Cleanup in Aisle Lunatic (h/t romad1)

[romad1]

1 minute ago, romad1 said:

This is getting interesting. 

If he can't get this kookoo bird confirmed that bodes well for the Senate stiffening its spine. 

Some amazing stuff in that Vance article.   

Ed Martin loves him some Hitler.  He's also really, really, really bad at his job. 

[CMRivdogs]

39 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Some amazing stuff in that Vance article.   

Ed Martin loves him some Hitler.  He's also really, really, really bad at his job. 

Isn't that part of the qualifications for a Regime position?

[romad1]

 

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Isn't that part of the qualifications for a Regime position?

Yup.

[romad1]

33 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Yup.

Remember when Les Aspin ripped off his shirt and chugged that bottle of JD?  

[Tigerbomb13]

I think I’ve officially heard the worst song ever created 

[Motown Bombers]

This can’t be real. On a side note, I went high school with a Josh Shriver that was a total douchebag who would do something like this. 

[Motown Bombers]

Wow, he went to the same high school as me. He’s a bit younger than me so I already graduated by the time he got to high school. 

[Motown Bombers]

It’s real. There’s more. I’m without words. 

 

[Netnerd]

Lara Trump meets her match.

[chasfh]

Even more depressing then the fact that this person felt completely at ease spewing her hateful garbage in this video, is the fact that she started an online fundraiser to “protect her family” after the incident and has raised something like $700,000.

My guess as to why she’s been able to raise so much is that she has the look of the kind of woman that Nazified white Christian nationalists would like to get busy populating the world with.

C-word is too kind a description for this person. “Monster” seems more apt. Her poor kid doesn’t have a chance.

 

[gehringer_2]

We lived a few years in Minneapolis and I even worked in an industrial facility with lots of working class men, and though it took a while to see it, I did eventually become aware that there was definitely a reactionary element in what was otherwise a pretty good hearted community. At the time (about a decade ago) it was oddly more underground than the racism I'd seen in MI. My experience here has always been that MI bigots didn't try to hide as much as what I sensed in MN.

[chasfh]

8 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

We lived a few years in Minneapolis and I even worked in an industrial facility with lots of working class men, and though it took a while to see it, I did eventually become aware that there was definitely a reactionary element in what was otherwise a pretty good hearted community. At the time (about a decade ago) it was oddly more underground than the racism I'd seen in MI. My experience here has always been that MI bigots didn't try to hide as much as what I sensed in MN.

Probably because more southern whites migrated to Detroit versus the Norwegians that predominate in Minnesota. Different approaches to their racism.  

[LaceyLou]

What makes it interesting is that if you read novels from around the time when Scandinavians were among the most recent immigrants to MN, they're definitely portrayed as being inferior to the WASPs that were in the area first. 

How quickly people forget.... 

[romad1]

 

[mtutiger]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

 

Not the most important point, which Serwer covers, but for all of Kirk's rambling about culture, education, housing, financial and essential services, what purpose does *he* serve for society? What 'essential services' does he, guy behind a microphone flapping his gums, contribute to the world? 

Bringing up housing in particular is really hilarious when you consider who it is that actually *builds* housing in this country. It ain't guys sitting behind a microphone flapping their gums, that's for sure.

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

 

I have zero respect for anyone who says immigrants pose a cultural problem.

Edited Tuesday at 02:14 PM by chasfh

[romad1]

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I have zero respect for anyone who says immigrants pose a cultural problem.

concur

[CMRivdogs]

22 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I have zero respect for anyone who says immigrants pose a cultural problem.

True, unless you have  a 100% indigenous bloodline, somewhere along your family tree is an immigrant.

[chasfh]

4 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

True, unless you have  a 100% indigenous bloodline, somewhere along your family tree is an immigrant.

And even the First Nations people are said to have originally immigrated here from Asia.

[gehringer_2]

9 minutes ago, chasfh said:

And even the First Nations people are said to have originally immigrated here from Asia.

Slackers. They could have had that railroad done 30,000 years ago.

[Motown Bombers]

My neighborhood has turned into an immigrant neighborhood. On one side I have Ukrainian neighbors, on the other Middle Eastern, and across the street more Ukrainians and Middle Eastern along with some Albanians mixed in. I worry about ICE mistakenly raiding my house than any crime caused by the immigrants. 

[romad1]

Just now, Motown Bombers said:

My neighborhood has turned into an immigrant neighborhood. On one side I have Ukrainian neighbors, on the other Middle Eastern, and across the street more Ukrainians and Middle Eastern along with some Albanians mixed in. I worry about ICE mistakenly raiding my house than any crime caused by the immigrants. 

because you have sense.  

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

because you have sense.  

There's that, but also, since he lives near immigrants, he knows who they are, perhaps even says hi and chats with them once in a while. I don't know whether he actually does, but that's what most neighborly folks would do.

Almost all the red hats who are mightily exercised about the immigrant population don't live near any immigrants. Immigrants are a scary other to them, so red hats will believe any bad lie that's told about immigrants.

[mtutiger]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

There's that, but also, since he lives near immigrants, he knows who they are, perhaps even says hi and chats with them once in a while. I don't know whether he actually does, but that's what most neighborly folks would do.

Almost all the red hats who are mightily exercised about the immigrant population don't live near any immigrants. Immigrants are a scary other to them, so red hats will believe any bad lie that's told about immigrants.

I wouldn't underestimate the suburbanites who are reacting to the changing demographics of their neighborhoods.... they are out there, saw it quite a bit when I lived in DFW in particular (which has a lot of immigrants)