 2016 02:15 PM (BlIKS)
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at December 14, 2016 02:15 PM (KZqWD)
Posted by: pahound at December 14, 2016 02:16 PM (aUOh9)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 14, 2016 02:16 PM (ul9CR)
Duane Townshend in a resident of the bath house and an observer of cock.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 14, 2016 02:16 PM (TBFYQ)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2016 02:16 PM (czuvT)
Posted by: Fritz at December 14, 2016 02:16 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 14, 2016 02:16 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 14, 2016 02:13 PM (NOIQH)
Dakota Access Pipe Line.
Thanks, Lizzy. I really haven't been paying any attention to that hissy fit.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Go Jolly Your Holly at the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2016 02:16 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at December 14, 2016 02:16 PM (OD2ni)
++++
Sloppy grammar is the result of slovenly thought. Or the reverse. Which is also true.
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 14, 2016 02:16 PM (37cCz)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at December 14, 2016 02:16 PM (1JnAL)
The Left had to lose for America to become whole again.
Posted by: Author is half right at December 14, 2016 02:15 PM (CGzbQ)
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I'm not a big fan of Milo, but he said exactly that, and he was exactly right at the same time.
He said that the Left was throwing absolutely everything they could at Trump, and if he managed to survive it with the presidency in his hands, then they'd be broken. Those people who inhabit the middle will see the Left and it's tools (the MSM) as paper tigers.
I hope he's right, and I look forward to see the continued loss of power on the Left as I enter middle age.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:17 PM (XyT/Z)
Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2016 02:17 PM (PeNEi)
Posted by: Flyover at December 14, 2016 02:18 PM (SVz6E)
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at December 14, 2016 02:15 PM (KZqWD)
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How dare you fight back in any way shape or form?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:18 PM (XyT/Z)
Like closing bakeried, harrassing nuns, getting people fired for their beliefs
Posted by: ThunderB at December 14, 2016 02:18 PM (BlIKS)
Posted by: Bensdad00 at December 14, 2016 02:18 PM (Joi9z)
https://youtu.be/W1GZzucDMlQ
Posted by: Country Singer at December 14, 2016 02:18 PM (uiwCw)
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Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (MYX5P)
Posted by: Flyover at December 14, 2016 02:18 PM (SVz6E)
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"The proper form is 'severely'."
-Mitt Romney
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (XyT/Z)
The revolution lives, the banner is now being carried by Jill Stein of the Green Party. No, she can't win, yet. But a vote for Jill Stein will be a revolutionary statement that will shake the status quo. The way to end corruption is to stop voting for it.
New day dawning...thank you for reading, One love
Posted by: MTF at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (LISuA)
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (nKLZ2)
Washington politicians used to affectionately refer to the these states as "Middle America."
Not anymore. The mask has come off. Even Democrats from these "flyover states" hold disdain for their constituents and are only in Washington to advance the Leftist Totalitarian agenda.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (25wCj)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (KP5rU)
I take it this doofus is unaware that world wide whites are in a minority position in Christianity. I take it he is also unaware that many blacks are Christian.
Now lets say the flyover states do live by the values of 1870--so what? How would that connect to the correctness of said values.
Those 1870 values were the values that ended slavery, weren't they?
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (hJrjt)
"Observer of humanity and myself, reporter of the divine and profane recognized in myself and society."
"Writer-Visionary at [his blog]"
"Studied at University of Life"
So is the Hill like HuffPo where they don't pay writers, just give them a platform for clicks?
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (mgbwf)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (MYX5P)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 14, 2016 02:20 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Bensdad00 at December 14, 2016 02:18 PM (Joi9z)
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All I hear is "I'm smarter than you".
It's not terribly appealing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:20 PM (XyT/Z)
Posted by: Flyover States at December 14, 2016 02:20 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Billy Occam at December 14, 2016 02:20 PM (ihtYN)
++++
Bands of roving nomads or bust!
Posted by: Bands of roving nomads, Inc. at December 14, 2016 02:20 PM (CFc5L)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 14, 2016 02:21 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Fritz at December 14, 2016 02:16 PM (2Mnv1)
"F'in Putin, man" my friends and I are already telling each other whenever one of us whines about the universe being unfair.
Posted by: mx4 at December 14, 2016 02:21 PM (hGAZa)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 14, 2016 02:21 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: kathysaysso at December 14, 2016 02:05 PM (43OZ6)
Would love to make it even worse. This schadenboner isn't going to support itself, for four years, lefties.
Cry harder.
Yes.....
Yesssss..... that's the way. Do that.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 02:21 PM (wq8Cl)
I know a fair number of not-white people who'd be really insulted by this conclusion by the otiose gasbag.
Posted by: Beverly at December 14, 2016 02:21 PM (7Y5vb)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (ul9CR) "
Yeah, according to Duane, minorities don't care about this country, their religion, or their families. That seems a tad...what's the word...oh right, racist.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:21 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: jihadi at December 14, 2016 02:21 PM (I64i9)
Come by and visit the flyover Districts sometime soon. Just a note, we have both longbow and crossbow competitions going on, so be careful.
Love ya
Posted by: Rubes can shoot straight at December 14, 2016 02:22 PM (VndSC)
"Observer of Myself and society; manager of the Divine and the profane of those mirroring realities."
https://duanet.contently.com/
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 02:22 PM (O7MnT)
,,,
Yeah. And that still hasn't been enough to stop the incestuous DC Leviathan. Which is how you got Trump.
Posted by: ajmojo at December 14, 2016 02:22 PM (1H9ox)
Well Duane, it isn't.
http://tinyurl.com/h6o8ejf
Posted by: MTF at December 14, 2016 02:22 PM (LISuA)
To be fair, he's not very smart, so maybe he mixed up 'enraged' with 'engorged'? Because for many of us, the latter is still true.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:22 PM (kumBu)
They seem like one of those stupid, unteachable breeds.
Posted by: tubal at December 14, 2016 02:22 PM (d6TTt)
________________
You don't like hackneyed political commentary presented alongside reviews of Hot Pockets?
Posted by: Ben Smith at December 14, 2016 02:22 PM (FqgrG)
Democrats say they're for "working families" and the "working class."
This election proved that the jig is up: no one believes the Democrats anymore.
How can you be for the "working class" when everything you do is hurting them?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 14, 2016 02:22 PM (25wCj)
>>>> Yup, so "entrenched" that the vaunted "blue wall" only fell this election.
Posted by: Tradd at December 14, 2016 02:22 PM (GSJcT)
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Go Jolly Your Holly at the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2016 02:22 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Duane Townsend at December 14, 2016 02:23 PM (PeNEi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 14, 2016 02:23 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Bensdad00 at December 14, 2016 02:18 PM (Joi9z)
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All I hear is "I'm smarter than you".
It's not terribly appealing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:20 PM
(XyT/Z)
I hear that as ," How dare you vote against MY interests."
Posted by: JoeF. at December 14, 2016 02:23 PM (TBFYQ)
Posted by: Roy at December 14, 2016 02:23 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 14, 2016 02:23 PM (PY9jH)
What, no School of Hard Knocks?
There are overused memes not being overused enough here!
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 14, 2016 02:23 PM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Carol at December 14, 2016 02:23 PM (sj3Ax)
Posted by: tu3031 at December 14, 2016 02:10 PM (qJhUV)
Unpossible.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 02:23 PM (wq8Cl)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2016 02:24 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 02:24 PM (O7MnT)
Posted by: Duane Townsend at December 14, 2016 02:24 PM (qJhUV)
And yet, we both voted for Trump. As did my brother and sister, both doctors, my son the actuary, my daughter who works for a non-profit in a large liberal midwestern city, and her husband who works in ecommerce. Oh...and some of my black friends, who said Hillary lost them when she vowed to retain abortion until the day before a baby was born!
Sigh....these loons just will not learn, nor will they admit their mistakes. Fine. As Trump says...we'll keep winning! Happy New Year!!
Posted by: Carol LK at December 14, 2016 02:24 PM (iLb58)
Posted by: GT 5.0 at December 14, 2016 02:24 PM (0OCrM)
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 14, 2016 02:24 PM (37cCz)
Many of the brightest ass lamprey's in America matriculated there.
Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2016 02:24 PM (PeNEi)
FL +29
PA +20
OH +18
MI +16
WI +10
IA +6
I'd only count those last two as 'flyover' material.
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 14, 2016 02:24 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: jihadi at December 14, 2016 02:24 PM (I64i9)
"Studied at University of Life"
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (mgbwf) "
"Visionary"? Unless he has psychic powers, that's a description worthy of a stiff kick to the groin.
I'll also give him a pass if he's 15 years old, because that sounds like the type of smarmy shit I might have said back then.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (kumBu)
race horses, school bus driver, corporate computer network administrator
and I.T instructor; and as a crisis counselor for community mental
health."
So he's a chronic unemployable?
Posted by: tu3031 at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: m at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (3jGss)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (SkR14)
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Real news: The Donks are much interested in protecting a pervert's "right" to potty in your daughter's restroom than they are in protecting your daughter from a illegal alien criminals or Islamic terrorists.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: Duane's Mom at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (8ZskC)
Got locks on your home's doors, Duane? Bars on its windows? How's that whole "life-long" Deeetroit thing working for you?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (BK3ZS)
And that's how you elected Trump.
Posted by: 16 Paranoia Filled Days Later at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (5kqPn)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (PNcou)
He forgot "the Russians!!".
Slacker.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (zc3Db)
So Democrats import a new 3rd world people to outvote "us" that live in the non-socialist past. And LBJ promised to get those "blacks" vote Dem for 200 years, by promising them free stuff. So that "free shit America" concept is a retrograde 1970's concept.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (pS/eA)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (NOIQH)
There are overused memes not being overused enough here!
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 14, 2016 02:23 PM (ul9CR) "
The School of Hard Knocks has a hell of an acceptance rate according to online comments sections. It's easier to get into than Sandra Fluke.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:26 PM (kumBu)
o.0
*head----->desk*
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 02:26 PM (wq8Cl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 14, 2016 02:26 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2016 02:26 PM (/tuJf)
_________
I hear this thrown around a lot, wouldn't you love to see a sober analysis of the racial demographics of the people that get the Great Society handouts?
Something tells me that has a lot more to do with whether someone is on federal aid than whether they live in a blue or red state.
And people forget, the Southern Red States are not lily white.
Posted by: Maritime at December 14, 2016 02:26 PM (EI0Vn)
Last night Trump said something very important: The last month of the campaign I said fuck it and just did rallies. I stopped doing interviews and talked directly to YOU.
These cunts in the Fake News, including Bill Kristol, can whine all they want. Trump is now BYPASSING all of them.
The Fake News Media has not marginalized Donald Trump. Donald Trump has marginalized the Fake News Media.
Trump has marginalized the Fake News Media
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 14, 2016 02:26 PM (25wCj)
"Duane Townsend is life-long resident of Detroit, Mich., and an experienced observer of the American social/political landscape."
Deeeee - troit ... where the corn (from your 1/2 city block urban farm) grows as high as
... and the sunset, when framed by any of the windows of the abandoned Packard factory, is as memorable as any from the Arizona desert.
Posted by: Jean-Pierre Folderol, Member, The League of Ugly Shirted Gentlemen at December 14, 2016 02:26 PM (FlRtG)
"Chemtrails may be being used in an attempt to repair an earth atmosphere that has become damaged by one hundred fifty years of commercial industrialism. And billions of people extracting energy by burning fossil fuels. My issue with the chemtrail approach is the secrecy. The attempt to suppress information that our atmosphere is so severely damaged, and that the solution is the equivalent of a desperate action. Atmospheric aerosols/chemtrails. Man made atmospherics dispersed in an attempt repair the ozone, and or reflect UV rays."
http://tinyurl.com/h9bmk2m
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 02:26 PM (O7MnT)
Such as - consider this: if the coastal elites of the Clinton Campaign, housed in Brooklyn, had paid more attention to what the hicks and rubes in the flyover states were telling them, Clinton would have won.
