America is held hostage by flyover states

[Wingnut]

Judging by the article, from a galaxy far, far, away. More like an asster...hemmer... oh one of those -oids, anyway.

It does have a lot of those

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This is the kind of screed you get from people who've lived in their own tiny little bubble  for so long and realize there's a world beyond that

Once the oceans rise like Gore predicts, there will nothing left but flyover country.

Works for me.

[Wingnut]

Once the oceans rise like Gore predicts, there will nothing left but flyover country.

Works for me.

1st settled. 1st flooded.

[240B]

What I find funniest about this entire election is the cross-over Dems that flocked to our primaries to get Trump nominated.  Now they have to live with that consequence.   They got exactly what they deserved. 

Very true.


To add to your point, the DNC, the media, Obama, et al, colluded directly with Clinton to torpedo Bernie Sanders, who would have been a much better candidate and likely would have done much better against Trump.


The Dems did more to elect Trump than anyone else. First, they cheated to get Trump nominated. Then, they cheated to sabotage his best competition in favor of a shrill, corrupt, White woman that nobody likes.


Thank you Democrats for all your help in getting our guy elected. LOL!


idiots

[Hondo69]

When you distill it all down this election was about one thing and one thing only - class warfare.

The Coasties just can't figure out why the Little People got sick and tired of being told, "Sit down and shut up".

[Bigun]

Dear Blue States of Permanent Dependency:

It's our money you're feasting on. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, and good luck with that whole socialist "we're-all-in-this-together-so-government-theft-is-okay" thing.

Signed,

Red States of America and everyone else who is sick of your crap.

P.S. - And don't be afraid to take DC with you. I look forward to having our new Capitol in Oklahoma City.

P.P.S. - And consider yourselves lucky that we don't shut off the food and fuel supplies to your hell holes!

[mountaineer]

Joe Walsh ‏@WalshFreedom 1m1 minute ago

The country demanded change. Trump was change. Hillary wasn't.

End of story. Move on.

This guy is no fan of Trump, but he's right. Hillary vowed to be Obama 2.0, continuing every single policy of his, from destroying the coal industry to letting in hoardes of illegals. Flyover country - the ones who lost their jobs thanks to Obama's policies, who no longer could afford health insurance, who were just sick of it - decided they wanted something and someone else.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

This guy is no fan of Trump, but he's right. Hillary vowed to be Obama 2.0, continuing every single policy of his, from destroying the coal industry to letting in hoardes of illegals. Flyover country - the ones who lost their jobs thanks to Obama's policies, who no longer could afford health insurance, who were just sick of it - decided they wanted something and someone else.

This guy was a big booster of Trump until the Russian thing. Trump idiotic response prompted him to break with Trump on this issue.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Duane Townsend:
"America is held hostage by flyover states"

Reality:


Of special interest:
Note that even in liberal Connecticut, two counties "went red"...

Truth be told, a handful of cities are holding trying to hold rural America hostage. Look at Oregon for example. Up to the mountains the place is almost as conservative as Idaho, but the country folks get outvoted by Portland and so the whole state ends up under liberal law and regulation.

[Bigun]

“The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.”

Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIX, 1782. ME 2:230

"I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe.”

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. Papers 12:442

“I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.”

Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 1800. ME 10:173

[Free Vulcan]

Truth be told, a handful of cities are holding trying to hold rural America hostage. Look at Oregon for example. Up to the mountains the place is almost as conservative as Idaho, but the country folks get outvoted by Portland and so the whole state ends up under liberal law and regulation.

When you break it down there are hardly any true Blue states out there. Even the liberal northeast has only a few bastions, just highly populated. That map wasn't even from a particularly strong GOP candidate.

Who's held hostage here?

[Bigun]

When you break it down there are hardly any true Blue states out there. Even the liberal northeast has only a few bastions, just highly populated. That map wasn't even from a particularly strong GOP candidate.

Who's held hostage here?

[img size=600]https://i.imgur.com/oAlVHGU.png[/img]

[Fishrrman]

Durn it, Bigun, I was jes' gettin' ready to post that myself!

[240B]

The size is too big.

[Free Vulcan]

Excellent graphic Bigun!