President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[Pelado]

"LEOPARDS ATE MY FACE!," sob voters who voted for the LEOPARDS EATING FACES PARTY!
https://nypost.com/2022/11/11/trump-...rce=reddit.com

The communications professional said he still liked Trump’s policies and has long managed to overlook his crassness. “Then he made the DeSantis comment and we are all done in our family with him. It is becoming very clear it’s about Trump first, not the conservative movement.”

It is becoming clear? What the hell? It became clear well before he announced his first run for president.

[wuapinmon]

It is becoming clear? What the hell? It became clear well before he announced his first run for president.

When we think of "average" and "below-average" intelligence, that's about 84% of the population. Remember that.

[BlueK]

It is becoming clear? What the hell? It became clear well before he announced his first run for president.

Yeah, mind blowing it took anyone this long to realize that.

[Non Sequitur]

When we think of "average" and "below-average" intelligence, that's about 84% of the population. Remember that.

I'm not a math guy, but that doesn't sound right.

[myboynoah]

Tumpsters coming out in support.

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[Omaha 680]

I'm not a math guy, but that doesn't sound right.

It's more stats than math. One standard deviation each side of the mean plus those below one standard deviation equals 84%.

[Non Sequitur]

It's more stats than math. One standard deviation each side of the mean plus those below one standard deviation equals 84%.

I'm especially not a stats guy, but does that mean that those average and above average is also 84%?

[myboynoah]

And they will bend.

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[wuapinmon]

It's more stats than math. One standard deviation each side of the mean plus those below one standard deviation equals 84%.

Yes, but there's a real dropoff in quality after the first 16%.

[myboynoah]

Rallying to their leader.

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[myboynoah]

Trumpists (Hawley, Rubio, Lee, Johnson, Scott, Cruz, Graham, Vance et al) looking to move out anti-Trump McConnell, blaming him for the midterm fiasco.

Hmmmmm, I wonder whose bidding this is.

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[Jeff Lebowski]

So help me, if these dogs eat that vomit again, ….

[Uncle Ted]

So help me, if these dogs eat that vomit again, ….

Yeah, I would almost be tempted to vote for this ticket...

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[wuapinmon]

I grew where Marjorie Taylor Greene is from. My county is just outside her district (Newt Gingrich was my Rep.). The place I was raised is a cultural wasteland. The people who were there before Brown v. Board of Education made their living from the railroad or from forestry stuff. The soil is as pitiful of a Georgia red clay as you can imagine. The only thing that will grow there without serious soil amelioration is trees, native trees. That's it. We never had a garden because it would always wither, even with compost and such.

In the mid-1970s, with the completion of I-75, the area began seeing construction of middle-class homes to accommodate massive white flight. The Army Corps of Engineers damned the Etowah and Little Rivers to form Lake Allatoona (flooding the City of Allatoona forever). The prospect of a secluded lake only 25 miles from Atlanta with nobody there saw people flock to the area. When I-575 was completed all the way north of Canton, through Woodstock (where I'm from), the flood became a deluge. Atlanta swallowed each town slowly, but surely....Smyrna, then Marietta, then Kennesaw, then Acworth, then Woodstock, then Holly Springs, then Canton, then Cartersville. NW Atlanta is now solid city for about 40 miles, with only state parks and Army Corps land still wild.

Due to there not being a large community before White Flight, there were no parks, no local restaurants, no cultural icons or establishments, no nothing except a youth sports league (SCRA = South Cherokee Recreation Association), a <redacted> HUGE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH (aka, First Baptist Mall or The JesusDome), and hunting clubs. The lake wasn't properly stocked, so the fishing was lousy. People called it "The Dead Sea."

So, in 1956, the Army Corps had an auction for cottage lots along the lake. My grandpa bought two at auction, the land where I grew up from 1982-1992 (Class of '92). He is the founding named partner in this lawfirm. Fun fact, his lawfirm has the oldest continuously-used business phone number in Atlanta. Anyhow, to relieve the stress of his job, he built the house I grew up in every weekend from the early 1960s until he finished it in 1965. He was a terrible builder and we spent many, many weekends of my childhood fixing the mistakes in wiring, plumbing, and window installation he made. My dad bought the house from him in the late 80s (I don't think at market price). Growing up, we had no neighbors. I lived on a dead-end, dirt road in the woods. The TV reception was shit, we only had well water, no electric or gas heat, only a wood-burning stove, and no mail service (or cable).

My classmates at school were all just like me, Anglo-Saxon surnames with the same 20-30 given names for each sex: Kevin, Shawn, Jason, Josh, Michael, Matthew, Mark, John(athan); Jennifer, Jessica, Melissa, Stephanie, Kelly, Stacy, Lisa, Megan. There were no black kids at all in my elementary school. There was ONE in my entire middle school, and there were six in all four years of high school. One was adopted. There was no one Hispanic. There was one Asian kid (also adopted). The dry cleaners were Arabic and their kid, Shafi Hussein, was the only non-citizen I knew until my senior year. Everyone talked alike, dressed alike, looked alike, and went to church with one another. I got heckled for not going to church all the time in the 80s.

People there either lived in massive trailer parks (like the ones I lived in when I was younger and my parents were professional beekeepers) or row homes of early 80's wooden siding geometric houses, like this one:

The thinking was all Republican, all Reagan, all the time. No one had a different opinion because there wasn't any reason to.

That's the kind of people she represents and why she's able to stay in office despite being demonstrably fucking stupid. The area is far less homogenous than it once was, but it's still overwhelmingly white:

The 5 largest ethnic groups in Cherokee County, GA are White (Non-Hispanic) (78.2%), White (Hispanic) (6.97%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (6.64%), Two+ (Non-Hispanic) (2.41%), and Asian (Non-Hispanic) (1.86%).

MTG's district follows the same pattern.

So, she uses all of the trigger words that homogenous populations of people who are surrounded by people just like them are going to glom onto. Add to that the "intrusion" of non-whites into those areas that had historically been upwards of 98% white, and you'll see that the people feel like things are changing and they don't like them. The old social contract of knowing everyone gives way to larger populations with their concomitant crime statistics, and that is how someone like MTG is able to stay in power despite being, as I've said, COLOSSALY FUCKING STUPID, like the kind of dumb that leaves you staggered that someone so absolutely clueless about how the world actually is can still be re-elected. How a known venal, serial adulterer can win over the voters of an area that would likely view itself as moral and religious. That's how. She's one of them, their tribe, and that's why I think that most people don't actually believe in their religion, it's just what they've always done, and we all long to be included.

[wuapinmon]

I'd love to see a Raskin/Duckworth ticket in 2024.