This winning is getting to be bad for me - my stony petrified heart-shaped mass might actually become a real heart because of all the mirth and joy I have been given.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Go Jolly Your Holly at the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2016 02:27 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Duane, yes THAT Duane, in Detroit at December 14, 2016 02:27 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at December 14, 2016 02:27 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 14, 2016 02:27 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: General Zod at December 14, 2016 02:27 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: MTF at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (LISuA) "
Yuck - does this douchenozzle think he's Bob Marley?
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:27 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 14, 2016 02:27 PM (BWL+E)
Posted by: tu3031 at December 14, 2016 02:25 PM (qJhUV)
Assuming he is a " person of color, whatever", sounds suspiciously like " affirmative action grifter".
Posted by: tubal at December 14, 2016 02:28 PM (d6TTt)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 14, 2016 02:28 PM (ul9CR)
I propose that Trump start an outreach program and disperse the various departments amongst the states. One to Oklahoma, one to Nebraska, a couple to Texas, one to Mississippi, one to Missouri, etc.
Turn DC into a museum and tourist attraction.
Posted by: rd at December 14, 2016 02:28 PM (Rtl0g)
Posted by: Benji Carver at December 14, 2016 02:13 PM (OD2ni)
And the comma errors are atrocious.
Posted by: m at December 14, 2016 02:28 PM (3jGss)
Posted by: goodluckduck at December 14, 2016 02:28 PM (yqvys)
Posted by: steevy at December 14, 2016 02:28 PM (r/0kC)
This isn't even wrong. I mean, if the person writing it hadn't heard it before then, that's a damnation of that person (or proof s/h/it's a Millenial).
Also note that this is from someone from Detroit. When's the last time a Republican was elected to anything in Detroit? Next of never?
I was pondering earlier today that I have a super duper radical idea. Guys, you guuuuyyyssss, I figured it out!
Get this. Different people have different interests and desires and so they, hold on, I'm about to blow your minds here, they have different ideas and priorities than other people and tend to move to areas that best promote those ideas and priorities.
I know, startling, right?
Okay, hold on, tight, this is where I go with some next level shit. So, these different areas in which people gather to promote their own ideas of a life best lived have, seriously, this is groundbreaking, different problems and issues with public safety and public welfare. Thus solutions that work in one area won't work in another and each of those areas have issues that must be taken seriously.
Now here's where we cross the Rubicon.
All these different areas? None of their concerns are more important than the other areas. So. We need some way to be sure that none of those areas dominate the others and try to swamp out their concerns.
Now that your minds are thoroughly blown, I'll fix that problem.
What about a system where each area gets a proportional share of votes and then whomever wins a majority of the aggregate of those votes gets to be in charge of all of the areas? So. Revolutionary. Much. Brilliance.
I'm so smart. I'm just going to go fall up those stairs over there to celebrate.
Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 14, 2016 02:28 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 14, 2016 02:29 PM (PY9jH)
I knew glue sniffers who would qualify as experienced observers of humanity or life.
My granddaughters are experienced observers of life. The oldest has seven years of experience.
What an imbecile.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2016 02:29 PM (hJrjt)
Posted by: Duane Townsend at December 14, 2016 02:29 PM (mgbwf)
Posted by: Zombie John Wayne Gacy at December 14, 2016 02:29 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: Jane D'oh"
Joe Concha has a media column for The Hill. He was very fair during the election and called out media BS when needed(i.e., all the time).
Posted by: Benji Carver at December 14, 2016 02:29 PM (OD2ni)
+++
Goddamned right, Jon Stewart said so.
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 14, 2016 02:29 PM (37cCz)
These are also the people who PAY INTO these programs. "Paying" is somehow an alien concept to this special snowflake who no doubt whines that the money should pay for his free college education.
Posted by: kbdabear at December 14, 2016 02:30 PM (Ya7zs)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2016 02:30 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 14, 2016 02:30 PM (xeeHA)
How long did it take for us to calm down and start focusing on work?
Election was on Tuesday and I had to be at work on Wednesday.
So. Overnight?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2016 02:30 PM (ohWrE)
Posted by: JEM at December 14, 2016 02:30 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: JoeF. at December 14, 2016 02:30 PM (qwj1U)
Posted by: Ben Smith at December 14, 2016 02:22 PM (FqgrG)
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sure i do... that's why i'm a Moron.
why go anywhere else for that shit?
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 14, 2016 02:30 PM (nKLZ2)
Get this guys: Duane listed that he studied at "The University of Life."
Duane knows his shit y'all. And he believes it.
Posted by: PBJ1515 at December 14, 2016 02:30 PM (PsdJu)
My little pop-out stop sign gives me the power to control an entire street's worth of traffic! BWAHAHAHAHA! Bow down to me, bitchez! Why, this almost makes up for not being allowed to turn right on red!
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 14, 2016 02:30 PM (ul9CR)
Posted by: Roy at December 14, 2016 02:31 PM (VndSC)
Poe's Law is well and truly dead, but they continue to kick at its desiccated and worm-ridden corpse.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:31 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at December 14, 2016 02:27 PM (RD7QR)
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Oh, they're stewing in it, and have been for over a month now. Then another light bulb goes off in their pin heads and they proclaim a new, profound theory on why they lost.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 14, 2016 02:31 PM (CFc5L)
Technically, I've eaten Life cereal.
Posted by: Duane Townsend at December 14, 2016 02:29 PM (mgbwf)
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Avid watcher of 'One Life to Live'
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 14, 2016 02:31 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at December 14, 2016 02:31 PM (kP16F)
FIFY, you effing asshole.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 14, 2016 02:31 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: 16 Paranoia Filled Days Later at December 14, 2016 02:31 PM (5kqPn)
They needed to be forcibly relocated to the Red States to learn from the workers.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2016 02:31 PM (hJrjt)
Heh.
Posted by: JoeF.
Those bags of dicks don't grow on trees, you know.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 14, 2016 02:32 PM (SkR14)
So. Overnight?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2016 02:30 PM (ohWrE)
Overnight? Barely.
Try two hours. The MSM would not call the election for Trump and I wasn't going to bed until they did.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 14, 2016 02:32 PM (qwj1U)
Posted by: USNtakim at December 14, 2016 02:32 PM (hMqvx)
Posted by: General Zod at December 14, 2016 02:32 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: davidt at December 14, 2016 02:32 PM (XoldI)
They needed to be forcibly relocated to the Red States to learn from the workers.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2016 02:31 PM (hJrjt)
I'd rather they be relocated to Red China.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 14, 2016 02:32 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 02:26 PM (O7MnT)
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Whoa. Duane is an Agenda 21er???
Posted by: fixerupper at December 14, 2016 02:32 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 14, 2016 02:32 PM (8ZskC)
They needed to be forcibly relocated to the Red States to learn from the workers.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2016 02:31 PM (hJrjt)
Lets move them to Cuba, China or North Korea- and not the nice outward facing parts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 14, 2016 02:33 PM (92kX2)
And more lifelike, I'd imagine.
Posted by: Azathoth at December 14, 2016 02:33 PM (rB57D)
Posted by: Lord Sir x at December 14, 2016 02:33 PM (nFwvY)
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 14, 2016 02:33 PM (xeeHA)
I know. That a-hole never shuts up about it.
Posted by: Tom Friedman's cab driver at December 14, 2016 02:33 PM (OD2ni)
School Bus drivers have a lot of "thinking time" available.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 02:33 PM (wq8Cl)
Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at December 14, 2016 02:27 PM (BWL+E)
Those masked "Anarchists?"
The ones burning shit and busting windows?
Mostly suburban white boys living out their fantasies. Middle class punks and wanna be Che fanboys.
One of the reasons they don't get arrested is their old man may be a big wig like Ayers old man was (CEO of Com-Ed).
Posted by: rd at December 14, 2016 02:33 PM (Rtl0g)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:33 PM (39g3+)
Heh.
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now imagining stallions with dreadlocks and jerricurls
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 14, 2016 02:33 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at December 14, 2016 02:34 PM (7N6ox)
So. Overnight?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2016 02:30 PM (ohWrE)
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I knew it would be read that way...
I really meant the party. At what point did the party stop pointing fingers, yelling, and crying (metaphorically, of course), and start trying to figure out ways to rebuild and expand?
Are we looking at historical norms at the end of 2016 or is it truly something remarkable and over the top?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:34 PM (XyT/Z)
Posted by: RoyalOil at December 14, 2016 02:34 PM (e2Rx3)
Gee willikers, hey've been beating this drum for over decade now, and they STILL DON'T GET IT.
THere was a huge bestseller about ten years ago amongst the NY cognoscenti called "What's the Matter With Kansas?", and the book's entire thesis was that flyover rednecks "vote against their own self-interests" by voting for small government Republicans, which was incomprehensible to the author and his millions of liberal readers. They couldn't understand why the Democrats' dangling of FREE WELFARE BENEFITS for the hillbillies didn't tempt those hillbillies to vote Dem. Rejecting FREE WELFARE BENEFITS was deemed "voting against your own self-interests" and was a sign that there was something deeply wrong with you that a liberal could not decipher.
The entire book was a case study of flamboyant sociological ignorance and hubris. The author could not even visualize the concepts of "self-reliance" and "pride in independence" and the desire for "small government." It does did not compute. And so he asks, "What the FUCK is the matter with you rednecks??? YOU ARE REJECTING OUR WAMPUM! Don't you want some nice shiny beads, Mr. Hillbilly? Look how shiny they are! No strings attached at all!"
Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2016 02:34 PM (jBuUi)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 14, 2016 02:34 PM (7HtZB)
Heh....
I love the Kitty in the Viking Helmut
Posted by: fixerupper at December 14, 2016 02:34 PM (8XRCm)
But they tend this almost completely in their areas - the deep blue urban enclaves that they own.
Starting at the end of the Bush years though the left started acting as a conquering power and enforcing their will on the whole of the country - look at Memories Pizza....
And now they seem shocked that they may no longer get to do so. Which leads me to the point that rather then trying to move back to the past status quo where the left lives as they want and the rest of the country does as well, we need to aggressively give the left a taste of its own medicine...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 14, 2016 02:34 PM (X7E8f)
Poor baby Duane....I'm sure he'll write some screed about that too.
Idiot.
Posted by: Tami at December 14, 2016 02:34 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 14, 2016 02:32 PM (SkR14)
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WORD
Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at December 14, 2016 02:35 PM (PNcou)
>> month now. Then another light bulb goes off in their
>> pin heads and they proclaim a new, profound theory
>> on why they lost.
Actually, he's completely right in a way - the 'flyover states' (and many of the rest of us) did get disgusted with the values of the coastal and urban elites.
His problem is he just don't like it up 'im.
Posted by: JEM at December 14, 2016 02:35 PM (TppKb)
Must be the water.
When I asked why it is only one in four Detroit school children can read at grade level, they blame it on republicans. After pointing out that republicans haven't been within 20 miles of a Detroit elected office or school board in over 60 years, they reiterate that it must be the republicans fault.
Because they are for education. And they are democrats.
Therefore, republicans must be anti-education and somehow exerting control over the good people trying their best to teach in Detroit.
Apparently, there is very little our evil intentions can't touch.
Posted by: jwest at December 14, 2016 02:35 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 14, 2016 02:33 PM (xeeHA)
+++
He really is. And stupid, too. Because just two hours ago I learned the real reason why Trump won was because the men in this country want imported, submissive, Russian women.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 14, 2016 02:35 PM (CFc5L)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 14, 2016 02:34 PM (7HtZB)
When did you learn how to spell, Mary?
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2016 02:35 PM (hJrjt)
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That's because we don't want government to "help us". We want government to leave. us. alone.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2016 02:35 PM (KUaJL)
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The middle and working classes are smart enough to understand that all spending increases ultimately come out of their pockets - either from straight taxes, regulations, or inflation.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 14, 2016 02:36 PM (X7E8f)
Exactly. Maybe not 1870, but we can start with 1980.
Posted by: JEM at December 14, 2016 02:36 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 14, 2016 02:36 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 14, 2016 02:36 PM (8ZskC)
They needed to be forcibly relocated to the Red States to learn from the workers.
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2016 02:31 PM (hJrjt)
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There are people out there who I genuinely don't understand why they don't leave.
