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Aw, your poor fee fees.
Call it āmerdeā and you can charge triple. French, very classy.
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Awesome!! Just when I thought all human beings had high tailed it out of West Virginia long ago. Excrement is a nose-gay compared to what Republican filth is doling out.
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I donāt know. Here we are pretty proud of our moose ānuggetā crafts. One personās (or animalās) shit is another personās treasure?
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Keeping timeās a shitty job ā
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It is the main ingredient in the famous chocolate cake
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My first impression was that he was being somewhat gentlemanly about exactly what he thought of the budget bill.
If he had approached the situation with pure truthfulness and honesty, Gov. Justice would have said without any hesitation āā¦ what we have here is a steaming pile of dog shit!ā revealing the same in lifting the cover of the silver platter.
A dried cow pie just doesnāt cut it.
I honestly donāt know how to respond to this. Arenāt Appalachians supposed to nurture a certain form of rustic pride? As in: āwe may be poor but we try to maintain some standardsā? Perhaps Iāve romanticized what clearly is a grim and crude reality.
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Stupid stunt.
Silly remark. Schoolyard stuff.
Iām obviously not trying to suggest to you or @inlabsitrust there are no unsophisticated people anywhere, or that some of the redder states folks donāt embrace their regular-folksness as a point of pride. And even people I think are extremely sophisticated in other ways seem to enjoy crude humor that to me is kind of flat and obvious and not really funny.
Anyway all that said, again, Iāve learned over the years thereās numbers of people middle-class people in the more rural states north and south that donāt much enjoy the stereotypes theyāre painted with and really donāt like it when those stereotypes get reinforced. Theyāre like Aunt Alexandra in Mockingbird. And I think those types of people would be pretty cringey about having their governor using visual aids to emphasize a joke about horseshit.
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Why are Democrats so hot on raising sales taxes, which are highly regressive and an attack on the working class and unemployed? These are people who are most likely to be purchasing local and thus be paying a higher proportion of their income for the tax.
Agreed 100% with this sentiment. Democrats need to reach peopleāand if this is how a Dem governor in a state that voted OVERWHELMINGLY for Republicans in presidential races for the last decade reaches his peopleāthen thatās how he should do it.
Itās smart. He knows his audience and he is talking to them.
Outsiders complaining that heās not speaking in a way that reaches them are TOTALLY missing the point.
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I take your point. But I find West Virginia and North Carolina to be odd places when it comes to politics. Are these people in any stream? mainstream? on the far right? or just plain ornery when it comes to politics?
Oh good. A special session where theyāre free to pass more BS on any subject they desire. A double-edged sword to be sure.
My kind of Democrat!!!
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I applaud the Governor of West Virginia for showing us how to stand up to asshole Republicans!
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Made into a clock?
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Normally I give politicians with āDā after their name the strong benefit of the doubt, but this governorās veto last Sunday of a bill that would eliminate $15M in subsidies to greyhound breeders eliminated all doubt in my mind. Thatās $15M that could go towards education or job training, but instead goes to support a dying āsportā built on the suffering of animals. His antics with cow dung arenāt therefore very surprising, nor his support of regressive sales taxes.
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