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We share 95% of our DNA strings with potatoes and 50% of our DNA strings with bananas. Used to, I'd be a good homo sapien sapien and say it was all sciencey stuff under the microscope and leave it at that. These days I'm starting to see the family resemblance.

 

Major junket, that. I've played Pinehurst No. 2 on the company dime. Years ago sportswear maker Bogner offered to fly me to Germany to play. I ran it by my editor first. "If anyone's taking a free trip to Europe to golf, it's me," he said.

Lesson: Better to ask forgiveness than permission.

 

Only got the Raw Story to load.

I'll believe farmers abandon Trump when the postmortem of 2020 happens. Before that, these folks are outliers.

I see many of them staying with Trump because, even to themselves, they don't want to admit (or, acknowledge, if you prefer) their mistake. The Nigerian prince folks depend on the same mentality.

 

What about couches? I'm pretty sure I share waaaay more DNA with my couch than is healthy.

 

I had an old couch that shared DNA from former lovers, but I got rid of that couch years ago. Current couch is way too uncomfortable for sex.

 

It was a ridiculous junket. I had maybe written a couple of pieces for Golf, maybe? Or T&L Golf? I was far from a golf writer, or a golfer. I have no idea how I ended up on it. My editor was fine with it, so long as I didn't write about it. So I went and had a blast and came home and carried on. It was so long ago, I had a great big mohawk. That's maybe the most baller I've ever felt except for every single minute I played terrible golf.

I remember playing alternate shot with a very, very good golfer. He pounded a massive drive that stopped maybe five yards short of a huge pot bunker. Nothing between me and the green but it. A little 100-yard wedge and we're on our way. I duffed it right into that fucking bunker. Guy looked at me like I was Satan himself.

 

Sorry for the bad links.

Agree that a few farmers expressing public regret don't constitute a rush away from Trump.

But as I've said here, the first people Trump will destroy are the ones he suckered into voting for him.

Try these.


I won't be voting for the president again, says Ohio farmer who backed Trump in 2016

Truckers and farmers who voted for Trump are starting to blame his policies for their economic woes

Farm Journal Pulse Shows Farmer Support for President Trump Is Eroding

'I'll Never Vote For Him Again': Trump-Supporting Farmers Have Regrets After Feeling Burn of Trade War

 

Re @typefitter, that sounds like the story of my long lost 7-iron. Twice tried to hit balls over a pond, dumped both in the pond — and then the 7-iron followed.

 

For sure. Farmers, coal miners, steel mill workers, auto industry workers. Trump sold all of those people a bill of goods.

Clinton's biggest problem was telling those folks the truth. People don't want the truth, they want the fantasy, they want the dream, the lie at the heart of Make America Great Again.

I do some freelance editing for my state's Chamber of Commerce publications, and at least in the stories I've edited, Trump's support remains strong. Anecdotal, too, but it's something.

 

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