I'm not talking about people who were disappointed that Hillary lost, or feel that they need to do anything within legal means to overturn an election. I'm thinking of those that we are all thinking of: the far left of the Left.
These people actually hate America, but they refuse to leave. I just don't understand it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:36 PM (XyT/Z)
Fuck. Them.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 14, 2016 02:30 PM (xeeHA) "
Yeah, he must be some Yale graduate who works at a lefty think tank.
Oh, wait, he's a bus driver who matriculated at the "University of Life." But he's sooooo much smarter than the rest of us flyover rubes, who only voted for Trump because of White Powah and chemtrailz.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:36 PM (kumBu)
167 WTH does "experienced" observer of humanity mean? My answer: it is nonsensical verbage.
It means he knows urinal etiquette, but chooses to ignore it. A lot.
Posted by: General Zod at December 14, 2016 02:36 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2016 02:36 PM (KP5rU)
>> us". We want government to leave. us. alone.
And we don't need sixteen different layers of government each more distant one more intrusive than the last.
Posted by: JEM at December 14, 2016 02:37 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: washrivergal at December 14, 2016 02:35 PM (CFc5L)
Russian women ... submissive? I don't think so. You need to look to the Far East for the submissive imports. Russia is the go-to place for the beautiful, batshit crazy ones.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 14, 2016 02:37 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 14, 2016 02:37 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: washrivergal at December 14, 2016 02:35 PM (CFc5L)
Not that I've had THAT much experience, bur Russian women are NOT submissive.
Sometimes they are "pliable." But you will pay dearly....
Posted by: JoeF. at December 14, 2016 02:37 PM (qwj1U)
It is corrupt, unemployed, and broke beyond repair and lagging behind all of it's red midwestern neighbors in every economic "recovery" indicator. Property taxes are sky high, the unemployment rate for blacks is at almost 15% (50% for males under 30), the highest in the nation. It spent a couple years not passing a budget, causing the state credit rating to crap out. It is so broke that it can't pay lottery winners anything other than an IOU. It is losing residents at a record pace to, mainly to TX and FL.
Posted by: ajmojo at December 14, 2016 02:37 PM (1H9ox)
Fed Lifts Rates, Signals More Increases Next Year
WSJ
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (SkR14)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:33 PM (39g3+)
We're trying to change that. We did our part (deep-sixed two long term (D)Marxists, down here).
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (wq8Cl)
the emergence of the Tea Party and the election of Obama.
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There was a character on The West Wing whose entire purpose was to advise the (fictional) administration about folks in "flyover" country.
When introduced, she explained that referring to them as "flyover country" was the first of many reasons they don't vote dem.
Posted by: Methos at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (3Liv/)
Anything more pitiful than a racist communist?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (/wcVO)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 14, 2016 02:36 PM (8ZskC) "
The beautiful coast of the Detroit River, I guess. He can see Canada from his school bus!
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (kumBu)
If you go there, check out precious Obamabot ANNG14's brain farts.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (PY9jH)
In a city that just got dinged for massive voter corrruption.
With a public school system noted for such things as not being able to provide toilet paper.
Which until the last couple of years was run solely by dumbocrats (coincidentally, Detroit is now rebounding spectacularly- yeah, strange).
I should care about this imbecile's hootings because...?
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk- lookin to beat on a warmist about now.. at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (kVX3W)
Posted by: SD at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (fiGNd)
What Duane here is pissed about is that voters ignored the current culture that's been hoisted upon them, and he's calling *us* fascists for resisting.
LOL
Posted by: Lizzy at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (NOIQH)
Heh.... I love all the Morons piling on in the comments.
Posted by: fixerupper at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (8XRCm)
It is corrupt, unemployed, and broke beyond repair and lagging behind all of it's red midwestern neighbors in every economic "recovery" indicator. Property taxes are sky high, the unemployment rate for blacks is at almost 15% (50% for males under 30), the highest in the nation. It spent a couple years not passing a budget, causing the state credit rating to crap out. It is so broke that it can't pay lottery winners anything other than an IOU. It is losing residents at a record pace to, mainly to TX and FL.
Posted by: ajmojo at December 14, 2016 02:37 PM (1H9ox)
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You know it's all Indiana's faults, right? For lax gun laws?
\s
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (XyT/Z)
Duane Townsend is life-long resident of Detroit, Mich., and an experienced observer of the American social/political landscape.
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This is like saying I'm an experienced observer of gender dynamics because I watch a lot of porn.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: washrivergal at December 14, 2016 02:35 PM (CFc5L)
Russian women ... submissive? I don't think so. You need to look to the Far East for the submissive imports. Russia is the go-to place for the beautiful, batshit crazy ones.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 14, 2016 02:37 PM (zc3Db)
Aren't mail order Russian brides the ones that screw you silly for a month and then leave, taking every dime you've ever made?
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2016 02:39 PM (hJrjt)
Therefore, republicans must be anti-education and somehow exerting control over the good people trying their best to teach in Detroit.
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Circular. This is when you go back and say how nobody can read there so no wonder they don't get it.
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 14, 2016 02:39 PM (37cCz)
" The Occupy movement of 2011-12 was the left's most concerted effort since Seattle in 1999. Any momentum the left may have generated in '99-00 was derailed by the events of September 11, 2001. The country went into an ultra-patriotic, vengeful, war mood. The perfect conditions for the far right-wing politics of xenophobic, flag waving, blood reckoning. The anti-war, political left was silenced, rendered impotent and invisible. To resist was to be labeled an 'unAmerican and a terrorist sympathizer.'"
Unh-huh. Cindy Sheehan? Michael Moore? Code Pink? Any comment?
http://tinyurl.com/h6o8ejf
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 02:39 PM (O7MnT)
http://tinyurl.com/j7x6bfd
I didn't catch his Wisconsin rally, but I guess he talked about it on stage.
Supposedly he had told his wife he was going to lose and the campaign purposely rented out a really small ballroom because they thought it was doomed and didn't want a big production.
Really scary alternate reality.
Posted by: Maritime at December 14, 2016 02:39 PM (EI0Vn)
Posted by: John McLane at December 14, 2016 02:39 PM (92kX2)
Ukrainian. But let's not quibble.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2016 02:39 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at December 14, 2016 02:39 PM (rJUlF)
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but supply exceeds demand
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 14, 2016 02:37 PM (PNcou)
Whut?
Posted by: Duane Townsend staring at the dashboard at December 14, 2016 02:40 PM (wq8Cl)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 14, 2016 02:40 PM (/wcVO)
Well if you want to be technical like that, states like New York, California, Oregon, and Washington only had a small number of counties go for Clinton as well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:40 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2016 02:39 PM (hJrjt)
But, oddly enough, you still can't wipe the smile off your face for the next 6 months.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 14, 2016 02:40 PM (zc3Db)
What Duane here is pissed about is that voters ignored the current culture that's been hoisted upon them, and he's calling *us* fascists for resisting.
LOL
Posted by: Lizzy at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (NOIQH)
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They won the gay marriage battle and thought it was the whole war. They then began to imagine themselves as conquerors in a foreign land, extending their will over the barbarians they've vanquished.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:40 PM (XyT/Z)
Oh, I'm sure Texas and Florida are grateful for that.
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 02:40 PM (O7MnT)
Have they seen the FSA and who they vote for? Someone should send this genius the video of the broad yelling about the Obama pho'
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2016 02:40 PM (493sH)
Fed Lifts Rates, Signals More Increases Next Year
WSJ
There was never a chance that Screamin Janet Yellin wouldn't raise rates on Trump. If Vankles had won though...
Posted by: Lord Sir x at December 14, 2016 02:40 PM (nFwvY)
While that statement largely accurate, it's not why Trump won.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:41 PM (39g3+)
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Because they don't actually give a shit about a single issue they whine about.
They want power. Trump is not part of their coalition which means they are out of power.
If a liberal moves to one of the countries that does all the things they claim to want it doesn't help him or her gain power (or wealth), in fact it means starting over. And starting over, even in a liberal Utopia like Sweden, doesn't bring home the bacon....
Posted by: 18-1 at December 14, 2016 02:41 PM (X7E8f)
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It isn't even that. Working class, get this, values work. Middle class takes the mere offering of a handout as a personal affront. Handouts appeal to the underclass.
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 14, 2016 02:41 PM (37cCz)
No. No they don't.
You started with shitty study by some leftard that looked at total spending without examining what it was spent on who made that conclusion.
Never you mind that the bulk of this spending was military and roads---"it's welfare!!"
And, if this shitbag wants to get down, take out them deep blue cities in these Red states--yeah, fuck off.
Posted by: RoyalOil at December 14, 2016 02:41 PM (e2Rx3)
Duane: "Did you see that?! I've just had my life threatened by Random Commenter!"
New York Times headline the next day: "Trump Supporters Organize Death Threats and Violent Attacks on Trump Critic."
Posted by: Furious George, Mystic Seer of The Future at December 14, 2016 02:42 PM (77i7V)
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It's a whole month, right? Not a February month? weekends and holidays?
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 14, 2016 02:42 PM (PNcou)
And one has a photo of him as a spectator at a sporting event. He is a minority.
His bio with the blog contains the following.
" Duane has worked as a Detroit civil servant, football coach, groomed race horses, school bus driver, corporate computer network administrator and I.T instructor; and as a crisis counselor for community mental health"
Duane has an open Facebook page. He isn't happy with anyone. He appears to have been an early Bernie supporter doesn't like the DNC, and his entire Facebook life is nothing but political postings. He agrees that the DNC rigged the election for Hillary. But the majority of his rantings are directed at right wingers, gun nuts and the usual suspected boogiemen that the left mentally employs to comfort themselves.
My guess is he is a discontented Marxist between his bong hits. How does someone like this support themselves?
(yes, I know the answer) We are supporting him.
He also writes numerous articles in which he addresses quantum physics, consciousness, and God. Which he has seen while on his drug fueled trips most likely.
Posted by: Jen at December 14, 2016 02:42 PM (OjuFR)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (/wcVO) "
A racist communist conspiracy nutter who drives a school bus. We've just found the missing link, you guys.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:42 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: steevy at December 14, 2016 02:42 PM (r/0kC)
Do they mean those values the founded the country, built the country and turned it into the number one superpower in the world? Those values? How icky. Let's adopt the lefty destroy America values instead
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2016 02:42 PM (493sH)
Oh, I'm sure Texas and Florida are grateful for that.
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 02:40 PM (O7MnT)-------------------------------
We're getting more than our fair share here in Georgia. And they can't wait to turn us into the same leftist shit hole they left.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 14, 2016 02:42 PM (PY9jH)
Rick Perry at DOE? The zipper, it's helpless before this irresistible force.
The electric company called and asked if they could string a few high tension wires on my pole.
Posted by: GnuBreed at December 14, 2016 02:42 PM (oZEJt)
Milo replied that he had done no such thing and rehashed the whole thing in detail. Not for one second did the SJW stop screaming and let Milo speak. It was just one constant refrain of "racist, racist, racist." Since he wouldn't shut up, dweeb was escorted out of the room, screaming every second of the way. He undoubtably is proud of how he stood up, a lonely voice, to challenge the "white supremacist."
This guy writes like that guy sounded.
That's why these people cannot be argued or reasoned with. There is literally nothing you can say or do that would change their Narrative except agree with them and heap ashes on your own head. And even that wouldn't be sufficient, since the Left doesn't do forgiveness.
It's like the end of 1984. Winston Smith is tortured until he says 2 plus 2 equals 5, but even the destruction of his mind and integrity isn't enough. He will eventually be shot, because there is no overcoming the first crime he committed - to have politically incorrect thoughts in the first place.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 14, 2016 02:42 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: josephistan at December 14, 2016 02:43 PM (7HtZB)
While smoking like a chimney and putting back a bottle of vodka a night.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:43 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Duane at December 14, 2016 02:43 PM (PNcou)
The revolution lives, the banner is now being carried by Jill Stein of the Green Party. No, she can't win, yet. But a vote for Jill Stein will be a revolutionary statement that will shake the status quo. The way to end corruption is to stop voting for it.
