America may well be there to fuck them over, but there has *never* been a remotely reasonable bridge from that fact to something like supporting the political career of Donald Trump.

The title refers to the Appalachian values and attitude the main character’s parents and grandparents brought to Ohio from Kentucky. The author is a hack but I’m guessing he has a grasp on basic geography.

I grew up in the Ozarks and this makes me weirdly defensive of the term ‘hillbilly.’ Ohio, north of Cincinatti? You’re too flat! You can’t be a hillbilly on flatland you’re just white trash.

This includes the fact that he’s gone on to continue being a Republican, right-wing economically, and while he occasionally makes paeans about how the GOP should go after the working class, he himself is a venture capitalist who’s worked for people like Peter Thiel, just about one of the most ghoulish enemies of the…

I bet there are pages and pages on this script written in all caps.

The Trillbillies podcast have done several episodes on why J.D. Vance is a piece of shit.

he’ll probably pardon John Wilkes Boothe

Why does he have to make a complete recovery? How about he stays sick the whole way through the rest of your list, and then he dies?

I want him to lose of course, but dying the next day would let him off too lightly. Let him live long enough to see all the pending cases against him prosecuted. Let him live just long enough to see himself lose everything. Let him see his kids being convicted. Then when he has nothing left except his failing health…

Yup, agree 100%. My only interest in keeping Trump alive is purely strategic. MAGA would somehow spin Trump into a martyr even though it wouldn’t make sense. And the Republicans who hesitate voting for Trump will gladly vote for smarmy reptile Pence as president. Plus, I want Trump to witness how many millions of peopl…

I do wish him dead. In about 2 months. He needs to see his loss blared out on every kind of media we have. In four part harmony. With feeling.

Black lung isn’t a disease you catch. And honestly I’m surprised the guy actually spent enough time down in the mines to get it.

im other news, bob murray, the coal baron who fought environmental regulation, cried for bailouts and fought paying his workers medical compensation for getting black lung has filed for assistance because he caught black lung. The greek chorus is chanting something, i cant quite make out. “hubris” it sounds like.

I think you’re right, but that’s a risk I’m willing to take.

they won’t. Remember, the thing fueling anti-mask protest is fear. People are terrified of the notion that an invisible disease can cut you down, so they double down on conspiracy theories or anything that says they don’t. have to be afraid.

So if he really did get it? Oh it’s not that big of a deal.

And (god hoping) he…

But also, maybe people will finally take this epidemic seriously. If Donald Trump has to get sick and die for his supporters to start wearing their fucking masks when in public, it’s a sacrifice worth making.

My conscience doesn’t bother me...

I am highly interested in this person, what exactly led them to flex against the entire grand jury process, and where they were taught the grit to flex like this.

A lot of these cases are coming out also not just because of body cams (which are important) but also because of video by bystanders.

I think “minimizes what constitutes justified legal use of force by an officer” kinda undersells Penal Code Section 835a and it’s worth noting DA O’Malley cited this new law back when Fletcher was charged.