Replies to post #498074 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[sortagreen]

You forgot pickup trucks. You know? Important stuff. If you peasants are so fucking rich, what's with your constant whining?

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Three quarters of the kids in our school system qualify for free or reduced price lunches. I'd say half the town is on some form of state assistance. People I hung with nearly half a century ago are dying from substance abuse because they never found anything to do with their lives. Needless to say, it's trump country.... cuz y'know... Mexicans and coloreds. The real problem.

I did a master's program back in the 90s with a guy from New Jersey. He told me 95% of his high school class went to college. My graduating class was less than 100. Maybe 3 of us went to college. You could still work your way through college back then, although that was less of an issue in Saddle River.

You don't have a fucking clue who I am, or where, or what I come from. You're just a bitter little asshole, blaming everyone else for your own miserable failures.

[sortagreen]

Read this.

Last month, two disasters befell Charleroi, a town about an hour south of Pittsburgh, almost simultaneously. First, the Pyrex factory, which had produced glassware since the 1890s, informed its more than 300 union workers that it would be closing the plant by the end of the year. Then, Donald Trump began name-dropping the town on the campaign trail, not because of the factory closing—Trump never mentioned it—but for its recent influx of immigrants.

Trump’s rhetoric put a dangerous spotlight on the town, stirring fear and distrust in a community already suffering from half a century of deindustrialization. As George Packer reports in his latest story for The Atlantic, Trump never intended to address Charleroi’s real needs. “He had found a small, tender wound in a crucial swing state,” he writes, “and stuck a finger inside.”

I don't have a subscription to The Atlantic but it's here

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/how-win-pennsylvania/680302/?utm_medium=cr&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=10_25_2024_election2024_george_packer_tta_60_day_engaged_prospects_large_subject_line_preview_text_10_10_80_winner&utm_content=Final&utm_term=prospects_60_day_engagement