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Wiley Cash
18 hours ago
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You leased a brand new American-made Cadillac on Nov. 8. So what if it's a gaudy gold with gold rims, gold trim, gold leather interior with gold flakes in the wood grain. Who cares? It's big and powerful and the engine is really loud.
In December a neighbor comes over and points out that your rims are made of plastic. You didn't realize it until now, but so what? That guy's just jealous. This is still a really nice car. You know a few Obama voters with plastic rims, so they're no better than you. And then you discover that the leather is actually pleather, but you decide not to tell anyone.
On January 20 you detail the Cadillac and drive it through town, revving the engine and blaring the radio: Toby Keith, Three Doors Down. It's the proudest day of your life. That night you lay in bed and hope you made the right decision. But this car speaks to the American experience, right? It's the car of middle America. This car is all about the people.
By the middle of the following week you accidentally scratch the wood grain on the interior and discover that it's made of plastic too. Those gold flakes are actually foil. You take it back to the dealership and rant and rave about how you paid too steep a price for your lease, but you're stuck with it for four years. You can't get your money back unless you take the dealership to court for selling you an inferior product, and there's no way you're going to court: Court is for liberal snowflakes.
You pull into the driveway, and there's that nosy neighbor again. He says the engine doesn't sound so good. There may be a loose belt or perhaps a screw is loose somewhere under the hood. You're embarrassed. It's all becoming clear to you, but you don't want this guy to know you made the wrong decision. You tell him to get off your lawn. You know a few Clinton supporters who drive cars with loud mufflers. He needs to mind his own business and support your car. He's not acting like an American.
The Cadillac slowly begins to fall apart over the next month. You're six weeks into your lease when you open the glove compartment and pull out the owner's manual. You've got questions about how to repair all the things that have gone wrong with it.
But you find that you can't read the manual. It's in Russian. "наслаждаться Кадиллак," it says.
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Squinch
(50,949 posts)are thinking:
"Donald Trump is a God fearing Christian man who is being persecuted by that Muslim Obama. That Kenyan Obama is bent on taking over the world and making my wife wear a burka. Lefty is making a big deal about the Russian thing. What's the big deal with that Russian thing anyway? It's not like Trump had a private email server!
Barry Obummer took away all the coal jobs, because before him there were TONS of them. And that's why the government pays my bills. Even though I always worked as a carpenter and had a good union job till the Republicans passed Right to Work laws. But hey, it's Right to work! That's gotta be good, right? I got bootstraps! I want to use them. But I can't right now. Because Hillary and her cult have given blacks and women all the jobs.
But Donald Trump is the friend of the working man. He will fix all that is wrong with my life. He'll drain the swamp! And if he doesn't it will be because Lefty won't let him. And if Lefty don't let him, I'm going to load up my thirty aught six and go and pick me off some turban-wearing muslim lefties. God Bless America."
THAT is what they are thinking.
elias7
(3,997 posts)There's really no getting to them. Surfed over to Breitbart to see what they're being fed and it is like the National Enquirer. One small nugget of truth placed in an alternate universe of false premises and assumptions. Like trying to get a hold of jello.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)..ssi checks cut in half, favorite huntin' and fishin' spots are private land now and their pot crop will get them tossed into jail.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)But he keeps insisting that it's a Great American Car.
Putin owned one of those too!
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)All he had was a car and a 20-year-old washing machine that he had brought with him from East Germany.