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Trump’s getting impeached? I defy you to convince anyone at this cursed truck stop.
The Washington Post ^ | September 26, 2019 | Alexandra Petri

Posted on 09/26/2019 8:11:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

You think you’re going to find support for impeachment, do you? You dare suggest that this presidency is embroiled in chaos? Well, I am at a truck stop right now to wait out an electrical storm, and nobody here agrees.

I’ve been interviewing for what I figure is at least an hour — the clock on the wall is broken — and everyone I speak to still supports the president just as much as they did the day he was elected. They are happy to say so, even if it means talking to folks like me on a daily basis.

The old man at the end of the counter shakes his head when I tell him the president is beleaguered by scandal. He’s not tied to his phone, like some of you coastal types. He’s not bound even to the latest fashion. I notice he’s wearing an old wide-brimmed hat and rimless spectacles, the kind I haven’t seen outside of movies. He says he’s still with the president, and that he doesn’t pay attention to the daily buzz of news. He has priorities like many real Americans have.

I want to go out to my car, but it’s raining too hard. Coffee here is only a nickel. I order another cup.

I try to say something about the impeachment, but no one can hear me over the noise of the soybeans, growing healthy and strong. I have never heard a soybean so loud before. Here, we have our priorities straight, straight as the corn growing just outside the window. I can’t see my car.

The TVs here aren’t tuned to CNN or MSNBC for the scandal of the day. No, sir.

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: alexandrapetri; clintonnonnews; cnn; districtofcolumbia; impeachment; jeffbezos; media; msnbc; nobrainscollectively; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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LSD is a hell of a drug.
1 posted on 09/26/2019 8:11:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope the liberal idiot makes it home to swallow a jar of sleeping pills to erase the hideous experience.


2 posted on 09/26/2019 8:14:40 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“How could McGovern lose? Everyone I know voted for him.”

Pauline Kael


3 posted on 09/26/2019 8:16:01 PM PDT by Junk Silver ("It's a little hard to herd people onto trains when they're shooting at you." SirLurkedalot)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dweller from the “Beltway Bubble” actually polluted themselves by rubbing elbows with working subjects and wasn’t automictically expelled as a warning to others?

Will wonders never cease?


4 posted on 09/26/2019 8:17:42 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

And if you look at her photo at the he source, Petri isn’t a very attractive dish.


5 posted on 09/26/2019 8:18:00 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptors)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If Trump is impeached, we need to march on Washington.

It will be the largest protest march in the history of the nation.

It will also be marred by physical attacks by the left.

We will sweep them aside like bugs on a windshield.


6 posted on 09/26/2019 8:18:06 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (This Space For Rant)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They should have dumped this waste of carbon in the motor oil recycle tank.


7 posted on 09/26/2019 8:18:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Junk Silver

“I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.”


8 posted on 09/26/2019 8:18:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because disenfranchising half the country would be a really good idea?


9 posted on 09/26/2019 8:19:58 PM PDT by rey
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I notice he’s wearing an old wide-brimmed hat and rimless spectacles, the kind I haven’t seen outside of movies.

And that's what it's really all about.

Coastal elites think the rest of us are the caricatures that they see in the movies. Maybe that's why Obama is now in the movie-making business.

-PJ

10 posted on 09/26/2019 8:21:50 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bitch was never at any truck stop. I bed she’d rather drown in a flash flood than be cuahgt anywhere near her most-hated enemies: everyday Americans who love their country.


11 posted on 09/26/2019 8:21:53 PM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This writer has done parody before.

She might be parodying a distraught leftist reporter in Trump country.


12 posted on 09/26/2019 8:22:15 PM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Alexandra Petri is a Washington Post columnist offering a lighter take on the news and opinions of the day.


The give away was the 5 cent coffee...........................


13 posted on 09/26/2019 8:22:49 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Silly truckers and "freedom lovers" with their outmoded constitutional visions of "god." They and the others - the Stupid Ones - those who do not listen to the essential daily NPR shows. They - this accursed race - cannot see, so they must be shown.

Together, despite all the madness, despite all of this business about laws and representational republican democracy... We will show them. We will show them by taking their children, by teaching them about the glories of LGBT life, about global peace and happiness, about the oneness that can come only from believing in something...

And that something is US. The Times. The Post. The State Media. We, the Rulers...

It is our responsibility as it was once the responsibility of other National Socialist Democrats... It is OUR responsibility to SHOW THEM ONCE AND FOR ALL. Awaken, comrades!


14 posted on 09/26/2019 8:24:04 PM PDT by golux
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

By the time the WashCompost rewrites & ‘edits’ this piece, the whole world will be anti-Trump ... and, oh yes, the reporter is probably already canned for ‘publishing’ this.

That f’n hit job that ahole from CA did today is downright libelous.

To be the chair and put such drivel ON THE RECORD and when called on it flippantly say ‘oh that was mostly parody’.

You don’t need a crystal ball to figure what the wags will be ‘quoting tomorrow’ and Shffless will just shrug his shoulders and ‘maybe’say oops...

New(er) subject..

Remember years back when Fred Thompson was going to run for President, ‘they’ forced him to withhold his official announcement until ‘Law&Order’ season was aired.
I think they were going to try and ‘stop’ him because of reruns.
I raise this because these days ALL these clowns running under the D banner take turns showing up on the late night shows.... I don’t ‘follow’ them either, are they showing up on the Sunday ‘news(barf)’ shows?


15 posted on 09/26/2019 8:24:53 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: Jeff Chandler

No. Burn the local dems first. City, county, state .. Make them all scream for protection before we march on DC.


16 posted on 09/26/2019 8:25:39 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just curious: Does everyone but me have a subscription to the WaPo? Their articles are posted here day in and day out, and I don’t know how many free ones they give you but it’s not very many, and I can’t see supporting the Bezos blog.


17 posted on 09/26/2019 8:27:04 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sometimes it's OK to go all cliche looney to make a point, but even though I'm sure I would disagree with whatever her point is ... what IS her point?

If you paint a crazy picture, and it doesn't make a non-crazy point, even a wrong not crazy point, then you are just crazy.

18 posted on 09/26/2019 8:29:36 PM PDT by tinyowl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I voted for Nixon — now you know 2 people, sort of.


19 posted on 09/26/2019 8:30:31 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These pathetic liberals have no clue that Trump’s power comes from God. He is the president millions have prayed for. They are minions of the evil one.


20 posted on 09/26/2019 8:32:59 PM PDT by far sider
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