woodguru

Interesting state of reporting on who is testifying against Trump, the side of the t***h is going to win here, there are simply too many people who won't go to jail for Trump, this is where you need to stop looking at facts through a lens of bias, there is nothing incorrect about what is being said here...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/15/1892540/-Fiona-Hill-s-testimony-draws-a-line-through-the-White-House-and-sets-up-a-key-confrontation?detail=emaildkre

Liberty Tree

You use the DAILYKOS as a source and talk about facts? HEE! HEE!

Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, CO

Whoa there woodsie, you have exposed yourself~

From their website....loony libby~

Daily Kos is a group blog and internet forum focused on the Democratic Party and liberal American politics. The site features a participatory political encyclopedia, glossaries, and other content. It is sometimes considered an example of "netroots" …

Seth

LOLOL!!!! The Daily Kos!!!!

-- "Hahahahaha!!!!"

😂 -- "The Daily Kos, that's a good one!"

-- "Why not The Daily Worker?"

😆 -- "LOLOLOL!"

Lt. Rob Polans ret.

" the side of the t***h is going to win here" Whose t***h?

woodguru

Even FOX can post things accurately here and there, this KOS piece stuck to the facts was my point. You believe that a left wing media source can't get facts straight?

woodguru

Facts, who Giuliani was pressuring and why, who his Komrades that were arrested were paying and what for, the refusal to work within official channels with business that had nothing to do with national interests but were interests of Giuliani on behalf of Trump.

woodguru

If the daily kos said the sun came up in the east you would not believe it, read the story and you would see it's facts, but then you wouldn't be able to stay ignorant.

Seth

Not the Daily Kos, LOL! They could make a far left leaning brouhaha out of a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

The Daily Kos, LOL!

-- "LOLOLOL!"

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

I'll tell you whose testimony is going to count. That of the American people who are sick to gills of maggot HOR politicians and all of their pull toys, such as yourself, who are telling president Trump and the rest of us to go f**k ourselves and that they own the title to our nation, that they are going to decide the future of America, that they are destined to rule in perpetuity.

I have some news for you, buddy boy.


I went back home to Ohio's Trump country. In Appalachia, honest people have hope again.

by Jason Williams USA Today

GALLIPOLIS, Ohio – I've been a journalist for 21 years. I've never struggled to write something as much as I have this column.

The assignment: Go back to the place where I grew up, here in the middle of Ohio's Appalachian region across the river from West Virginia, talk to family and friends and my hometown people and offer a perspective on the heart of Trump country that few others in the media can.

T***p w*n 76% of the v**e in Gallia County three years ago, his largest margin among Southeast Ohio counties. His sweeping success across Ohio's Appalachian region — he won 30 of the state's 32 such counties — played a big part in sending him to the White House.

This poverty-stricken area, nestled amid the picturesque Appalachian foothills about 150 miles east of Cincinnati, continues to stand firm behind Trump. And rural Ohio very well could play a part in re-electing him, barring impeachment.

That is, unless the Democratic candidates somehow miraculously start talking about real-world issues like jobs and safety. Tuesday night would actually be a great time for them to start appealing to everyday Americans, when the candidates debate 125 miles north of here in Westerville.

I thought this would be a fun story to do.

It wasn't.

Here's why: Many of my family, friends, former teachers, coaches, classmates and church congregates — and all their friends — in this county of 30,000 people are Trump supporters, and I didn't want to put them out there, by name, for the trolls to feast on.

I love my hometown and its people too much.

These folks already get made fun of enough for being from Appalachia. They're good, respectful people who are focused on taking care of their families. They want to be left alone. They don't care about stupid Twitter wars, and I don't want to be responsible for thrusting them into the vicious rhetorical crossfire between l*****t activists and Trump sycophants.

Democrats aren't reaching out: No one v**es to be despised. If Democrats don't change their pitch, I may switch to Trump.

I quickly came to the realization that this was going to be a challenge soon after arriving for my 2½-day stay in early September. I found that a lot of folks didn't want to talk about Trump. They didn't want to put themselves out there for fear of being verbally bludgeoned on Facebook and Twitter or in the grocery store or even at church.

And those who did want to talk, well, they seemed to speak for those who wanted to remain silent: They're tired of certain cable news networks and the l*****t political class stereotyping them as a bunch of toothless, r****t, backwoods rubes.

Josh Skidmore has his hair cut by Herald Montgomery, County Commissioner, at Montgomery Barber Shop in Gallipolis, Ohio, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Montgomery is a republican County Commissioner who supports Donald Trump. (Photo: Albert Cesare)

"I don't want to talk about it because you can't have an opinion unless it's their opinion," an African American Trump supporter said about the left. "Either you believe the way they believe, or you're a r****t or a homophobe. The reason I'm working is because of what Trump's done. I just want to put my hard hat on and go to work every day."

The man, who added he's a registered Democrat, talked to Enquirer photographer Albert Cesare and me for nearly an hour on his front porch on a hot evening. He said a lady at his church had given him grief for supporting "r****t" Trump, but the man said he's seen no hard evidence that's true.

The man then abruptly said he wanted no part of the story, stepped inside his house and closed the front door, leaving us sitting on the porch dumbfounded.

