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The Snoot Party Goes to War
NRO ^ | 26 Dec 2021 | Kevin D Williamson

Posted on 12/27/2021 4:44:12 AM PST by Rummyfan

The Democrats love the poor. The Democrats hate the poor.

And the poor in West Virginia? They’re at the bottom of the bucket, as Democrats see things.

Senator Joe Manchin, the moderate Democrat from West Virginia who is one of the last of that breed, has derailed Joe Biden’s beloved Build Back Better bill, a slop-bucket of progressive wish-fulfillment that would add trillions in new spending to our already-bloated federal budget and pile much more debt upon our already-considerable national heap. Senator Manchin thought it was a bad package, though he supported some of what was in it, and West Virginians thought …

As far as today’s Democrats are concerned, voting Republican is just one more pathology that afflicts the toothless hillbillies of their imagination. They are perplexed — or at least pretend to be perplexed — by the fact that there are poor and struggling Americans who do not instinctively turn to welfare-statism as the answer to their problems, who are uneager to sacrifice either their values or their liberties in exchange for a government check. Democrats have responded to this by elevating the needs of the relatively well-off to the top of their agenda, which is why they spend so much time talking about the terrible burden of student loans for young lawyers and underemployed Haverford graduates. You won’t hear them offer anything like a serious solution to the public-education crisis in Los Angeles or Milwaukee — those well-paid teachers are a core part of the Democratic base, and semi-literate high-school dropouts do not vote in large numbers.

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1 posted on 12/27/2021 4:44:12 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

They want to put the Deplorables into camps so that we can be dealt with. It’s pretty obvious.


2 posted on 12/27/2021 4:50:19 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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To: Rummyfan
And the poor in West Virginia? They’re at the bottom of the bucket, as Democrats see things.

Does everyone forget that this National Review author, Kevin Williamson, refereed to Deplorables in exactly the same way? Am I the only one who tends to remember these things?

3 posted on 12/27/2021 4:57:39 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: Rummyfan
beloved Build Back Better bill

It would have prefered "extremist" or "radical", but they do not have the alliteration.

4 posted on 12/27/2021 4:59:40 AM PST by marktwain (Amazing people can read a persons entire personality and character from one photograph.)
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To: Rummyfan

“The most important domestic political development of the 21st century so far is the class-reversal of the Republican and Democratic parties, a trend that began in the 1990s with Bill Clinton and now has reached a state of genuine polarization. Democrats, once the party of poor farmers and working-class “white ethnics,” as we used to call them, have become the party of affluent, educated, metropolitan and suburban professionals — the people who once were critical to the Republican coalition.”

Debatable but poignant.


5 posted on 12/27/2021 5:01:33 AM PST by KierkegaardMAN (This is the sort of stuff up with which I shall not put!)
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To: Rummyfan

Slop bucket good term for all of Joe’s demands


6 posted on 12/27/2021 5:03:12 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Rummyfan

Kevin got what he wanted last election.

Screw him

L


7 posted on 12/27/2021 5:03:32 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Rummyfan

Hitler, Mussolini & Stalin, etc., are alive, active, and well in Washington, DC, USA!!! Their names have been changed but not their never ending thirst for 100% power, greed and control of the American people!!! The American Socialists & Communists are known these days in the USA as Democrats, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Barack Hussein Obama, Hillary Clinton, Jill Biden, Hunter Biden and so on...!!! Sad days roll for these once wonderful, magnificent free United States of America.....no more!!! And Sadder days are coming...thanks to a very weak American public!!!


8 posted on 12/27/2021 5:03:54 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: JonPreston

Williamson, and NRO, are scum.


9 posted on 12/27/2021 5:08:15 AM PST by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: Rummyfan

The Democrats were all too happy to pretend to represent the poor and downtrodden…

…until the poor and downtrodden realized how they were being played and escaped the plantation.

And just like that, the poor and downtrodden became Nazi fascists.


10 posted on 12/27/2021 5:10:22 AM PST by Magnatron
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

I don’t agree that the American public is weak. About 80 million voted for Trump and the election was stolen. The Alphabet soup organizations are corrupt. The media is corrupt. The universities are left wing indoctrination camps. Are we supposed to take to the streets with hounds and lanterns?


11 posted on 12/27/2021 5:11:09 AM PST by KierkegaardMAN (This is the sort of stuff up with which I shall not put!)
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To: Rummyfan

National Review is unreadable. These people are exactly like the Democrats. They just pretend they’re different every few years for votes.


12 posted on 12/27/2021 5:14:08 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Rummyfan

“The Snoot Party”...

Only maturity snobs need apply!


13 posted on 12/27/2021 5:22:37 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Rummyfan
Deranged Never Trumper Globalist DC snob Kevin Williamson has nerve to
post this crap .

This Bushy is a Pathological liar and fraud along with the other
Rhino Koch Bros - Chamber of Crony capitalist elites at NRO .

14 posted on 12/27/2021 5:29:05 AM PST by ncalburt (they Gop DC Globalists are the evil )
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To: JonPreston

You are not the only one. You beat me to it, though. When I see Kevin Williamson’s name on something I assume his majesty will be talking down to ignorant me and move on.


15 posted on 12/27/2021 5:30:56 AM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Rummyfan

a serious solution to the public-education crisis in Los Angeles or Milwaukee - those well-paid teachers are a core part of the Democratic base, and semi-literate high-school dropouts do not vote in large numbers.


A semi-literate high-school dropout in Milwaukee is a great achievement in education here. Many drop out in grade school for the good life of car-jacking, armed robbery, looting, murder, pimping, ho-ing with free food and medical care in local jails and prisons, if they are unlucky enough actually get charged and have a high bail set (according to their financial circumstances).


16 posted on 12/27/2021 5:56:39 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: KierkegaardMAN

You are absolutely correct. Democrat, Murderer, Criminal, Joe Biden could not have been elected as a dog catcher in a fair and honest election..period!!! This useless, greedy, power hungry, illegal human being, Democrat, Joe Biden, does not have one iota of executive experience in his low life body!!! End of story. Case Closed!!! Go figure!!!


17 posted on 12/27/2021 6:05:04 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Rummyfan

The people from West Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi endure this kind of arrogant prejudice on a daily basis from the lefties and the snooty Hollywood types.


18 posted on 12/27/2021 6:10:45 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Rummyfan

Senator Joe Manchin is pretty much a typical 1970s Democrat.

Joe Biden knows his type well.

“The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.”

Edward Kennedy


19 posted on 12/27/2021 6:53:23 AM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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“Students with family income below $60,000/year will not have loans included in their financial aid package; loan levels for incomes above this line range from $1,500 - $3,000 each year.”

https://www.haverford.edu/admission/tuition-and-aid

student aid -> 47% of students

grant aid averages about two-thirds of total costs


20 posted on 12/27/2021 6:57:08 AM PST by Brian Griffin ( )
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