Wrong:

Excuse me while I snort my birth control off my desk.

The woman he’s campaigning against is literally reverting city streets to gravel if residents on the street can’t pay for repairs themselves (guess who this hits hardest?) Like, Mello is a shitty Democratic candidate, but the incumbent is basically a monster.

There is no pro-choice candidate running for mayor of Omaha, so your choices are an anti-choice Democrat or an anti-choice Republican. Who would Clinton want you to vote for?

Dumb. Clinton would absolutely have supported this candidate. She was fundraising for downticket Dems throughout her campaign.

“Why isn’t this working?!?”

My guess is that because he is a Christian who is also a gun enthusiast he feels at odds with the fact that he’s ok with the liberal values he’s around — marriage equality, taking care of the environment, etc. As a (very) liberal Christian myself I know that feeling. If a person is truly following Jesus’ teachings,…

I’m going to back him on this. If you start out blue collar, even after success you do not feel like one of the rich folks. That said, thinking that Hollywood doesn’t tell the stories of that demographic is what makes him a ding dong. My bet is that this is a guy who is uncomfortable talking about politics and social…

But you can’t really deny that he comes from a ‘different’ background though. I’m pretty sure that’s what he meant.

Tell that to my multi generation middle class/upper middle class/1% family members who have worked in management, finance, and banking since the 1800s. They all think they are burdened and brethren to the blue collar worker.

Exactly. I bet his frame of reference is all jacked up now, too. I mean, now he’s comparing himself to the richest people in the world, with the craziest jet-setting lifestyles, and unimaginable freedom. Sound like he’s lost perspective.

But a lot of people identify with their roots even if they’ve “made it.” I can’t fault the guy for still thinking in those terms if that is how he actually grew up.

Well, it is his background. He came from Minnesota and his parents were both blue collar (working in supermarkets and mining). Also, from his interviews, it sounds like Pratt isn’t very comfortable with the Hollywood lifestyle.

His mom worked at a supermarket and his dad was a miner or something like that. Obviously he’s at a certain point now, and there’s a level of privilege that allows anyone to get away with voluntarily living homeless in Hawaii, but he DOES come from a blue collar background.

Thanks for the COTD award. I must say, in the ~15 years since I heard that one saying, I have found myself pondering which species I could eat in one sitting.

No, just you... You figured it out.

So true.

Yes:

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