Posted on 10/19/2017 2:02:37 PM PDT by confederatecarpetbag
It’s as if people here have not turned on the television to hear pundits drone on and on about how badly Trump is losing in Pennsylvania.
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Makes me smile!!
Does this make her ‘woke’?
I loved the comment about how these folks don’t use social media—they are too busy in the real world.
(guess no Russia influence on the factory floor :-) )
She’s always been “woke”
Same here in north Florida. Trump signs were everywhere from Pensacola eastward until you hit the college town and state capital Tallahassee.
I had exactly the same feeling as the author, perhaps a month or six weeks later. I drove from Tennessee to Massachusetts, and for most of the way, I saw only Trump signs. Yes, there were some HRC signs around big cities, and of course, back in MA. But, for 1000 miles, it was almost all Trump.
My wife, an ABH voter (Anybody But Her), was pessimistic. I didn’t know what would happen in the election, but I told her that it was obvious from the signs we were seeing that DJT was going to do much better than the media and pollsters were saying, and that at the worst, it would be close. (We were both happy that we got better than a losing close, of course.)
Yeah, the author took a look outside her bubble. Good for her.
Pundits, reporters, and politicians rarely take the time to look at real life outside their comfortable worlds...they trade stories between themselves and write or talk about what they agree with whether there is any truth or fact of assured accuracy...imho.
When I would drive around the San Francisco Bay Area there sparse numbers of Hillary signs.
The second you approached rural areas just 20 minutes south of San Jose and anywhere in the valley(Fresno, Madera, etc) the Trump signs were numerous and Yuge!
Stopped at a restaurant on the outskirts of SlackRuhDemento and everyone was wearing MAGA hats.
In fact, one guy gave me one, which I squirreled away with my other hats....
It’s as if people here have not turned on the television to hear pundits drone on and on about how badly Trump is losing in Pennsylvania.
To be fair, we still use a char’d stick and a plank of wood to write on and we still get our news over the fence....
State legislatures have every duty to oversee the curriculum of public universities. For starters, ban ‘studies’ and commies.
I'll grant that it can be painful to have the smug ripped out of one's psyche like an infected molar without novocaine. They assumed and continue to assume that there is only one way for intelligent people to think and if someone doesn't think that way, it's because they're stupid. While this may confer a certain emotional consolation it doesn't advance anyone's education very much, and when their standard-bearer pens an explanatory volume entitled "What Happened" it might as well have a question mark appended. They've learned nothing. It's too hard. Anger and outrage is easier.
What actually happened was not a sudden plunge into an alternate dimension or the death of a close relative with the concomitant stages of grief that are currently a principal feature of the evening's television banquet. They lost an election. Deal with it.
We have seen a flurry of stories that indicate that the working-class wipeout did get the Dems' attention too late. But once again, nothing was learned and the general consensus is that the working class - wait for it - is too stupid to know the working class's interests. Somebody certainly is, but it isn't the working class.
12MILLION Dems crossed over in the primaries for DJT. Largely Union, but plenty of Dixiecrats. Both were sneaky about it...Mook never saw it coming with his wood for his ADA model. Thank God, forevermore.
There’s a guy on SiriusXM whose hobby is to travel all over the country, usually by driving. He keeps it non-political but after the election he said there was little doubt what the middle and rural parts of the country felt, just based on signs. I saw the same thing in Iowa and Wisconsin - just overwhelmingly Trump/Pence, maybe 50 to 1 ratio to Hillary signs. There were probably more “Hillary for Prison” signs than the real kind.
I live in conservative SE Missouri. Nevertheless, there were plenty of Obama yard signs/bumper stickers in ‘08 & ‘12. I saw no Hillary yard signs and maybe one bumper sticker for her in ‘16. In fact, there were Sanders signs and one Ross Perot sign.
Oldie but goodie.
Oldie but goodie.
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