New day dawning...thank you for reading, One love
Posted by: MTF at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (LISuA)
Oooooh, "one love." I'm thinking old Duane has smoked a doobie or two in his life, maybe played some reggae tunes over and over and over, maybe had some deep thoughts about the divine. Deep thoughts. Thoughts you straight people wouldn't get, thoughts about...you got any Doritos?
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at December 14, 2016 02:43 PM (RD7QR)
I'll take them from Uzbekistan if they all look like Milana Vayntrub (AT&T Lily).
Posted by: Benji Carver at December 14, 2016 02:43 PM (OD2ni)
All this was brought up in a previous thread.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 14, 2016 02:44 PM (CFc5L)
As opposed to the schools and MFM who give us whole truths and real news
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2016 02:44 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Jen at December 14, 2016 02:42 PM (OjuFR) "
Makes total sense. When I think "intricacies of quantum gravity" and "resolving the issues of Baryon asymmetry," the first person I want to consult is a bus driver that believes in chemtrails.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:44 PM (kumBu)
Fed Lifts Rates, Signals More Increases Next Year
WSJ
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 14, 2016 02:38 PM (SkR14)
They had to do it sometime and the weren't going to do it to the Historic First President.
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at December 14, 2016 02:45 PM (RD7QR)
I think this is kind of silly, torturing each other this way. It's time for a divorce.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 14, 2016 02:45 PM (v9gSJ)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2016 02:45 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:40 PM (39g3+)
Very true. I just despise Cook County* with a thermonuclear hatred.
* born and raised there.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 02:45 PM (wq8Cl)
Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2016 02:34 PM (jBuUi)
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Exactly. Perfectly stated.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 14, 2016 02:45 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: Duane at December 14, 2016 02:43 PM (PNcou) "
Those damn stonecutters, when they're not busy bankrolling Steve Guttenberg.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:45 PM (kumBu)
Oh, you mean like a Community Organizer? Gotcha.
Posted by: TheSev at December 14, 2016 02:45 PM (Av8i6)
I'm sorry, what? I was a news junkie as a teenager in the 80s and "flyover country" was absolutely An Thing then.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 14, 2016 02:45 PM (3J/LN)
I mean I know Ace has largely lost his passion but :/
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:45 PM (39g3+)
Therefore, republicans must be anti-education . . .
Posted by: jwest
_________
It's fun to use left wing logic on lefties. When they ask how I could possibly have voted for Trump, I respond that Trump promised to make America great again and Hillary didn't.
So how could I vote for someone who is against America improving?
Posted by: Furious George at December 14, 2016 02:46 PM (77i7V)
If any of you are looking to sell your house, you best step to it. Like yesterday.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 14, 2016 02:46 PM (SkR14)
Is this guy seriously a bus driver?
Posted by: josephistan at December 14, 2016 02:43 PM (7HtZB)
Well, he *is* a graduate of the School of Life.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 14, 2016 02:46 PM (PY9jH)
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O, will i get the last laugh there...
Posted by: Duane at December 14, 2016 02:46 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: lowtech redneck at December 14, 2016 02:46 PM (egK2C)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 14, 2016 02:46 PM (7ZVPa)
A crisis counselor in Detriot.
"Your problems aren't caused by you - it's all the fault of white oppression. Don't off yourself, go fight the Man!"
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 14, 2016 02:47 PM (u0lmX)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/0b368ee0-c15f-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html
(open incognito to skip WaPo paywall)
Posted by: JEM at December 14, 2016 02:47 PM (TppKb)
I'm not fond of this kind of red meaty post, honestly. Here's some
loser you never heard of and never would have without the post, saying
saying crazy stuff. Go at it.
I mean I know Ace has largely lost his passion but :/
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:45 PM (39g3+)
But, this article Ace posted made it to The Hill -thereby garnering quite a large audience. One much larger so than what you or I would ever get voicing our opinions.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 14, 2016 02:47 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Benji Carver at December 14, 2016 02:43 PM (OD2ni)
Don't laugh. I knew a few women from Uzbekistan who were beyond hot. A heady brew of Korean (something Uncle Joe did regarding moving them in) and Slavic. Killer bodies too.
Posted by: JoeF. at December 14, 2016 02:47 PM (qwj1U)
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/251857/
Posted by: steevy at December 14, 2016 02:47 PM (r/0kC)
http://hubpages.com/@duanetownsend
Seems just a typical Daily Kos rant that got highlighted. Except it's The Hill. What's the difference?
Posted by: BruinEric at December 14, 2016 02:47 PM (XQOtG)
Fed Lifts Rates, Signals More Increases Next Year
They're taking the training wheels off the Obama economy because adults are coming.
Posted by: Lord Sir x at December 14, 2016 02:47 PM (nFwvY)
Not Okay: Coast elites held hostage by flyover America
For those scoring at home.
Posted by: Blake at December 14, 2016 02:48 PM (qC1Sy)
And, if this shitbag wants to get down, take out them deep blue cities in these Red states--yeah, fuck off.
Posted by: RoyalOil at December 14, 2016 02:41 PM (e2Rx3)
They always, conveniently, leave that out. Just like their economic statistics.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 02:48 PM (wq8Cl)
++++
Trying to come up with a thing like watermelon but instead got: Mr Peanut. Yellow shell, redskin nut, obviously class conscious
Mr Peanut.
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 14, 2016 02:48 PM (37cCz)
Posted by: Corona at December 14, 2016 02:48 PM (xVq5B)
In other words he can't hold down a job
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2016 02:48 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 14, 2016 02:48 PM (/wcVO)
I guarantee you this ignorant little child couldn't name a single event in American history from 1870.
It would be nothing but sputtering of "RACIST! BAREFOOT! PREGNANT! CHRISTOFASCIST!"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 14, 2016 02:49 PM (X6fMO)
==========================
In other words, he inherited lots of money.
Probably went to Cranbrook and was very disappointed in Mitt Romney at some point.
Posted by: MTF at December 14, 2016 02:49 PM (LISuA)
Posted by: pahound at December 14, 2016 02:49 PM (aUOh9)
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at December 14, 2016 02:45 PM (RD7QR)
===============
Well, let's see what a drastically reduced corporate tax rate along with some business friendly climate from the federal government will to do the economy at the same time, shall we?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:49 PM (XyT/Z)
The Hill is not an insignificant outlet. It's not like he dug up some comments at Kos or something.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 14, 2016 02:49 PM (3J/LN)
" Duane has worked as a Detroit civil servant, football coach,
groomed race horses, school bus driver, corporate computer network
administrator and I.T instructor; and as a crisis counselor for
community mental health"
=====
Which begs the question....WTF The Hill?!
Posted by: Tami at December 14, 2016 02:49 PM (Enq6K)
Posted by: josephistan at December 14, 2016 02:49 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 14, 2016 02:50 PM (VGRuw)
Call me a bigot? Hater? Homophobe? Christian? White? Indignant? Go ahead. Throw your best at me.
But you know what? Hillary will never be president of the USA.
Ever.
P.S.
You call me all these names and claim I am hateful. Yet your disgust and vitriol drip from your words. Get thee behind me Satan.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 14, 2016 02:50 PM (jxbfJ)
Seems reasonable to me
Posted by: MAC-SOG at December 14, 2016 02:50 PM (QPdNE)
>> regarding moving them in) and Slavic.
Yeah, go out and fuck someone who doesn't look like you, and from my experience and observation the result will probably look better than either of you.
That's called 'evolution'.
Posted by: JEM at December 14, 2016 02:50 PM (TppKb)
Yes, I know its Gregg you pedants. Go with it.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2016 02:50 PM (/tuJf)
This guy is delusional. He acts as if every. single. person on the "coasts" is a loony leftist america hating piece of shit. Even on the coasts, the dispersement is close. There are pockets of severity, granted, but no more than the reverse. I am repelled by leftists and excise them from my life. I am not lonely.
Their deranged fantasy that everyone "smart" is a leftist nut is bullshit. We're less overt, granted, because it's not worth wiping off the spittle.
Posted by: dagny at December 14, 2016 02:50 PM (6KgCk)
Send in the Russian negotiator, or America gets it!
Posted by: Flyover States
========
Actually, I think we sent Corbin Dallas to negotiate.
And we're asking if anyone else wants to negotiate.
Posted by: RoyalOil at December 14, 2016 02:50 PM (e2Rx3)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/0b368ee0-c15f-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html
(open incognito to skip WaPo paywall)
Posted by: JEM at December 14, 2016 02:47 PM (TppKb)
================
"Another cis-gendered white man. How will I ever support him?"
-The Left, fed on identity politics for 10 years
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:51 PM (XyT/Z)
+++
Meanwhile, the progressives spent a lot of time and effort to get railroads and windmills built
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 14, 2016 02:51 PM (37cCz)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 14, 2016 02:50 PM (VGRuw)
^^ That.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 02:51 PM (wq8Cl)
Go for it protesters!
Posted by: free tibet, and all that other sh*t at December 14, 2016 02:51 PM (CL76w)
Fed Lifts Rates, Signals More Increases Next Year
They're taking the training wheels off the Obama economy because adults are coming.
,,,
It's a good thing and Trump has been calling for them to do so for quite a while.
Posted by: ajmojo at December 14, 2016 02:52 PM (1H9ox)
Move HUD to Detroit Michigan. Let them live in their successful city.
Move DoEnergy to wherever Pantex is in TX, or Paducah OH next to the gaseous diffusion plant. As was said before, 90% of their budget is Nuclear and Department of Defense.
Move DoEducation to The Dakotas, or maybe to Mississippi or Arkansas.
Posted by: rd at December 14, 2016 02:52 PM (Rtl0g)
Posted by: josephistan at December 14, 2016 02:52 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2016 02:52 PM (/tuJf)
Ukrainian. But let's not quibble.
===
I thought it was James Comey.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at December 14, 2016 02:52 PM (toH8T)
Rather than referring to the 2016 Demonrat candidate as "Clinton", "Hillary", or "Hillary Clinton", I propose that the phrase "twice-failed presidential candidate" be prepended (izataword?) to her name as shown in the example below:
Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will never be POTUS.
Posted by: The Deplorable Boomer Redneque at December 14, 2016 02:52 PM (+4NT5)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 14, 2016 02:50 PM (VGRuw)
I'm stealing this.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2016 02:53 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:53 PM (39g3+)
made up whole cloth: That Red states consume more federal welfare
spending than blue states.
***
A few years ago the left was chortling over a map of the US that showed where people were most overweight.
Ha they said, the Red Staters are all fatties! At least the ones in the South!
Now as we all know, the South, unlike the midwest is very bifurcated. White southerns are overwhelmingly Republicans, black southerners are overwhelmingly Democrats.
Then someone cross referenced the fat map with an ethnographic map of the US that showed in finer detail the fatness of Rs and Ds in the south and now laughing about the fat map was officially rayciss.
The lesson from all this is that liberals are stupid, lazy, and ignorant.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 14, 2016 02:54 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: Ripley at December 14, 2016 02:54 PM (1BQGO)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:45 PM (39g3+) "
Eh, some easy target practice never hurts. Besides, are there any hard targets remaining on the left? This isn't just one crazy nobody - this is the general tenor of the left for the past 5 weeks.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 02:54 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 14, 2016 02:50 PM (VGRuw)
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I just want to add to the plaudits already offered. This is pretty good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:54 PM (XyT/Z)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 14, 2016 02:46 PM (SkR14)
Yes, because a .25% interest rate hike is going to kill the economy.
I heard a radio commenter say that people who have loans, such as home loans, credit cards, and car loans are now going to be feeling this.
Umm, don't know too many people who have adjustable car loans. If they are carrying a balance on credit cards, paying 17.25 % won't be that much worse than paying 17%.
If you have an adjustable mortgage rate, and you didn't learn from just 8 years ago that your rate will go up when interest rates rise, and a .25% is going to put you in foreclosure, you might not have been a good candidate for a house.
