Jump to content

heso

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    2507
  • Joined

Everything posted by heso

  1. Southwest PA is a little different than the rest of rural PA. PA used to be referred to as a T because the southeast corner was Philly and suburbs and strongly democrat. Southwest PA was the land of steel mills and coal mines and unions. It was a place where unions made a real fucking difference in towns where they’d send young kids into the mines and people worked long hours 6 days a week and were in debt to the company store. It’s a place where the changes that unions ushered in made a massive positive difference in people’s lives. And because of that it was solidly democratic from FDR through Kerry. McGovern was the only democrat that lost southwestern PA I’m that time. In that respect it has a lot in common with WV and eastern Kentucky. WV was a swing state and blue more often than not for most of the 20th century. And then a black man ran for president and SW PA was lost for at least a generation.
  2. I’m not convinced they’ve ever come to the conclusion that they can only rely on themselves. They got told that their steel mills and manufacturing got shipped overseas by big city globalist democrats. They got told that the environmentalists are shutting down the coal mines. They got told that it was Obama’s fault that the post recession recovery skipped their communities. They got told that Biden was going to shut down fracking and turn off their gas wells. They got told that the Muslims were coming to destroy their way of life. They got told that millions of brown people are streaming across the border to come take what little they have. They’ve been eating nothing but lies for decades and have absolutely no connection to reality. No ability to connect with what’s really happening. Because they actively seek out an echo chamber that is happy to feed them the lies that they desperately want to hear. They are told that the shining city on the hill is being torn down by everything different than rural white Christians. They are told that there’s no possible way that the party that represents minorities or gays or trans or cities could possibly be good for them. And in what is probably the greatest con of all time, Donald fucking Trump convinced them that he was the only one that could save them. By speaking in simple words and making fun of all of the things that they weren’t, they bought it. They swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. He perfectly fed them the lie that they wanted to hear. That the cause of their situation was a grand conspiracy against them and only he could set things right. A brilliant, white, man of god was going to lead the charge to bring back a time where Christian whites were superior to everyone else, men worked, women cooked and everyone else knew their place. They aren’t looking for bootstraps to pull themselves up by. They are looking for a party that will knock down anyone different than them so that they can climb over them.
  3. This will forever be my favorite moment from the Trump presidency. A man so incapable of admitting that he misspoke on slightly outdated information that he had to have a poster board made of a days old map and draw on it with sharpie to prove to everyone that he wasn’t actually wrong. What a fucking imbecile.
  4. This is the shift of each county in PA. Compared to the map of fracking wells:
  5. This is their message to suburban white guys in Allegheny county. I get it every day now.
  6. Penn state is a nightmare to get to driving from Boston? It’s a hike but coming from the east it’s literally just 2 highways from the NY/NJ border. I 80 west to 99 south and that drops you off directly at the stadium.
  7. That should be the plan no matter who it is. The only person that couldn’t make Trump show his ass was Biden because he just couldn’t keep up with him. No matter who it is they just need to keep hammering Trump on all of his failings. After every rambling response, emphasize how much of a complete verbal diarrhea every answer Trump gives is.
  8. The only evidence I’ve seen of that is a post on freaking 4chan claiming to be the SS sniper. But unsurprisingly, Twitter is running with it.
  9. Trump won Butler county 2-1, but Biden improved on Hillary’s numbers there by 11k and Trump only lost the state by 80k. He had a rally there the day before the election in 2020. It was very likely in the exact same field as yesterday’s rally.
  10. That’s northwestern PA meth in all it’s glory.
  11. And I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me.
  12. In PA when you apply for or renew your drivers license, you’re prompted with a question asking if you’d also like to register to vote. If you hit yes it walks you through the process. The listed parties are democratic, republican, green, libertarian, no affiliation, other (gives a text field to enter the party). You’re only able to vote in the primary of your registered party.
  13. Give me Gov Shapiro. That was his bookshelf the day after the election on CNN saying that PA was already a foregone conclusion and it was just a matter of adding up the votes.
  14. Had my longest hole out of my career yesterday. 77 yards. Beat my previous best by probably close to 70 yards. Stuck three 8 irons and a 7 iron inside 4 feet. Golf is a hell of a lot more fun when your scoring clubs are dialed. Ive managed to drop my handicap from 19.7 to 15.1 in the last year. The 19.7 last June was the highest my handicap had been in a long time. I’m on target to go from 19.7 to single digits in 3 years. Goal for next June is 12, 9 by June 26.
  15. I don’t understand the mentality of a person that roots for Bryson.
  16. He could have been dead any of those times he got into the wiregrass. He keeps firing it in there he’s gonna get fucked eventually.
  17. Back in the shit again.
  18. Just pick the max for everything. They draw the tournament days first then the practice rounds.
  19. I’ve applied the day it opens forever and got picked 2 of the last 6 years. Just saying.
  20. Isn’t today your birthday? If I’m not misremembering, happy birthday.
  21. It’s pop. Soda is unflavored carbonated water. And I can’t remember the last time I had pop that wasn’t a Dr Pepper.
  22. It’s not baseball, but my 7yo daughter just started playing softball this season. It has been incredibly frustrating to watch but also fun as hell. For whatever reason, throwing a ball does not come naturally to her, like, at all. But she refuses to let me help her because “I’m not her coach”. She’s having a blast though, so that’s really all that matters right now. Her coach is great, he has 3 daughters, one on the team and all of the girls love playing for him. Contrast that with the team we just finished a home & home with. Also has 3 daughters, 2 on his team. Their team is on a VERY different level from our team. I think the first game we lost about 20-1,second game was a bit better, maybe 15-5ish. But every girl on that team seems miserable. He screams at them non fucking stop. Like literally every contacted ball when their team was fielding someone is getting screamed at, even if they made the play but it wasn’t perfect he’s screaming at them.
  23. That was the description of what happened from Darlington on espn, who was in the line of cars that Scotty tried to drive around.
  24. So how do you decide to keep driving for 10 yards while a cop is holding onto your car and you, what, just don’t realize that he’s holding onto your car and shouting for you to stop?
×
×
  • Create New...