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It's that few % he's lost that matters.
2020 US Election (Part Two)
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It's that few % he's lost that matters.
Redneck girl was a hit in 1982! There is nothing out of sorts with the song at all. Even today, it is just a song about going to bars and hoping to meet somebody who likes you.
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he's bought himself plenty of political capital with what he has done for his base
I want Biden to win, for specific reasons (I do think, of course, that he is better than Trump). But he still makes gaffes, and in a debate he would be a very serious liability, cause it won't be against Bernie who always was gentlemanly and a friend to Biden.
Whether it is just stuttering, or more related to cognitive decline, Biden isn't someone who can survive a hostile debater, even if their level is that of overclown Trump.
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Well, there is one way. Showing basic human decency would get most of his base to drop him in five seconds.
Only if his base is billionaires and large corporations.
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It's almost like there's this thing people sometimes do, when they get made fun of for their good parts by jackasses, where they decide "whatever, **** you, we're doing us."
Can't say things are usually improved in the general, but it's one of the more reasonable reactions.
I think Bird's right tho, song is legit. Haven't heard it in an age. Did somebody hip hop up a remix so you can "sing it with your pants around your ankles" or some culture-war-y implication-thing I can wink in?
Oh man, I remember a poster that just hated this one:
Spoiler poke poke, gentle(hopefully) mockery :
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Nice truck. FTR, I noticed there weren't any flag stickers on it. Its a little thing, that helps a ton with things...
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Oh, they don't go over well with a lot the right sort of person where I'm from anyways. But usually those guys weren't going over well with the right sort of person before they put the stickers on. It's why they put the stickers on. But we've covered that in a whole ****ton of permutations, right?
Feeling more "God's Country" by Blake anyhow(upper Midwest badtimes culture goes West more than South). Needs to frikkin rain.
Feeling more "God's Country" by Blake anyhow(upper Midwest badtimes culture goes West more than South). Needs to frikkin rain.
I don't think so. I think that his folks are loyal enough that he could actually lead by example... which in my mind makes his conduct so much worse... he doesn't need to be that way. He's just cynically choosing to be that way because he has no faith in the character of the people he represents.
His conduct isn't just insulting to his opponents... Its insulting to his supporters.
Yes we have, but it isn't any less true then than it is now. And as far as the "right sort of person" thing goes... meh, let's not get ahead of ourselves here with the circle jerking. South Carolina only banned it 5 years ago and Mississippi just dropped the flag as their state emblem 2 months ago, so the difference between "right sort of person" and whoever else is still alot more like overlapping circles than any bright clear line.
I just put down grass seed because I was sick of looking at bare dirt on the side of my house but planting sod seemed too risky (and expensive) given the amount of shade. We've had a ton of rain the past week and I've been watering the crap out of it and the seeds have started to fill in the bare spots nicely. Of course then we had a windstorm that brought down a tree that I had to get removed, and the heavy equipment to cut and remove the tree tore up my new grass... so now I've got to plant new seed.
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Well, if they're at college with a shiny new bigass pickup, then no, the flag doesn't have much excuse for me. But I'm from where I'm from(not the South), and most of the coastish d-bags I talk to(regional city dwellers sometimes get tossed in there, the burbs have this weird terrifying conformity to the better heeled ones that sort of partially transcends locale), don't really care what other people look like. They're mainstream American and mainstream American is really loud. Most of the guys that have that sort of thing, here, are very young and very invested in their crappy ass trucks. Then they realize how screwed they are trying to get work and stuff when that's visible, so they... what's the word, mode switch or something? Who knows. It's northern Illinois outside the place everyone cares about. So it's part German south Wisconsin, part Scandinavian Minnesota, part creeping South, a big part Great Plains, and probably at least half Chicago. With all the immigrant pockets that come with it that I'm just rolling into American whether they're Mennonites, Lebanese, Black, of Hispanic. Though most of them have been here long enough they aren't really immigrant pockets. East Asians/Pakistanis/Indians/Saudis/Iranians more frequently are legit immigrant immigrants. Kind of neat after all the bad blood with the heavily drafted population of the parents' generation to see Vietnamese culture coming online in more friendly, mainstream, terms.
Hope your grass bounces back fast. I think there's probably time for it to get started before the freezes.
Hope your grass bounces back fast. I think there's probably time for it to get started before the freezes.
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I guess I'm a little more pessimistic. Many of those people's first loyalty is to what is, substantively, white nationalism. Trump is merely the hero; the cause is bigger than him.
On a, like, basic level if Trump didn't call the troops suckers and losers, they'd still follow him, but if he exhibited decency in the sense of like, restarting federal civil rights investigations and generally not being super-racist, I do believe they'd drop him like a flaming potato
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I don't know. I think he pissed a lot of them off, too, with his trade wars and attempts to curb outsourcing. Plus, remember, George Soros, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Oprah Winfrey, and a number of other Liberal and Progressive activists, are also billionaires who run big corporations. And Hillary Clinton sits on the board of directors of Wal-Mart and has a lot of friends on Wall Street. As evil, vile, and despicable as the plutocratic oligarchy is, and as much they demean and run down the vast majority, they're evil is not a partisan issue as far as U.S. political parties go - as both major American parties feed from their trophs, lick their boots, and sell-out to them over their constituents. Let's not pretend otherwise.
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They just made menthols illegal here in California and one of the leading opposition groups was a group of black churches.
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Different lyrics. Apparently it's another song by the same title.
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Still, my question stands. How is this particular song this getting traction so "telling," of modern culture, compared to a lot of vile filth that's been recorded among almost every major genre of contemporary music? Where is the standout quality that is so telling?
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