Posted by: Jen at December 14, 2016 02:54 PM (OjuFR)
Posted by: Lord Sir x at December 14, 2016 02:54 PM (nFwvY)
Gee gosh, I'm so glad he done explained that to me. Do flyover states include Florida or any other eastern seaboard states that went for Trump?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2016 02:54 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 14, 2016 02:46 PM (PY9jH)
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He's also a former Time Person of the Year.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 14, 2016 02:55 PM (xeeHA)
The lesson from all this is that liberals are stupid, lazy, and ignorant.
But mostly, stupid, lazy , and ignorant.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2016 02:55 PM (ohWrE)
Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2016 02:55 PM (PeNEi)
community mental health"
He sounds like the left's idea of a "working class, Midwestern voter." The kind the Democrat Party needs to do more outreach to.
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 02:55 PM (O7MnT)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 14, 2016 02:54 PM (X7E8f)
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Go slower...I'm trying to take notes...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:55 PM (XyT/Z)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 14, 2016 02:55 PM (BlIKS)
+++
Meanwhile, the progressives spent a lot of time and effort to get railroads and windmills built
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 14, 2016 02:51 PM (37cCz)
And don't forget, back to olive oil for fuel, too.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 14, 2016 02:56 PM (zc3Db)
I'm still waiting for that article from Rerun on the evils of copyright infringement.
Posted by: Benji Carver at December 14, 2016 02:56 PM (OD2ni)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
well, that is just due to Chicago. My county voted 70% Trump, and we are larger than most downstate counties, that also voted big time Trump. Peoria (with Caterpillar and unions) and Champaign (with U of I) voted Clinton as well, but mostly red on a geographic basis.
Most of upstate NY voted red as well ....
Posted by: illiniwek at December 14, 2016 02:56 PM (pS/eA)
>> trying to be fair analytical as he understands it.
>> Hilarity ensues.
"as he understands it".
You funny, bud.
Posted by: JEM at December 14, 2016 02:56 PM (TppKb)
I thought it was James Comey.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at December 14, 2016 02:52 PM (toH8T)
++++
Another one making the rounds today is that one insider blames Huma for the loss, in part because she didn't allow other advisers to approach Hillary; kept her in a bubble.
Interestingly enough, no one says the loss was because Hillary was a drunken, felonious, lying, scheming hag.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 14, 2016 02:56 PM (CFc5L)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2016 02:48 PM (493sH)
I haven't seen a resume this strong since Bernie Sanders.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 14, 2016 02:57 PM (xeeHA)
This bears repeating
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:57 PM (39g3+)
Does he mean like higher taxes, more regulations and Obamacare that are all job killers. Things like that.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2016 02:57 PM (493sH)
Beyond that, all the lulz at a resident of Detroit claiming the GOP governments of South Dakota and Nebraska (unemployment rates: 2.9%, 3.2%) are serving their states poorly.
Posted by: LukeinNE at December 14, 2016 02:57 PM (ZZJlJ)
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 14, 2016 02:51 PM (37cCz)
===================
"It's the future! Why do you hate the future! And puppies!"
-Academic Leftist with an unwashed ponytail
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:58 PM (XyT/Z)
Yes, because a .25% interest rate hike is going to kill the economy
Mortgage rates are up .75% since the election. Because the market knows more hikes are coming.
Posted by: Lord Sir x at December 14, 2016 02:58 PM (nFwvY)
And in NY, that's due to NYC. And in Washington, that's due to Seattle. And in California, that's due to LA and San Francisco... on and on. Illinois is not unique in having a high population center that votes different from the rest of the state.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:58 PM (39g3+)
made up whole cloth: That Red states consume more federal welfare
spending than blue states."
Hmmmm. In that case, there should be no problem whatsoever when Trump cuts off federal funding to sanctuary cities like San Fran and Chicago and LA. It's such a pittance, they'll never miss it.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 14, 2016 02:58 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: Flyover Kommandant Hans Gruber at December 14, 2016 02:58 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: wth at December 14, 2016 02:58 PM (HgMAr)
>This bears repeating
Not again.
Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at December 14, 2016 02:58 PM (PeNEi)
Posted by: ThunderB at December 14, 2016 02:59 PM (BlIKS)
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The writing of the US Constitution. Or was that like the early 20th century?
Posted by: Ezra Klein at December 14, 2016 02:59 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: rd at December 14, 2016 02:52 PM (Rtl0g
Well, considering HUD's new Secretary grew up there, it will simply be going home for Ben Carson.
Posted by: Jen at December 14, 2016 02:59 PM (OjuFR)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 02:58 PM (39g3+)
Unfortunately a lot of the collar counties (DuPage, Lake and Will) have been infected with either lefty douches or the Feds shipping Section 8 housing to the burbs
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2016 02:59 PM (493sH)
It would be fun to vacation in the safe zones set up in the Socialist States though. I assume it would be like going to Vegas or the French Quarter. All the debauchery that the Conservative states pushed underground. Not all skittles and unicorns in the Conservative States as degree of social conservatism would be an issue.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 14, 2016 02:59 PM (/wcVO)
Posted by: josephistan at December 14, 2016 02:43 PM (7HtZB)"
If I'm reading his bio correctly, it seems like he's a former school bus driver, which is even more delicious.
I'm guessing the reason you got fired is sealed thanks to an out-of-court settlement, eh Mr. 'One Love'?
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 03:00 PM (kumBu)
Yellen has already said she sees multiple interest rate hikes coming next year.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2016 03:00 PM (/tuJf)
Because 0% Interest Rates are what fuels growth.
Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2016 03:00 PM (PeNEi)
Two-timed, failed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will NEVER be President. Both just feel correct.
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at December 14, 2016 03:00 PM (7N6ox)
Its not going to kill the economy, and we need to raise the interest rates. Its just that this raise is timed (along with likely other moves) to push the economy in a downward direction. There's a reason Yellen waited until December, and it wasn't because the stars didn't align correctly.
Raise the debt and you lower money for other things and cause problems in other areas. That's the goal here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:00 PM (39g3+)
Yeah, Texas has really fallen behind economically. Nevermind all those Californians moving there.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 14, 2016 03:00 PM (u0lmX)
Lots of landscaping companies there, too.
Posted by: Roy at December 14, 2016 03:01 PM (VndSC)
>> because Hillary was a drunken, felonious, lying,
>> scheming hag.
It's not that Hillary was a drunken (allegedly), felonious (clearly, on the basis of evidence available to the public), lying (also pretty indisputable), scheming (okay, you get this one too) hag.
It's that the Democratic Party is such a craven bunch of ideological thugs that they thought they could ram through a drunken, felonious, lying, scheming hag without having to acknowledge and address any of her failings.
They chased the Bidens and the rest out of the race and stepped on the back of Sanders' shoes to clear the deck for the Beast, and they seem incapable of realizing that sometimes the voters simply will not buy the rancid wormy old crap you're trying to sell.
Posted by: JEM at December 14, 2016 03:01 PM (TppKb)
Which is exactly what happened on 8 November, and what this twat is now bitching about.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:01 PM (SRKgf)
Is there a counterpoint opinion from another "resident observer" in The Hill's presentation? No? Then I guess it's like a debate forum where the moderators "take random questions from the audience". Ain't nuthin' random about it. They just use the audience, mouthing that which they themselves have already filtered, as proxies for their own agenda.
The gambling still continues apace at Rick's Casino and Prestitution Emporium.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 14, 2016 03:01 PM (1CroS)
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at December 14, 2016 02:50 PM (VGRuw)
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Well, they don't HAVE souls
Posted by: Duane at December 14, 2016 03:02 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 02:54 PM (XyT/Z) "
The left tries to soul-search, but it's like those cartoons where a broke guy opens up his wallet and a moth flies out. There's just nothing there to search.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 14, 2016 03:02 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: Insomniac at December 14, 2016 03:02 PM (lHWU9)
As a resident of a deep blue state I can tell you not a thing would change here. It's not like we conservatives have had the votes to change anything.
Which is ok. I like me some debauchery.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2016 03:02 PM (/tuJf)
I expect they are like most modern people and think that the world began when they were born. I doubt this fool can name an event that took place before 1940.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:02 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: buzzion at December 14, 2016 03:02 PM (z/Ubi)
In one of David Edding's books, some proud state secedes from their empire. The Emperor lets them go peacefully.... but arranges for the neighboring state to let their local baddies rampage across the border at will, pillaging and so forth. This continues until the new state pleads to come back and have the Emporer's army put down the invaders.
I'd love for Trump to arrange for Mexico to just unleash the banditry on a new California... and for Trump to just tell California to enjoy their new illegal aliens.
Posted by: Vanceone at December 14, 2016 03:02 PM (J+l9K)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2016 03:03 PM (KUaJL)
That's why these people cannot be argued or reasoned with. There is literally nothing you can say or do that would change their Narrative except agree with them and heap ashes on your own head. And even that wouldn't be sufficient, since the Left doesn't do forgiveness.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 14, 2016 02:42 PM (u0lmX)
Heh, you made me think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0rP2VWLWw
Posted by: GMan at December 14, 2016 03:03 PM (sxq57)
I think "Pacifica" would be a magnet for community activists, welfare ticks (surely their progressive policies would include Scandinavia-like welfare systems), and other parasites.
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 03:03 PM (O7MnT)
When you could earn interest on a savings account?
The horror.
And Girbauds! Pegged at the ankle...
I still have the nightmares.
Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2016 03:03 PM (PeNEi)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2016 03:03 PM (MiBfH)
>> claiming the GOP governments of South Dakota and
>> Nebraska (unemployment rates: 2.9%, 3.2%) are
>> serving their states poorly.
The Rust Belt mostly elected Democrats, I think, during the period when the damage was being done to their economies.
Posted by: JEM at December 14, 2016 03:03 PM (TppKb)
groomed race horses, school bus driver, corporate computer network
administrator and I.T instructor; and as a crisis counselor for
community mental health"
What is the mental health of his community today?
Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2016 03:04 PM (hJrjt)
In one of David Edding's books, some proud state secedes from their empire. The Emperor lets them go peacefully.... but arranges for the neighboring state to let their local baddies rampage across the border at will, pillaging and so forth. This continues until the new state pleads to come back and have the Emporer's army put down the invaders.
I'd love for Trump to arrange for Mexico to just unleash the banditry on a new California... and for Trump to just tell California to enjoy their new illegal aliens.
Posted by: Vanceone at December 14, 2016 03:02 PM (J+l9K)
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I'm really not that enamored with the thought of breaking up the Union, but the sudden rightward shift in federal politics would be shocking...and welcome.
And just think of all the export revenue we'll get from California for Texas oil.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 03:04 PM (XyT/Z)
Posted by: Flyover Kommandant Hans Gruber at December 14, 2016 02:58 PM (VndSC)
...........
For starters we would like:
1. the keys to your house
2. wifey with fake tits as personal sammich maker
3. the keys to your Porsche
4. address in Canada to send wifey when she tires me
Posted by: wth at December 14, 2016 03:04 PM (HgMAr)
... I don't like them. And they don't like me.
Do we really have to stay together ... for the sake of the marriage ? Or can we just agree to divide property and move on ?
Of Course - I know the answer. No.
Posted by: SD at December 14, 2016 03:04 PM (fiGNd)
I think pr0n and debauchery would be sexier if they were underground and taboo.
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 03:04 PM (O7MnT)
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Why does Duane WhateverHisDummyNameIs hate poor people?
Posted by: Mega at December 14, 2016 03:05 PM (AOgoV)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2016 03:03 PM (KUaJL)
====================
"It was because of his son! Stop digging! There's no there there!"
-The DNC
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 03:05 PM (XyT/Z)
*I still am annoyed that got flipped from the rather obvious red states being leftist model
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:05 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2016 03:03 PM (KUaJL)
Maybe the media finally pointed out that he has a habit of groping women in front of news cameras, some disturbingly young.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 14, 2016 03:06 PM (92kX2)
But by parroting the views of coastal elites, he inherits their social status.
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 03:06 PM (O7MnT)
Blame ANYTHING so long as it isn't their broken ideology.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 14, 2016 03:06 PM (xeeHA)
I thought it was James Comey.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at December 14, 2016 02:52 PM (toH8T)
++++
Another one making the rounds today is that one insider blames Huma for the loss, in part because she didn't allow other advisers to approach Hillary; kept her in a bubble.
