Completely different subject but if you remember the Republic of Ireland v Roy Keane spat at the Saipan World Cup ... I couldn't take the way Roy Keane spoke in his interview back then because I heard the same macho bullshit from my dad, uncles, neighbours, etc growing up ... it was like a mirror of the bravado talk that refuses to take into consideration the complexities of others' perspectives or situations. It ate at me for years that Keane was lauded by all around me but he personified what I disliked from my own upbringing. (Now I don't mind him - IMO he is no better or worse than I am)Sadly, I built a house to raise my kids in McHenry County, albeit not in Woodstock where Groundhog Day was filmed.
It’s a backwoods town, with a nice downtown area, but then 2 blocks away you get into the jacked up pick up trucks and douchebags like the macho and the crazy guys you saw.
I wish I could say there weren’t millions of them in America, but their first instinct when you disagree with them is “I’ll fuck you up!”
We lasted 6 yrs before we moved back to civilization…back to the town we moved from, to be close to family for our kids, good schools, and a 24 acre park full of normies in the front yard!
I still go out to the boonies to go to the range, but it’s that grey area between nice town and rural, where people who can’t make it or take it in the city move because they don’t have the rural land to farm, or are simply not willing to do that work.
They drive trucks, drink Budweiser, they get drunk at BBQs at river/lake parties every weekend in the summer. They spend more money on their trucks than their homes or kids or education, and they’ll just as soon shoot you as hear they might possibly be wrong in their world view. I’d venture 99% of them don’t have a passport or haven’t been abroad. They definitely don’t speak a foreign language (other than dumb fuck Murican) and they ACTUALLY think they can stand up to the military if the time ever came, because THEY have been brainwashed into thinking THEY are the Patriots…even though none of them could tell you a thing about the Founding Fathers or the Constitution and Bill of Rights beyond the Second Amendment (which they DEFINITELY cannot recite) and the phrase “We the people”…which is what is written on the crazy gun nuts XXXXL shirt!
Thankfully, there was enough in there to show you we are not all crazy fucks looking for a gunfight and Civil War, but they are out there!
Notice, he wasn’t really being talked to, but he had to put in his far right wing 2 cents and it got him the audience he wanted and the attention he CLEARLY craves (mouth. beard, shirt!).
I hope to fuck Kamala can pull this off…and I’m sure those white guys have nothing against a California woman of Indian and Jamaican heritage being President. I’m positive!! :-/
But how I felt about that I suspect is how you feel about these guys. You know their type and how they operate.