I was born in the city, so I’m a city girl. It’s just what I’m used to. But I don’t look down at my relatives who live in more rural areas. It’s a different way of life, sure. But it’s not in any way worse or below city life. My cousin just married a farmer, and there’s a lot of smarts needed to plan crop rotations and keep the soil fertile, fix various farm equipment, etc. So I call baloney on that variation of “smug libtard” crap.
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I love both urban and rural living, it is the frivolous competitive meddling of suburbia that kills me.
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I saw this story today, and I realized once again that we’re in for four years of this.
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depends if he gets his act together or not… of course then there is 4 years of Pence, so we are still fucked.
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Well I just read polls from Semptember saying people were more offended at Hillary Clinton saying 50% of Trump’s supporters are racist/homophobic/sexist/deplorable than Romney’s 47% comment about poor people not paying their fair share of taxes.
Somehow 47% of Democrats thought Hillary was being unfair and the majority of independents and 80%+ of Republicans said the same thing. To contrast, 8% of Democrats and 54% of republicans said Romney was being unfair.
Progressives have an uphill battle with the populace.
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Exactly. I split my time about 80/20 between city and farm land. It kills me to think that all those people assume I look down on them. What have I ever said or done to make them think that I’m just acting around them, lying to their faces apparently?
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Seriously I would happily settle for an Eisenhower type republican who ‘cut’ taxes on the upper brackets to 75% while closing a lot of loopholes so they actually paid most of that and Republicans of that era were for universal health care. He shows up on the scale as quite left of Hillary.
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Thanks.
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The Presidents of the USA have retired.
I’m just going to assume it’s due to Trump.
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https://twitter.com/bendreyfuss/status/79899031399401472
Also this one:
My parents voted for Trump and I’m still not sure how to talk to them about that.
F— ’em. You’re an orphan now. Don’t go home. Don’t go home for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Don’t talk to them at all. Silence speaks volumes.
Do you have relatives who voted for him?
Thank god no one in my immediate family would ever remotely consider voting for Trump.
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Trump sat alone in a posh penthouse
Totally emotionless except for his rage
Cash flowed up into Trump pajamas
He totally confused all the former pariahs
He’s Trump, He’s Trump
He’s President
He’s Trump, He’s Trump, He’s Trump
We’ll soon be dead
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So that’ll be fun post January.
“Hey, @ realDonaldDrump, bet you don’t know anything top secret!”
“Plenty of secrets! Just got a bug into a certain Ukranian PM’s office! That loser Obama couldn’t do that. Sad!”
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The city is cool, the outback is awesome…and the suburbs are the quarantine zone in between.
Seriously, if you want to hear real snobbery and disdain from urban people, forget about the country; start them talking about the suburbs. The country is where city people dream of retiring.
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Remember kids: It’s not about democracy; It’s about capitalism.
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Kewl, that’s a sufficiently contemporary superstition that I need not feel embarrassed about! Numbers = SCIENCE!
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Heyyyyyy, here’s some more good stuff from Twitter in case you didn’t feel like sleeping tonight (from Robert Sandy/@frodofied).
Something that @trevornoah tweeted unsettled me just now but it took me a minute to figure out what it was. He urged the protesters to remain peaceful because Trump and law enforcement were watching. Then I thought of how odd it felt for Trump to have name an openly white supremacist as his Chief Strategist so quickly and before Inauguration. It feels far more ominous to me that he did it now. It’s almost as if he wants something to happen & then it occurred to me that he very likely could be purposely stoking the fires.
Then it hit me why Noah’s tweet unsettled me. It reminded me of Naomi Klein’s now essential for survival, The Shock Doctrine. In it, she writes about the varied ways governments or agents of coup plot to gain power and one of the more tried and true methods is to agitate some section of the population until they explode into violent protests. The government, now playing the heroic role of protector and guardian in chief, can rush in and crush the uprising and declare either an official state of emergency or martial law, which would grant the President special emergency powers and allow them to limit out civil rights in many important ways, all too frightening to consider here.
Alarmist to suggest this? I think since he just appointed a white supremacist as his chief strategist I think bets for almost anything crazy left on the table are about even at this point. And to tell the god’s honest, when you take the fact that his Homeland Security chief already pre-emptively declared that these protests are “illegitimate” (very specific, very terrifying word to use when being applied to our civil liberties) and must be “quelled,” another scary term. Trump and his team have to know how this news will stoke fears and anxiety. My prediction is a slow and stready build up leading up to Inauguration Day. All I know is that something feels really off about all of this & I am getting more scared.
Now, I don’t know if I believe Trump is smart enough to come up with this on his own. But he has surrounded himself with all kind of creepy crawlies; surely any number of them are capable of it.
And if all that is too long to read:
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Thought you were talking about these guys.
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I hope everyone whose close relatives were Trump supporters have realized that Christmas shopping will be easy this year: you just make donations in their names to organizations like Planned Parenthood that will oppose Trump/Pence initiatives. Or, if you’re lazy, donate in their names to the DNC.
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