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There hasn’t been such a sad tale of rightwinger deprivation since Bundy’s Meal Team Six had to sully their Malheur Reservoir occupation with an all-points internet plea for fruit roll-ups.

Speaking of rightwingers who don’t understand what they’re trying to get themselves into… While I’m sure there would be actual tragedies if the loyal MAGAAAAhts were to get their ‘civil war’, I don’t think a general rebellion would last past the discovery that violent insurrection would interfere with the delivery of government checks and internet popcult…

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  2. 2.

    HumboldtBlue

    Fuck, more maga bullshit.

    Can we have a song and beer instead of another asshole at the mic?

  9. 9.

    Mag

    And I sit up late at night Googling will Canada block U.S. refugees at the border and the best ways to safely travel the hundreds of miles to the border without getting killed.

    A second civil war would be more horrible than almost anyone can imagine and yet a sizable number of Americans want it.

  14. 14.

    Adrian Lesher

    1. I don’t follow Mr. Dreyfuss but Google tells me he’s the son of actors Richard Dreyfuss and Jeramie Raine and that he worked for Mother Jones. He’s now a right-winger?
  15. 15.

    JoyceH

    @Mag: It won’t be a civil war, it will be an insurgency. Their side has guys with beer guts cosplaying soldier in the woods, our side has military drones.

  16. 16.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    I think it’s fair to say that I don’t like people who support Trump because they’re supporting policies that will hurt and kill a lot of people I consider my friends. And I am not obliged to let that slide.

    Oh, and congratulations to Mr. Dreyfuss for discovering part of what’s wrong with monopolistic trends.

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    ian

    Not sure if Ben Dreyfuss is being serious or sarcastic, but not getting your Amazon package in under a week is not societal failure.

    Having to get flown out of state for hospital services?  Now that is some serious societal failure, yet here in WY and equally true of most of Idaho that is part of what most people define as pure, unadulterated American Freedom.  I hope this guy stocks up on food and medical supplies, or moves back to wherever he came from, before winter gets going in full speed.

  20. 20.

    mrmoshpotato

    “It’s Amazon or the wolves get ya in the night!”

    Sure, Ben.  Sure.

    This (now rural) slapdick…

  21. 21.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Adrian Lesher:

    I don’t think so, his tweets are left-leaning on the whole. I think his main problem is he’s grown up very well-off in NYC, and has no idea what it’s like to live in the middle of nowhere without all the goodies that he feels he’s entitled to.  Maybe AL confused him with someone else?

    But his reaction to Idaho reminds me of a Si Kahn song, “Take Me Back to New York City,” about a city guy who decides to ‘get back to the land’ as we said back in the day.

    But all I raised was corns and bunions, walking behind the backside of a mule
    If you want these old mountains, you can have them, there’s nothing here but forty acres and a fool
    Take me back to New York City, let me hear them subways rolling down
    Just let me smell the Hudson River in the evening, goodbye country, hello New York town

  24. 24.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I am going to bet Mr Amazon Or Die Idaho real complaint is he is getting into constant fights with the locals, he’s got a reputation now and they are avoiding him.

  25. 25.

    oldster

    “meal team six” is very good — thanks, AL!

    But those scum at Malheur. I think their acquittal, after they were so clearly guilty, was my first inkling that Trump was going to win. Old white men believing that they are above the law, and getting rewarded for it. I’m still angry about it.

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    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    @lowtechcyclist: ​  X2
    He just pointed me to an excellent 5 part documentary on Iran-Contra (“Fiasco”). Not the behavior of a reactionary.​

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    Soprano2

    There’s a reason all the pundits who extol the wonderfulness of the “heartland” all live in places like New York and Los Angeles. At least that Dreyfuss guy actually moved to where he thought everything was so great.

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    Captain C

    @ian:  In fact, not getting your Amazon package in a week because it’s not profitable for them is the essence of capitalism.

    One of the reason rents in NYC are too damn high is that so many people want to live there, in part, because so much is available at your fingertips.

  29. 29.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    @Captain C: ​
      Yuck. I’ve been to almost every major city in the west (it’s hard living on the lam) and NYC is so over rated. A D-list Las Vegas strip club has more quality.

  30. 30.

    Morzer

    Anyone who contemplates moving to the red state boonies should be required to read T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “On for the Long Haul”. Great story about a greedy fool who moves to Montana and discovers too late that survivalists are not the nicest people.

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    droog

    I though Dreyfuss would have been recognised from MJ by more people, since this is a big community. Definitely not a right-winger. He left his editor job at MJ because the job there was getting more clicks, and he wants to write more. Being stuck in Idaho may be a way to avoid distractions.

    As to the tweets, maybe he misjudged what he signed up for, or he’s kvetching on Twitter because that’s what one is supposed to do when one moves to Idaho?

  33. 33.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Did you feel the Cretan earthquake yesterday?

    I wasn’t even aware there’d been an earthquake in Crete until I read the newspaper. Sounds bad where it hit, but I get the sense that the quake didn’t propagate as far as the mainland.

  36. 36.

    Soprano2

    I heard an interview on NPR a long time ago with a couple who wrote a book about what to expect when you move out into the country. They said too many people have a romanticized idea of what it will be like, so they don’t think about the fact that it will take emergency services a lot longer to get to them, or that they might be out of power for two or three weeks if there’s a big storm.

  37. 37.

    Another Scott

    @HumboldtBlue:  A great thing about this place is that we’re free to comment on just about anything at any time of day. The front pagers have their interests and try to keep us engaged, but obviously can’t satisfy every one of us all the time.

    Keep posting. Even if you don’t get follow-ups, know that people appreciate it.

    Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  38. 38.

    Cameron

    @JoyceH: That’s what I’ve thought for years when I hear these clowns claiming they need various weapons to fight off the evil government.  Bro, nobody gives a shit about your AR-15; Uncle Sam can send a Hellfire down your chimney just like it was Santa Claus.

  40. 40.

    PST

    @Morzer: I’m a big fan of Boyle’s, although I haven’t read anything in a while. He seems to enjoy the theme of what you might call urban rubes who don’t have any idea what living with nature can mean. My favorite is Drop City. Alaska is Montana squared.

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    PST

    @Soprano2: I just got back from a visit to friends in Maine. They are about an hour out of Bangor, and by no means in an inaccessible area. But normal small-town life there involves a lot more long drives and long waits to get stuff than people like me are used to. For me, same day delivery not next day delivery is the new frontier. It was, by the way, just beautiful there. In addition to the Acadia National Park area, we drove across the state and saw some of the White Mountains in New Hampshire. The colors were spectacular, and it was interesting to see how elevation affects the turning of the leaves.

  43. 43.

    Aaron Rodgers Mustache

    @Soprano2: never forget that ted turner put cnn in atlanta in 1980.

    16 years later, rupert refused to put foxnews anywhere but nyc. even though it would have been fine to put it in jackson, ms, tulsa, or nashville.

  44. 44.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    I like that sign in the background of the video Anne Laurie linked @ Top:

    “If you don’t like Trump, then you probably won’t like me.”

    Internet, tell me something I already know.

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