Three things for which Republicans should be thankful:
1. Barack Obama is constitutionally barred from running for a third term. President Obama would squish Donald Trump like a bug.
2. Joe Biden had to deal with the death of his son and couldn’t mount a primary campaign.
3. Michelle Obama isn’t interested in running for anything…yet.
Any one of those three people would have whupped Donald Trump like they were his daddy.
•The other day, I was driving along and I came to a stop on southbound Thornydale and Orange Grove. Pulling up next to me in the lane where you can only make a left turn on the arrow was a guy in a pickup truck; in the back of the truck was this big mother Confederate flag. It was gigantic. I looked over and, never having been blessed/cursed with that thing in my head that tells me how to act right, I just busted out laughing. The guy, who looked like he had just come from an all-night concert featuring a Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band, snapped at me, “What’s so *#!%! funny?”
I said, “Oh, I’m sorry, Dude. No offense. It’s just that I’ve never seen a black guy driving around with a Confederate flag before.”
He said, “What?! I’m not black!”
I leaned out my window and peered at him. “You’re not?,” I asked. Then, after a pause, I asked, “Are you sure?”
Before he could respond, the light turned green and I drove off, leaving him to wait for the arrow. God, I hope I ruined his day.
•Best line of either convention: “We (Americans) don’t look to be ruled.”
•I’ve said before that if they had had ADHD when I was a kid, I would have been the poster child for it. (Back then, the clinical diagnosis was “Oh, he’s just a boy.”) I mostly outgrew it, but I still have some echoes of it. When I was watching the conventions, I would jump back and forth between CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. After President Obama’s knockout speech, I watched Fox to see if they would at least acknowledge that the Republicans don’t have ANYONE who can talk like that. But, nothing.
Then, after midnight (3:00 a.m. back east) Fox showed the President’s speech. I figured that, by that time, most of their Southern viewers would be under their sheets instead of wearing them.
•What is so freakin’ hard about saying “Oops, sorry, I messed up?” I always thought that was part of being a grownup. Donald Trump never acknowledges making a mistake, and now one of his surrogates, Bill O’Reilly, is taking the same tack.
After Michelle Obama uttered the poignant line about waking up every morning in a house built by slaves, the fake-ass, self-styled “historian” O’Reilly claimed that the slaves were “well-fed” and had “decent lodging.” After the swift and predictable backlash, O’Reilly took the Trump route and doubled down. An exhaustive search of historical records showed no evidence that the slaves were treated as anything but slaves (Abigal Adams wrote that the slaves were “half-fed and destitute of clothing”), O’Reilly bitched out completely and began screaming about “smear merchants” who were out to get him. A simple “I got that wrong” would have sufficed.
•I hate the fact that I look like every single person who was at the Republican convention, including the women. I’ve got to lose weight again and, this time, keep it off.
•I am addicted to exactly two things in this world—diet soda and right-wing talk radio. I can’t help myself. Whenever I’m in the car on a weekday, I listen to the purveyors of hate and distortion and outright falsehoods. They’re just so entertaining.
I listen to Sean Hannity, who is the rudest of them all. I think he’ll achieve personal Nirvana when he figures out a way to interrupt himself, because he damn sure interrupts everybody else. I sometimes listen to Rush Limbaugh, but he’s kinda pathetic. It’s embarrassing listening to him try to reconcile his conservative ideals with his support for Trump, who has no ideals.
I also listen to the local guys. They do an okay job. They certainly know their audience and they cater/pander thereto. That’s good business. But one of the morning guys is doing this petty little thing that’s driving me crazy. Just like his patron saint, the aforementioned washed-up Limbaugh, this guy refers to the “Democrat Party.”
There is no Democrat Party. It’s the Democratic Party. It always has been and it always will be. I guess that intentionally calling it the wrong thing would be funny until about the seventh grade but then puberty would kick in. Look at it this way. We’ll say that the radio host and I are at a social gathering and I introduce him to someone by saying, “This is Joe Smith from KNS.” He naturally would correct me and say, “It’s KNST.” So we go to the next person and I introduce him as Joe Smith from KNS.
After a few dozen times, he’ll realize that I’m just being a jerk to try to get under his skin. It’s the same with people who insist on incorrectly referring to the “Democrat Party. It seems like they’re just being pissy because they’ve got no game.
This article appears in Aug 4-10, 2016.
Very few bigots reach your level after calling all Americans that live in the south and watch Fox as Klan members. And you put on public display your ignorance. It is the democrats that made up the Ku Klux Klan.
Maybe you should take a break from Tucson so you can see that this great country is comprised of more than the white guilt hateful liberals who have delivered 5th poorest metro in the country in their quest of communist utopia.
No one, including Tom, is saying so. On the other hand, there is a sufficient number that calls to one’s attention.
Kenneth
“…most of their southern viewers would be wearing their sheets instead of under them.”
There you go, he did say it. A pissant bigot working for a third rate rag in one of the poorest city’s in America and intentionally so by hateful liberals like Danegy.
Question, What, Again? Why do you demean yourself by not only reading but also commenting in what you label “a third rate rag?”
The KKK may have, historically, been filled with Democrats but it’s all Republican now. As far as any Arizona city being described as the “5th poorest metro area”………..well, …………….the Red Necked Lemmings have handed almost total control of the state to Republicans FOR DECADES……..SO……any problems the cities face are 99 and 9/10 percent THE CREATION AND RESULT OF REPUBLICANS.
