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Example #1,456 of why Trump won the election
So….saw on twitter this weekend where a liberal CEO of some company I’ve never heard of (marketing company apparently) decided to give the rest of us advice on how to be less offensive to people like her.
First of all, how can anyone so devoid of self-awareness be any good at marketing? Secondly, I think I can speak for most Americans that don’t live in a progressive coastal Meccas and say that making our “town a place that people like us want to live in” is pretty much the opposite of what we are trying to achieve. We would in fact prefer that “people like you” keep your opinions to yourself and the progressive, “diverse”, cesspools you live in away from our tax dollars. You may be surprised to know that we don’t like “people like you” or your condescension, and that economically we are doing pretty damn well partly due to the companies fleeing your state in droves. So, thanks but no thanks for the advice. That and 3 bucks will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. (I’m sure you hate that as well)
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HA! Way to keep the citified liberals away.
Conservatives need to stop being surprised that a.) Left leaning folk hate us and b.) they are rather nasty, terrible people.
Dear Ms Beyerly ,
Please stay right where you are.
Middle America would prefer not to have you or your Progressive People
as neighbors either.
Signed
The Other America.
That’s the thing I noticed in my first trip to NYC years ago…..how segregated everything was. It was surreal to me.
Just sent her a little message on linkedin.
If the grid goes down, I plan to use the trail-blazing skills I learned in Girl Scouts . . . . to make my way out to your place.
I don’t want to be stuck here with these idiots, either.
Sincerity appears unlikely given the other arrogant, the-filled Twitter messages she has sent in the wake of the one quoted above. See Twitchy article.
Something something cow farts…
Hahahahahahahahahahahahah! Stop, you’re killin’ me!
At the end:
Classic.
Me too!
I read an article, I think it was at the Atlantic website, which said that in hindsight the push to stigmatize, rather than engage right-wing thought has left younger progressives not only unable to defend their ideas from the attacks from the right, but they are unable even to explain why they believe the things they do. That’s just what good people believe.
Which explains the meltdown: They really do believe an incomprehensible evil has just taken over the country.
I’m glad she has a bubble to live in because her personality is that of a chained dog barking at the world, understanding little but railing at it nonetheless.
Yeah. We sort of are with the Duck Dynasty boys, out here where we live. We support and help each other very well. (My hands are small enough that I’m the person they call for ‘birthing difficulties’ with their livestock, at all times of the day or night, so I, outsider that I am, have managed to find my own special way of making myself useful–“Hey, we think our sow’s tapped out and there’s nobody else in there, but can you come up and have a feel, just to make sure?” is one of the more pleasurable instances of this sort of thing. It goes downhill from there).
If the worst happens, I want to live where I have my own water supply and my own woodlot, and where I’m next door to the folks who know how to butcher a hog, and who have several hogs to go along for the ride.
I’m late to the party, but it’s worth noting that the high-growth cities are actually smaller cities in the flyover (or not-glamourous) states: Cleveland, Ohio; Lexington, KY; Roanoke, VA; Raleigh, NC; Omaha, Nebraska; and many Texas cities.
The lower cost of living plus most of the amenities in cities that people use on a regular basis (fun restaurants and grocery stores, decent schools, a semblance of nightlife, parks) make them very attractive places for young people starting out, people raising families, and everyone who doesn’t feel the need to be in Brooklyn or San Francisco to justify their existence.
There’s been great articles in newspapers like the New York Times about these cities, the young people and the entrepreneurs and artists who flock there, and how dynamic they are.
Beyond that, the undeserved arrogance of these people blows my mind. This chick went to one of those state schools that many of her peers look down upon, has a rather unremarkable career, and now insists that half the country turn itself inside out to bow to her intellectual awesomeness. At least Dr. House justified his arrogance by being the best there is. But with these people, it’s like every second-rater who mustered up the fortitude to acquire a no-name, no-difficulty B.A. feels like they can tell us all how to live.
Sell it to them as a wall to keep us out and they might even pay for it.
Zombie apocalypse?
3 days after Hurricane Sandy they were whining they were starving to death.
That can’t be true. Obama met with Krispy Kreme and promised to cut through the red tape. Oh yea, that promise expired as soon as he was safely reelected.
I understand. I had the same issue when I worked / lived in NYC in the 80s. I have worked over a large part of the eastern US and visited even more but it is only in the cities that you see this segregated, separate areas thing. In the small towns you can visit about anywhere in the town with about the same relative level of trust / fear. Only in the cities are their no go zones based on your ethnic background.
On the other hand small towns are a little weird also. I was working in a town in Indiana. A bunch of us went to lunch, about 20 people. They were all interconnected. Dated the same people, went to the same schools, related to the same people. Took a little to get use too.
I don’t much care for her kind of tolerance.
Melinda Byerley is a bigot.
“Hi, I’m a really obnoxious person. If you elect people like me to your city council, more of us will come and live next to you.”
What?
#HowComeTrump
Hey, JimGoneWild! You cheated! You didn’t use enough big words and compound sentences explaining your true feelings!
Melinda Byerley is a bigot and stupendously stupid.
COC
Put the apology in context with her previous defenses of the tweet. Not likely sincere. But maybe she got sober for the apology.
I saw a few people during the gov’s visit in Jersey that weekend wailing about not having eaten in three days, which is patently ridiculous. Considering how much and how often we were warned to get ready for the worst, you’d think they’d have managed to at least put a few peanut butter sandwiches aside.
Meanwhile, just two weeks after Sandy, I walked into Walgreens and saw this:
That’s right. Warn people for a solid week that a hurricane’s coming and half the population won’t even bother to buy water. Announce the demise of Hostess, however, and pastry pillagers will clear the shelves of Twinkies by nightfall.
Idiots.
In that case I expect she can return to her life of getting her jollies from an out of balance washing machine at a poorly maintained laundromat.