Interestingly enough, no one says the loss was because Hillary was a drunken, felonious, lying, scheming hag.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 14, 2016 02:56 PM (CFc5L)
Of course not. If Comrade Stalin -- uh, Clinton had known none of this would have happened.
Posted by: joncelli, Present at the Autopsy at December 14, 2016 03:06 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Flyover Country at December 14, 2016 03:06 PM (PJmyj)
When you could earn interest on a savings account?
The horror.
And Girbauds! Pegged at the ankle...
I still have the nightmares.
Posted by: garrett at December 14, 2016 03:03 PM (PeNEi)
Well, there was the hair.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 14, 2016 03:06 PM (92kX2)
,,,
That shouldn't be a problem. The left has been screaming for years that "big business" has been swimming scrooge mcduck style in the piles of capital they've been hoarding just to screw the working man and to make Obama look bad.
Posted by: ajmojo at December 14, 2016 03:06 PM (1H9ox)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:06 PM (39g3+)
All that stupid makes my head hurt. I wish it made that idiot's head hurt.
Posted by: buzzion at December 14, 2016 03:02 PM (z/Ubi)
Well he sounds like he is all butt hurt. Which is where is head is apparently. So we should just "listen for the pop".
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 14, 2016 03:07 PM (jxbfJ)
Which would cause the producers to eventually attempt to get out like they do now from blue state to red state.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 14, 2016 03:07 PM (/wcVO)
Any more use of that ridiculous phrase should be grounds to be thrown into a woodchipper.
They ALL use it.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 03:07 PM (wq8Cl)
The biggest benefit of California seceding would be that it establishes
the legal and historical precedent that states can secede.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:06 PM (39g3+)
And not spend a metric f-ton of money rebuilding after the "big one" hits.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 14, 2016 03:07 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: IC
Well in this guys case its "coastal" Detroit River in that notable redoubt of Conservatism, Detroit.
Posted by: Puddleglum at December 14, 2016 03:08 PM (lmL2i)
When you could earn interest on a savings account?
,,,
Remember seeing bank signs and billboards advertising interest rates on CDs and savings accounts that were actually greater than 1?
Posted by: ajmojo at December 14, 2016 03:08 PM (1H9ox)
Posted by: garrett
Well, there was the hair.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
When it was on girls like this, worth it.
http://www.craveonline.com/girls/1053323-the-13-hottest-babes-of-80s-television#/slide/1
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:08 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:08 PM (gmeXX)
That's Seventeen Seventy to you, little man.
Back when everybody had pony tails.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 14, 2016 03:08 PM (H5rtT)
Posted by: wth at December 14, 2016 03:09 PM (HgMAr)
Mortgage rates are up .75% since the election. Because the market knows more hikes are coming.
.
.
.
.Actually they are up by almost 1.00% since the election. We have been locking our loan rate in and it has been nothing but a quarter point increase every week since the second week in November.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 14, 2016 03:09 PM (icl5y)
http://brilliantmaps.com/if-only-x-voted/
the real division is not flyover versus coastal, it is those bought via race card versus the rest. Race card people include a lot of college educated that are brainwashed into the PC religion.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 14, 2016 03:09 PM (pS/eA)
1. Renounce your citizenship.
2. Drive to Canada.
3. Stay there.
Posted by: The Man from Athens at December 14, 2016 03:09 PM (bGG6f)
ie. fact-free, angry, illogical, racist name-calling
a-a-a-a-and that's all.
This is the left's excuse for genius-level debate and rebuttal. They got nuthin'.
If Trump has the balls to go after the gov't funding of the left and leftist organizations,
most of this nonsense will disappear.
Or, at least, be easily directly tied to folks like Soros, which would pretty much discredit it automatically.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2016 03:09 PM (vZ9Fw)
My suspicion is simple ... I think the deal was Biden replace Clinton with Obama's support - IF Biden accepted a VP picked by Obama.
And I think Biden said no.
Remember folks - before the DNC Convention - her shit was falling apart. And Biden jumping in was on the news.
Posted by: SD at December 14, 2016 03:10 PM (fiGNd)
That's a strategy that helped get us Texas.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 14, 2016 03:10 PM (/wcVO)
Duane - Michigan is a flyover state also.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Go Jolly Your Holly at the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2016 02:12 PM (hLRSq)
And I rather doubt that Detroit is on anyone's bucket list. I kinda hope the only exception is the Strategic Air Command.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:10 PM (SRKgf)
Thing is, during my career I traveled extensively around this country, usually to east and west coast locales, where our "betters" are supposed to reside. Funny thing is, based on MY observations, I noted that most of the people living in these regions are much more likely to be feeders at the public trough, as well as dumber than a box of rocks (see Duane's writing skills as an example). The reality is that it is he and his ideological bedfellows who are in fact the largest users of things like SNAP, Medicaid and other examples of Federal largesse, which we in the flyover states are in fact footing the bill for.
So Duane, you see this Schadenboner? Suck it, bitch. We won. Deal with it.
Posted by: The Oort Cloud - No-Longer-Deplorable Source of all SMODs at December 14, 2016 03:10 PM (tHocv)
Mortgage rates are up .75% since the election. Because the market knows more hikes are coming.
Posted by: Lord Sir x at December 14, 2016 02:58 PM (nFwvY
When 30 year rates hit 15% I'll start to panic. I'm not really trying to be flippant, rather I have lived through rates as high as 17%,. No , rates like that are not good. But just like college tuition, artificially depressed interest rates have helped create another housing bubble (along with Obama's return to requiring minorities and urbanites receive loans beyond their means, because fairness). So we have the makings of yet another crisis because we have social justice running the math in the economy instead of actual mathematicians and actuaries.
Modest rate hikes are a return to reality. Reduced home values will be the result for those who want to sell, but eventually, unless another SJW ends up in the White House and permeating the financial branch of the administration, sanity and reliability might return to the housing and banking sectors.
Posted by: Jen at December 14, 2016 03:10 PM (OjuFR)
They can still raise boatloads of money, right? Not as much as before, but compared to the rest of the party they're still above the likes of Pelosi, I think.
This loss isn't going to make them vanish from the Democratic Party, but is the Party going to want to listen to them? Will they have a choice if the Clintons can still raise big donor dollars?
Bill seems to be a bit more happy being praised, playing golf, and diddling bimbos than guiding policy. Hillary imagines herself a wonk and still has that need for power. What kind of influence are they going to have over the next cycle?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 03:10 PM (XyT/Z)
Second, under Alinsky rules every D must either disavow the author or be deemed sympathetic to his cause.
Posted by: George Tirebiter at December 14, 2016 03:10 PM (/zyrl)
Their idea of American values is straight from circa 1870.
That's Seventeen Seventy to you, little man.
Back when everybody had pony tails.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at December 14, 2016 03:08 PM (H5rtT)
Ponytails, not manbuns. Besides, without 24 hour sports coverage, Sport Clips just wasn't a thing yet.
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at December 14, 2016 03:10 PM (7N6ox)
,,,
I didn't realize Arabs used the term "bubble" to describe their very hairy clam.
Posted by: ajmojo at December 14, 2016 03:10 PM (1H9ox)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:11 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: buzzion at December 14, 2016 03:11 PM (z/Ubi)
But by parroting the views of coastal elites, he inherits their social status.
Posted by: V the K
Sounds like Duane has been drinking from Flint's water.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2016 03:11 PM (ohWrE)
Posted by: The Donald at December 14, 2016 03:11 PM (bGG6f)
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Perhaps Biden was simply smart enough to recognize that the GOP was going to win, so why bother campaigning to become a loser.
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:11 PM (gmeXX)
http://www.craveonline.com/girls/1053323-the-13-hottest-babes-of-80s-television#/slide/1
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:08 PM (39g3+)
Fair point. But that hair seemed more 70's to me. Plus, am I the only dude who thinks Shelly Long looks annoying?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 14, 2016 03:11 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 03:11 PM (O7MnT)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:06 PM (39g3+)
================
I still believe that the existence of West Virginia established that to some level.
Most disagree, but I'm fairly convinced.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 03:11 PM (XyT/Z)
Remember those crazy 1980s?
When you could earn interest on a savings account?
,,,
When a STD still could be cured with penicillin
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 14, 2016 03:11 PM (jxbfJ)
>>Interestingly enough, no one says the loss was
>> because Hillary was a drunken, felonious, lying,
>> scheming hag.
It's not that Hillary was a drunken (allegedly), felonious (clearly, on the basis of evidence available to the public), lying (also pretty indisputable), scheming (okay, you get this one too) hag.
It's that the Democratic Party is such a craven bunch of ideological thugs that they thought they could ram through a drunken, felonious, lying, scheming hag without having to acknowledge and address any of her failings.
They chased the Bidens and the rest out of the race and stepped on the back of Sanders' shoes to clear the deck for the Beast, and they seem incapable of realizing that sometimes the voters simply will not buy the rancid wormy old crap you're trying to sell.
+++++++++++++
They came too damned close. They were within 100,000 votes of being right. Of course the nevertrump GOP establishment gave them a big hand up this time.
Posted by: rd at December 14, 2016 03:12 PM (Rtl0g)
Posted by: Evilpens at December 14, 2016 03:12 PM (y3aQB)
So basically he can't hold a job.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:12 PM (SRKgf)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2016 02:16 PM (czuvT)
But do the trains run on time?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2016 03:12 PM (MiBfH)
They are but... they were that low for a reason, and the reason is nearly zero economic growth if not shrinkage and real unemployment over 8% for nine straight years, not to mention 5+ percent inflation.
Without the growth in the economy to eat up the costs of increased debt and encourage investment, higher interest rates = slow economy. And that's the intent here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:13 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Dewey Townsend at December 14, 2016 03:13 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Samuel Adams at December 14, 2016 03:13 PM (cSc4o)
Or just the right guy at the wrong time. You know ... like Reagan.
My anecdotal polling at work says he wins in a landslide.
Posted by: SD at December 14, 2016 03:14 PM (fiGNd)
...and a State Trooper would fetch a rape victim for you at any time of night?
Ahh, Summer nights.
Posted by: Bill Clinton at December 14, 2016 03:14 PM (PeNEi)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 14, 2016 03:14 PM (3J/LN)
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:14 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 14, 2016 03:11 PM (92kX2)
No.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 03:15 PM (wq8Cl)
A: Blued steel
B: times in '29
C: bastard file
D: All of the above
....the answer is D
Posted by: Member Berry at December 14, 2016 03:15 PM (2cfUo)
..and also has credibility because shit-hole Detroit is doing so well under total libtard leadership?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'I don't care how you cook your Okra..no..just no..' at December 14, 2016 03:15 PM (mL2BD)
Well, they didn't leave the union, they just formed a separate state. Which I believe is kosher today, providing you can get the momentum and people to go along. Northern California and much of Oregon would like to form a separate state (Sequoiah, among other names suggested) but there's not enough momentum or interest to get it to happen.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:15 PM (39g3+)
race horses, school bus driver, corporate computer network administrator
and I.T instructor; and as a crisis counselor for community mental
health"
One of these things is very different from the others (and pure BS).) Can you spot it?
Posted by: Ripley at December 14, 2016 03:15 PM (1BQGO)
Posted by: Simon Gruber at December 14, 2016 03:15 PM (rX06+)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 14, 2016 03:15 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 14, 2016 02:59 PM (/wcVO)
I'm fine with that. Debauchery should be kept quiet and out of sight.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at December 14, 2016 03:15 PM (FYrz1)
New day dawning...thank you for reading, One love
Posted by: MTF at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (LISuA)
Pretty much an explicit admission that the Greens are watermelons: green on the outside, Red on the inside.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2016 03:16 PM (MiBfH)
.............
Even we not hire this fuck.
Posted by: Starbucks Moscow at December 14, 2016 03:16 PM (HgMAr)
Herpes was starting to make an appearance. They were some reports from California about a gay mens disease killing them. And of course the rumors of a resistant gonorrhea from SE Asia. Back then, rubbers were for birth control, not disease control.
