Politico Magazine has a new feature out profiling those rural Democrats who are “suffering in silence” because they feel alone and abandoned by the party. A quick look at Twitter shows us that Democrats and supporters of President Joe Biden certainly aren’t silent — they still can’t shut up about Donald Trump or January 6 or even Sen. Ted Cruz flying to Cancun during a winter storm. So we’re guessing this is real-life suffering in silence, when you’re the only person in the grocery store wearing a mask and just seething about it.
Analysis: You’ve read the stories about Trump’s appeal in rural America, but there’s another side that’s often left out: Rural Democrats who feel abandoned by a party they fear has stopped fighting to win the places where they live. https://t.co/n7R6ZHRzeh
— POLITICO (@politico) March 5, 2022
Christopher Cadelago writes:
In the pandemic’s darkest days, a man living across the street from a Methodist church in this small town raised a flag in front of his house emblazoned with the words “Fuck Biden.”
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“We’ve never seen this before,” says Joanne Fitzpatrick, a Democrat from DuBois, running through a tally in her head of anti-Biden signs that still cover her town and surrounding communities. “I’m not a prude by any stretch, but it’s offensive. We’ve just never seen this level of vulgarity after an election — and so long after the election at that.”
“In a civilized society,” she added, “we just don’t do that.”
Is she actually serious when she says we’ve never seen this level of vulgarity after an election? We’re being gaslit already. It wasn’t so long ago “The Daily Show,” which deleted a tweet poking fun at President Biden’s State of the Union speech, did a segment asking if profane anti-Biden signs should be allowed to be posted in public. Clutch those pearls, Trevor Noah.
Here’s another horror story from red America:
The horror!
“at a crafts store when she stumbled into an aisle display where someone had used big, block letters to spell out “T-R-U-M-P.” She flagged it for a store employee, who she says assured her it wasn’t constructed by anyone working there.” https://t.co/Dz5Xaval5C
— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) March 4, 2022
Let’s hope she doesn’t see the meme floating around of “Let’s Go Brandon” spelled out in big letters in a craft store.
This is so laughable. Try getting fired over a private thought or donation and we’ll talk. Also, in the reverse case, the massive corp definitely spelled out the message and forced all its employees to wear it.
— Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ (@InezFeltscher) March 4, 2022
The CBC is using that hacked list to track down people who donated to both the Freedom Convoy and Donald Trump.
Has anyone done a righteous fisking of this fatuous bag of sneering condescension yet?
I would, but I can't tackle it until Sunday.
— BattleSwarm (@BattleSwarmBlog) March 4, 2022
— Sameer reTweet King Mohan (@sameerMohan2) March 4, 2022
— Rebeckahtx 🇺🇸 (@Rebeckahtx) March 4, 2022
“perils”
— JCF (@jcfris1) March 4, 2022
That reminds me…I need to get to Hobby Lobby to spell out "Let's Go Brandon" with craft letters and googly eyes…
— John Washam (@JohnWasham2) March 5, 2022
If I was the employee I would have said, “I’m sorry m’am we don’t have a designated safe space.”
— Julie Shera (@Bothered_Blonde) March 4, 2022
The subhead says rural Dems are suffering in silence. Then why do I always have to hear their bitching? pic.twitter.com/pWkqr3DNUJ
— Sameer reTweet King Mohan (@sameerMohan2) March 4, 2022
At least @ccadelago said the quiet part out loud: “Democrats’ bafflement can veer into condescension and elitism…”. Note: regardless of Ivy, NYU or Cal Berkeley pedigrees, if you are triggered by block letters spelling TRUMP, you are not above anyone…
— Glenn (@SocialThinkerNM) March 4, 2022
That's pathetic. I typically rearrange them to read "FJB & LGB," but that's just me.
— American daddy! 🇺🇸 (@gmail_hess) March 5, 2022
I guess they missed this kind of stuff. pic.twitter.com/fpPmfnnClZ
— WhatsNewsHere 🇺🇸 (@WhatsNewsHere) March 5, 2022
The horror. Hate crimes. Go to the store security cameras
— YOU (@ROBryan6) March 4, 2022
The fragility of leftists is astounding. They are literally useless to society.
— Kokomojoe (@Kokomojoe5) March 4, 2022
Such people should just go back home & crawl back under the blanket.
— Erick Starren (@ErickStarren) March 4, 2022
No wonder they were so supportive of lockdowns.
😂😂😂 so dramatic. Weak sauce
— 💥ErikaLP💥🇺🇸 🗽 🦅 (@ErikaLP9) March 5, 2022
Notice the left always wants to “tattle” on someone to the nearest authority
— PeanutPuffNStuff (@PeanutStuff) March 4, 2022
The party of histrionic neurotic women; even the men.
— WestwardHo (@WestwardHo6) March 4, 2022
“For the better part of two decades now, the Republican Party has been formulating fear and really fear of others,” [Theron G. Noble] says. “We, on the other hand, keep responding with policies and we get into the weeds on arguments. We do not hit back at the visceral level that they’ve been targeting for a long time. It has just really made people into tribes.”
Try being conservative on a college campus and we'll talk
— ericontrarian (@eriContrarian) March 4, 2022
Preach.
Related:
The Daily Show clutches pearls over profane anti-Biden signs; Should they be allowed on public display? https://t.co/TKtGtRd4mb
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 15, 2021
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