White people

[Grizalltheway]

We just had a hilarious romp through the american political landscape this past 12 months
Ending in a con-man TV personality winning the election
and becoming the leader of the free world

two of the most offensive human beings that could possibly stand opposite a podium to each other
just spent small fortunes embarrassing themselves further than thought previously possible
one pretending to represent women and enlightenment
the other pretending to care about the people

Everybody has an opinion on what just happened
most of the opinions are unintentionally funny



does it really matter..?

No and totally agree.

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."

You hear they're going to clone and sell the Doctor's stash? Bet it's some potent shit!

[houndawg]

No and totally agree.

"No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten."

You hear they're going to clone and sell the Doctor's stash? Bet it's some potent ****!

Let someone else toke first and watch them for a while...stuff is probably augmented...

[YoUDeeMan]

Yikes..!!! WTF ^
I was entertained by the article and I see that somehow offends you
or you're at least behaving like somebody who is offended
you randomly insult me to make yourself feel better I guess

You seem on edge around here lately, is everything okay..?

Everything is fine and I feel good without typing a thing.

The insult wasn't random...and it obviously hit home.

Stop whining like a Liberal when people respond to your Clintoness.

[YoUDeeMan]

I don't think you read it very closely did you...

I sure did.

Even the part where she takes the unique and unheard of tack of saying Trump voters voted for things like "misogyny" and the almost unheard of "white supremacy". Must be the first time I've heard that this cycle.

I'm not sure Chizzy understands what he posts.

[YoUDeeMan]

Poor girl is probably just literally reporting what she's literally been reading.

Yes, another poor victim.

People rarely report what that don't think. That would require more thinking.

[kalm]

Here's another article of a similar ilk that will piss many of you off regardless of where you live. After all..."rural America" is more a mindset than a place.

Unlike Chizzy, I don't live inside the Western Washington elitist liberal bubble . I'm with CID1990 in empathizing with and appreciating rural America so I find quite a bit in this piece to argue with but still...there are some solid points.

The honest truths that rural, Christian, white Americans don’t want to accept and until they do nothing is going to change, are:

-Their economic situation is largely the result of voting for supply-side economic policies that have been the largest redistribution of wealth from the bottom/middle to the top in U.S. history.

-Immigrants haven’t taken their jobs. If all immigrants, legal or otherwise, were removed from the U.S., our economy would come to a screeching halt and prices on food would soar.

-Immigrants are not responsible for companies moving their plants overseas. Almost exclusively white business owners are the ones responsible because they care more about their share holders who are also mostly white than they do American workers.

-No one is coming for their guns. All that has been proposed during the entire Obama administration is having better background checks.

-Gay people getting married is not a threat to their freedom to believe in whatever white God you want to. No one is going to make their church marry gays, make gays your pastor, accept gays for membership.

-Women having access to birth control doesn’t affect their life either, especially women who they complain about being teenage, single mothers.

-Blacks are not “lazy moochers living off their hard earned tax dollars” anymore than many of your fellow rural neighbors. People in need are people in need. People who can’t find jobs because of their circumstances, a changing economy, outsourcing overseas, etc. belong to all races.

-They get a tremendous amount of help from the government they complain does nothing for them. From the roads and utility grids they use to the farm subsidies, crop insurance, commodities protections…they benefit greatly from government assistance. The Farm Bill is one of the largest financial expenditures by the U.S. government. Without government assistance, their lives would be considerably worse.

-They get the largest share of Food Stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

-They complain about globalization but line up like everyone else to get the latest Apple product. They have no problem buying foreign-made guns, scopes, and hunting equipment. They don’t think twice about driving trucks whose engine was made in Canada, tires made in Japan, radio made in Korea, computer parts made in Malaysia.

-They use illicit drugs as much as any other group. But, when other people do it is a “moral failing” and they should be severely punished, legally. When they do it, it is a “health crisis” that needs sympathy and attention.

-When jobs dry up for whatever reasons, they refuse to relocate but lecture the poor in places like Flint for staying in towns that are failing.

-They are quick to judge minorities for being “welfare moochers” but don’t think twice about cashing their welfare check every month.

-They complain about coastal liberals, but the taxes from California and New York are what covers their farm subsidies, helps maintain their highways, and keeps their hospitals in their sparsely populated areas open for business.

-They complain about “the little man being run out of business” then turn around and shop at big box stores.

-They make sure outsiders are not welcome, deny businesses permits to build, then complain about businesses, plants opening up in less rural areas.

