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wut? no.

 

Kavanaugh sidebar, your honor.

“Men for Others, My Ass”: After Kavanaugh, Inside Georgetown Prep’s Culture of Omertà

 

Trump-Syria is typical Trump.


Just loudly declare victory and ignore any news to the contrary. That's enough to check off another promise kept!

 

WAR IS OVER!!

Because Fucko Wants It.

Trump Claims U.S. Has Defeated ISIS in Syria

 

but he went to military school

 

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Alma, I love you, but c'mon man. I know it's been 20 pages and 500 posts, but I wanted to circle back to this. I've lived in both rural America and urban America. Spent half my life in each, in fact. And there is zero question in my mind which side has some compassion for the other, and it ain't the one you think it is. Never once in my life have I seen a political campaign push the idea that people who live in rural communities are losers or rubes, and yet not a single election goes by that the reverse isn't true, that people in urban communities are cast as heathens and elitists who hate other people. It's such a phony and dishonest narrative to suggest that rural communities were left behind because of the way other people looked down on them, as opposed to the way they were manipulated into viewing people who lived in large cities. That it was the fault of liberal disdain that manufacturing jobs disappeared, as opposed to cheap labor overseas. Even now, when I return home for Christmas and bump into the parents of my high school friends, they cannot fathom how I live among so many scary black people in what they assume is an American war zone.

There is no social liberal currency caring about rubes and dupes in, what, the pages of New York Magazine? Where does this supposed disdain for rural America manifest itself? What liberal institution is the tentpole for these hateful ideas? The pages of The New Yorker? The sketch comedy of Saturday Night Live? Rachel Maddow's late-night cable news program? It's always baffling to me how rural conservatives insist that liberal influencers with relatively tiny readerships or viewerships have such an outsized influence on how the world views them. Think about how absurd this sounds. I was thinking about having empathy for the heroin problem in Baltimore, but then I saw Black Panther and the Killmonger character really made me realize black people want to use Vibranium to get reparations from me, so now I hate Hollywood for pushing this message that I'm not cool unless I like Black Panther.

Who are these people pushing the idea that rural America is so uncool, they should be left to die? Comedians? Athletes? What liberal figure of any importance -- not some dipshit blogger or columnist with barely 100,000 twitter followers -- is going around expressing contempt for the place that insists on referring to itself as Real America? I would like some examples please. Are these, like, random people posting on Facebook or are they actual influencers?

Because I can give you a hundred in reverse, where urban America is cast as everything that's wrong with the world. Conservatives don't even hint at this, or say it in coded language. They come right out and say it, and people cheer them for "having the courage" to say ... what at least 40 percent of the country believes. It seems the burden is always on liberals to prove they don't hate people from small towns, people who openly admit they want to isolate themselves, but there is no such expectation in return. In fact, there is an entire media empire built on the idea that it's ok to hate the people who live in big cities, that they are immoral and violent and perhaps even traitorous. What liberal has ever said: You know those tornadoes that wrecked Oklahoma? Well that's what people in Oklahoma deserve for living their backwards lives in a backwards place. And yet, those same sentiments are expressed by church leaders, people held in high esteem in rural America, every single time a hurricane hits a major coastal city. Those dirty liberals and their approval of sodomy, they got what they deserve.

The amount of angst that conservatives feel every time they're made to feel uncool because a person of color appeared on their television screen and spoke in a cadence that was unfamiliar to them is honestly kind of remarkable.

 

You left out the part about how it’s what Putin wants.

 

If Trump were really a Russian puppet, he would have said "We're leaving Syria because Russia has defeated ISIS."

Would be closer to the truth, at least.

 

Wow! That's unprecedented -- except it's not.