This is a sad morning in the St. Louis area between seeing Gardner winning in the city, and all the other results in the surrounding counties and for Congress. We managed to oust Lacy Clay for an Squad wannabe, "Dr. Lockdown" Sam Page won a contested primary despite more votes against him than for him, the state passed Obamacare expansion, a county councilwoman who was sworn in two years ago on a Dr. Seuss book because she finds the Bible repulsive won re-election. . . We are screwed unless somehow Republican challengers can still win solidly [D] districts in November.
Unfortunately, idiots in my district (MO-1) just ousted Lacy Clay (generally do-nothing, did make waves for artwork of a pig in police gear a few years ago) for Cori Bush who is a rioter and already-announced Squad member. So even if by some chance Tlaib loses, the Squad likely has another member coming in.
We need help to get the Anthony Rogers campaign visibility and exposure as he, the Republican primary winner, is the only person in the way of another anti-law enforcement, anti-business and private property, radical leftist rioter getting a Congressional seat.
Well, the alternative is Joe Biden who has already declared his support for a national mask mandate which would be worse yet.
But I do wish POTUS would flex his muscles, own the libs, and openly advocate for the side of freedom. Stay open, keep schools open, fire Fauci, no masks.
Idiots who only watch and believe the MSM still believe it. It's only been 12 hours since the last time I made a comment about antifa and was told, in full seriousness, that we don't know it's them but we do know that "Trump supporters and white supremacists" are taking advantage of the situation. Even if "they" know the truth, the sheeple don't.
You are right. I live by Ferguson (pop 22000 and a fairly even mix of black and white). It was not the locals who rioted and burned shit (for the most part - always a few exceptions). It was bussed-in white criminals from Chicago and other places. Many locals care about our area. Chicago criminals don't care, in fact they rather relish a chance to shit on anything STL.
Even just this week while a largely black crowd peacefully protested in downtown STL, local media even reported that a crowd assembling here was mostly white. Thankfully, the crowd dispersed without doing anything evil.
@ShowMe State90 Hey neighbor! I know exactly the types you speak of but do know there are some good pedes even here in North STL County. Not all of us drink the Soros koolaid.
Also, I really hope my area doesn't go up in flames tonight.
I'm a millennial as defined by the 1978-1995 birth year range, though fit few of the stereotypes. I started a business in my 20s while George W. Bush was still President.
Then Obama took office and it only took a couple years for tax law changes to become more than just a nuisance. I lost a lot of money, plus a sizable chunk of my home value, in the years that followed. I had to go out of business and take a salaried job working for someone else as the increased tax burden and risk was too hard to justify. This hard decision was made after Obama was elected to a second term and I knew it wouldn't be getting any better.
I have a lot of family there (Nebraska, replying to Frunobulax) and it's weird. I would have never guessed Nebraska, as red a state as it is, would be crippled by fear. But relatives say the media coverage of the meat packing plants shut the state down in a way a formal shutdown never could. People scared to go out, places still empty, lots of masks everywhere if people have to go out at all.
Meanwhile, here in Missouri, my family and I were just at a brewery by a river yesterday and easily 100+ people were out on the patios, in the sun, lined up for beer refills maybe two feet apart but certainly not six, enjoying the live music, maybe three in a hundred wearing masks. Almost as if the virus had never happened. It was almost normal.
No, we weren't in St. Louis City/County or Kansas City, which are at least open but still under all sorts of stupid.
And meanwhile the media spills buckets of tears over meatpacking plants and some of those get shut down and the ripple effect could lead to those already at or near poverty levels going hungry for some time to come. Screw the media. Not news to any of us posting here, but I wish more would wake up about the media.
I'm thankful for the many patriots standing up to the bullshit. What I fear is vindictive Democrats thirsty for more power and militarized cops ("contact tracers" or "lockdown enforcers" or whatever else you want to call them).