Posted by: rd at December 14, 2016 03:16 PM (Rtl0g)
Posted by: The Oort Cloud - No-Longer-Deplorable Source of all SMODs at December 14, 2016 03:10 PM (tHocv)
I doubt that anyone considers residents of Detroit to be smarter than the rest of the population. In fact, I suspect that on an IQ test most of Detroit's residents would be in a dead heat with residents of the primate enclosure at the zoo.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:16 PM (SRKgf)
Under the Heading of becareful what you wish for, You just might get it !
Georgia secretary of state says cyberattacks traced to DHS addresses
Posted by: Evilpens at December 14, 2016 03:16 PM (y3aQB)
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I am very interested in making abortion illegal.
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:16 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Simon Gruber at December 14, 2016 03:15 PM (rX06+)
Probably because a white cop shot your brother.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 14, 2016 03:17 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: ajmojo at December 14, 2016 03:17 PM (1H9ox)
..and also has credibility because shit-hole Detroit is doing so well under total libtard leadership?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'I don't care how you cook your Okra..no..just no..' at December 14, 2016 03:15 PM (mL2BD)
Yeah. Understander of Irony doesn't seem to be on his resume.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 03:17 PM (wq8Cl)
Posted by: Ripley at December 14, 2016 03:15 PM (1BQGO)
Use of the word "worked?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:17 PM (SRKgf)
I live in NH. I voted for Trump. So did a whole helluva lot of my fellow Granite Staters. Keep this up and come 2020, the rest of them will, too.
Sincerely,
A concerned conservative in purple NH who hopes you eat a bag of ricin-laced dicks for Christmas
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 14, 2016 03:18 PM (4df7R)
I'll volunteer to take him snipe hunting. I know the perfect spot.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2016 03:18 PM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Howard Dean at December 14, 2016 03:18 PM (qP1Yy)
Posted by: Brown Line at December 14, 2016 03:18 PM (xgyfF)
Many communities would dispute that being flooded with third-world migrants and Somali refugees is in their best interests.
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 03:18 PM (O7MnT)
............
and pron stars got crabs instead of ingrown hairs
Posted by: wth at December 14, 2016 03:19 PM (HgMAr)
Yeah she didn't belong on that list, and a lot of other women should have been there, but it was their all big-tits list.
Molly Ringwald, Phoebe Cates, Elizabeth Shue, Susanna Hoffs, Lea Thompson, Deborah Foreman, etc all should be on that list.
Big hair, lots of honeys.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:19 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Evilpens at December 14, 2016 03:19 PM (y3aQB)
Well, they didn't leave the union, they just formed a separate state. Which I believe is kosher today, providing you can get the momentum and people to go along. Northern California and much of Oregon would like to form a separate state (Sequoiah, among other names suggested) but there's not enough momentum or interest to get it to happen.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:15 PM (39g3+)
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It still proved that the people of a political entity within the United States have the right to secede from a larger political entity. Whether that extends to an entire state or to leaving the Union itself is up for grabs academically, I believe.
But still, the irony of the Union allowing secession of one political body while fighting for the prevention of another based on the principle that it can't happen is just too thick to not appreciate on some level.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 03:19 PM (XyT/Z)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:16 PM (SRKgf)
...and they spend so much on schools.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 03:19 PM (wq8Cl)
Still a One on the SD Binary Scale.
Another One ... Joanna Kerns. Holy Hell ... had forgot how cute she was on Growing Pains.
Definitely a One.
Posted by: SD at December 14, 2016 03:19 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Larry Geiger at December 14, 2016 03:19 PM (QpgDv)
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Now THAT is some stealthy 'sexism'.
Clever girl.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at December 14, 2016 03:20 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:20 PM (SRKgf)
"Observer of humanity and myself, reporter of the divine and profane recognized in myself and society."
"Writer-Visionary at [his blog]"
"Studied at University of Life"
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 14, 2016 02:19 PM (mgbwf)
In other words, he's on welfare.
Posted by: rickl at December 14, 2016 03:20 PM (zoehZ)
Posted by: Duane Townsend at December 14, 2016 02:23 PM (PeNEi)
Seen him? I have several portraits of him in my pocket.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2016 03:20 PM (MiBfH)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 14, 2016 03:21 PM (dnWSK)
THERE is the story! I thought I might have dreamed it up. I thought I'd posted it on Facebook, but it wasn't there. I couldn't find it on any search engine. I was starting to wonder if it really had happened.
I wonder if its being scrubbed or I just am an old man with a faulty memory?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:21 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: an experienced observer of the American social/political landscape at December 14, 2016 03:21 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:16 PM (SRKgf)
...and they spend so much on schools.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 03:19 PM (wq8Cl)
Detroit's residents would've won, except they whiffed on the "swinging on the tire hanging from the tree" part of the IQ test.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:21 PM (SRKgf)
Still a One on the SD Binary Scale.
Another One ... Joanna Kerns. Holy Hell ... had forgot how cute she was on Growing Pains.
Definitely a One.
Posted by: SD at December 14, 2016 03:19 PM (fiGNd)
That a very Manichean hotness scale.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 14, 2016 03:22 PM (92kX2)
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You always have the right to attempt to secede. The political entity you are attempt to secede from has the right to disagree.
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:22 PM (gmeXX)
So, hostage.
What are the demands of flyover country? We need to keep them talking so as to get snipers in position
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 14, 2016 03:22 PM (37cCz)
Hey, it worked for Bernie Sanders.
I'm a Jewish lawyer in the Northeast who voted for Trump. Wonder how that fits into this narrative.
For the guy who wrote this article, probably in an oven-shaped box.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:22 PM (39g3+)
And so a slow learner.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:20 PM (SRKgf)
Yeppers. Google 'Rabid Libtard' and his face pops up.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'I don't care how you cook your Okra..no..just no..' at December 14, 2016 03:22 PM (mL2BD)
"and an experienced observer of the American social/political landscape."
so he sits and watches. . .from Detroit no less and then writes about flyover country.
Wasn't it Det who had real deviations in the number who voted and the number on the address pages? And yet this guy sits around and grouses about places he's never been to.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 14, 2016 03:22 PM (bB4HN)
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:22 PM (gmeXX)
===================
Could Virginia annex West Virginia ex post facto?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 03:23 PM (XyT/Z)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:21 PM (SRKgf)
Heh ...
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 03:23 PM (wq8Cl)
Posted by: Evilpens at December 14, 2016 03:16 PM (y3aQB)
----
Wait.
Just a gosh darned minute.
DHS is employing *RUSSIANS*???? When the hell did *that* start???
Posted by: fixerupper at December 14, 2016 03:23 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2016 03:23 PM (KP5rU)
.........
I bet that's not all he did with them.
Posted by: wth at December 14, 2016 03:09 PM (HgMAr)
A nice way of saying he shoveled horse shit.
Kinda like now, come to think of it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:23 PM (SRKgf)
So Duane, you see this Schadenboner? Suck it, bitch. We won. Deal with it.
Posted by: The Oort Cloud - No-Longer-Deplorable Source of all SMODs at December 14, 2016 03:10 PM (tHocv)Thing is, during my career I traveled extensively around this country, usually to east and west coast locales, where our "betters" are supposed to reside. Funny thing is, based on MY observations, I noted that most of the people living in these regions are much more likely to be feeders at the public trough, as well as dumber than a box of rocks (see Duane's writing skills as an example). The reality is that it is he and his ideological bedfellows who are in fact the largest users of things like SNAP, Medicaid and other examples of Federal largesse, which we in the flyover states are in fact footing the bill for.
Posted by: The Oort Cloud - No-Longer-Deplorable Source of all SMODs at December 14, 2016 03:10 PM (tHocv)
Same experience here. I traveled for 6 years as an IT consultant at Fortune 50 companies. I spent two years in the New York City/New Jersery areas at Nabisco, Prudential, and American Express. I expected to be working with the best and brightest and thought I would barely be able to keep up. My conclusion from this experience is that the American economy is the biggest miracle in the whole world because those big companies succeeded in spite of themselves. At one of the companies, the lead technical consultant and the employee project lead were doing massive amounts of cocaine, at another company the new dedicated servers would not boot because someone had stolen all the memory chips, and at another, the people whose system was being replaced kept sabotaging the project.
So, in other words, the folks at the center of the universe in NYC are human who are just as fallible and error prone as the heartland.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now @SMcEvil on GAB at December 14, 2016 03:23 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:22 PM (gmeXX)
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Could Virginia annex West Virginia ex post facto?
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Probably not with the army they have now.
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:24 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 14, 2016 03:24 PM (lKyWE)
Hey...not as easy as it looks alright?
Posted by: Eleven at December 14, 2016 03:24 PM (fYChk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 14, 2016 03:06 PM (92kX2)
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Yes! In the '80s I still had fucking hair! LOTS of fucking hair! What the fuck's your fucking point!?!?!!111 eleventy...
*shakes head*
I'm sorry. What were we talking about? Oh, yes. Hair. Why, no. A fringe of short hair is easy to manage and dries quickly. What makes you fucking punks think I miss my fucking headfull of golden, natural curls? YEEAAAARRRRGH!!!!!
Posted by: The Deplorable Boomer Redneque at December 14, 2016 03:25 PM (+4NT5)
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2016 03:25 PM (wPiJc)
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:24 PM (gmeXX)
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Would it be illegal for them to call up the militia and try?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 03:25 PM (XyT/Z)
6 REPUBLICANS WHO TOOK SECRET PAYMENTS FROM CLINTON TO DESTROY TRUMP (ALL-NEW WIKI LEAK)
Posted by: Evilpens at December 14, 2016 03:25 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: sunny-dee at December 14, 2016 03:25 PM (QAOZh)
Posted by: Ripley at December 14, 2016 03:25 PM (1BQGO)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2016 03:25 PM (ohWrE)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:21 PM (SRKgf)
Heh ...
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at December 14, 2016 03:23 PM (wq8Cl)
Well it was windy!!! Don't judge us!!
Posted by: Detroit Genius at December 14, 2016 03:26 PM (mL2BD)
Posted by: fixerupper at December 14, 2016 03:26 PM (8XRCm)
My point is, a lot of flyover country enriched the coastal elite by way of mutual funds, even as the funds invested in mutli-nationals that sent their jobs overseas. Many still are invested, and (feel) dependent on government propping up markets. So Wall Street took over from Main Street when they started leveraging 300:1, with government giving them "the Greenspan Put", bailing out the too big to fail, too big to jail folks. TARP upped the ante, DC kept spending.
The cocktail party folks hence decided they had become our owners, and that globalizing would be just grand. But there really was some voodoo in the deficit spending of Reagan, and it kept accelerating ... now we are in a pickle.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 14, 2016 03:26 PM (pS/eA)
and an experienced observer of the American social/political landscape.
BFD,who isn't?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 14, 2016 03:24 PM (lKyWE)
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YO
Posted by: Stevie Wonder at December 14, 2016 03:26 PM (PNcou)
So, in other words, the folks at the center of the universe in NYC are human who are just as fallible and error prone as the heartland.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil,
You should write a fictional version of your experiences for a novel.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 14, 2016 03:27 PM (SkR14)
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:22 PM (gmeXX)
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Could Virginia annex West Virginia ex post facto?
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Admittedly, I do not know all the details of secession and admittance - that it was done under extraordinary times. Did VA try to get WV annexed back after surrender? Perhaps that should have been a condition of surrender. But the South didn't have much bargaining position.
The union was smart to admit WV so quickly.
But your right, there is at least some precedence for breaking away from a state.
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:27 PM (gmeXX)
They just get meaner as they process their losses. Exhausting.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 14, 2016 03:27 PM (CFc5L)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 14, 2016 03:27 PM (jxbfJ)
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Depends on who wins. The outcome often dictates the legality.
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:28 PM (gmeXX)
The revolution lives, the banner is now being carried by Jill Stein of the Green Party. No, she can't win, yet. But a vote for Jill Stein will be a revolutionary statement that will shake the status quo. The way to end corruption is to stop voting for it.
New day dawning..
