How is it that you fuckin Yankees keep forgetting that the states with the highest African-American populations are in the South? The cities with the highest percentage of African Americans in the middle class are southern cities?
Jesus. It’s not like y’all don’t have your own share of complete fucking nutjobs, racists, and lunatics running around in your own backyards.
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Who you callin’ a Yankee? I may have been born in California, but it was by God Southern California!
I would assume that any separation of the country would include the right of the populations to migrate to fit their beliefs. The rednecks and peckerwoods up North can join their kin in Georgia, while the productive black citizens can move North and West. Sorta like they did after the Peace of Westphalia.
The problem is that there really isn’t that kind of neat geographical divide. Certain types of thinking may predominate in certain areas but the truth is that there’s a mixture of left and right everywhere.
And keep in mind the number of African Americans living in southern states.
Obama is releasing the text of his speech a day early. Is that catering to stupidity or diffusing the situation?
Well, I guess he is the president of the stupid people too.
Some of them are learning that their parents are paranoid wack jobs. That may come in handy later.
And there are some hella decent whites who call the South home as well. Don’t wash all of us with the same paint.
Others may learn about their school’s zero tolerance policy with regard to absenteeism.
Maybe one of two of these morons will actually read the text of his speech instead of listening to Glenn Beck. But I doubt it.
If they do read it they’ll believe that it’s a lie and not what he’s really going to say.
Or, like the health care bill, they’ll interpret everything to mean that Obama’s henchmen will be coming for them in the middle of the night.
“Look, look, right here, it says ‘education is important’ but it doesn’t say ‘and so is lowering taxes for the wealthy.’ How can anybody take this guy seriously?”
ETA: “I want my country back!”
They had their chance, they fucked it up. Our turn.
If you think it’s your turn to fuck it up, you’re off to a rip-roaring start.
Right. It’s odd, but my memory is thrown wayyy back to when I was five years old, and, in the perfectly pristine 1960’s California heyday— had a birthday party, with all the neighborhood kids attending. All was going well until Nextdoor Neighbor Brenda saw the Liddle Kiddle doll I unwrapped as a gift, and she started screaming that she wanted it, yes, she Wanted IT. Her parents had to carry her out kicking and screaming because they didn’t know how to tell her, “well, honey, you can’t have that now, this is somebody else’s birthday party.” She did not know how to get along with others.
I was really floored by that then at five, and remember it as an early WTF moment: Why is she stomping and crying so much??? What happened? Why is Brenda so crazy, Mommy???
Lately, I’m seeing that a lot of crazy folks want all the Liddle Kiddles,birthday/election or not.
Ha ha. Don’t quit your day job; your comedy routine needs polishing.
The Bush Administration, backed by virtually the entire Republican Party, had eight years to show America how good Bush-style conservatism was for the country. They threw away a budget surplus and ran up massive debts, got us into two foreign wars, only one of which is remotely justifiable on the basis of provocation, deregulated a wide variety of industries, which promptly used their new freedom to go belly-up and then demand government financing to keep themselves from total closure (and caused immense financial hardship to many Americans of all political stripes), pandered to the Religious Right in their campaigns but did not deliver on their promises, seriously argued that torture of prisoners is an acceptable practice, that they have the right, without due process of law, to decide which American citizens are untrustworthy and threats, played the national security and confidentiality cards to refuse to answer questions our elected representatives had every right to ask about what they were doing, appointed an personnel officer in one Cabinet department who proceeded to hire graduates of a school devoted to replacing American democracy with a theocracy, and in general abused the public trust in every conceivable way short of open dictatorship.
It is now the Obama Administration’s opportunity to clean up the messes they left behind and attempt to put this country back on a stabler footing. That is what Elucidator meant. And if you were half as loyal to the United States of America as you are to the Republican Party, you wouldn’t make snarky one liner jokes but say, “We chose a man who fucked things up. Here’s what we really stand for, and if you elect our Congressional candidates in 2010 and our Presidential candidate in 2012, we pledge to do better by you, the American people.” But that would be too much like candor and honesty for a loyalist Republican these days. I’d love to see that comment proved wrong – but I doubt I will.
Have you been to the South? Cause I’ve been to Southern California, and dude, there’s no way I’d give up the Blue Ridge Mountains for a chance at LA gridlock.
If you’re really set on this cockamamie idea, send all the jerks and assholes to LA, and let all the good people come to our part of the country.
Nah. Send them to Florida. We can tell them they need to stand guard over communist Cuba and the place already has its own category on Fark.
I’ve said more than once that the only way I’d ever vote for Republican candidate would be were I to hear one that would actually repudiate Dick Cheney and his assistant as complete and total fuckups.
But no, instead we somehow have Cheney starting to look like he’s in the top five possible 2012 nominees.
-Joe
I guess they wouldn’t let Jesus talk to them either,were He living today he would be called a bleeding heart liberal.
Better not let them read the Bible either, or they may find out the first Christians were Communistic!