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Oldie but goodie makes its return
By adamg on Wed, 11/16/2016 - 5:02pm
If you donate to the Environmental League of Massachusetts, they'll send you one of these bumper stickers.
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Didn't Donald Trump win the primary here?
Seems potentially relevant.
That's not really saying much
I mean, how many people voted in the Republican primary?
631,395
See https://apps.bostonglobe.com/election-results/2016/primary/republican/ma...
we can blame Massachusetts
They are all our candiates
Trump and Clinton went to college here, Jill Stein lives in Lexington, and Weld was governor of the Commonwealth.
So we either way we win or lose, depending on your outlook.
I've never heard Trump went to school here
Where and when, please?
Nope, University of
Nope, University of Pennsylvanian (Wharton School)
Massachusetts awarded 50%
Massachusetts awarded 50% more delegates to Clinton than Sanders.
We could have had President Sanders.
Not funny
Last time I saw one similar to this, Nixon shut the Army Base and Navy Yard down putting thousands of people out of work and many businesses out of business. You get what you ask for.
Trump is going to take it out of Charlie Baker's hide
whether we sticker our cars or not. The petty vindictiveness that Trump has demonstrated his whole life is one of my longstanding issues with his temperament and fitness to be President. He's 70 years old, and he spent a week tearing down a former Miss Universe on Twitter, for gawd's sake.
Don't love Baker, but truly admire him for the principled moral stand he took there -- vanishingly rare among GOP leaders this year -- even if it hurts the Commonwealth. Poor Bill Weld: I think he meant well, but I foresee a lot of dark nights of the soul in his future.
Trump is a tiny man with scant ethical convictions, never mind a policy rudder, who just figured out that he has no idea how to govern and no plan for it. His scrambling response is to surround himself with hateful, anti-Semitic racists, angry loons, superannuated neo-cons, Wall Street titans, science-denying oil and coal barons, gay-conversion-therapy zealots, and a flock of assorted DC lobbyists. That includes Big Telecom, so the self-styled advocate for the working man and innovative small businesses will likely kill Net Neutrality.
Can't stand the sight of Ted Cruz's oily, smarmy, glob-o'-spit-on-the-corner-of-his-mouth visage? There's your new head of Justice. Thought you'd never have to endure another Sarah Palin Oxy-addict-sounding word salad? Sorry: she's Secretary of the Interior, blithering on Fox News every night about why we have to strip-mine our national parks. Hey, middle-aged and elderly Trump supporters: say hello to privatized Medicare! The rest of you working poor? Too damned bad about your health insurance.
Citizens United? Get used to greedy billionaires drowning out grass-roots voices. Protection of voting rights? Bah-ha-ha! Freedom of the press? We'll see you in court, liberal-scum scribblers (like Universal Hub). Worried about government surveillance overreach? Guess which mean-spirited asshole now owns the NSA and the FBI.
The worldwide scientific community, Defense Department and insurance industry's uniform assessment of global warming as an existential threat to our security? Feh: dupes of a Chinese hoax. Two-year-old gay rights Supreme Court decision? Prrrrobably settled law -- for now. On the other hand, Roe v. Wade (1973)? Definitely needs revisiting, ladies.
We're going to be weeping with tragic nostalgia for the days of the old swamp.
Don't love Baker, but truly
I'll have to take a pass on your request. Baker's "principled moral stand" of saying that he would vote for neither Clinton nor Trump wasn't even remotely courageous. You do understand that supporting Trump would have been political suicide in this state, don't you?
And as for the "vanishingly rare" GOP opposition to Trump:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/29/us/politics/at-least-110-r...
Baker still did the right thing. By contrast,
the big national leaders of the GOP like Ryan, Preibus and McConnell either fell in line or cravenly hedged their bets without Baker's home politics to deal with, to say nothing of the moral vacuum that is Ted Cruz. Kelly Ayotte? Wavered in the clutch out of misguided triangulation and paid the price for it: no tears there. (Also, that list has some people who are out of politics; it took them far less courage to oppose Trump. Surprised it didn't include HW. He came out after the article, maybe?)
