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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BattleHymn on July 04, 2017, 10:21:26 AM
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Tue Jul 4, 2017, 09:22 AM
RazzleCat (392 posts)
My dispatch/thoughts on living in a Trump area
I have some thoughts about what is different about Trump supporters. These thought’s have been rolling round my head for quite a while now, built on observations from living in an area that went for Trump. What set this all off was while driving out of my neighborhood into town I pass the house with a most different set of flags. Lined up along their pool are an American Flag (standard this time of year), POW/MIA flag, (again not so different this time of year), Gadsden Flag (no comment), and a Trump flag. It is the last that made me flip out. I loved Obama, I wanted Hillary, but I never would fly a “politician flag” I celebrate my country not an individual. Why would you ever purchase let alone fly a large flag with a politician as it’s theme? Break all of it down and none of it makes any sense. An American flag next to a Gadsden Flag? Maybe they are Navy/Marine vets. POW/MIA adjacent to Trump flag, my head spins, Mr. heel spurs, avoiding STD’s was my NAM next to never forget those who gave all?
I am beginning to believe that many of his voters in my area, did not vote on his ideas, but rather voted for him because they love him for being the person he is. They wanted a bully, a person who gives simplistic answers to questions that are not simple. Someone who would say aloud thoughts they were afraid to articulate due to social norms. They have a hostility over there current plight and want someone as angry as them to lash out at everything they do not understand. They they supported “the angry man” that he represents. I said their current plight, I live in a nice area, most of my neighbors are two income families, we have nice homes with large yards, attached garages, and pools. This is not an economically depressed area, but it is very economically precarious. We are machinists, mechanical engineers, electricians, we are upper income blue collar workers. My neighbors see there jobs staying stagnate, no raises, bonuses are also gone. My neighbors are afraid, afraid of their lifestyle going away, afraid because they know they are one paycheck away from serious economic repercussions. They want some one to blame, and “The Donald” gave them many someones to point the finger at. Yes I am certain that some are just plain old racists, some are misogynist’s, and some are a “lovely” blend of the two. But most I think are just afraid, and reacting on a primal reflex to that fear.
I have no ideas on how to solve this, but taking the time to write out my ideas has helped me to see my neighbors not as “the other” but more like the villagers who attacked Dr. Frankensteins monster out of fear and ignorance.
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 10:00 AM
retrowire (10,256 posts)
2. They just wanted their reality TV show hero
To be the president.
Problem is, they never ever ever understood the complexities or importance of the job. They have a child's understanding of the position. WOWWWW president wooooowwwwww
To them, they help their favorite TV star whom they relate to, become the president and by relation, elevated their own self esteem. If he can do it, so can I!
Coming from a mewling, puking 20-something that can barely crawl out of bed without pissing and moaning, your words fall short.
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 10:40 AM
Star Member Botany (44,026 posts)
5. Late last winter I was in western MD to cross country ski and fish for brook trout (new germany st.)
On day in the morning it was foggy and rainy so I took I drive for a few hours ....
MD, WV, and VA and some of the worst shacks in dirt poor areas had, rebel flags,
trump flags, NRA flags, and big crosses in their yards.
They are beyond help and we should not spend one second trying to connect with those
voters outside of making sure we get a clean vote and we put Ds into power and just
maybe some of them might see the benefits of Ds vs Rs. But if they are thinking gun first
24/7 **** 'em they are gone.
*adjusts banjo*
*salutes confederate flag*
*polishes double barrel shotgun*
Wait, none of that just happened, you twat.
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 10:44 AM
Left-over (85 posts)
6. I have to agree.
Sounds like where I live. It is not that the people here are bad people, rather, they have been mass manipulated by bought and paid for main-stream media.
Whoever owns this mole, I salute you.
Tue Jul 4, 2017, 11:02 AM
Star Member KingCharlemagne (7,833 posts)
8. Any person who voted for Trump deserves 25% unemployment and a general
economic collapse.
