Apparently the gop pacs have already lined up against it. So he has a good chance in a fair fight.
Hey give ’em a little credit, they revised it from FuKKKr.
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You’re not hearing me. I can drive 20 minutes and grab a handful from a giant pile of fresh bird’s eye chilis. I already live in a purple area and I’m not giving those chilis up. Plus which I increasingly need tamarind concentrate. I don’t think they have a lot of that in, say, Arkansas. Pennsylvania is famously a swing state if you hadn’t heard. I can sacrifice a great deal but I need food with flavor to live.
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Do you need more than one though? Do you have to cash in your token every time you use one?
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I watched the film Hillbilly elegy a few months ago. I’ve always been a Ron Howard fan as well as one of the actors in it. The story was a bit lacking and needed a prologue or backstory. You can see young J.Ds grit and pluck but made you wonder how the family ended up like that.
But what burns me about Vance is that he has his pity party and takes many a journalist on a Cletus safari to the southern Ohio Appalachia that he grew up in. Yet he expects us to understand their economic and social circumstances they spent the better part of four decades putting down residents in suburban and urban areas who were negatively affected by the policies by many of his corporate masters.
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The book was enlightening, apparently the author…not so much.
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Poifect! I heard him a couple of times on NPR pushing his book. Lad’s a smooth talker. But the kind of company he’s taken up with - Thiel and Mercer, both! Hoo-boy! Ya’ll real hillbillies, can suck it!
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I don’t take issue with the facts as he describes them. It’s the conclusions he draws from those experiences that I find to be execrable.
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That was as smooth a shivving as one could ask for. Chapeau!
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Or it will give him bona fides as the party intellectual after George Will dies and then he can point to them and say ‘See, not racist!’ although he votes for every policy that increases discrimination and oppression.
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He says hillbillies are angry because the wider culture made fun of them in movies and books, so it’s all snooty white libruls fault that Virginia voted for 45*.
Good thing women’s intelligence never suffered that indignity on film or TV or we’d be mad too.
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If you adopt 2 cats I’ll send you a great Korean cookbook.
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I’ll adopt them if you send me a great Korean chef. 
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Not having read the book I want to know whether this formulation is at all fair:
Shorter Hillbilly Elegy: The elites are right.
Shorter Vance: Rat leaps on sinking ship.
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If you adopt five rhinos I’ll clean out your basement.
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Me first, my area has no Korean food and I have to make my own.
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I have never expressed a love for rhinos, or found them intelligent and ornamental. Others have professed an admiration for cats, and yet, are content in their swinish ways to let them languish in shelters. No comparison.
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You can lash out but you’re obviously afraid of commitment. Just because they’re rhinos, they don’t deserve forever homes? If they’re not cute and cuddly, they don’t have hearts? A Gila monster, a mud puppy or hellbender, dare I say even a hagfish, these are not worthy of love? Sad. Sad, I say.
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