National tv media bias: proven once and for all, if you ask me

The national tv media come to you from New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, not Branson, Amarillo, and Provo, and there obviously is some functional significance to that. These are mostly liberal people, and they speak mostly to liberal people, and I can speak only to the instances of the left in the northeast, but they put zero effort into understanding the points of view of others, hence the words "racism" "sexism" "misogynist" "xenophobic" "homophobic" "mansplaining" "fat shaming" etc being so prevalent. These are little more than--ahem--"microaggressions" used to silence one's opposition.

And it fricking backfired.

Obviously I'm guilty of it in my own way as a right-leaner around here (don't roll your eyes; the right is more intellectually diverse than a lot of you give it credit for, and that's a good thing)--and I owe this board an apology. I made fun of every one of you for the Trump support. I wanted a Republican to win, and the nomination of Trump seemed to be the most counterintuitive thing possible in that context. I don't think I've ever been so wrong in my entire life about anything.

You'll be pleased to know that the people you know are devastated are more devastated than you ever could imagine, and I'm even surprised at how much I'm enjoying it. Everytime a liberal friend of mine says "I'm disgusted with this country," I think of all my people back home in Louisiana whom (s)he is insulting, and it pleases me that this person is unhappy, because this person deserves to be unhappy for all the mean deplorable things said about half the country.

They're finding out the hard way that they're just as shitty, offensive, stupid, vile, racist, sexist, misogynist, xenophobic, and bigoted as the rest of us, and damn if I don't have a boner for such comeuppance. I tell them the same thing I told the Vitter Republicans around here: Nominate somebody good, and you won't have to worry about this next time. That message isn't received particularly well on this board, but it's received with a much more open mind here than in the liberal circles in New York.

The elitist left worships their politicians. The deplorable right worships God. While Democratic Presidential candidates usually lose, God always wins. Hence, nobody needed therapy dogs or classes canceled in 2008 or 2012 (there was a meltdown, and it warranted ridicule, but it's nothing like this). I have a lot of genuinely good friends up here who it would seem have just seen their Savior nailed to a cross, and even though they're my friends, it makes me feel good because they genuinely think they're better than me and you, and they can't process the idea that they aren't. Conservative people are ostracized into silence in the general political debate up here by leftists who cannot for the life of them go toe-to-toe in a political discussion aside from the premise that being liberal is correct, and being conservative is incorrect. I'm happy that politics aren't more important to me than they are. A friend asked me the other day why I talk about sports so much; I said, "because nobody up here wants to talk to a conservative about politics--they just want someone to agree with them."

I'll confess, and I beg your pardon for my saying this: I find this board to be collectively narrow-minded when it comes to politics, but your collective mind is to the Mississippi River what the elitist left's is to a titmouse's urethra.

I thought Clinton would be a good President; it was her life's work, and she inevitably would have worked better with Republicans than Obama ever could. With that in mind--and I never considered it until election night because I NEVER thought he would win--I think that President Trump will do a very good job.

Greatest country in the history of the world.