"Why whack some poor farmer from a state that begins and ends with a vowel with tariffs on his soybeans. That guy never did anything bad to Canada." Be-fucking-Cause they voted for Trump and they do not give one single fuck about how it affects anybody. But now they are like I didn't vote for this bullshit. Yes they did. They just thought it would not touch them.
And when he doe not get it but goes ahead and does it anyway they will not do shit. A reply to one of my comments about this invasion this morning told me to do something about it. Well what am I suppose to do? I want to do something but I am one person. We have 1/3rd of the country that is fully on board with this, another third who does not give a single fuck, and my third that is trying to figure out what to do. Our Congress is ineffective and our courts can not move fast enough. I have been yelling about this to whoever would listen to me since Reagan. I am just one old punk rocker.
Oh they voted for it but they thought none of it would hit them. They were fine with it as long as it got those welfare queens off the government tit. They are racist shitfucks just like I deal with here in WNC. Same mentality.
Just like Google in Lenior, NC. They played the local government with the idea they would boost the local economy and create jobs. The only job a local can get there is janitorial and there is like 10 of those and they don't pay that much.
I say this as an American. Half the "Founding Fathers" were slave owners and did not see a problem with subgrating other humans into forced labor. The American enterprise has been a business all the way back to the first white man setting foot on this continent. I guess I just proved you talking point.
I am sorry but this is bullshit. I live in this area and Boone may not be a hotbed of leftist activity in the mountains of WNC but t is not what this article is making it out to be. Boone was gerrymander away out of the 11th district for a reason. Its voting black was large enough when paired with Asheville to sway WNC Democratic. Outside of Asheville and Boone WNC is a sea of uneducated MAGA and fundamentalist Christians that either do not vote or are violently MAGA. Do not get me wrong. There are a lot of non-Trumpers here but not enough to make a difference. Honestly, outside of Boone the locals are perfectly fine with what is going on.
Truthfully, after reading the article I even wonder if the author has even been to Boone. One section talks about blood in the hills and the ending of mining. Mining never happened in WNC. Logging was the thing here. The article even talks about Blair Mountain which is nowhere near Boone. In the end this article not nothing but hopeium.