-Government has not done enough to help them in many cases but their local and state governments are almost completely Republican and so too are their representatives and senators. Instead of holding them accountable, they vote them in over and over and over again.

-All the economic policies and ideas that could help rural America belong to the Democratic Party: raising the minimum wage, strengthening unions, infrastructure spending, reusable energy growth, slowing down the damage done by climate change, healthcare reform…all of these and more would really help a lot of rural Americans.

What I understand is that rural, Christian, white Americans are entrenched in fundamentalist belief systems; don’t trust people outside their tribe; have been force-fed a diet of misinformation and lies for decades; are unwilling to understand their own situations; and truly believe whites are superior to all races. No amount of understanding is going to change these things or what they believe. No amount of niceties will get them to be introspective. No economic policy put forth by someone outside their tribe is going to be listened to no matter how beneficial it would be for them. I understand rural, Christian, white America all too well. I understand their fears are based on myths and lies. I understand they feel left behind by a world they don’t understand and don’t really care to. They are willing to vote against their own interest if they can be convinced it will make sure minorities are harmed more. Their Christian beliefs and morals are truly only extended to fellow white Christians. They are the problem with progress and always will be, because their belief systems are constructed against it.

The problem isn’t a lack of understanding by coastal elites. The problem is a lack of understanding of why rural, Christian, white America believes, votes, behaves the ways it does by rural, Christian, white America.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/the-dar ... he-inside/

[houndawg]

Here's another article of a similar ilk that will piss many of you off regardless of where you live. After all..."rural America" is more a mindset than a place.

Unlike Chizzy, I don't live inside the Western Washington elitist liberal bubble . I'm with CID1990 in empathizing with and appreciating rural America so I find quite a bit in this piece to argue with but still...there are some solid points.

The honest truths that rural, Christian, white Americans don’t want to accept and until they do nothing is going to change, are:

-Their economic situation is largely the result of voting for supply-side economic policies that have been the largest redistribution of wealth from the bottom/middle to the top in U.S. history.

-Immigrants haven’t taken their jobs. If all immigrants, legal or otherwise, were removed from the U.S., our economy would come to a screeching halt and prices on food would soar.

-Immigrants are not responsible for companies moving their plants overseas. Almost exclusively white business owners are the ones responsible because they care more about their share holders who are also mostly white than they do American workers.

-No one is coming for their guns. All that has been proposed during the entire Obama administration is having better background checks.

-Gay people getting married is not a threat to their freedom to believe in whatever white God you want to. No one is going to make their church marry gays, make gays your pastor, accept gays for membership.

-Women having access to birth control doesn’t affect their life either, especially women who they complain about being teenage, single mothers.

-Blacks are not “lazy moochers living off their hard earned tax dollars” anymore than many of your fellow rural neighbors. People in need are people in need. People who can’t find jobs because of their circumstances, a changing economy, outsourcing overseas, etc. belong to all races.

-They get a tremendous amount of help from the government they complain does nothing for them. From the roads and utility grids they use to the farm subsidies, crop insurance, commodities protections…they benefit greatly from government assistance. The Farm Bill is one of the largest financial expenditures by the U.S. government. Without government assistance, their lives would be considerably worse.

-They get the largest share of Food Stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

-They complain about globalization but line up like everyone else to get the latest Apple product. They have no problem buying foreign-made guns, scopes, and hunting equipment. They don’t think twice about driving trucks whose engine was made in Canada, tires made in Japan, radio made in Korea, computer parts made in Malaysia.

-They use illicit drugs as much as any other group. But, when other people do it is a “moral failing” and they should be severely punished, legally. When they do it, it is a “health crisis” that needs sympathy and attention.

-When jobs dry up for whatever reasons, they refuse to relocate but lecture the poor in places like Flint for staying in towns that are failing.

-They are quick to judge minorities for being “welfare moochers” but don’t think twice about cashing their welfare check every month.

-They complain about coastal liberals, but the taxes from California and New York are what covers their farm subsidies, helps maintain their highways, and keeps their hospitals in their sparsely populated areas open for business.

-They complain about “the little man being run out of business” then turn around and shop at big box stores.

-They make sure outsiders are not welcome, deny businesses permits to build, then complain about businesses, plants opening up in less rural areas.

-Government has not done enough to help them in many cases but their local and state governments are almost completely Republican and so too are their representatives and senators. Instead of holding them accountable, they vote them in over and over and over again.

-All the economic policies and ideas that could help rural America belong to the Democratic Party: raising the minimum wage, strengthening unions, infrastructure spending, reusable energy growth, slowing down the damage done by climate change, healthcare reform…all of these and more would really help a lot of rural Americans.