We inherited that problem from the last president.
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Gee, Low-Post-Count Noob "RazzleCat"! Instead of "beginning to believe" what you imagine your neighbors think, why don't you get to know them? Have them over for burgers & 'dogs? Go bowling or play tennis or go running with them?
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They're smarter than you are, DUmmie, they'd rather take a flyer on a dynamic unknown quantity than vote for a crooked machine pol in a pantsuit who clearly had nothing to offer anyone who wasn't a Wall Street money shuffler, and was both clueless and indifferent about upper-end White blue collar workers.
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They're smarter than you are, DUmmie, they'd rather take a flyer on a dynamic unknown quantity than vote for a crooked machine pol in a pantsuit who clearly had nothing to offer anyone who wasn't a Wall Street money shuffler, and was both clueless and indifferent about upper-end White blue collar workers.
The CHILL and the D Party have been indifferent to the interests of blue- and white-collar workers of all ethnic heritages for many years.
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Tue Jul 4, 2017, 10:00 AM
retrowire (10,256 posts)
2. They just wanted their reality TV show hero
To be the president.
Problem is, they never ever ever understood the complexities or importance of the job. They have a child's understanding of the position.
Ah hes, complexity.
Q&A with 99% of liberals:
Q) why did you vote for HER in 2015?
A) she is female
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retrowire (10,256 posts)
2. They just wanted their reality TV show hero
To be the president.
Problem is, they never ever ever understood the complexities or importance of the job. They have a child's understanding of the position.
Having multiplied his father's company by a factor of a thousand and taken it from a significant regional player to a significant world wide business, Trump probably has as much understanding of government regulations and bureaucratic workings and of dealing with other countries as any new President since G.H. W. Bush or even Eisenhower.
Not that facts matter on DU.
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Those people make me sick. they are just beyond words.
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I had to laugh at the "big crosses in their yards" comment, having never seen that.
Until I realized a local farmer just down the road has three huge, white, four by four crosses in his yard that I drive by every day. Guess he's a racist, or maybe he's commemorating the loss of three kids in a car accident in front of his house. Once I got to thinking about it, realized I know a half dozen places with crosses next to the road or in their yard where someone has died in an accident.
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I had to laugh at the "big crosses in their yards" comment, having never seen that.
Until I realized a local farmer just down the road has three huge, white, four by four crosses in his yard that I drive by every day. Guess he's a racist, or maybe he's commemorating the loss of three kids in a car accident in front of his house. Once I got to thinking about it, realized I know a half dozen places with crosses next to the road or in their yard where someone has died in an accident.
I wonder whether "Botany" forgot that KKK-folk burned crosses rather that placing them in their front yards.
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" I loved Obama, I wanted Hillary, but I never would fly a “politician flag” I celebrate my country not an individual. Why would you ever purchase let alone fly a large flag with a politician as it’s theme? "
That's funny, I distinctly remember a story from a few years ago in my state of Florida: The Lake County Democrat Party headquarters flew an American flag which had a picture of Obama's ugly face where the stars should be. They only took this despicable perversion down when local veterans complained about it.
Obama won the election through building up a cult of personality, with gullible people (Including all you morons on the DUmp) celebrating and worshiping him rather than their country. That cult disintegrated soon afterwards due to his incompetence, of course, but sadly not soon enough to deprive him of a second term.
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Response to RazzleCat (Original post)Tue Jul 4, 2017, 11:02 AM
Star Member KingCharlemagne (7,842 posts)
8. Any person who voted for Trump deserves 25% unemployment and a general
economic collapse
Any person who voted for Cankles deserves to collapse in a twitching slobbering heap, just like she did in New York on 9/11/2016.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csMZakcXW4M[/youtube]
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Any person who voted for Cankles deserves to collapse in a twitching slobbering heap, just like she did in New York on 9/11/2016.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csMZakcXW4M[/youtube]
I encourage everyone here to Google "Side of beef".
