Guys and Gals -- we may as well quit now. We're over. Done. This is what we're up against.
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It's about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh and it's on the Mon. A lot of closed steel mills, rusting factories, not much else. The actress Frances McDormand is from Monessen.
for any of us. 
Tougher or Together ?????
The are=our was not so bad. It took me about ten minutes to try and figure that out. Then I ran and got a dunce hat,.. put it on,... then that one made sense.
I'd like to thank Poopdeck Pappy* for his stirring patriotism.
*Popeye's dad
so this is basically their level of writing and spelling. 
I just posted this #19.
...unless the DRE has pictures of the candidates!?!
There is no reason or logic with these people.
(not my photo, but a great sign nonetheless)
Trump University
And these red states “our” taking wasted money from blue states.
Almost commended him for his honesty.
Makes me sad that he and too many Americans are below third grade reading levels. What their childhoods must have been like. 
And that the greater problem is that they know not they know not and just don't give a s***. Proud of their ignorance.
I'm gonna' admit - I'm from western PA, have a good college friend who was born and raised in Monessen, went to college with me, and went back to his hometown to work in their schools. As others have said, this was steel & coal country - a good living could be made there, and if your Dad already had a job there you had nothing to worry about - you would too (Pink Floyd - "We don't need no education..."
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And it worked that way for a few generations. While I was in college I had a cousin who "squeaked" through high school and got a job in the steel mill where his dad worked. He used to brag to me about how he'd go in for the midnight shift, find a great spot, and sleep most of the night. He was already making more than I would after my first few years of teaching.
But then things turned.
The mills started closing, the mines were closing (my Father and his Father and so many of my uncles all worked in the mines) and the jobs went to anyplace but here. All of a sudden, what was "guaranteed" was no longer....................
Where did the jobs go?
Where did the money go?
Why didn't the unions save us?
Those great, bustling steel towns began swirling down that porcelain throne - and nobody could stop it and it seemed as if nobody cared.
Times change.
Things change.
And if you're not a part of it, you feel "left out."
And then.................
there's a chance to elect someone who knows who took those jobs, knows how to "make money," and promises to make things right for you (as if you had the ability to figure that out yourself............).
And THAT is what got us here to where we're looking at a picture of a guy with a ton of grievances and about 4 to 6 ounces of brain.
It's what he chose - and he's not happy with his choice (that being what GOT him here, not WHO is "helping" him now).
Sad, but we have to live with it and find our way out of this mess without being condemned to it by this man and his fellow Trumpians.
GET OUT THE VOTE!!!!!!
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Spelling Bee champ too!
I guess it's true what they say about "it ain't the years, it's the mileage..."
amusedly,
Bright
Well, he didn't win the spelling bee, must have been a cheerleader.
....and I have a Southern accent. If I say "Rover's our dog", it's going to sound like "Rover's are dog". If I write the phrase this is what it will look like. "Rover's our dog". If I am someone who has grown up without the benefit of a formal education, for whatever reason, am only semi-literate, and have a Southern accent, I would probably write the sentence phonetically as it sounds to me. Thus, I would write "Rover's are dog."
Not knowing anyting about this guy's background, upbringing, education, or lack thereof, and the reasons behind his life situation, I am not inclined to blame his lack of spelling prowess purely on the fact he is a trump supporter simply because everyone here knows there are highly educated people who are holding that same sign, the only difference being the correct spelling.
My late uncle JT, a small Rancher who lived in a small community of Roseboro Arkansas was a die-hard Democrat. What he lacked in formal education he made up for in hard work and led a rather comfortable life with my Aunt Cleda, his two kids and five Bluetick hounds. He liked Obama because as he put it " he's sharp as a tack." He would probably would have written,
" Obama's are man."
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