Battle of Pittsburgh (Worthless Vanity)

[Celerity]

The following was a vanity. It was only a vanity. It was, like many vanities, not well thought-out, formatted or even spelling and grammar checked. It rambles, and it sounds more like a drunk guy sitting at the end of the bar than it does something that would go up on the internet for all time and all people to read for all time.

Thank you for your patience. Your regular program will resume.

[Democrats hate too much]

I hear ya. I think he did think out the Pittsburgh thing though.

[NFHale]

Carry anyway. Always and everywhere.

F*** ‘em. Always and everywhere.

[LegendHasIt]

I'm most shocked that a city built on heavy industry, would so vote and act against their own best interests.

But then:

"Today, Google, Apple, Bosch, Facebook, Uber, Nokia, Autodesk, and IBM are among 1,600 technology firms generating $20.7 billion in annual Pittsburgh payrolls."

I guess it sort of makes sense that with such firms, run by hardcore globalists, that if they make anything at all, it is made in China, would hold a lot of influence, maybe even more than the one-time highly paid factory workers who are now either 'flipping burgers' or fled to more production oriented cities.

[xp38]

I thought this had to do with the Stanley Cup finals.

[RS_Rider]

President Trump has a direct line to Rose Tennent and understands the working class of Pittsburgh, no mistake in his comments.

[Oratam]

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

[FredZarguna]

Pittsburgh is one of the US cities with the largest number of corporate headquarters. Consider that most large corporations are not capitalist; quite the opposite, in fact. They're scared sh!tless of free markets and want government subsidies, government favors, and government interventions against their smaller, upstart competition.

Add that to what little is left of blue collar Pittsburgh being a union town, and what goes on there is unsurprising.

But it's the latter, not the former, that Trump has his eyes on: if he can separate the industrial and trade unions from the service unions the Democrat Party is finished. It's already hemorrhaging as its white members have come increasingly to understand that it's nothing more than a racialist identity driven conglomeration of groups that hate America in general and white people in particular. If Trump pries loose any significant number of union voters, it's lights out.

[chiller]

WTEVERLIVINGF is going on here ?

I understood every word

[Rebelbase]

Pittsburgh says it’s going to follow the Paris Accord.

Does this mean they are going to reduce coal emissions 80% and make annual contributions to the Green Fund?

[jdsteel]

Pittsburgh is located within Allegheny County. Allegheny County went for Trump in the last election. That is why Trump won Pennsylvania, which is strong Republican except for the counties that have Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Philadelphia is a lost cause for Republicans. However, both Reagan and Trump were smart enough to appeal to blue-collar Democrats and win Allegheny County and thus the state of Pennsylvania. The mayor can take his Paris accord and stick it where the sun don’t shine and it won’t change things one iota.

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

...both Reagan and Trump were smart enough to appeal to blue-collar Democrats and win Allegheny County and thus the state of Pennsylvania.

That is simply not true.

Allegheny County went to Hitlery by approximately 140,000 votes to 31,000 for President Trump.

That said, the entire vanity is bull$#!+.

In Western PA a Democrat has to be three things in order to get elected:

1)Pro Life.
2)Pro Gun.
3)Pro Union.

Tom Clancy once described the Pennsylvania Democratic Party as the most complex political entity in the US.

i grew up in Pittsburgh (Though i now live in Gettysburg), and never experienced anything like what the OP has described. In Western PA houses usually have more guns than windows. i can remember a time when kids would take their rifles to school in order to go out hunting after the school day ended. Of course i'm OLD :^(

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

BTW, i just moved here FROM Pittsburgh last year.

[Crossfeed]

I once heard Pennsylvania described as Pittsburgh on one end, Philly on the other.....
with Alabama in between.
It was meant as a compliment.

[FredZarguna]

Trump did better in a number of places, not just Allegheny county, he also finished stronger in the coal country than his predecessors, which is a typical swing area. However, he lost Dauphin and Center counties, which used to be Republican. As somebody who grew up in Pittsburgh (Terrace Village, in the Hill district) I can tell you that Allegheny County has been trending more red for years, but Pittsburgh itself is a lost cause. The counties around Philadelphia, nominally Republican, matter a great deal more than Allegheny County, which is not all that big compared Chester, Montgomery, Delaware and Bucks. Those four RINO counties are what has turned PA blue in the years between 1992 and 2016.

[jdsteel]

I still live by Pittsburgh and I tell you now as I said then, if Trump takes Allegheny County he takes PA. He did.

[Ransomed]

Huge groups of people living very close together is not how we developed. There is a problem with cities, the majority of the people in them invariably seem to go nuts.

Freegards

[FredZarguna]

Oh, and I meant to say, Trump did NOT win Allegheny County. He lost Allegheny County BY 16 POINTS.

[jdsteel]

http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president/pennsylvania/

I stand corrected.

[FredZarguna]

It was most assuredly NOT meant as a compliment.

It was said by James Carville when he ran Harris Wofford's campaign for the Senate seat left vacant by the untimely death of John Heinz, which race gained him national attention, and put him in touch with the Clinton Crime Family.

He was making fun of the state when he said it.