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Enlightened folks know “Chinaperson” is now the preferred term.

On Monday, responding to the attack ads, Mr. Blankenship brought up Mr. McConnell’s marriage to Elaine Chao, the secretary of transportation, and questioned whether the majority leader faced a conflict of interest in foreign relations. Ms. Chao’s father is “a wealthy Chinaperson,” Mr. Blankenship said, speaking on a West Virginia radio show, adding, “And there’s a lot of connections to some of the brass, if you will, in China.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/us/politics/don-blankenship-china-west-virginia.html

 

The story says that.

In both years, participants were asked the same wide-ranging set of questions. Party loyalty overwhelmingly explained how most people voted, but Dr. Mutz’s statistical analysis focused on those who bucked the trend, switching their support to the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump, in 2016.

And I think the point of the headline is that the loss of cultural standing was twice as influential as "economic anxiety," the cliche upon which so many think pieces hang.

 

This claim looks to be untrue, btw.

 

Is Mulvaney going for the Depression-era villain look on purpose (those glasses!)? Judging by his provable, demonstrable dickheadedness, my Magic 8 Ball is telling me that "all signs say yes."

 

45 for 45

U.S. rank is somewhere between Burkina Faso and Belize.
2018 World Press Freedom Index | RSF

 

Ah, I see. Well, those think pieces are/were full of shit, too!

 

I thought it was "mail-order bride" ...

 

Exactly.

A moratorium on those, please, and on the diner-by-diner "search for real America."

 

I gotcher real America right here.

 

This reminds me of the piece linked here a while back that painstakingly detailed one family of Trump supporters and their economic struggles.

Then it ended with a direct quote from one of them about hating niggers.

 

Johnstown Never Believed Trump Would Help. They Still Love Him Anyway.

Schilling looked at her husband, Dave McCabe, who’s 67 and a retired high school basketball coach. She nodded at me. “Tell him,” she said to McCabe, “what you said the NFL is …”

McCabe looked momentarily wary. He laughed a little. “I don’t remember saying that,” he said unconvincingly.

Schilling was having none of it. “You’re the one that told me, liar,” she said.

She looked at me.

The NFL?

“Niggers for life,” Schilling said.

“For life,” McCabe added.

 

Something Americans have a very, very hard time hearing, believing they must be the boss of everyone they meet.

Children are people with rights, not extensions of their parents' ego and whims.