What I understand is that rural, Christian, white Americans are entrenched in fundamentalist belief systems; don’t trust people outside their tribe; have been force-fed a diet of misinformation and lies for decades; are unwilling to understand their own situations; and truly believe whites are superior to all races. No amount of understanding is going to change these things or what they believe. No amount of niceties will get them to be introspective. No economic policy put forth by someone outside their tribe is going to be listened to no matter how beneficial it would be for them. I understand rural, Christian, white America all too well. I understand their fears are based on myths and lies. I understand they feel left behind by a world they don’t understand and don’t really care to. They are willing to vote against their own interest if they can be convinced it will make sure minorities are harmed more. Their Christian beliefs and morals are truly only extended to fellow white Christians. They are the problem with progress and always will be, because their belief systems are constructed against it.

The problem isn’t a lack of understanding by coastal elites. The problem is a lack of understanding of why rural, Christian, white America believes, votes, behaves the ways it does by rural, Christian, white America.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/the-dar ... he-inside/[/quote ]

[Ibanez]

My wife and I were in downtown Charlotte this afternoon and there was a staged protest. A black man, surrounded by other black men, was railing against white people. Here are 2 of my favorite claims made by this man:

1) God, Jesus, prophets and angels are black. It says so in the bible and they read the verse.
2) Whites are guilty of Identity Theft b/c we stole the black mans identity.

As we walked by them, a well dressed, older black man told them to "shut the fuck up, you whiny n*gg*rs!"

[JohnStOnge]

The question is: Why did they do that? Why did they line up so strongly behind someone who is an ‎anathema to everything they claim to be believe?

You did see who he was running against, no?.

I did not expect White Evangelical Christians to vote for the Democrat. What I expected was for them to show some character and refuse to vote for either. What I expected was for them to tell the Republicans, "Don't put up an atrocity like that and expect us to act like mind numbed robots and vote for him."

[93henfan]

You did see who he was running against, no?.

I did not expect White Evangelical Christians to vote for the Democrat. What I expected was for them to show some character and refuse to vote for either. What I expected was for them to tell the Republicans, "Don't put up an atrocity like that and expect us to act like mind numbed robots and vote for him."

I thank God and Jesus and Baby Jesus daily that Hillary Clinton is not the President-Elect, and I don't even attend a church regularly.

[YoUDeeMan]

Here's another article of a similar ilk that will piss many of you off regardless of where you live. After all..."rural America" is more a mindset than a place.

Unlike Chizzy, I don't live inside the Western Washington elitist liberal bubble . I'm with CID1990 in empathizing with and appreciating rural America so I find quite a bit in this piece to argue with but still...there are some solid points.

The honest truths that rural, Christian, white Americans don’t want to accept and until they do nothing is going to change, are:

-Their economic situation is largely the result of voting for supply-side economic policies that have been the largest redistribution of wealth from the bottom/middle to the top in U.S. history.

-Immigrants haven’t taken their jobs. If all immigrants, legal or otherwise, were removed from the U.S., our economy would come to a screeching halt and prices on food would soar.

-Immigrants are not responsible for companies moving their plants overseas. Almost exclusively white business owners are the ones responsible because they care more about their share holders who are also mostly white than they do American workers.

-No one is coming for their guns. All that has been proposed during the entire Obama administration is having better background checks.

-Gay people getting married is not a threat to their freedom to believe in whatever white God you want to. No one is going to make their church marry gays, make gays your pastor, accept gays for membership.

-Women having access to birth control doesn’t affect their life either, especially women who they complain about being teenage, single mothers.

-Blacks are not “lazy moochers living off their hard earned tax dollars” anymore than many of your fellow rural neighbors. People in need are people in need. People who can’t find jobs because of their circumstances, a changing economy, outsourcing overseas, etc. belong to all races.

-They get a tremendous amount of help from the government they complain does nothing for them. From the roads and utility grids they use to the farm subsidies, crop insurance, commodities protections…they benefit greatly from government assistance. The Farm Bill is one of the largest financial expenditures by the U.S. government. Without government assistance, their lives would be considerably worse.

-They get the largest share of Food Stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.

-They complain about globalization but line up like everyone else to get the latest Apple product. They have no problem buying foreign-made guns, scopes, and hunting equipment. They don’t think twice about driving trucks whose engine was made in Canada, tires made in Japan, radio made in Korea, computer parts made in Malaysia.

-They use illicit drugs as much as any other group. But, when other people do it is a “moral failing” and they should be severely punished, legally. When they do it, it is a “health crisis” that needs sympathy and attention.