I didn't blame him one bit.
Trump, the lesser of two evils

The t***h is, these aren't a bunch of Bible-thumping hillbillies. I spoke with nearly 20 Trump supporters. Most of them didn't want to be quoted, but every single one of them said the No. 1 thing they like about Trump is he's focused on jobs. Nothing about Russia or building walls or locking anyone up.

I know it's hard for the out-of-touch political class that's obsessed with hating Trump and all his supporters to fathom this, but there aren't stereotypes on every street corner and dirt road here.
Rob Rocchi serves hotdogs at Remo's Italian Hotdog's in Gallipolis, Ohio, on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019. Rob is the current owner and son of Remo's Rocchi the founder of Remo's Italian Hotdogs who is now deceased.

I put over 100 miles on my SUV driving around Gallia County, where I grew up in a middle class home on a 100-acre farm. I walked around our little downtown of Gallipolis, population 3,500 and the county seat. I hung out for hours at Remo's Italian Hotdogs, Bob Evans, Montgomery's Barber Shop, Shake Shoppe, Courtside Bar and Grill and McDonald's – all the cool places.

I saw no MAGA-hat wearers.

I saw two Trump f**gs h*****g from front porches, each on opposite ends of the county.

I saw one Trump bumper sticker, and it was on a luxury SUV. My colleague saw a "Trump 2020" doormat on a houseboat.

Teaching government in the Trump era: I've taught US government for 40 years. Thanks to Trump, I'm doubting the Founders' plan.

The only other time I saw or heard anything about Trump was when my dad was watching Fox News' "The Five" in the afternoon. It's something he enjoys in retirement after spending nearly 38 years working in one of the county's two coal-fired power plants along the Ohio River, raising three sons and tending to my late grandfather's farm.
A f**g supporting Donald Trump outside a house a block from the Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019.

A f**g supporting Donald Trump outside a house a block from the Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire, Ohio, on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. (Photo: Albert Cesare)

Ironically, I often see more leftover Obama bumper stickers during my 15-minute commute to The Enquirer than I saw Trump signs back home.

If I go back in a year, maybe it'll be different. Or perhaps it's an indication that there's not this wide-spread obsession with Trump – and never has been – in the areas where he dominated at the polls. It might be hard for some to grasp this, but don't believe everything you read in the alt-reality world of social media.

Every person I talked to about Trump, generally said:

He was the lesser of two evils — and still is.

I like what he's doing on the economy.

I wish he'd stop tweeting.

Sounds like the same thing Trump supporters in Greater Cincinnati — and everywhere else in Ohio — say.
In Appalachia, people have hope again

Look, there's no deep, why-do-these-people-love-Trump-so-much meaning here. Gallia County has long been really Republican.

This is the home of the late Bob Evans, where his namesake restaurant was founded in 1948. His family's money has influenced GOP politics in Gallia County for decades. Bill Clinton in 1996 is the last Democratic p**********l candidate to win the county. Before that, the county hadn't gone for a Democrat in a p**********l e******n since 1964 (Lyndon Johnson).

Gallia County supported Republican Mike DeWine in his failed re-e******n bid for the U.S. Senate in 2006. Every other county in southeast and eastern Ohio went for Sherrod Brown.

It's easy to see why the economy is top of mind. Gallia County is one of the poorest counties in the state. The power plants and the region's main hospital are among the few options for good-paying jobs.

Trump's policies are rooted in reality: My son was murdered by an i*****l i*******t. Neither he nor Mollie Tibbetts deserved to die.

I can remember coming home a decade ago and there were four of those sleazy, check-cashing places within a 2-mile radius. All of the stores where we shopped growing up — Haskins-Tanner clothiers, Knight's Department Store, Carl's shoe store — had been shuttered.

But the residents have optimism like I haven't seen in a long time. Gallia County's unemployment rate is 5.6%, the lowest its been since 1979. Most of the storefronts in Gallipolis again have businesses. Some residents attribute that to Trump, though the economy was showing signs of rebounding before he was elected.

Trump doesn't deserve all the credit. I've always felt like he played places like Gallipolis and Ohio's other blue-collar areas on the economy.

Things are better, yes, but it doesn't mean happy days are here again. Gallia County's workforce is a staggering 20% smaller than it was in the early 1970s, and the current unemployment rate is still higher than the U.S. (3.8%) and Ohio (4.2%).

I covered Trump's Youngstown rally in July 2017, when he implored people not to sell their homes and promised to bring back steel mills. The crowd erupted into a deafening cheer.

It was an unrealistic promise that factories are coming back, and it's bothered me ever since. But I'm glad people have hope again.

I'll go back home several more times before the 2020 e******n. Maybe I'll keep you updated on whether this area breaks away from Trump or solidifies around the president as the impeachment process continues.

Or maybe I'll just leave everyone alone and go tear up some trails on my dad's Polaris.

If you think this is an isolated perspective, think again. Americans all over this country feel the same. Those assholes holed up in the confines of a HOR chamber and who are doing their dirty business in secret don't give a flaming s**t about the American people, including you, they are in this to serve themselves. Their lust for power and control is a runaway train and it is bound for a hellacious wreck.

Seth

x 10,000!