Sure you did.
So you are telling us that with Tucson temps in the low 100’s both of you had your windows open in your vehicles? The truck would have had both of its windows open. What a convenient coincidence for your story.
If he pulled even with you how were you able to see into the back of his truck? If you had pulled up on him you could have seen it, but not the other way around, unless you have some sort of Spidey vision.
Liar.
I still don’t understand making fun of somebody based on their skin color. Tim your humor appears very similar to that of Hillary Clinton’s.
It only exists in your own mind, and makes the rest of us very uncomfortable.
Trump gets ahead by gratuitously insulting political opponents. Danehy gets ahead by gratuitously insulting Southerners. See the difference?
Tom,
Get over this race obsession; Black? What the hell does that mean? When Obama gave his first few SOTU addresses Boehner (sitting behind him) was darker skinned than B.O. He was a dark orange. And White? Most of us are light brown or pink. We all know what you mean, but it doesn’t mean much to most normal Americans – except Race baiters like Sharpton or Black Lives Matter people… or you.
Seal is the blackest human I’ve ever seen and he married one of the whitest women around, but neither cared about so-called skin hue and their children are beautifully unconscious of their heritage – until they meet some compulsively racially obsessed Liberal like you in a classroom.
Get over it; it’s a little embarrassing to your friends (like me).
Bill
You never know what’s going to rile up the racist apologists, do you. “You might be black” seems to have struck that nerve. (I’m laughing as I put the period on this.)
You nailed it William. Danehy is ” compulsively racially obsessed”
He couldn’t go a week on the radio without bringing up race on Emil’s show.
Self-hating white liberal thing I guess.
He can never let go of the southern put downs either.
You can see how well blacks are doing in the urban plantations like Chicago and Baltimore.
How many murders in Chicago since Barry became President? What is the black youth unemployment
rate? Since Obama doesn’t have any American slave blood in his ancestry, maybe he isn’t really down with the cause like old Danehy.
I noticed, like the mainstream press, you didn’t have much to say about those ugly remarks by DNC staffers about race, anti-Semitism and gays. Keep up the selective outrage Tom.
There will always be a redneck around to make you feel better about your superior bad self.
Educated into ignorance? Many are suffering from it. You may deserve a refund. Call your college.
Tom proves once again what prejudices he holds and once again who cares. Idiot
From the comments policy list; “Personal attacks, insults, or threatening language. Name-calling will not be tolerated.” If this is the policy of the Weekly, then the entire Danehy article should be deleted.
Rules aren’t for liberals Mark. They are for the supposed underclass.
Ratty I have watched them call you un american, a hater, an idiot and much much more. Why do you keep coming back? They won’t follow their own rules. And nothing is ever deleted.
Dear tctw:
This is Tom. You can ask people who know me; I almost always drive around with my windows down (unless it’s raining). People ask me why and I respond, “I live in the desert; I embrace the heat.” The guy had the flag sticking straight up right behind the cab of the truck so that it would unfurl and fly when he was moving. And yes, he had both of his windows down. I don’t know why. It was an older truck. Maybe he didn’t have air conditioning or maybe he, too, embraces the heat. You can call me a jerk but don’t call me a liar.
Jerk 🙂
Yo Tammy. You’re a liar. And a jerk.
Thank you Mr. Jensen, I think. The name calling here is rampant, but I still like discussing issues. It would help if the others would hold each other accountable as the Weekly does not. As you can see the authors come on and argue with their audience. It’s kind of like hecklers at a comedy club. That’s OK. The name calling does get old.
Do you really think I would come here almost everyday and post about my country if I didn’t love it?
I just cannot let it go Tom. Did you really say ” I embrace the heat”. Is that anything like “Feeling the Bern”? Man you sound like some New Age hipster sitting on Oprah’s couch.
I was tempted to joke that I have something hot that you can embrace, but that wouldn’t be practicing civility now would it?
Vince,
I first used that phrase one day when I was coaching basketball. We were doing workouts (actually, THEY were doing workouts) in the gym on a nasty hot summer day with no AC on. They started complaining and I said, “Hey, we live in the desert! We should embrace the heat.” I’ve been using it ever since. And I really, really do drive around with my windows down. I’m doing my part to repair the hole in the ozone layer. I miss talking to you on the radio.
Don’t believe him, Vince. He threw me under the bus and won’t even say why.
The “hole in the ozone” lie was modified three times since 1997. Its more commonly referred to as the carbon credit scam. Sell your car.
Ratt:
You come here almost every day because you think you’re smarter than most that post here, yet most of the “facts” which you reference are false and you really do not know what you’re talking about. The only time I noticed you had a tiny bit of sense was when you mentioned that you are a fan of Steven Wright. Besides that, you got nothing.
Tom is about the only interesting read left in TW, since they’ve lost Savage Love and Ask a Mexican.
But admit it readers, he is correct about the south. Right on point. But the Republicans and conservatives hate to be called out for they they really are. We just have to look at what they pass in the states. Most racist, un Americans bills ever since the GOP controls the states. Just look at how AZ has gotten trashed now with 2 conservatives governors controlling the state and citizens. It at the bottom of the heap, bottom of the states now. But Conservatives love to be at the bottom. Having an almost non education in the state, makes the people ignorant for voting GOP.