Current Affairs General US politics (ie, not POTUS related)

[mezzrow]

Manchin was was governor when I lived there and he's rather popular. It wouldn't be a landslide but he'd beat either of the 2 milk toast Repubs not in a landslide but pretty handily. He's triangulated so much that there really isn't anything they can attack him on.

Blankenship will have 6 months to unleash the racism while convicing his voters that Killary was responsible for those miners deaths, Obummer regulations turned Parkersburg into cancerville USA, and the Elk River spill was a secret EPA plot. There is enough dumb and oxycodone riddled voters in that state to push him over the top in a general election. He'll have full support from the RNC. Don't forget, Moore got 49% of the vote and only lost because of big time turnout from blacks, not something that WV has much of. Pay no attn to the polls Trumpists think the media is the deep state and wouldn't talk to them anyway.

This isn't the 21st century I was waiting for.

 

[ilikecheese]

Manchin was was governor when I lived there and he's rather popular. It wouldn't be a landslide but he'd beat either of the 2 milk toast Repubs not in a landslide but pretty handily. He's triangulated so much that there really isn't anything they can attack him on.

Blankenship will have 6 months to unleash the racism while convicing his voters that Killary was responsible for those miners deaths, Obummer regulations turned Parkersburg into cancerville USA, and the Elk River spill was a secret EPA plot. There is enough dumb and oxycodone riddled voters in that state to push him over the top in a general election. He'll have full support from the RNC. Don't forget, Moore got 49% of the vote and only lost because of big time turnout from blacks, not something that WV has much of. Pay no attn to the polls Trumpists think the media is the deep state and wouldn't talk to them anyway.

I just wanted to say that I'm sorry that you had to live in West Virginia. Thoughts and prayers.

 

[ilikecheese]

I pretty much loathe Mitch McConnell but after the cocaine Mitch stuff even I can have a laugh.

 

[MrPerfectNot]

I pretty much loathe Mitch McConnell but after the cocaine Mitch stuff even I can have a laugh.

Is this real? Funny, guessing it might be fake?

 

[ilikecheese]

Is this real? Funny, guessing it might be fake?

Real. That is his official account.

 

[mezzrow]

Cocaine Mitch gets the results.

 

[mezzrow]

That was mean. Here's the real pic of Mitch getting the news that Blankenship is done.

 

[ilikecheese]

That was mean. Here's the real pic of Mitch getting the news that Blankenship is done.

It's like he's standing in front of me.

 

[ilikecheese]

Look at the voter turnout. A decent gauge of voter enthusiasm.

 

[Rook]

I just wanted to say that I'm sorry that you had to live in West Virginia. Thoughts and prayers.

Its a beautiful state, arguably the prettiest east of the mississippi river. But its really gone to hell since about 2006 when Robert Byrd was too old to leglislate and the opoid crisis hit.

Almost everybody who has a decent middle class job is employed thanks to government money whether its in health care (medicare), education, or federal/state jobs. When that money dries up and/or cut to the bone it will be the final nail in that state's coffin.

 

[riddick]

Its a beautiful state, arguably the prettiest east of the mississippi river. But its really gone to hell since about 2006 when Robert Byrd was too old to leglislate and the opoid crisis hit.

Almost everybody who has a decent middle class job is employed thanks to government money whether its in health care (medicare), education, or federal/state jobs. When that money dries up and/or cut to the bone it will be the final nail in that state's coffin.

I travel it for my job, it really is a beautiful state. It's so odd how everyone there has an $80,000 brand new diesel truck tho

 

[Ruairi77]

I travel it for my job, it really is a beautiful state. It's so odd how everyone there has an $80,000 brand new diesel truck tho

yea, that seems to be a phenomenon everywhere. I live on a tiny one way street, I'm lucky to have a drive way that fits my small car. Backing out is a nightmare as my view is obscured by the F-150's that park on the street. This is in the middle of the city. The people who live on the street and work in construction drive small old battered toyota trucks! It's not a wealthy neighborhood so I assume everyone's borrowed up to their eyeballs to buy these shiny chrome trucks.

 

[mezzrow]

Saw this ad in GA last weekend. Almost spit my OJ out eating breakfast.

 

[ilikecheese]

Saw this ad in GA last weekend. Almost spit my OJ out eating breakfast.

While it appears to be a parody...I think it's dead serious.

 

[Ruairi77]

While it appears to be a parody...I think it's dead serious.

yea, is it a parody. The fake explosion is pretty funny. I'm with you tho, i think it's real