Hey, if a scumbag like Tromp can find redemption in elevation to a political office, any scumbag can do it!
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To be fair he said "parts "of five decades. Iâd like to focus on the â32 yearsâ of experience in government that he claims. I mean, did that start at birth and end three years ago? Has it been uninterrupted? Is that billing hours or actual time? The list is endless. And basically he should be asked nothing else as itâs unlikely that he has anything more interesting worth hearing about. Like the time he shat on the new bill he was trying to pass through parliament as he hadnât been potty trained yet. That kind of thing would be fun.
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I think heâs channeling Eric Trump. Were they separated at birth?
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Whatâs the term for orange gammon? Because he is that.
Sammon maybe?
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Heâs claiming that his fatherâs experience while heâs been alive as his own experience. 
It thatâs the case and being closely related to people counts as experience, I also have 57 years of experience as a journalist, 52 years as a nurse, 20 years as a hospital board member, 37 years as a lawyer, and 30 years as a chemist.
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Before I moved to Austin, Texas, I used to live in St. Louis, Missouri, which is the same U.S. state and city as McCloskey.
Anyone from there would likely say what I am about to say: racism and white supremacy.
It is possible to draw a through-line across the centuries of Black oppression to McCloskeyâs declaration of candidacy.
Both city and state have significant populations of âmidwest niceâ white (or white-identifying) people who are to varying degrees, racist, whether they are aware of it, acknowledge it, or not. White flight from St. Louis city to surrounding suburbs was aided and abetted by cynical, predatory housing practices and bad-faith landlords.
Whites who are afraid of BIPOC (disclosure: I am a BIPOC), and of anyone from âleftâ side of the political spectrum, have coagulated around McCloskeyâs toxic messaging.
St. Louis itself has a storied historyâsome quite recentâof institutionalized racism. With sincere apologies for repeating some of my earlier posts, some St. Louis case studies with direct bearing on your question:
(this book was written decades ago; still applicable)
From Redlining to Ferguson: Why Racism Persists in St. Louis
BY Jack Kiehl
âWhite neighborhood made me subconscious racist,â wrote Joe Earsom for his submission to the Race Card Project, a project founded by former NPR host Michele Norris that encourages people to submit six-word sentences on their experiences with race. Earsom, who grew up in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, explained his six words on NPRâs Talk of the Nation , noting that his childhood in a very homogenous suburb and education in a largely all-white Catholic elementary and high school meant âno day-to-day encounters with anyone of a different race for a long timeâ (ââRace Cardsâ: Six Words on Trayvon Martinâs Deathâ). As Earsom explains, after growing up hearing about the dangers of St. Louis city, seeing the sensationalized violence in media, and not being around residents of a different ethnic or racial background from him, he formulated what he calls âsubconscious racism in the way [he] looked at random people on the street,â such as feeling anxious around groups of black teenagers at the mall or tensing up when a black man steps into an elevator (ââRace Cardsâ: Six Words on Trayvon Martinâs Deathâ).
âpuzzlingâ deaths of activists after the Ferguson, MO protest:
I want to close on an upnote, and handles.
Because some of us in the U.S. are trying to work the problem.
I am grateful for all people of good faith who come together to address injustices in all places and all times.
Hot diggity but Catherine Pugh nails the hard issues down, Says The Words succinctly and from personal experience:
That said, thanks to all St. Louisans / Missourians who have been coming together for justice:
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ETA: grammar 
ETA: punctuation too
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Yes. Just like when we talk about secession of states in the South, secession of counties from âBlueâ states to âRedâ states abandons vulnerable people to the whims of assholes who hate them. Also, those counties are HEAVILY subsidized by the economies of urban areas in the state and, frankly, Idaho doesnât have the budget to pick up the slack. So those counties will fall even further behind on education, child care, elder care, etc.etc.etc., further harming vulnerable people.
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This very interactive map is quite revealing:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/federal-aid-by-state
Mouse-over (or cursor-over) the state you want to find out more about⌠and wow, I learned something alright:
Texas: Federal Funding Per Resident: $304
Idaho: Federal Funding Per Resident: $3,428
holy smokes, New York state is net negative and pays out more money to the federal government than it gets back from same, and nary even one New Yorker pulling some jack move at a wildlife refuge saying they got a raw deal from the fedsâŚ
New York: Federal Funding Per Resident: -$1,792
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Yup. Then look at it for state funding. Residents in those counties whinging about taxes, and get $1.42 in state funding for every dollar they get taxed by the state. Idiots.
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Gabbard can fuck right offâŚ
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Yeah, Iâm not a fan eitherâŚ
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Sleeper agent wakesâŚ
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In Hawaii weâve known for decades that Gabbards are Gabbards. (D) or (R) are simply labels of convenience.
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Youâre mistaking the âblueâ signalling the Democratic party with the blue from Blue Lives Matter.
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Cult programming activates.
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Note to Self: Avoid flying through Belarusian airspace. Yikes.
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