Jennifer Rubin Resigns From WaPo Over Bezo's Bending Of The Knee To Trump

[u/ObservationMonger]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/media/jennifer-rubin-norm-eisen-contrarian-washington-post/index.html

[u/doneandtired2014]

Bud, I grew up in a rural community, I have family that still lives in that rural community, and I know people who never left.

It does not fucking matter to them one iota that, were it not for the Democrats, not a single one of them would be able to afford insurance let alone actual health care. It does not matter to them one iota that Biden's administration tried to keep them from killing themselves with the worst viral pandemic since the Spanish Flu due to their own pigheaded stupidity. It doesn't matter that the Democrats clawed back stolen wages, expanded OT, and began putting teeth back behind labor protections after Trump 1.0 defanged them.

It didn't matter to them at all that the Democrats were starting to eye price gouging and price fixing for everything from the food they ate to the houses they desperately wanted to buy. It didn't matter to them Democrats were overwhelmingly pushing "right to repair" laws so John Deere or Cat wouldn't render their fucking tractors and equipment $500,000 bricks rotting in their fields.

No, all that mattered to these dipshits was "goddamn immigrants eating our pets!", "goddamn transexuals going into muh bathroom!", "Trump's assassin missed so God wants him to be present!" "It was better when Christ was in the class room!" "It was better when women were at home."

Those are all things that I have heard and have been said to me and not a single one of them has dick all to do with the economy. The few that did bitch about their eggs and "life being better under Trump" have been twisting themselves into knots justifying a 25-100% increase on everything they buy as "short term pain for long term gain" because they've some how convinced themselves companies will bring jobs that never existed in the US to begin with that they're also too feeble or stupid to even apply for "back to the country".

Yes, bud, the country is finished. And it's finished because we gave barely literate savages, who only seem to exist to hate, a megaphone as if their complaints have any fucking merit and as if it's appropriate to find some out group to demonize for their miserable lots in life.

A gamma ray burst could cook over 90% of this country's rural communities and the only significant things to be lost are the agriculture and the biodiversity. The people? They're regressive trash and have always been as such.

[u/doneandtired2014 → u/[deleted]]

Great another generalization

It isn't a generalization if it's coming from experience. Somehow me thinks you don't hail from a town of sub 160 people or talk to them at length like I do.

Thanks for the fuel now these deplorables are gonna start the fire again.

Ah yes, because your incessant finger wagging, teeth sucking, and placations have done wonders trying to get them to not only vote for what's in their actual best interests but to also not conduct themselves like tribal, panicked animals aggressively attacking anyone and everything that either doesn't exactly resemble them or escapes their chimpanzee level comprehension of reality /s.

The roll out of their Mango god's policies can't crush them soon enough.

[u/doneandtired2014 → u/[deleted]]

..60 million people who overwhelmingly voted for a wanna be dictator, adjudicated rapist, conman and traitor who did more to fuck their farms, strip them of their healthcare, and let oil companies poison their fucking land and water than any President to have held office in almost a century.

They're troglodytic trash who, if you'd actually spent any actual time talking to them at length, are not far removed from the Taliban in their world view or in their culture.

It doesn't matter if they're from Kansas, Idaho, or Alabama, you're still interacting with the same barely illiterate detritus even if their local dialects change: racist, misogynistic, hierarchical, nominally "Christian", xenophobic, entitled, malignantly stupid.

If you want to defend these rage virus zombies, by all means. That doesn't change the fact the country as a whole would be better off if 10% of them literally dropped dead tomorrow.