-When jobs dry up for whatever reasons, they refuse to relocate but lecture the poor in places like Flint for staying in towns that are failing.

-They are quick to judge minorities for being “welfare moochers” but don’t think twice about cashing their welfare check every month.

-They complain about coastal liberals, but the taxes from California and New York are what covers their farm subsidies, helps maintain their highways, and keeps their hospitals in their sparsely populated areas open for business.

-They complain about “the little man being run out of business” then turn around and shop at big box stores.

-They make sure outsiders are not welcome, deny businesses permits to build, then complain about businesses, plants opening up in less rural areas.

-Government has not done enough to help them in many cases but their local and state governments are almost completely Republican and so too are their representatives and senators. Instead of holding them accountable, they vote them in over and over and over again.

-All the economic policies and ideas that could help rural America belong to the Democratic Party: raising the minimum wage, strengthening unions, infrastructure spending, reusable energy growth, slowing down the damage done by climate change, healthcare reform…all of these and more would really help a lot of rural Americans.

What I understand is that rural, Christian, white Americans are entrenched in fundamentalist belief systems; don’t trust people outside their tribe; have been force-fed a diet of misinformation and lies for decades; are unwilling to understand their own situations; and truly believe whites are superior to all races. No amount of understanding is going to change these things or what they believe. No amount of niceties will get them to be introspective. No economic policy put forth by someone outside their tribe is going to be listened to no matter how beneficial it would be for them. I understand rural, Christian, white America all too well. I understand their fears are based on myths and lies. I understand they feel left behind by a world they don’t understand and don’t really care to. They are willing to vote against their own interest if they can be convinced it will make sure minorities are harmed more. Their Christian beliefs and morals are truly only extended to fellow white Christians. They are the problem with progress and always will be, because their belief systems are constructed against it.

The problem isn’t a lack of understanding by coastal elites. The problem is a lack of understanding of why rural, Christian, white America believes, votes, behaves the ways it does by rural, Christian, white America.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/the-dar ... he-inside/

What an absolute crock of shit written by a clown with serious issues.

[Chizzang]

Here's another article of a similar ilk that will piss many of you off regardless of where you live. After all..."rural America" is more a mindset than a place.

Unlike Chizzy, I don't live inside the Western Washington elitist liberal bubble . I'm with CID1990 in empathizing with and appreciating rural America so I find quite a bit in this piece to argue with but still...there are some solid points.



http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/the-dar ... he-inside/

What an absolute crock of shit written by a clown with serious issues.

Meh... He was raised a Mormon (and escaped)
What he's saying about Mormons is actually spot on
It doesn't really apply elsewhere

[YoUDeeMan]

What an absolute crock of shit written by a clown with serious issues.

Meh... He was raised a Mormon (and escaped)
What he's saying about Mormons is actually spot on
It doesn't really apply elsewhere

Ahh...another small minded clown that thinks he knows everything about the rest of the word from his damaged experience.

There's a dog in the neighborhood that doesn't like men because her previous owner was an abusive man. Perhaps we can get that paranoid, shit-for-brains dog to write for the Liberal press (and vote for a womyn President).






Oh, and all Muslins are terrorists and all police are racists.








Oh, Oh...all Mormans think alike, too, right?

[kalm]

What an absolute crock of shit written by a clown with serious issues.

Meh... He was raised a Mormon (and escaped)
What he's saying about Mormons is actually spot on
It doesn't really apply elsewhere

I didn't know he was Mormon but it makes sense. One of my closest friends is Mormon and he's politically very similar to what this writer describes. I have non-Mormon family and friends living in rural Eastern Washington who think the same as well.

It's stereotyping to a certain degree but there's some truth to it. Cluck is in denial or misinformed.

[YoUDeeMan]

Meh... He was raised a Mormon (and escaped)
What he's saying about Mormons is actually spot on
It doesn't really apply elsewhere

I didn't know he was Mormon but it makes sense. One of my closest friends is Mormon and he's politically very similar to what this writer describes. I have non-Mormon family and friends living in rural Eastern Washington who think the same as well.

It's stereotyping to a certain degree but there's some truth to it. Cluck is in denial or misinformed.

It is you who are misinformed, and it is unfortunate that you choose to remain that way.

The, "I have a few Black/country/Muslin friends..." game is a silly way to go through life thinking you understand people.

[kalm]

I didn't know he was Mormon but it makes sense. One of my closest friends is Mormon and he's politically very similar to what this writer describes. I have non-Mormon family and friends living in rural Eastern Washington who think the same as well.

