Can You Hear Me?
Well, there are dog whistles and then there are water cannons aimed at your ears …
Yes, we will build a wall around Whitetown and only let poor people come in during the day to clean your house or mow your yard. They work cheap to support your dream.
The other day he talked about something called a “suburban housewife.” Does anybody know what that is?
Now he’s just become creepy.
Thanks to Deb T for the heads up.
I am happy to inform all those living the wealthy lifestyle, you don’t
1Have to worry about those middle class people building their homes in OUR neighborhood.
My policies are aimed for the truly wealthy.
Oh, I see. He’s running on the Racism ticket.
2Ewwwww! But racism is all he’s got.
3Hope everybody remembers Archie Bunker, from All in the Family. It was during the seventies and Archie embodied all the prejudices and irrational opinions of the older generation, damn sure they were right about everything.
4I just realized that our “president” is Archie Bunker in the flesh.
The crap he spews is pure venom, born of his elitist background and reinforced by the cretins with whom he surround himself.
And he is incapable of learning from his mistakes, just continues to hunker down with the crazies. Archie has to go.
I am an old Southerner and I have always preferred the proud, open racists to the mealy-mouthed four-flushers who pretend to be fair and have tou se dog whistles and other signals to make their supporters understand where they really stand.
So, attaboy, Donald, don’t hold back. Wear a sheet in the Rose Garden.
5If a ranch near us becomes available, please, please, please let it be a black family or another family of culture and color to buy it. Our worst nightmare would be for the ***king moron, one of his* spawn or associates to move within a 1000 miles of here. Any of those covidiots within shooting distance would be way too much temptation to do something stupid. Bernhardt, Zinke, Chad Wolf … basically any of those weasels would be grounds for a range war.
Low rent, Donnie*? There are no lower feckless beings than you and the fluffers around you*. How low? Try this interactive map from The American Prospect with the dirty on the filthy scoundrels at each of the agencies and departments criminally loaded by this maladministration. The minute to minute twitter horrors of Donnie* are a distraction from the evil being done by this maladministration along with their stripping of our national wealth. https://prospect.org/mapping-corruption-interactive?fbclid=IwAR06LQ6NSjjX-LXC9ggbU8lK2Z9tb1L2roYV9vC0B35YiNwG3oJzGHoFvCM
6Donald Trump’s notions all come straight from the 1950’s, when suburban living–for reasons other than getting out of cities in the summer–took off. He’s thinking of 50’s housewives–when wealthier women left the workforce, and married women who did the secretarial/retail/nursing/teaching work were often forced out of their jobs if they became pregnant. He’s even got the “white flight” from the cities to the suburbs right, so he’s reassuring all the ladies from 60-70 years ago that they won’t have to live anywhere near “those people.” He has no idea how much life has changed for the better. Of course, he doesn’t consider today’s world an improvement.
7Jane & PKM – Gary Clarke, Jr. has a beautiful big white mansion (think Tara) on his ranch near Austin.
8Trump, as we all know by now, is about six years old developmentally. So all his reference points are decades out of date. His view of suburbia is stuck in a past, a past that never really was. He’s just singing “Such are the dreams of an everyday housewife” in his head.
9Grandma, wouldn’t we all love to have Gary Clarke JR. As our neighbor! My Suburban Dream also includes a taco truck on every corner!
Trumps reelection strategy:
Send Unidentifiable Federal Troops into cities governed by Democrats.
Incite chaos.
Force feed frightening images to the suburbs.
Stoke suburban fears of cities.
Declare himself the Lord Protector of the Suburbs aka He who must be obeyed or you’ll be overrun by “The Other.”
In other words, he’s going to use the presidency to pit those voters he’s got absolutely no shot at winning against the voters he cannot possibly win without.
10He doesn’t even try to be subtle about his white supremacy- he’s full Stephen Miller, or should I say Stephen Miller has always been like minded with Trumpf.
11It’s one thing for his administration and cult to love this, but all the enablers in Congress just sit on their brains and accept it.
Kick all their asses in November!!!
I fled the suburbs in favor of slightly seedy and diverse neighborhoods as soon as I got out of high school. If I wanted to buy my house now, I probably couldn’t afford it even at its current lot value (which is what it would go for) – not that I’d want to, because I’m now surrounded by new builds with people coming in from the burbs, “downsizing” to only 4000 square feet. I liked my original neighbors more for the most part.
