There's an actual story here about how rural white republicans are literally terrorizing their neighbors, but it's completely obscured by the weird framing about a "toxic brand" and "ignoring their concerns" that makes it sound like it's Dems' faulthttps://t.co/EJfOY53YOe
— Hemry, Local Bartender (@BartenderHemry) February 17, 2022
‘All our best and brightest young people are moving away to the Godless cities’ has been a village complaint ever since there have been cities, but the GOP Death Cultists and their Media Village Idiot enablers have done an amazing job at marketing the resentment for their own toxic ends…
You know something has gone very wrong in your reporting when your local color is anecdotes of democrats being terrorized and yet the tone of your piece is "why did democrats make republicans do this" pic.twitter.com/KT97vfwa3D
— Hemry, Local Bartender (@BartenderHemry) February 17, 2022
I’d love for even one reporter to do a big feature on why the types of people who vote Democratic are fleeing conservative rural areas en masse, but since there’s no way to write that piece without placing the blame squarely on conservatism it’ll never get written https://t.co/jLBSPhyqsB
— seinfeld empath (@NickTagliaferro) February 17, 2022
It does doesn’t it? But if you actually name the reasons why (bigotry and intimidation) then right-wingers might feel bad and that’s not fair or balanced!!!!
— Jennifer Boeder (@jenniferboeder) February 17, 2022
One side hates masks the other doesn't want broken glass tearing up their arm as it goes into their mailbox. Confused why either are moving lol.
— The Bearded Crank (@beardedcrank) February 17, 2022
206inKY
Things are even uglier than during the Trump years. A neighbor casually referred to masks as child abuse while standing a few feet away from my masked child and pretending to be talking in the abstract about other people.
Damien
I wonder what the framing will be when some liberal in fear for their life ends up blowing what passes for brains out of a MAGAt terrorist.
Not that I’m looking forward to that day, but I’m not exactly holding my breath for everything to calm back down.
Damien
Also, since this is an open thread I’m curious what the BJ legal beagles think of this
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/594960-judge-rules-trump-must-face-civil-suits-over-jan-6
I assume SCOTUS will come in to fuck up the concept of equal justice under the law in a hilariously public way, but until then what’s the thought?
Ben Cisco, MSCIS Padawan
@Damien:
Wise decision. This has been a LONG time coming.
I remember telling ABL and Elon James White a million years ago during a TWIB podcast that this is who they are, this is who they have ALWAYS been, and that everyone was going to eventually have to make a choice. I will admit that I didn’t see things accelerating to this degree this quickly, but we were always going to wind up here.
Either white supremacy dies, or the republic does. It is really that simple.
Jay
Fuck em,
I have “corporate” approval to not rent to the maskholes.
Pointed out to store mgmt that if they can’t master basic safety gear like a mask ( properly worn) in a pandemic, I can’t rent them a wood chipper, because they will try to sue our asses off when they lose a child or an arm.
Mgmt took it to Corporate, Corporate took it to the lawyers, lawyers said Yurp.
€uck off Maskholes is the Corporate standard now.
Steeplejack
@Jay:
Well played.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Moreover, it’s yet another fucking story featuring ….. [checks notes]…. rural diners and bars.
NotMax
*cough*Easy Rider*cough
?BillinGlendaleCA
Amazon delivered a new phone cover to my cave yesterday, the new phone arrives next Friday.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
What did you get?
Jay
@Steeplejack:
completely €ucken fed up with these ass holes.
had one today, like every €ucken day.
told him ( always a white male, so far),
Told him to get the €uck out,
wa, wa wa, wa, wa wa, bullshit whining,
Told him, I started wearing a mask to keep you from dying, now I wear a mask to keep me and my family from dying, now, I don’’t care how you die, then dropped a 5lb sledge hammer on the counter.
he r-u-n-n-o-f-t’d as fast as he could.
SWIMBO was in Safeway today, some shithead, maskhole, ‘masks are “required”, unmasked wearing a “ do not comply” hoodie, staked out an aisle and blocked it.
I could not be there for her.
€ucken terrorists.
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
Someone makes a phone cover with a jackal skin pattern?
:)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: S22 Ultra, I also convinced Madame to get the same.
@NotMax: Faux leather, so yes.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Sweet!
OzarkHillbilly
My experience has been different.