It's stereotyping to a certain degree but there's some truth to it. Cluck is in denial or misinformed.

It is you who are misinformed, and it is unfortunate that you choose to remain that way.

The, "I have a few Black/country/Muslin friends..." game is a silly way to go through life thinking you understand people.

Dude...I don't just have a few friends...I literally live amongst them. One of the things i love about Cheney is it's semi-rural mix of dirt farmers, cattle ranchers, and college liberals. I tailgated with them yesterday, drink beers at the lake with them, hang out at small town festivals with them. They are friends and family and customers of mine. We have conversations, I see the political signs on their acreage, and get to see their social media posts. I observe the voting tendencies of staunchly conservative E. WA.

Am I stereotyping? Sure...a bit. But no more so than the countless racial stereotypes you see all the time. Are they monolithic and all think exactly the same? Of course not. Are there regional tendencies? Sure. But judging by the observations of the author and also made by Houndy and Wedgie it ain't isolated. Nor is it confined to rural America. Like I've said before redneckism transcends geography. Its a sub culture of America and hell, some of it isn't even wrong or a bad thing.

[houndawg]

You did see who he was running against, no?.

I did not expect White Evangelical Christians to vote for the Democrat. What I expected was for them to show some character and refuse to vote for either. What I expected was for them to tell the Republicans, "Don't put up an atrocity like that and expect us to act like mind numbed robots and vote for him."

I've been telling you you're out of touch for years now.

[houndawg]

It is you who are misinformed, and it is unfortunate that you choose to remain that way.

The, "I have a few Black/country/Muslin friends..." game is a silly way to go through life thinking you understand people.

Dude...I don't just have a few friends...I literally live amongst them. One of the things i love about Cheney is it's semi-rural mix of dirt farmers, cattle ranchers, and college liberals. I tailgated with them yesterday, drink beers at the lake with them, hang out at small town festivals with them. They are friends and family and customers of mine. We have conversations, I see the political signs on their acreage, and get to see their social media posts. I observe the voting tendencies of staunchly conservative E. WA.

Am I stereotyping? Sure...a bit. But no more so than the countless racial stereotypes you see all the time. Are they monolithic and all think exactly the same? Of course not. Are there regional tendencies? Sure. But judging by the observations of the author and also made by Houndy and Wedgie it ain't isolated. Nor is it confined to rural America. Like I've said before redneckism transcends geography. Its a sub culture of America and hell, some of it is even wrong or a bad thing.

Big picture isn't always their strong point but one on one they're just as nice as people you'll meet anywhere and most of them really would give you the shirt off of their back if you needed it.

[Chizzang]

Meh... He was raised a Mormon (and escaped)
What he's saying about Mormons is actually spot on
It doesn't really apply elsewhere

Ahh...another small minded clown that thinks he knows everything about the rest of the word from his damaged experience.

There's a dog in the neighborhood that doesn't like men because her previous owner was an abusive man. Perhaps we can get that paranoid, shit-for-brains dog to write for the Liberal press (and vote for a womyn President).






Oh, and all Muslins are terrorists and all police are racists.








Oh, Oh...all Mormans think alike, too, right?

Actually MOST Mormons think alike
and MOST Mormons would tell anyone that straight to their face

Ask any Mormon - we've got them by the thousands out here
They aren't at all "secretive" about their beliefs

YOU however are acting like YOU actually know something that you do not

[Ibanez]

What's the deal with white people and mayonnaise?

[Grizalltheway]

What's the deal with white people and mayonnaise?

It's delicious?

[HI54UNI]

What an absolute crock of shit written by a clown with serious issues.

Meh... He was raised a Mormon (and escaped)
What he's saying about Mormons is actually spot on
It doesn't really apply elsewhere

The fact that he is Mormon explains why some of the crap he was spewing made no sense.

There are some things in the article that are true but a lot is crapola. But that's like most articles that go on generalities and stereotypes.

[Ibanez]

What's the deal with white people naming their children names like Conner, Skylar, Tanner or after rivers and cities like Hudson or Brooklyn?

[Gil Dobie]

What's the deal with white people naming their children names like Conner, Skylar, Tanner or after rivers and cities like Hudson or Brooklyn?

...or just the name River.

[Ibanez]

What's the deal with white people naming their children names like Conner, Skylar, Tanner or after rivers and cities like Hudson or Brooklyn?

...or just the name River.

Very true. And what's up with white people hair? I mean, it's red,black, brown, blonde, white, gray....jeesh!