Posted on 12/27/2017 5:48:07 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
SANDY HOOK, Ky. (AP) — The regulars amble in before dawn and claim their usual table, the one next to an old box television playing the news on mute.
Steven Whitt fires up the coffee pot and flips on the fluorescent sign in the window of the Frosty Freeze, his diner that looks and sounds and smells about the same as it did when it opened a half-century ago. Coffee is 50 cents a cup, refills 25 cents. The pot sits on the counter, and payment is based on the honor system.
People like it that way, he thinks. It reminds them of a time before the world seemed to stray away from them, when coal was king and the values of the nation seemed the same as the values here, in God’s Country, in this small county isolated in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
Everyone in town comes to his diner for nostalgia and homestyle cooking. And, recently, news reporters come from all over the world to puzzle over politics — because Elliott County, a blue-collar union stronghold, voted for the Democrat in each and every presidential election for its 147-year existence.
Until Donald Trump came along and promised to wind back the clock.
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Unshaken and growing
FUAP
I started with Cruz whom I very much admire but President Trump has won me over hook line and sinker!
Who writes this crap? Where do they get lethargic from?
I tune out the mass media’s coverage of DJT as much as I can. I don’t listen to talk radio like did under crypto-Hussein. By default I support whatever Trump does. If I hear about something really wrong then I will be against it....but until then... The Democrats are so awful that there is no sense nit-picking The Donald. This only helps the degenerate Dems.
Exactly. If anything, President Trump has increased the enthusiasm with his voters - they don’t see him as a lying, smooth talking, double talking politician. He’s Trump.
Yet another tedious “rubes for Trump” hate piece.
Dittoes.
But also ... if the people of that county could stand to move, and I don’t know that they would or that I’d blame them if they couldn’t bear to leave ... we can’t get enough warm bodies in this area to keep stuff running. For the first time in 10 years the place where I work is adding a 3rd shift. BUT no one knows where we are going to get people. It’s mind-boggling in a good way.
MAGA!
Pay more, they will come.
“Until Donald Trump came along and promised to wind back the clock.”
FU
There are many things I admire about President Trump. But most of all, it’s that he’s a man of his word.
The swamp is fighting back.
I think we know who wins in the next 6 months.
Much will happen, fasten seat belts...
All cultures are equally valuable, except white American Christian culture, American Constitutionalist culture, and any culture that opposes our command of everything!
I saw an interview on ESPN on a Sunday morning while on vacation during the run up to the start of the primaries season. The host was talking in general about sports and out of the blue asked Donald Trump if the rumors were true he was thinking about running for president. He paused a moment and his response spoke directly to my love of our American Ideals and the need for a true statesman to lead our nation. Then He added, who else could run but him with no strings attached and the ability to finance his own campaign. I knew then he “was all in” and would be our next president. Until then I was totally in for Ted Cruz, I called the family into the room, all my children are grown, married, with grandkids, and proudly declared to them that “The Donald’ would be our next president. They are still in stages of incredulous semi denial/faithful belief. MAGA!
They even managed to find a place with a box TV for this episode.
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“Yet another tedious “rubes for Trump” hate piece.”
Exactly. Box tv. Honor system cheap coffee.
I’m surprised we didn’t hear about the colored folks slaving away in the kitchen, or the KKK flyers on the window sill.
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