Posted on 06/01/2017 7:36:39 PM PDT by Celerity
Drudge is a good place to start with this one, at least it was for me.
So President Donald Trump does exactly what he promises and puts America first. Of course the unhinged left does what it always does and brays at a wall, tears welling it's dishonest eyes and telling us that We Americans have ruined the earth. Whatever. They are worthless human filth.
But this Pittsburgh thing... Now as a Pennsylvania resident I have to say what I've been saying for years : Pittsburgh and Philadelphia aren't part of PA. Yes, they are within the borders but seriously no one wants them anymore. Give them to Ohio and New Jersey. Especially New Jersey. That place is an open sewer pipe. Pittsburgh (Like Philly, Harrisburg and beyond the border into NYC, Chicago and the entire states of Massachusetts, New Jersey, California et al) have outright declared that they are no longer part of the United States.
For instance, in Pennsylvania 2 years ago the state legislature passed a law that required all towns and cities in Pennsylvania to comply with state laws in regards to gun rights, permitted carry and weapon laws. This makes sense. Basically, as a Concealed carrier in PA, my rights - even within the state - are not honored in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh. Or, as strange as it would seem, Harrisburg. I can carry in Harrisburg but it's very anti-gun and has local LE policy to confiscate and have you come to the state barracks to get it back. Long story.
So this law passes in the legislature.. and IMMEDIATELY letters are penned from .. You guessed it (!) .. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg (!!!) saying that they will NOT comply with the new law.
Isn't this something that should get some people arrested ? How can anyone - of any social class - simply write a letter saying "We won't comply with the law because we don't like it". If I did that, do you think it would be taken seriously ?
These towns, and countless others like them, need to be dealt with.
So Trump gives Pittsburgh an ultimate honor: He states that he doesn't care about Paris. He cares about Pittsburgh. He isn't the President of Europe. He's the President of the USA. And his very job is to protect and allow the citizens of the USA to survive and thrive. This was a watershed moment for Pittsburgh to step up and understand that he is fighting for Joe American - and decided to make a global statement that Joe American is at the top of the list. Pittsburgh is at the top of the list.
And what does Pittsburgh do ? Issue a statement that they will still comply with the Paris Accords ? WTEVERLIVINGF is going on here ?
These people should be arrested !
Is this going to kick off a civil war ? I mean, literally, areas of the country are defying righteous and legitimate laws ! There are borders drawn, and these cities and areas (And even whole states) just decide what laws are true and not ? This certainly sounds close to civil war.
I say this whenever I go to NYC. That city is NOT part of the US. The laws are different, the people are different even the economy is it's own. It's run like East Germany, you have no rights whatsoever and the people who walk it's sidewalks are CLEARLY in a class struggle with the elite who do anything they want and get away with it fully. There is not even a stitch of America left in these places.
Thank you for your patience. Your regular program will resume.
Carry anyway. Always and everywhere.
F*** ‘em. Always and everywhere.
But then:
"Today, Google, Apple, Bosch, Facebook, Uber, Nokia, Autodesk, and IBM are among 1,600 technology firms generating $20.7 billion in annual Pittsburgh payrolls."
I guess it sort of makes sense that with such firms, run by hardcore globalists, that if they make anything at all, it is made in China, would hold a lot of influence, maybe even more than the one-time highly paid factory workers who are now either 'flipping burgers' or fled to more production oriented cities.
I thought this had to do with the Stanley Cup finals.
President Trump has a direct line to Rose Tennent and understands the working class of Pittsburgh, no mistake in his comments.
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Add that to what little is left of blue collar Pittsburgh being a union town, and what goes on there is unsurprising.
But it's the latter, not the former, that Trump has his eyes on: if he can separate the industrial and trade unions from the service unions the Democrat Party is finished. It's already hemorrhaging as its white members have come increasingly to understand that it's nothing more than a racialist identity driven conglomeration of groups that hate America in general and white people in particular. If Trump pries loose any significant number of union voters, it's lights out.
WTEVERLIVINGF is going on here ?
I understood every word
Pittsburgh says it’s going to follow the Paris Accord.
Does this mean they are going to reduce coal emissions 80% and make annual contributions to the Green Fund?
Pittsburgh is located within Allegheny County. Allegheny County went for Trump in the last election. That is why Trump won Pennsylvania, which is strong Republican except for the counties that have Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Philadelphia is a lost cause for Republicans. However, both Reagan and Trump were smart enough to appeal to blue-collar Democrats and win Allegheny County and thus the state of Pennsylvania. The mayor can take his Paris accord and stick it where the sun don’t shine and it won’t change things one iota.
That is simply not true.
Allegheny County went to Hitlery by approximately 140,000 votes to 31,000 for President Trump.
That said, the entire vanity is bull$#!+.
In Western PA a Democrat has to be three things in order to get elected:
1)Pro Life.
2)Pro Gun.
3)Pro Union.
Tom Clancy once described the Pennsylvania Democratic Party as the most complex political entity in the US.
i grew up in Pittsburgh (Though i now live in Gettysburg), and never experienced anything like what the OP has described. In Western PA houses usually have more guns than windows. i can remember a time when kids would take their rifles to school in order to go out hunting after the school day ended. Of course i'm OLD :^(
BTW, i just moved here FROM Pittsburgh last year.
I once heard Pennsylvania described as Pittsburgh on one end, Philly on the other.....
with Alabama in between.
It was meant as a compliment.
Trump did better in a number of places, not just Allegheny county, he also finished stronger in the coal country than his predecessors, which is a typical swing area. However, he lost Dauphin and Center counties, which used to be Republican. As somebody who grew up in Pittsburgh (Terrace Village, in the Hill district) I can tell you that Allegheny County has been trending more red for years, but Pittsburgh itself is a lost cause. The counties around Philadelphia, nominally Republican, matter a great deal more than Allegheny County, which is not all that big compared Chester, Montgomery, Delaware and Bucks. Those four RINO counties are what has turned PA blue in the years between 1992 and 2016.
I still live by Pittsburgh and I tell you now as I said then, if Trump takes Allegheny County he takes PA. He did.
Huge groups of people living very close together is not how we developed. There is a problem with cities, the majority of the people in them invariably seem to go nuts.
Freegards
Oh, and I meant to say, Trump did NOT win Allegheny County. He lost Allegheny County BY 16 POINTS.
It was said by James Carville when he ran Harris Wofford's campaign for the Senate seat left vacant by the untimely death of John Heinz, which race gained him national attention, and put him in touch with the Clinton Crime Family.
He was making fun of the state when he said it.
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