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[Mr.B]

[Mr.B]

Or move to the Cayman Islands or some other tax shelter country where Mitt Romney and the other 1% store their money. Those places are magically out of reach of the long arm of the government.

There's that. We'd looked at Turks and Caicos. Easy to get residency, low cost of living. But living there is undoubtedly different from the times we've stayed there before. Might just move into the Winter Residence fulltime. Summer in Cape Breton, or Ottawa, or maybe Vancouver; winter in SW Florida (which is Canada in the winter). Forget Trump and the Trumpettes and particularly the NC Legislature.

Do like I did ..... long ago. Stay right where you're at (if you're happy there) and forget about the whole mess of 'em...
just sit back and banter back and forth on the keyboard with the whiners and the one who's looking in from the other side of the window and fuming over what he sees... It's a helluva lot more fun...and cheaper too.

[JTA]

White males are far from oppressed. I don't believe they're oppressed at all, especially in our country.

I was being sarcastic.

But the past few years it seems to have become very trendy to speak of white males as some monolithic entity responsible for all of the evil in the world.

Who says that?

Do you see the potential problems with this mindset?

Less so than the mindset that we're not born with an enormous advantage, that we don't have a responsibility to both acknowledge this and do all that we can to rectify it, and that all the whining from Mr.B and the Trumpettes is justified.

A close latina friend of mine of the Cuban variety calls me a mick all the time and says I probably wear polo shirts and shop at target , but jokes on her shes the one that's gonna be deported to back to Mexico not me.

[O Really]

Or move to the Cayman Islands or some other tax shelter country where Mitt Romney and the other 1% store their money. Those places are magically out of reach of the long arm of the government.

There's that. We'd looked at Turks and Caicos. Easy to get residency, low cost of living. But living there is undoubtedly different from the times we've stayed there before. Might just move into the Winter Residence fulltime. Summer in Cape Breton, or Ottawa, or maybe Vancouver; winter in SW Florida (which is Canada in the winter). Forget Trump and the Trumpettes and particularly the NC Legislature.

Do like I did ..... long ago. Stay right where you're at (if you're happy there) and forget about the whole mess of 'em...
just sit back and banter back and forth on the keyboard with the whiners and the one who's looking in from the other side of the window and fuming over what he sees... It's a helluva lot more fun...and cheaper too.

I like WNC generally, and I like my immediate surroundings. And I make a real effort not to get too wrapped up in stuff I have no control over. I wouldn't really move somewhere just as a political protest, but there are a lot of nice places in the world, and I've been to/lived in a lot of nice places, so it's tempting to want to live in a state/country with not so many rightwingers. Or at least where there's something on the news that isn't about the latest infringement on rational thought.

[Vrede too]

Better to be in Cuba or Mexico than to be a mick that wears polo shirts and shops at Target. Some people squander their enormous advantage.

[JTA]

Come to think of it, the white people I have a problem with are the ones that wear scarves when it's 60 degrees out and shop at target.

I guess Polo shirts and target ain't that bad though. But those scarves.

[Mr.B]

Forget Target. Starbucks would be more fun.


Note: This is a satirical meme; it is only a meme. If you find it disturbing, oh well..

[JTA]

I'm a confirmed hater all of things people, so I may have to try this.

[O Really]

I guess I'm totally un-cool, but I like Target. What am I missing?

[JTA]

I guess I'm totally un-cool, but I like Target. What am I missing?

In all honesty shopping at target isn't that big of a deal, it's you wearing ugs and scarves and sipping on Starbucks and listening to Katy Perry and Justin Bieber and dying your hair dirty blonde that's the problem.

[rstrong]

I'm a confirmed hater all of things people....

Speaking of which:

CBC: Trump taps Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general

Sessions said he was not a racist, but said at his hearing that groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union could be considered "un-American."

His history on Wikipedia shows him to be essentially a human rights nightmare.

[O Really]

I guess I'm totally un-cool, but I like Target. What am I missing?

In all honesty shopping at target isn't that big of a deal, it's you wearing ugs and scarves and sipping on Starbucks and listening to Katy Perry and Justin Bieber and dying your hair dirty blonde that's the problem.

OK, I don't qualify on any of those. Does anybody really listen to Justin Bieber?

[Mr.B]

I guess I'm totally un-cool, but I like Target. What am I missing?

"In all honesty shopping at target isn't that big of a deal, it's you wearing ugs and scarves and sipping on Starbucks and listening to Katy Perry and Justin Bieber and dying your hair dirty blonde that's the problem."

I'd much prefer to see that over someone vying for a "People of Walmart" spot.

[Mr.B]

"OK, I don't qualify on any of those. Does anybody really listen to Justin Bieber?"

Only in Canada.

[JTA]

I guess I'm totally un-cool, but I like Target. What am I missing?

In all honesty shopping at target isn't that big of a deal, it's you wearing ugs and scarves and sipping on Starbucks and listening to Katy Perry and Justin Bieber and dying your hair dirty blonde that's the problem.

OK, I don't qualify on any of those. Does anybody really listen to Justin Bieber?

I do, but only in the privacy of my own home, on the nights I dress up in drag and make myself look pretty.

[JTA]

I'm a confirmed hater all of things people....

Speaking of which:

CBC: Trump taps Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general

Sessions said he was not a racist, but said at his hearing that groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union could be considered "un-American."

His history on Wikipedia shows him to be essentially a human rights nightmare.

[rstrong]

"OK, I don't qualify on any of those. Does anybody really listen to Justin Bieber?"

Only in Canada.

Only in the US.

It was an American talent scout that "discovered" him, working for an American studio that turned him into a star. The Canadian people have apologized repeatedly for Bryan Adams, but Justin Bieber is your doing.

[Vrede too]

... CBC: Trump taps Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general

Sessions said he was not a racist, but said at his hearing that groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union could be considered "un-American."

His history on Wikipedia shows him to be essentially a human rights nightmare.

Tell the Senate: Reject Trump's appointment of Senator Sessions for Attorney General! (petition)

[O Really]

I'm hoping Sessions is a red herring to get somebody else by who might otherwise have a hard time getting approved. I don't know that he could have picked anybody worse.

[Vrede too]

Have you noticed any non-red herrings in Trump's picks yet, and does he seem the type to intentionally suffer humiliating losses in order to win in the long run?