12“… people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream…”
Updated Suburban Dream Community Association CCR’s now include a flagpole w/ Confederate flag flying in daylight hours, and a lawn jockey no farther than three (3) feet from mailboxes.
13Placement of Trump-Pence 2020 yard sign is required, but location is optional as long as it’s easily read from the street.
He makes me embarrassed to be an American.
14@ Rick: can we paint the lawn jockeys orange, and put plastic ferrets on their heads?
15thatotherjean,
I lived that life. In a town of about 25000, one black family who lived somewhere down by the tracks. My yearbook with 500+ graduates has not a single POC. In our WASP neighborhood we were the odd ones, Italian Catholics who kept having babies. We were definitely kept in line so as not to disturb the neighbors.
College was the best thing ever- different cultures (oh! the food), voices, mucis, clothes- I never went back to Whiteville even though it’s now “only” 80% white.
16“can we paint the lawn jockeys orange, and put plastic ferrets on their heads?”
That’s definitely an improvement!
17It seems to me that this is not just about keeping out non-White people. It also prevents the building of any kind of low-income homes, including those starter homes that most young people just starting out could afford, what with their monstrous student loans and all. Young people of all colors. This needs to be shouted out loud and clear. Young people who think that if they can’t have Bernie they won’t vote for anybody need to have it made very clear that no vote, or any vote for anybody but Biden will be a vote for Trump. Every day this vile man is in office is a BAD DAY.
18Marielle @4, no, this guy isn’t Archie Bunker. Archie had a heart–he really loved Edith and Gloria, and even though he called Michael Meathead, he allowed him to live in his house and did what he could to help the kids out. And while he didn’t love it, he was capable of learning from them. Covid-45, not so much on any count.
19Sorry, djw, I have to object. Archie treated Edith like an indentured servant, mocked everything she said and humiliated her at every opportunity. He constantly spewed racist and misogynistic opinions as if they were gospel. He was a nasty, selfish boor with limited intelligence.
20Sound familiar?
Any glimpses of humanity were due to Edith’s persistent efforts to open his tightly closed mind.
What I wrote about this in my journal this morning:
Dear god, he’s not using a dog whistle anymore; he’s using a vuvuzela.
21Suburbs? Frightened of anyone not WASP? WHERE THE HELL HAS HE BEEN! I’ve had a neighbor from Afghanistan on one side and a neighbor from Thailand on the other. The Afghani left to develop his farm land in another state. In his previous house now lives a POC who is a cop. Because I am so close to a military base, my neighborhood has had every nationality etc.known to humankind. And I wouldn’t have traded it for the world! So, go suck your thumb, Trumpie baby!. At least it will keep you out of fmischief.
22I can’t see how, after 4 years of this, there’s not an eye left unrolled in the whole country when he comes out with BS like that. He’s like that transparently needy coworker that you have to tolerate, but who nobody even listens to anymore, the moment they go into their same spiel for the 12th time today.
23As if Trump has any notion of, or experience with, a “Suburban Lifestyle.”
A politician who who resorts to this sort of sick racist pandering is a politician who will not leave his office voluntarily. Might as well get ready for it.
24Back in the ’70s I ran a small but profitable one-woman business. One day I was a witness to an automobile accident and later was asked by one of the attorneys to make a deposition.
He took my name and address–I could see the form–and then under “occupation” he wrote “housewife.” I said, “I’m not a housewife.”
He marked through that and wrote in “secretary.”
25Just found out that a lot of suburbanites are actually moving to the city. The house that used to contain two adults and some times a whole bunch of their kids is now way to big to maintain. They also now need to be closer to a whole lot of things such as pharmacies, dry cleaners, supermarkets, dentists, eye doctors and so forth. Normally in the burbs they would have to drive to any of the above. In the city they could have a condo in a building that could very well have all of these benefits on the ground floor! Trump is so incredibly dumb!!!
26Now, now, JJ. Everbody knows “a suburban housewife” is Donna Reed wearing pearls and high heels while vacuuming the floors, waiting for husband=breadwinner to come home from his office job.
In other words, a fantasy that never existed and was outdated over half a century ago.
Old Mayfly @ 25: While I don’t doubt people like that attorney are still infesting the body politic, I sincerely hope that they are a dying breed. Of course back in the 60s I thought racism was over as soon as the older generation of crackers, yahoos, and cedar choppers kicked the bucket and we know how well **that** prediction panned out.
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