2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Don't Kid Yourself: The KGB Cost Us This Election and Pretending it's Bathrooms is ridiculous [View all]
I live in a super red area of a dark blue state.
These guys thought that HRC was going to take their *guns*. They thought HRC was going to give their *jobs* to the Mexicans.
They. could. not. give. a. shit. less. about. the. bathrooms.
I finally blew up at one of them, because the truth is, these people act like an active coke head when they are at the end of their blow: they're out of money, they're out of stash, and SOMEBODY has to pay for that. My brother made himself a very rich man exploiting the priorities of the white working class. I explained that if you drive to home Depot on a Sunday night, you don't see any "Mexicans" (sic) there. Why? BECAUSE THERE IS NO DEMAND.
I have an uncle who is one of the largest home framing businesses in my tri-state area. There are times he rents out entire hotels to accommodate all of his workers. I pointedly asked him once why he has so many undocumented workers, and he told me he would love to hire Americans, but as soon as they get one or two paychecks, they just stop showing up.
I told him straight up, the guy I blew up at, that nobody *took* his job. He *gave* it away when he decided that partying is more important than showing up. In short, we don't have a "Mexican" (sic) problem. We have an opiate problem. We have a God-damned drug problem.
Add to that the fact that the KGB is not even hiding that they were in daily contact with the Trump campaign, and I am sick to fucking death of people blaming the victim.
Don't get me started on voter suppression.
Just know that when Trump said he wouldn't trust the results of the election, it is because they had something up their sleeve.
Stop. letting. them. frame. the. fucking. narrative.