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GeorgeGeoffersonLivesGabrielle Bluestone
2/20/16 1:14am
Gabby, I hope you guys at least ate well while you were down there. Wonderful food.

See, I can be nice. :)
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  Gabrielle BluestoneGeorgeGeoffersonLives
  2/20/16 1:26am
  GREAT food
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  GeorgeGeoffersonLivesGabrielle Bluestone
  2/20/16 1:39am
  Did you have grits? I’d had them in the past and never liked them. Then I had some maple-flavored grits with walunuts in them up here and lost my mind.
  
  I also used to love sweet tea, but after drinking ice tea without sugar for years and years, now, I can’t really stomach real and true Souther-style sweet tea.
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Dashiell HammletGabrielle Bluestone
2/20/16 1:13am
I thought Romney was the last republican who was going to try and win with just white people.

Guess they didn’t get the RNC memo.
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  r31yaDashiell Hammlet
  2/20/16 1:26am
  RNC got the memo, and now trying to take away the color people voting right to even the odds
  
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  99Telep☺dpr☹blemsDashiell Hammlet
  2/20/16 1:31am
  They tried to appeal to Latinos and failed. Rubio and Bush were supposed to carry out that plan and bring the status quo their victory. But the Latinos knew they were being played and the base revolted because they are in turns racist and nationalistic, believing that the resources of the state should not be shared with the undeserving.
  
  They didn’t count on Trump. Trump was the fly in the ointment and he did all of us a service by revealing just how awful the dark side of conservatism really is.
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GeorgeGeoffersonLivesGabrielle Bluestone
2/20/16 1:16am
It’s like the South African National Party, but with nicer accents, bless their hearts.

No, but seriously, It Gets Better. Someday, the parties won’t be so racially polarized. In this case, that’s largely up to where the GOP wants to go. The ball is in their court on this one.

It’s always a bit funny they lay out their “diverse” group of candidates this cycle (nevermind that Hillary would be the first woman president and Bernie the first Jewish president, but I digress), but their voters are the same as they ever were. It’s worse than it being the other way around, quite honestly.
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  SkillbillyGeorgeGeoffersonLives
  2/20/16 1:47am
  But, but BEN CARSON!
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  GeorgeGeoffersonLivesSkillbilly
  2/20/16 1:48am
  And Maro Rubio, and Ted Cruz, and (at one time) Carly Fironia!
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HeyEinstein!Gabrielle Bluestone
2/20/16 1:06am
When people say that the GOP is dying, this is what they’re talking about, whether they know it or not. Think about the impact on this country of the recent death of just one old, white republican—”Justice” Scalia. The repubs in the red states can pass all the shitty laws they want to now, but they won’t be upheld by SCOTUS. Also, biological evolution is a real thing. Most of these white people live very unhealthy lifestyles. They overeat, they over-medicate, and they constantly play with firearms. In short, they’ve failed to adapt, so they’re out of here! The wheels of evolution grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.
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  Vanguard KnightHeyEinstein!
  2/20/16 1:13am
  Please don’t keep this narrative.
  I work in finance. There are PLENTY of young hateful Republicans up and coming.
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  AgentChangoVanguard Knight
  2/20/16 5:02am
  I think they’re outnumbered by the zillions of us in student loan debt that are hating the status quo of killing the middle class. You just happen to work in an industry tailored to draw in assholes. And for that, you have my condolences.
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GeorgeGeoffersonLivesGabrielle Bluestone
2/20/16 1:37am
BTW, as if it even needs to be said, but there is nothing inherently wrong with being old and white in Charleston or anywhere else. The problem rises when you believe your the only folks that matter, or that you matter most.

America will begin to work a bit better when this particular subset of folks agree on some basic things with the rest of us, namely that there is such a thing as society outside of your own (both national an international), and that if you don’t want to live in a banana republic, you won’t pick up a pitchfork - hell, who am I kidding? In America, it’s your gun - when the state asks you to contribute a bit more to the maintenance of this society.

This whole Fortress America/America the Island thing isn’t working out so great, guys. There is not a wall high enough or a moat deep enough to keep out the world, folks. Instead of yelling about building a wall; not around your hearts, along the southern border, or at a TSA line. Why not try breaking down some of your own walls, first?
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Fresh Courage TakeGabrielle Bluestone
2/20/16 2:43am
If you had to take a guess based on the first picture, who would you choose as the undercover secret service agent who’s either in or behind the crowd, dressed in casual attire?
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  PenelopeLopsyFresh Courage Take
  2/20/16 12:19pm
  Blue jacket guy
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  Fresh Courage TakePenelopeLopsy
  2/20/16 3:14pm
  Good call. I never even saw that guy! I was thinking about one of the more scruffy dudes. However, how ‘bout that one white lady, 50's-ish, in the second row, looking at everybody’s hands? Hmmm.....
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factorfictionGabrielle Bluestone
2/20/16 2:56am

Gawker likes old white guys, though, right?
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  XrdsAlumfactorfiction
  2/20/16 10:42am
  As candidates, sure. As voters, not so much.
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  Mo12XrdsAlum
  2/20/16 11:51am
  So do we need to limit upper age of voting limits too? Seems like a liberal policy...
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Alex CGabrielle Bluestone
2/20/16 7:09am
Wow. People defending the party choosing between two old white people are going to attack the party choosing between two (by political standards) young, Hispanic children of immigrants and a black brain surgeon for being old and white. Bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for them.
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  borbertAlex C
  2/20/16 10:12am
  Its not so much about the race of the candidates as it is about the racism of the voters.
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  Raging BulldogAlex C
  2/20/16 1:39pm
  The typical Gawker reader has created their own narrative about how the GOP is dying and only old while people support it. In reality, GOP support is steadily increasing among white and Hispanic college graduates. Younger conservatives don’t really support Trump, they support more moderate candidates.
  
  You must break this news to Gawker readers carefully, lest you damage their psyche. Their world views are twisted by political blog and social media echo chambers.
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Mrs.Choate PFLAG GrandmaGabrielle Bluestone
2/20/16 10:47am

Are the young people and the non-white people at Trump’s rally democrats?

Seems like if the general election hinges on old white people voting, we don’t have much to worry about in terms of getting out that vote for the democrat candidate. But if we want to get young people excited enough to actually go out and vote without President Obama on the ballot, we have more work to do.
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  Ginger Is A ConstructMrs.Choate PFLAG Grandma
  2/20/16 11:03am
  “Are the young people and the non-white people at Trump’s rally democrats?”
  
  Very possibly. Remember the black woman who was reading at a Trump rally? Johari Osayi said that she was allowed to sit behind Trump, even encouraged to do so, and she suspected it was because there were so few people of color there.
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#NotAllYzermanGabrielle Bluestone
2/20/16 1:56am

BOOM found one forehead. It’s like Racist Primary Where’s Waldo
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  HoustonDude2014#NotAllYzerman
  2/20/16 3:08am
  Ben Carson, after accidentally stumbled into a Trump rally, is patiently waiting to hear his name to be called to the stage.
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  Uncle Chigurh#NotAllYzerman
  2/20/16 4:12am
  He’s right behind a photog so he’s probably press.
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