“I like Trump because he is a successful business man and the country needs to be run like a business for reasons that the spray paint I huffed in the parking lot before the rally is making difficult to articulate.”
I grew up in “Real America” and came up with a lot of amazing people.
I also came up with a lot of aimless trash that couldn’t name the three branches of government if they were spotted two of em.
In fact, Natalie Michelle and I are going to make a new Requiem for a Dream based on our real life stories of people we knew growing up.
Turns out that ODing and dying and losing limbs are nothing compared to how straight up embarrassingly lame your drug friends become over time. The climax will be a horrific scene of a 40-year old at a rural rave hitting on a 17-year-old girl by telling her how wrong she is about raving.
But these friends were white and born here so they’re Real Americans.
Now I live in a western state that “Real America” loves to deride as somehow illegitimate (in spite of us often paying their tab).
And out here I’ve met lots of immigrants who would ace with a laugh the same 6th grade social studies tests my Real American friends back in Real America couldn’t pass at age 41.
Like anything else, Real America is a myth engineered to make easily-led people feel a birthright when one isn’t there.
It’s also a great ego salve when you’ve never done anything with your life, never been anywhere, never seen anything. It’s a lot easier to dismiss those personal deficiencies and say “the world sucks. The real world is right here in Norfolk.”
I’d feel sorry for these people if they weren’t so hell bent on making the rest of the world as miserable as the one they wake up in – using the government as a tool to that end.
AND they are turning innocent children into garbage people too.
A little kid is yelling “Take the bitch down!” when Trump mentions Hillary Clinton. A little kid. No more than 10, I would say.
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 2, 2016
—jason malmberg
Flommist Jason Malmberg is a simple man who believes in brown liquor and small dogs. He also makes art sometimes. Copyright © 2016 Jason Malmberg. Pictured: Oscar Bluemner, Form and Light, Motif in West New Jersey, 1914, source; Trump Youth?, source.
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