Amir Khalid
I’m considering mods for Cherry and Olympia: a roller bridge for Cherry, roller saddles and string tree for Olympia. Roller saddles and string tree on a Strat help with tuning stability, I have found. A roller saddle for a Gibson-style guitar is more of a comfort issue: I hate how the sharp knife-edged saddles on the stock Tune-o-Matic bridge dig into my hand.
satby
Well, I wasn’t terrorized living in a rural area but then I moved just before the election that brought us TFG and escalated the general antipathy to outright hate. But I don’t miss much about living in a place where one of my neighbors, who had been there 30 years, was still referred to as “that guy from Chicago”.
NotMax
@?BillinGlendaleCA
Always been curious to know what they do with the rest of the nauga.
;)
Jay
@Amir Khalid:
so, you have gone from Guitar Hero, to customizing your own guitars,……
Customize away.
Excellent and glad to see you back.
NotMax
FUI. (Flowing under the influence.)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: Samsung is touting the phone as being environmentally friendly, let no part go to waste.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: That never bothered me. They aren’t overly fond of atheists either. It’s all good to this introvert.
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: I hope they hit them hard for that.
Jay
@Amir Khalid:
for my Mom, music was important.
She had ‘78 rpm “race records” in her day, smuggled into Canada, her Dad had a band, back in the day, a couple of swing records,
me, I could, (can, sort of) play by ear, got as far as 7th, thanks to it, wait for it,………
my piano teacher,……..
Ester B. ( Beatrice) Sharp.
That’s about me for playing.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: well, it didn’t bother me either exactly. It’s just the easiest example of how insular and resistant to anything new most of them were. I’m pretty content on my own too, luckily, because I was a stranger in a strange land for the entire 12 years I lived there.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I’ve had this happen two or three times.
Calm your bones.
satby
@satby: Example from Twitter just last night:
Dana Nessel @dananessel 11h
All 3 Republicans running for Michigan Attorney General just stated that they oppose the ruling in Griswold v Connecticut which outlawed prosecuting married couples for using contraception.
Gin & Tonic
@Jay: My son in law, who teaches piano at a conservatory, refers to Neighborhood Piano Teacher Syndrome. All the stuff people have to un-learn.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: My current phone is 4 years old, eager for a change. The cameras alone…
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
All I can conjure up about my short childhood stint with a piano teacher is a stout woman (her hair in the requisite bun) who apparently bathed in perfume from the five and ten.
OzarkHillbilly
Indeed.
Stevie
They drove me out for being a n-word lover back in the late 70s. I have no interest in living in any red state or county. I don’t associate with any true conservatives. I can’t take the callous cruelty and I don’t want it in my life.
Baud
@satby:
Anything to own the libs.
lowtechcyclist
Does anyone else get Liz Phair’s “Polyester Bride” as an earworm when “Hemry, Local Bartender ” gets quoted here?
That’s not a complaint, mind you, I like the song.
I asked Hemry, my bartending friend…
(It’s actually ‘Henry’ in the song, but close enough)
Shalimar
@Damien: Just look at the freaked-out policeman the other day when he discovered the black woman he stopped had a permit to carry a gun. They do not deal well with the idea that non white supremacists are allowed to shoot back.
lowtechcyclist
@Shalimar: Linky? I missed that story.
satby
@Baud: Not an idle threat though, since that’s the case that enumerated the right to privacy that later was cited for Roe, gay rights and trans rights. Overturning that is huge on the Federalist Society’s bucket list.
Baud
@satby:
Absolutely.
trnc
I heard that NPR piece. It was right after the piece that set up Biden to take the blame for Putin’s actions if he invades and avoid giving him any credit if Putin retreats. It also more or less said that we have to wait until the whole thing plays out to determine whether Biden is showing leadership in the US response.
These are the types of framing that make me decide not to donate. Guessing they’ll be ok since Koch is a large contributor.
trnc
Did you ask him or her if they were getting ready to call social services on you?
Kalakal
@Amir Khalid: I can certainly relate to tuneomatic bridges and hand pain when palm muting. Be interested to hear how they help with tuning on the strat. Do you have the bridge floating or locked down?
trnc
@Damien:
Many liberals have already died at the hands of those terrorists, some of whom work at large right wing media outlets. This will not be taken into consideration for even a nano second if your scenario comes to pass.
trnc
Comment section comment (which I assume most have experienced) – sometimes I can use the visual box and sometimes I have to use the text box. Today both of those have been true in this thread during the same session. 2 comments required Text, 2 comments allowed me to use Visual. I think that’s a first for me.
bluegirlfromwyo
The article has a …but what was she wearing rape case vibe. Horrible.
