This literally happened…
Tucker Carlson: "The counties who voted for you will do far worse under your plan"
Donald Trump: "Oh, I know…" pic.twitter.com/tsG96kybxe— William LeGate (@williamlegate) March 16, 2017
How dumb are your voters, Mr. Trump?… Very fuggin’ dumb indeed, Mr. Carlson!
So, McDonald’s twitter account got hacked…
1. This is just a bad tweet. It is nasty & condescending. It is also terribly uniformed. Go to any minority community. McDonald's are packed pic.twitter.com/mMH198MwVj
— Chris Arnade (@Chris_arnade) March 16, 2017
Our Modern Victorians (who, like their forebears, are inherently patriarchal and racist) are busy promoting the myth of the noble-savage Trump voter, straggling survivors of an earlier more primitive culture whose quaint customs and fantastical beliefs must be respected (but never honored). These simple, unlettered tribalists — the last of their kind! an endangered almost-human species! — are to be granted endless lip service for their perceived grievances and genuine sufferings, as long as doing so doesn’t involve one iota of inconvenience or expense for Their Betters. Let them vote, predictably for grifters who lie to them about revenge upon their traditional enemies and the return of the buffalo herds good jobs in their neighborhoods that don’t require education. The results of those votes are only going to impact other members of the lower classes, anyway. (If there were any risk those votes would affect Very Serious People, well, *that* would be quite a different just-so-story.)
3. It is extreme version of a belief many Front-row kids have that they are smarter & hence have correct taste/judgement & deserve power & $ pic.twitter.com/pLqRSL11b4
— Chris Arnade (@Chris_arnade) March 16, 2017
As any Irish country-dweller under English occupation, Native American exiled to a reservation, or Appalachian hillbilly during the last century could’ve warned the Trump voters, the people who romanticize your poverty and ignorance are not your friends.