Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:I think mcp learned everything he knows about middle America from The Hills Have Eyes.

Self wrote:Seeing Mt. Rushmore used to be on my vacation list, before I read a lot of McParadigm posts.

McParadigm wrote:So after the election, can we assume the GOP will learn exactly no lessons and instead spend 3 years tripping over itself in some frantic lemming rush to rewoo its rabid, angry base by spending a billion dollars on Clinton email investigations and engaging in softball conspiracy pandering and Supreme Court prevention efforts?

McParadigm wrote:That's a great piece, in terms of painting a nonjudgmental picture of the feelings pervading the middle of the country.

It is impossible, however, to ignore the ugliness that results when those feelings and attitudes are placed in a vacuum, as they are in today's environment.

Take a place like Redfield, South Dakota. There is...or still was as of 10 years ago...a man there who is very proud to own a WW2 era lampshade made of "African skin." Whether it really is that or not is irrelevant. The point is he's proud of it, and the whole community knows and treats it like a curioso...like a fun quirk their town gets to have.

People there think that they are not racist, and they can speak as though this is true up to a point, but "us or them" is the defining measurement by which they live. You will be ostracized for attending the wrong church. You can move in and still be the unwelcome, gossiped about new family 12 years later. They have to wear constant armor, because judgment is free and easy, and they are well-practiced in speaking a protectionist language of love and God...and knowing when it benefits them to do so.

They aren't going to open up to a sociologist, in the ways that reveal the most. Not really. They are the equivalent of the abused children who go to school and kick another kids teeth in, then make up a story about being picked on. They absolutely are left behind, and they absolutely are miserable and desperate, but it is the private persona that would beat a dog for fun that this movement appeals to, every bit as much as the one that has real or perceived grievances.

BurtReynolds wrote:I think mcp learned everything he knows about middle America from The Hills Have Eyes.

Simple Torture wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I think mcp learned everything he knows about middle America from The Hills Have Eyes.

I was once at a bachelor party where we watched a porno called "The Hills Have Thighs."

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I think mcp learned everything he knows about middle America from The Hills Have Eyes.

I was once at a bachelor party where we watched a porno called "The Hills Have Thighs."

My favorite porn parody was Lord of the G-String.

bune wrote:On another note: Why is it so hard to just type words and names? "Killary", for example, but there are so many of them. Repuglicans, Libtards, etc., they're all idiotic and make me immediately question how many times you were dropped as an infant. Or maybe that your mother drank heavily?

tragabigzanda wrote:You guys don't actually watch the story in porn, do you?

tragabigzanda wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

bune wrote:On another note: Why is it so hard to just type words and names? "Killary", for example, but there are so many of them. Repuglicans, Libtards, etc., they're all idiotic and make me immediately question how many times you were dropped as an infant. Or maybe that your mother drank heavily?

I can get behind vote disqualification for anyone who has ever used the term "Drumpf" in addition to those listed above.

You've made many enemies today, Spenno:
http://forums.theskyiscrape.com/search. ... mit=Search

Bi_3 wrote:God help anyone who angers the progressives

Birds in Hell wrote: I can get behind vote disqualification for anyone who has ever used the term "Drumpf" in addition to those listed above.

Self wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:I think mcp learned everything he knows about middle America from The Hills Have Eyes.

He lived it, Burt.

Stickman wrote:Trump's star on the Walk of Fame, currently