Another Scott
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Excellent. I’ve got an S20+ which was quite an upgrade from my previous LG V35.
You might want to play with OpenCamera. The tuning is different from the stock camera app. I don’t use it by default, but it’s interesting to see how the software matters.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
debbie
@satby:
I saw that tweet last night. How will we ever come back from this?
trnc
That’s interesting. I never had a problem like that with my right hand until I bought a PRS. My hand hits the pickup ring corner, and I’ve never had that problem on other guitars with the same type of pickup rings. I’ve modified my hand position a bit, but I’m thinking about filing down that corner to round it out (carefully, of course).
ETA: The reason it only happens on the PRS is that the ring is taller. Not something I had ever thought about or been looking out for before. I’m apparently alone in this because I posted a message on one of the gear boards and most didn’t understand what I was talking about.
debbie
@NotMax:
I had piano lessons for one year with a Hungarian teacher. She suddenly took up and left for Argentina. No idea why, but it can’t have been good. I wonder if she realized she was coming into a Jewish household every week.
Shalimar
@lowtechcyclist: I’ll see if I can find it. It was on Rawstory, I think.
https://www.rawstory.com/watch-body-cam-footage-shows-cop-panic-when-he-learns-black-woman-has-a-gun-permit/
Balconesfault
@Stevie: “They drove me out for being a n-word lover back in the late 70s.”
Took me a few secs to realize you meant “someone who loves n***ers” … and not “someone who loves using the n-word”.
Chief Oshkosh
@Jay: This brightened my morning. Thanks! It’d be great if healthcare insurers got on board with this approach wrt vaccinations.
Citizen Alan
@satby: This is my shocked face. Roe v wade gets them to Griswold which gets them to Brown versus board of education.
Just One More Canuck
@?BillinGlendaleCA: my old phone (up until early December) was at least 7 years old. Now have an iPhone 12 – it’s great except for a couple of minor issues
VOR
@Shalimar: Reagan approved gun restrictions as CA Governor once Black Panthers started legally carrying long rifles in public.
Soprano2
@Shalimar: Wow, that’s crazy. I wonder if any gun rights groups have defended her. Haha, I bet not.
debbie
@Soprano2:
Five bucks says the silence was deafening.
VOR
@debbie: Philando Castile had a carry permit and informed the police making the traffic stop that he was armed. I do not recall much outcry from the gun rights groups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Philando_Castile
Another Scott
@Citizen Alan: I like to think Brown will be very hard for them – 9:0. But in a sensible world, Roe would be very hard at 7:2, also too.
:-(
(via LOLGOP)
Fight for 15!
Grr…,
Scott.
lowtechcyclist
@Shalimar:
Thanks. Lord, that’s appalling.
Starting to think that we need to completely start over with law enforcement in this country. Increasingly find it hard to believe that existing police departments can be reformed.
206inKY
@trnc: No, but I couldn’t help kind of panicking about that. A threat wrapped in a smile. I’m a solo dad most of the year (partner works in different state) so there’s already a bit of a cloud of “kids need their mom.”
Miss Bianca
@Jay: I find I’m liking the cut of your jib more and more…
J R in WV
I would doubt those RWNJs running for AG will have a chance once their position on contraception is made public via constant ads on TV and the Web. That’s a really extreme minority perverted position that no one who enjoys sex will agree with. I would hope! Been wrong before when it comes to wacko religious people.
Dopey-o
IIRC, Robbie Robertson preferred a Telecaster because the lack of vibrato meant the guitar stayed in tune. I always put a small block of wood between the big metal vibrato extension and the wood body of my strats to lock it. Never could find a “hard tail” strat…..
Strat vibrato can’t be locked, contra a commentator trnc. Fender Jazzmaster / Jaguar can be locked, but those mechanisms are just trash, IMHO. Cooooooonstant re-tuning.
Tom Q
@J R in WV: You’re right it’s an extreme minority position, but the problem, since Trump’s emergence especially, is the Good Germans among the Republican faithful — those who don’t want any of that crazy stuff, but have convinced themselves that 1) it’ll never come to that, and 2) anyway, Democrats are somehow worse.
If the Republic goes down, it won’t be solely the fault of the right-wing fanatics; it’ll be largely down to those who chose to believe they could pick and choose the few things they wanted from the GOP and not suffer the consequences of the inferno that the party enabled .