Unlike Ayotte, Baker (to my mind, anyway) acted out of conviction. We may disagree on policy here and there, but I perceive him as essentially decent, and like to think he took that stand more out of that essential decency than political expediency. The purely political calculus might have been, "I'm so popular I can endorse Trump and still win in 2018."
It's early days yet. I suspect his stark non-support of Trump will grow in esteem over time. It certainly made me view Baker in a new light.
(Aside: "truly admire" is just a conversational-prose ellipsis by which I mean, "I truly admire", as "Don't love Baker" means "I don't love Baker". It's not meant as an imperative for you to admire or not love him. Use that informal, just-us-talking mode a lot here. Don't usually get misinterpreted that way. By which I mean, "I use that mode often, and I don't usually...." Maybe should be more explici-- aaah, you get the idea.)
Except for the million plus Trump voters here
What I don't like about slogans like these is that they create divisiveness. There are plenty of Trump supporters in Massachusetts, and plenty of Clinton supporters in states that went for Trump. This slogan tells any Trump supporters who might be interested in the environment to stay away. (and yes there could be a few)
Getting rid of the electoral college would be a big step in getting rid of all the tiresome red state, blue state finger pointing, and it will make more votes count.
My mom had one of those on
My mom had one of those on her old woodie station wagon!
"Don't blame me. I voted for
"Don't blame me. I voted for her.
"Don't blame me. I voted for
"Don't blame me. I voted for Sanders."
For Millennials and others too young to know
This sticker first made it's appearance after Richard Nixon defeated George McGovern in all states except Massachusetts (and the District of Columbia) in the 1972 presidential election. I was not a Nixon (or "Tricky Dick", as we used to call him) supporter then nor was I a Trump supporter forty-four years later, but lived through that and I trust I will live through this.
Were you a Reagan supporter
Were you a Reagan supporter in 1984? Every state except Minnesota voted for Reagan in 1984.
Well yeah
Unless you want to take your car out of the immediate New England area- or even into certain counties within New England- in which case many people will blame you as being part of the problem and possibly vandalize your car.
Great opportunity for a body shop owner to get some free advertising.
Blaming victims, are we?
How very red state - don't you DARE express yourself with anything but a GUN, eh?
Your acceptance of this as normal is disturbing.
Reminds me of my "Nixon 49, America 1" sticker 10 cars ago
I'll add this bumper sticker to my current collection (EWarren, BSanders and HRClinton) to somehow announce to strangers: "I didn't do it."
Fellowship of the Miserable
"Don't blame me..."
Good luck to all of you. Keep prejudging Trump's presidency.
bastiat: What?
We are judging Trump by his words, actions, and potential Cabinet. There's no "prejudging" going on here, bastiat. There's only paying attention and knowing the difference between what's right and what's wrong. Please join us.
Prejudging
It's kind of hard not to prejudge when he's waving so many red flags just as hard as he can. But leaving that aside, I'll skip this bumper sticker because I just don't see the sense in recreational smugness. Take the money you'd spend on the damn bumper sticker and send it to the ACLU, or better yet, get your ass vertical and get to work dealing with the coming shitstorm. If you're inclined to action rather than Monday-morning quarterbacking, I have a lot of suggestions for places where you can lend a hand.
Agreed
Except that the bumper sticker is for a donation to an environmental organization.
I like your phrase, "recreational smugness." That's why will give to other environmental organizations but not this one. I don't like the message it sends.
Well
If the ongoing prequel is anything to go by ...
I mean,
Even Baker pre-judged before he walked back his statement. He first said that he thought appointing Bannon was concerning that he was headed the opposite direction of what he'd promised, then he said "aw hell, wait and see, everyone."
Didn't he talk with pence at the Republican Governor's meeting between statements? Makes me wonder if they had a conversation of sorts...