One of my favorites just announced they bit the dust yesterday evening. Just months ago there was a nice row of locally-owned restaurants in a town adjacent to mine (a town known internationally for the wrong reasons) where my wife and I would go on date nights. An easy ten minute drive from home. Not the most prosperous area so having this area doing well is great for the whole region. Well, now two restaurants are gone, a third is teetering, the number of not only shuttered but boarded up businesses are accelerating, leaving questions about the stability of the rest of the area. Fuck you, coronavirus/MSM panic. Fuck you, county executive Sam Page.
Not worried now, and I have weakened lungs (per a doctor several years ago) from several consecutive bouts of pneumonia I dealt with in my 20s. But I've seen the stats, numbers, percentages and know I'm dealing with fraction of a percent chances of it being serious.
That said, when our MSM was more concerned about looking racist, downplaying it, parroting calls to go out and enjoy Chinese New Year, I saw enough signs that all was not well in Wuhan and didn't trust the ChiComs anyway so I began stocking up and encouraging family members to do the same. I'm glad I did. March hit, and I didn't have to join the panic buying when everyone else did.
As new info has come out, it has become evident that this virus is not what it was said to be, and the endless lockdowns have gone from foolishness to evil.
My left-wing dad who I've referred to in past posts is still pushing the line he gets from his daily doses of CNN, still believes this is the new normal and needs to be; in fact he texted last night saying he's come to the conclusion capitalism has run its course and it is our duty to embrace socialism. Must be hard to live with that mindset.
I'm still in a locked-down county - blue island in a red state - but nothing stops me from crossing the bridge to a free county where I've gotten my hair cut, had a beer or two in a bar where no one had masks or sat six feet apart, and I'm FINE. And know I will be.
The line I fall back on with my TDS-infected relatives is "I'm not saying this to defend Trump. I'm saying this to defend the truth of what happened." To which they respond, perhaps more truthfully than intended, "Only Trump supporters care about truth these days. For the rest of us, it's about action and results." I kid you not.
The big newspapers in that part of the country have been beating the "shut them all down" drums loudly and relentlessly for the past few days and winning popular sentiment. It was inevitable. The people contacting their state representatives demanding shutdown don't realize they're risking their own hunger.
Thanks! I'm even in North STLC. I like it here overall, just not the politics. Work from home too, so am not terribly affected, but at the same time am really concerned for the overall condition of things here in "North County" if the small businesses can't open up soon. The thing that gets me is that this current crop of leaders was elected riding the wave of support following the Ferguson protests, and their actions now are specifically harming this area. Maybe even more so than wealthier parts of the county.
I'm a former Nebraska resident and volunteered for Campaign for Liberty and the Ron Paul 2012 campaign, as well as was part of my county's GOP central committee for about two years. The amount of saying one thing, then rolling over and doing another thing, was astounding. What is with the surrendering of rights and principles when an authority figure comes asking for them?
Much of my family still lives there, and the unblinking, unquestioning assent to anything a perceived expert or authority says is mind-blowing. And yet all my extended family, my late grandparents, I'm sure even I myself at one point, all view it the same way. Trust the experts. Trust your doctor. Trust, trust, trust.
My parents' ZIP code had an 0.04% infection rate as of yesterday, and yet they and apparently all their contacts on social media and all the local media types were collectively losing their shit that "MANY MIGHT DIE" because a mall that never closed, was going to "reopen". (How do you "reopen" something that never closed anyway?) And now the media is losing their collective shit over meat packing and even so-called "common good" conservatives are saying that the only humane thing is to shut 'em all down until the virus risk is past and we have a vaccine available. Oh, sure, hunger is "common good" now?
I'm not trying to throw shade on good liberty-minded residents of Nebraska. I'm sure there are many. I might still be one myself if life hadn't thrown me a curveball a few years back. But what's going on in what I used to think was a great red state?!
Voted at 10am. We got this!
And f**k Sam Page.