Duane, the revolution began on 8 November, but you're right - a new day IS dawning, although it only peripherally involves Jill Stein (who is doing inadvertent yeoman's work on mainstreaming voter ID).
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:28 PM (SRKgf)
DHS is employing *RUSSIANS*???? When the hell did *that* start???
Posted by: fixerupper at December 14, 2016 03:23 PM (8XRCm)
No of course not.The Russians are using their advanced mind control technology on poor unsuspecting DHS employees
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 14, 2016 03:28 PM (lKyWE)
502
and an experienced observer of the American social/political landscape.
BFD,who isn't?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 14, 2016 03:24 PM (lKyWE)
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YO
Posted by: Stevie Wonder at December 14, 2016 03:26 PM (PNcou)
Stevie Wonder? Never heard of her.
Posted by: Helen Keller at December 14, 2016 03:28 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Evilpens at December 14, 2016 03:29 PM (y3aQB)
The only way this conflict was going to ground was with a conservative victory of Trump's scale. They will be awful in victory or defeat, but we can make them insignificant. They will live under the light touch of President Trump (relative to his predecessor), and never know or appreciate it.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 14, 2016 03:29 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:27 PM (gmeXX)
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I feel that extends to states themselves and the Union, although I'm sure many, many constitutional scholars would disagree with me.
But what do they know? Elitist scum.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 03:29 PM (XyT/Z)
So I guess I'm glad someone didn't open that store after all.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 14, 2016 03:29 PM (1CroS)
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 03:18 PM (O7MnT)
Coastal urban elites love to talk about how strong they are because of "diversity", but while that diversity is applied to their cities, never to THEIR neighborhoods.
Posted by: kbdabear at December 14, 2016 03:30 PM (Ya7zs)
DHS is employing *RUSSIANS*???? When the hell did *that* start???
Posted by: fixerupper at December 14, 2016 03:23 PM (8XRCm)
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actually it was just bring your submissive Russian wife/KGB honeytrap hacker to work day...
Posted by: government flunkie at December 14, 2016 03:30 PM (PNcou)
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:28 PM (gmeXX)
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Better to ask for forgiveness than permission sort of thing, I suppose.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 03:30 PM (XyT/Z)
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Again, you have the right to attempt to secede, the political entity has the right to disagree. Its all power after that. Whether it was legal or not does not matter. Precedence gives you some persuasive power though. Arms give you more.
Posted by: SH at December 14, 2016 03:31 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:31 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 14, 2016 03:32 PM (37cCz)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 14, 2016 03:32 PM (BK3ZS)
If that means suspending them over hot coals and stuffing apples in their mouths, I'm fer it.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 14, 2016 03:32 PM (1CroS)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 14, 2016 03:32 PM (PNcou)
Could Virginia annex West Virginia ex post facto?
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Probably not with the army they have now.
Posted by: SH
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Ha!
We have SEAL team six.
Amongst a whole bunch of other badasses.
Posted by: Chi at December 14, 2016 03:32 PM (BB+7x)
Posted by: JoeF. at December 14, 2016 03:32 PM (qwj1U)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 14, 2016 03:33 PM (7ZVPa)
SET UP A PERIMETER!
Posted by: Jack Bauer at December 14, 2016 03:33 PM (3J/LN)
Posted by: steevy at December 14, 2016 03:33 PM (r/0kC)
of the Green Party. No, she can't win, yet. But a vote for Jill Stein
will be a revolutionary statement that will shake the status quo. The
way to end corruption is to stop voting for it.
Speaking of that, Duane, have you sent in your check yet so that I can continue to fight for YOU! And give all you can!
Posted by: Dr. Jill Stein at December 14, 2016 03:33 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 14, 2016 03:33 PM (nrnR5)
Now let's go shut down that bakery that doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding.
Posted by: liberal elite at December 14, 2016 03:33 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Eleven at December 14, 2016 03:33 PM (fYChk)
Posted by: washrivergal at December 14, 2016 02:35 PM (CFc5L)
I keep checking the mailbox, and mine hasn't showed up yet. What gives?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2016 03:34 PM (MiBfH)
Posted by: Corndog at December 14, 2016 03:34 PM (p3eEq)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:34 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2016 03:34 PM (KUaJL)
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they should turn out tender. think how little they worked those muscles...
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 14, 2016 03:34 PM (PNcou)
You should write a fictional version of your experiences for a novel.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 14, 2016 03:27 PM (SkR14)
It was actually very boring, just interspersed with terrifying bits of reality. I had never seen cocaine use first hand.
I spent a lot of time in NYC walking from the Hilton across from the WTC through all those Customs buildings to the WFC to work at Prudential. It was the whole of September in 1996. So 9/11 hit me hard.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now @SMcEvil on GAB at December 14, 2016 03:34 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 14, 2016 03:34 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2016 03:34 PM (ohWrE)
Finally ... a sane man willing to discuss sane issues.
So ... I remember, back in the day, when you could actually rent a VCR to watch movies. Dad selected "Purple Rain".
Gotta' give him credit ... when Mom went ape-shit over Apollonia during the bedroom scene ... the Old Man didn't 100% cover my eyes.
Be a cold day in hell before he dies in a home. Not on my watch.
Posted by: SD at December 14, 2016 03:34 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 14, 2016 03:34 PM (kDUMP)
They can still raise boatloads of money, right? Not as much as before, but compared to the rest of the party they're still above the likes of Pelosi, I think.
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Not really. And rumor is that donations to the Clinton Foundation are already down.
The Clintons are no longer going to be in positions of power. They have no more pull. People can feel free to tell off Bill or Hillary, and there's nothing that either of them can do about it. Chelsea might try to go into politics, but she doesn't have her father's charisma.
I strongly suspect that the Clinton machine is finished.
Posted by: junior at December 14, 2016 03:35 PM (ff27+)
Posted by: Evilpens at December 14, 2016 03:35 PM (y3aQB)
While the emails do seem to list different republicans, its guesswork who they mean, and nothing about the emails specifically states or even implies 'to destroy Trump.' The most clear thing they state is silence, which I interpret to mean "no attacks on Clinton."
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:35 PM (39g3+)
Jeb, Carly, Kasich, Ryan, McCain and Miss Lindsay
I'm shocked! Shocked!
Posted by: cool breeze at December 14, 2016 03:36 PM (StZrq)
+++
Fold them together. For instance, if you really did do away with the electoral college the logical thing for the small States to do is to join a larger State, effectively ending themselves as a legal entity.
Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 14, 2016 03:36 PM (37cCz)
of the Green Party."
Who will be now retiring to her private luxury dacha now that her indispensable service to the Party is complete.
Posted by: Ripley at December 14, 2016 03:36 PM (1BQGO)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2016 03:36 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2016 03:37 PM (2YNem)
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is now @SMcEvil on GAB at December 14, 2016 03:37 PM (kXoT0)
Posted by: Truck Nutz at December 14, 2016 03:37 PM (sWgE+)
Like the scarecrow in search of a brain
Mr. Townsend's finds thinking a pain
This ridiculous screed
Is all that we need
His delusions go right down the duane.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2016 03:38 PM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2016 03:38 PM (SRKgf)
Then: $288/month
Now: $1,800+/month
I remain completely baffled by the invisibility of this particular - spectacular - disaster ushered in by the ACA. While the insanity varies a bit by state, it cannot be completely out of line with the norm.
And laughable, 35% increases and the like in group plans were white-hot campaign issues and probably helped Teh Donald in November.
Something like 20 million+ Americans, almost entirely self-employed or financially sound, a demo that is visible, votes in high numbers, etc., hit with the largest govt-created financial setback in US history ...... and crickets, comparatively.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 14, 2016 03:38 PM (QDnY+)
When was that offered? 'Cause I might've boarded the Trump Train earlier and with more vigor.
Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 14, 2016 03:39 PM (1CroS)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 14, 2016 03:19 PM (XyT/Z)
Yeah, I started pointing this out in Jr. High. Apparently statists don't appreciate kids who can think and call them on their lbullshit.
Posted by: The Deplorable Boomer Redneque at December 14, 2016 03:39 PM (+4NT5)
When I first got married, SD_Wife would even say ...
.. "Want to watch this with me ? Cyndy Gibb is in it."
That was in my mid twenties.
Posted by: SD at December 14, 2016 03:39 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 14, 2016 03:34 PM (MiBfH)
+++
Didn't you get the greeting card? It's Donald's Christmas Eve surprise for all the men who voted for him --beautiful, wild in the sack, yet submissive Russian women -- to be delivered to your door!!
Posted by: washrivergal at December 14, 2016 03:39 PM (CFc5L)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2016 03:39 PM (2YNem)
Make colonizing great again. heh
Posted by: illiniwek at December 14, 2016 03:40 PM (pS/eA)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2016 03:41 PM (2YNem)
A story came out a few years ago: 47% of the adult population of Detroit is functionally illiterate. You can Google it.
Posted by: V the K at December 14, 2016 03:44 PM (O7MnT)
/Huma Smalley at campaign strategy session
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2016 03:45 PM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Patrick at December 14, 2016 04:09 PM (klmXw)
Posted by: I Smell Something Rotten at December 14, 2016 04:10 PM (ctO3Z)
"Duane Townsend is life-long resident of Detroit, Mich., and an experienced observer of the ... vivid hallucinations... and American social/political landscape... and often writes from the comfort of his padded cell in the Michigan State Mental Hospital."
Posted by: True News at December 14, 2016 04:27 PM (0dmP2)
Still laughing after five minutes at Mary C.'s new endeavor -- cat shelter.
The woman can do something worthwhile.
Posted by: Weak Geek at December 14, 2016 04:43 PM (Apbdw)
Just couldn't stand the thought of us electing a dishonest, lying, extremely careless liberal with no new ideas.
Posted by: gobagoo at December 14, 2016 04:55 PM (A/saJ)
Posted by: johnny drama at December 14, 2016 04:57 PM (oMdtQ)
However, there were some towns that had a higher percentage for Hillary than for Obama in 2012. New Caanan and Darien had the highest increases for Hillary versus Obama in 2012: 16.2% and 18.0% respectively. Not coincidentally, Darien and New Caanan had the highest per capita incomes in the state, at $100,824 and $95,577 respectively.
The 10 towns or cities where Hillary fared the worst compared to Obama, where Hillary got an average of 16.8% less than Obama got, had an average per capita income of $28,794. The 10 towns or cities where Hillary fared the best compared to Obama, where Hillary got an average of 11.6% higher than Obama, had an average per capita income of $77,644.
Vote information from Secretary of State, CT
Per capita information from Wikipedia (2010)
Posted by: SwampYankee at December 14, 2016 04:58 PM (GUyMn)
Well, then- I guess if "American Christian values, home, God and Country" are "White values", then I guess I actually am a white supremacist, even though I'm not white.
Posted by: Wysiwyg Mtwzzyzx at December 14, 2016 05:38 PM (Oq6zc)
Posted by: Ken at December 14, 2016 05:51 PM (zKL5N)
Posted by: Loudon MacReady at December 14, 2016 05:52 PM (IIbho)
Posted by: Vanceone at December 14, 2016 03:02 PM (J+l9K)
I'm posting late just to salute your David Eddings reference.
Give 10-12 year-old children Pawn of Prophecy (or maybe Redemption of Anthulus), and you get a life-long reader as well as making it more likely that they will grow up with conservative-leaning sensibilities (I don't know the Eddings's overall politics-itself a refreshing change from the norm-but their characters and themes reflect a Realist view of human nature).
Posted by: lowtech redneck at December 14, 2016 05:57 PM (egK2C)
Hypocrisy, it's the crutch of the Left.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2016 06:50 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at December 14, 2016 07:03 PM (BC6+0)
Posted by: Kebas at December 14, 2016 07:23 PM (wVK8k)
Posted by: geoffb5 at December 14, 2016 11:57 PM (d3wbb)
Anyone else notice that the phrase "New York values" was a loser in this season? It was Cruz's, and was an attack on Trump. But I guess details like this are too much for someone in full bitch-whine.
Posted by: George LeS at December 15, 2016 08:38 AM (+TcCF)
Posted by: Bob at December 15, 2016 12:28 PM (ROvZd)
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