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Why Elites Don't Give a Damn About Ohio
Newsweek ^ | February 15, 2023 | Darvio Morrow

Posted on 02/19/2023 3:54:52 PM PST by Twotone

There is an environmental disaster taking place in East Palestine, Ohio. The small town may never be the same. But there has been a disturbing lack of urgency from the media and, most importantly, the Biden Administration.

It's puzzling that people who claim to care so much about the environment are relatively silent in the face of an actual environmental calamity. It's led me to come to only one conclusion: Elites don't give a damn about Ohio.

I mean this in two ways: They don't care about the actual state of Ohio, and they do not care about Ohioans and people like us in culturally similar states.

This is not a new phenomenon. I live in Cleveland, Ohio, one of the most disrespected cities in the country. We're used to the arrogant and dismissive sneering from the coasts. But to see the almost gleeful way some progressives have reveled in the misfortune of the residents of East Palestine shows a moral, cultural, and political rot that is at the core of elite society.

One deplorable progressive shared a map alleging that the disaster was poisoning the water of "Yokel Central." Highlighted were the states of Ohio, West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky, and parts of Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Virginia. He then arrogantly added: "Gee, that's too bad. Perhaps they'll reevaluate their voting patterns. (They won't.)"

His attitude exposed what the lack of urgency is really about: All but three of the states mentioned are solidly red.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: darviomorrow; eastpalestine; elites; ohio
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1 posted on 02/19/2023 3:54:52 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Know your enemy, folks.


2 posted on 02/19/2023 3:55:38 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Twotone
His attitude exposed what the lack of urgency is really about: All but three of the states mentioned are solidly red.

What a coincidence!

Not voting for Democrats seems to be a major cause of coincidence.

3 posted on 02/19/2023 3:57:53 PM PST by flamberge (We don't get the government we vote for. We get the government we will tolerate.)
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To: Twotone

#1 reason, Ohio is no longer a key swing state in Presidential elections. In 2020 Joe Biden made no effort to rig the vote in Ohio.


4 posted on 02/19/2023 4:03:23 PM PST by devere
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To: flamberge

And as if voting for the crooked and stupid Dems ever solved anything.


5 posted on 02/19/2023 4:04:16 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Twotone

Remember when election victories were said to go through the heart of Ohio….back when elections were determined by voter turnout?

Coincidence that since elections no longer matter, neither do the voters. And by extension, neither do citizens in general matter to this present government.


6 posted on 02/19/2023 4:05:13 PM PST by patriot torch
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To: Twotone

No soldiers, no Biden coming,
We’re finally on our own;
This winter, I smell dioxin,
East Palestine, O-hi-o....
Gotta get down to it:
Norfolk is cutting us down,
Pipelines were cut long ago;
Whadda you do when you
Find birds dead on the ground,
Where do you run when you know...


7 posted on 02/19/2023 4:10:50 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Twotone

“Elites don’t give a damn about Ohio.”

I think its a little worse than that, high-speed.


8 posted on 02/19/2023 4:11:59 PM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: patriot torch

Yep and Mitch McConnell voiced that very thing to foreigners on his tour to appease Ukraine.


9 posted on 02/19/2023 4:21:07 PM PST by JoJo354 (We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
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To: Twotone

Imagine, if you will, had the exact same accident occurred in a ‘community of color’ (in Ohio or anywhere else).


10 posted on 02/19/2023 4:21:44 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Twotone
The evil cancer of influence peddling has compromised our government from the president down to the congressional aids. Since the wealthy railroads have the money to pack those back pockets, the initiative to apply penalties for their irresponsibility takes a blind eye. The objective is to keep the money train on track right into the pocketbooks.

Our government has their preferences. /sarc.

This cancer has affected BOTH parties and much like when they keep their medical records secret, this cancer is kept Top SECRET. Like cancer, there is no cure other than cutting out the malignancy. That procedure is what Nikky Haley calls for: Term Limits!

11 posted on 02/19/2023 4:22:54 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: chajin

You show great talent!


12 posted on 02/19/2023 4:24:28 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: joma89

When is open season on elites?


13 posted on 02/19/2023 4:46:32 PM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Twotone

Bookmark


14 posted on 02/19/2023 4:47:29 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: hanamizu

Yup


15 posted on 02/19/2023 4:47:37 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Still Thinking

“ And as if voting for the crooked and stupid Dems ever solved anything.”

What has voting for Republicans solved?


16 posted on 02/19/2023 4:50:02 PM PST by Jim Noble (You have sat too long for any good you have been doing)
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To: chajin

Very good!


17 posted on 02/19/2023 4:52:58 PM PST by EMI_Guy ("You have to slow down to go fast." - Kenny Robertson's)
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To: Twotone

at some point you have to say ...oh you are evil .you rub their face in their stink and talk about how not children having themselves they DO NOT CARE ABOUT ANYTHING BUT THEIR NEXT PERVERSION.


18 posted on 02/19/2023 4:58:35 PM PST by PCPOET7 (`)
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To: devere

The Obama administration tipped Ohio into the RELIABLY RED column with its’ ill-conceived War on Coal.

So they have only themselves to blame.


19 posted on 02/19/2023 5:12:25 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan (eleutheromaniac)
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To: Twotone

This came from “Newsweek”?!


20 posted on 02/19/2023 5:13:17 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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