"I'm living in WV... the Democrats have completely collapsed my state!"

[ck4829]

Last edited Fri Jan 17, 2025, 03:26 PM - Edit history (1)

Dude!


Republicans - have had the governor's office since 2017 and I don't think Jim Justice was all that much of a Democrat anyway.
Republicans - have had the House of Delegates and Senate since 2014.
https://apnews.com/article/general-elections-west-virginia-wheeling-government-and-politics-20003d4aece817fe37cdea0b5d341635

Hey, get ready for it though, because you're going to see a lot more of this.

REPUBLICANS HAVE SUPER-MAJORITIES BUT DEMOCRATS ARE TO BLAME!

[Ritabert]

1. 44 years of Reaganomics collapsed your state buddy

Any positive steps were somehow passed by Democrats.

[Initech]

13. 44 years of Reagan + 40 years of Limbaugh + 25 years of Fox News

Republican propaganda destroys everything!

[Keepthesoulalive]

2. Please stop following crazy people down the rabbit hole

They have a choice at the ballot booth and they choose republicans. That’s on them.

[ck4829]

3. That's a good idea, this would also mean we would have to fight against the legitimacy of the govts they vote for

I'm all for that.

[Keepthesoulalive]

8. Nothing we say or do can change West Virginia

We have to get our people to the polls. They poisoned the river that people used for water and they still didn’t get it. Let’s take on meaningful battles.

[ck4829]

10. A battle in 2026 when it is 2025 is not meaningful right now though

[Keepthesoulalive]

11. There is always a battle

We are now the resistance, Virginia is getting ready to vote for governor and the state houses. There is an election of importance every year. We’re getting ready.

[maxsolomon]

4. More like

Mr. Peabody's Coal Train has hauled it away.

[Vogon_Glory]

5. But Club Pachyderm will still blame

Democrats if their policies run things to liquid excrement.

[Johnny2X2X]

6. Something Dems are horrible at

Is pointing out the abject failure that most of the reds states are. Probably because Democrats view all the states as Americans too and want to hanve compassion for the people suffering there.

So we've had like 20 years of Cons and their media talking about California, and for some reason Chicago and Portland, like they're these post apacaluptic hellscapes but noe one ever replying, "Um, sure, but would you like to answer for West Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisianna?" The pocerty you see in some of those states is simply 3rd world level and a lot of the country is unaware that there are so many people in the richest country in the world living in what amount to shacks or lean-tos.

You've got Florida succeeding because rich northernoers retire or vacation there. You've got texas succeeding because of oil. And then you have a whole bunch of states that make up almost the entire worst 10 in education, income, poverty, health, crime, freedom, inequality, and basically every major metric that represents quality of life. Most of these red states can't even provides basics sercices for their residents without the blue states tax dollars coming to them through the Federal Goverment.

And this is actually the Republican plan, to turn the blue states into the worst of the red states. Places where the prisons are chuck full of young black men, places where workers have no rights and are forced to work for starvation wages, places where a hand full of the ultra rich live like kings and control everything, places where people work until they drop dead because retirement is no longer a thing. That's the Trump plan for America, to take everything from the middel class in America, everything!

[onethatcares]

7. that porker ain't missed a meal

or 3 since birth. If that;s fat shaming pigs, I apologize to the animals

[tanyev]

9. That's how fascists get into power and stay in power.

You ALWAYS, ALWAYS blame someone/something else for all the problems you yourself created.

[Blue_Tires]

12. Agitprop bullshit... I saw it daily on Twitter

PROTIP: Do not quote tweets from accounts with 78 fucking followers... All you are doing is boosting his signal

I promise you that "@spookshow3_mm" doesn't live anywhere near fucking West Virginia, and might not even live in the U.S.

[B.See]

16. precisely

[UTUSN]

14. Knr. When Biden's infrastructure is undeniable they'll say it was Drumpf's.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. Being a Taker State is what made them lazy. They should be cut off from excess gov't largess.

The GOP is all about takers and pulling oneself up by the bootstraps.

Cut them off and they'll learn to be self-sufficient according to Cons.

[Aristus]

17. Who gives a fuck about the inbreds up in Squalor Hollar?

Aren’t they pretty much human-adjacent at this point?

Let them have their banjo contests and their pointless, decades-long blood feuds.

Just keep them away from the ballot box.

[Drum]

18. I was born in Cleveland, but grew up age 2-19 in WV...

I’d appreciate your consideration for a little nuance on this topic. Your Friday-night comment is a little too far. There are a lot of people, communities, and aspects of the Mountain State that are quite diverse and far different from the stereotypes reflected in such narrow commentary.
Honestly, I would expect better from you, and from others here. Heard it my whole life, and am a little sick of it. Criticize the jingoistic politics and all of that, the raping of the mountains for coal, sure, but don’t come across as a total bigot, ok? Maybe check out the politics of West Virginia prior to the 1970s? Note that during the Civil War, in defiance of Federal law, the people there seceded from Virginia in protest against that state’s devotion to human slavery, 1863.

[Aristus]

19. I get that.

And I don’t want to alienate people like you, drum.

But we’re about to embark on (an at least) four year journey of fascism, incompetence, pettiness, vindictiveness, institutionalized douchebaggery, and moral squalor because the very people I described couldn’t be bothered to vote for competent, experienced, moral, progressive, and devoted public servants.

They genuinely thought a reality tv star was an acceptable candidate for the Presidency, despite the fact that he proved himself a colossal fuckup the first time around.

I don’t care if a person is nice one-on-one, smiles and says ‘howdy’ on the street. Who they are in the voting booth is who they really are. So they bring a tasty dish to the bean supper. How does that help our country? A country for which I nearly bought it because of a Scud missile?

I don’t know if this will earn back some of your good regard, drum. But I absolutely love Cleveland. And always have. (Maybe there’s a lesson here for me). I never understood the jokes. I visited the city twice, and have loved it both times. The people are kind, warm, friendly, and generous. I love Cleveland.

[Drum]

20. Carry on then...you've got a number of US states to get to.

Have at it, and I hope yours always stays in good graces.