:popcorn:
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Star Member KingCharlemagne (7,842 posts)
8. Any person who voted for Trump deserves 25% unemployment and a general
economic collapse
Reality is not aligning with your sense of "justice". But there's still 3 1/2 or 7 1/2 years to go, so keep chasing Lucy's footballs!
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I had to laugh at the "big crosses in their yards" comment, having never seen that.
Until I realized a local farmer just down the road has three huge, white, four by four crosses in his yard that I drive by every day. Guess he's a racist, or maybe he's commemorating the loss of three kids in a car accident in front of his house. Once I got to thinking about it, realized I know a half dozen places with crosses next to the road or in their yard where someone has died in an accident.
Three crosses refers to the Biblical record the Jesus was crucified between two thieves. Not stated whether there was a whole string of them and that only the most important One and His flankers were the ones mentioned in the Book.
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I had to laugh at the "big crosses in their yards" comment, having never seen that.
Until I realized a local farmer just down the road has three huge, white, four by four crosses in his yard that I drive by every day. Guess he's a racist, or maybe he's commemorating the loss of three kids in a car accident in front of his house. Once I got to thinking about it, realized I know a half dozen places with crosses next to the road or in their yard where someone has died in an accident.
3 crosses could very well be representing Christ's death with the 2 criminals on either side. I like to hope that I will get pardoned in my last hour like the one thief did. I could always just start leading a better life and representing Christ while I'm still alive and not take the gamble.
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" I loved Obama, I wanted Hillary, but I never would fly a “politician flag” I celebrate my country not an individual. Why would you ever purchase let alone fly a large flag with a politician as it’s theme? "
That's funny, I distinctly remember a story from a few years ago in my state of Florida: The Lake County Democrat Party headquarters flew an American flag which had a picture of Obama's ugly face where the stars should be. They only took this despicable perversion down when local veterans complained about it.
Obama won the election through building up a cult of personality, with gullible people (Including all you morons on the DUmp) celebrating and worshiping him rather than their country. That cult disintegrated soon afterwards due to his incompetence, of course, but sadly not soon enough to deprive him of a second term.
I walked through my city on the morning of election day 2008 and every light pole on the two main intersecting streets had a full sized 8 1/2 by 11 of Jug Ears. Thought I woken up in Iraq or the Soviet Union.
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RazzleCat (392 posts)
My dispatch/thoughts on living in a Trump area
I have some thoughts about what is different about Trump supporters. These thought’s have been rolling round my head for quite a while now, built on observations from living in an area that went for Trump. What set this all off was while driving out of my neighborhood into town I pass the house with a most different set of flags. Lined up along their pool are an American Flag (standard this time of year), POW/MIA flag, (again not so different this time of year), Gadsden Flag (no comment), and a Trump flag.
A President Trump flag? Never heard that President Trump had his own flag, dummies lie, so I googled it.
Got this (for sale on amazon):
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51MpSdr2VpL.jpg)
So the dummie wasn't lying. Personally I would never fly something like that... it would be an American flag and a WV flag... to each his own I guess. It pissed the dummie off so its all good!
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A President Trump flag? Never heard that President Trump had his own flag, dummies lie, so I googled it.
Got this (for sale on amazon):
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51MpSdr2VpL.jpg)
So the dummie wasn't lying. Personally I would never fly something like that... it would be an American flag and a WV flag... to each his own I guess. It pissed the dummie off so its all good!
There's a house that's two-three miles from me that flies one of those--right below the Stars and Stripes. :cheersmate:
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Even assuming that someone is flying a "Trump flag" in their yard, you worthless turds literally squealed like eighth-grade schoolgirls and made schoolchildren chant Obama's name while actually singing his praises. Not some sort of metaphor: you had children actually telling everyone on video how great it would be once Obama was installed as el jefe por la vida.
So you DUmmies are all welcome to go f*ck yourselves with a chainsaw running at top speed (you can use the same one, and it can be electric if it suits our environweenie sensibilities) until there's nothing left of a single one of you.