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(33,430 posts)Not sure about the hillbilly music and fake accent, but I will assume they did some research.
fwvinson
(488 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,430 posts)jaxexpat
(6,849 posts)I can say that to most of my fellow hillbillys, the music and accent will be received as authentic more than contrived. Unbelievable to some, I know, but it's true.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,430 posts)Speech patterns in Kentucky are at least as diverse as its geography. Radio and television have had a slight homogenizing effect, but the accents are still there. Anyone can get a good sampling by watching KET's KY channel.
Owensboro area? You'll sound slightly different than folks in Pikeville, Somerset, Barlow, or Bowling Green, and quite a bit different from Louisville. (Louisville residents need to learn to slow down a little so the rest of us hillbillies can figure out what they're saying).
sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)his Chinese father-in-law than he has ever done for Kentucky.
Old Terp
(464 posts)LW1977
(1,236 posts)KS Toronado
(17,326 posts)chia
(2,244 posts)calimary
(81,498 posts)czarjak
(11,296 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to say about McConnell's dreadful damage to America -- even if KY's own history, as said, will be unable to list any meaningful benefits but many betrayals. McConnell was famous for decades among his colleagues of only wanting power, specifically 30 years of wanting the very powerful position he currently holds. His only real goal.
Fascinating read in Vox with Jane Mayer on McConnell:
New Yorker writer Jane Mayer is the latest to take a deep dive into the life and mind of McConnell. In a lengthy profile Mayer ... tries to explain whats motivating them ... Her answer is familiar: power. Its the only thing McConnell appears to want, and theres no ideology behind it, no real worldview, no purpose. But Mayer manages to unearth some new revelations about McConnells corruption and some of the behind-the-scenes dealings. ...
Mayer: I guess I thought that he was an ideologue of a certain kind, and what I discovered is that he actually has almost no fixed ideology. Its pretty hard to find any important issue that he hasnt switched positions on at some point or another when it was convenient for him. Whether its abortion or campaign spending or many other issues, he just switches like a chameleon when he needs to, and I hadnt really realized how many times hes done this and how easily he did it.
Mayer: Whats interesting, and MacGillis writes about this in his book on McConnell, is that this very much reflects the trajectory of the Republican Party since maybe the Reagan years. I covered Reagan for the Wall Street Journal and there was at least some content to the ideology at that point, which was sort of a rebellion against liberalism in favor of small government. But all we have now, and McConnell really exemplifies this, is a cult of winning. ... Based on what people around him told me, I think he would have been just as happy, if not happier, if Trump had been defeated because then he, McConnell, wouldve been the most important Republican in the country and the most powerful.
Vox: You could say that McConnell is a reflection of his times, or you could say that he helped make the times what they are. Id argue its the latter what do you think?
Mayer: Oh, I totally agree that its the latter. Hes not just a passive bystander in this. McConnell is an active participant in this devolution; he has helped push the country in a certain direction. I interviewed a historian who I didnt end up quoting in the end but whos an expert in the rise of Hitler before World War II, and he was likening McConnell to Paul von Hindenburg, a German statesman who was part of the political establishment and thought he could control an autocrat and realized too late that he had unleashed something he couldnt contain. ... McConnell is just chasing power wherever it takes him, and in doing that, he has actively shaped the world were in right now. ...
Its all tactical, no strategy, no vision. I talked to John Yarmuth, a Democratic congressman from Louisville, who told me that McConnells very smart but hes not intellectual. If you tried to have a conversation with him about some big issue that were facing as a society, like climate change or artificial intelligence, he wouldnt be able to have that conversation and he wouldnt be interested in it. Hes interested in winning and nothing else. ...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/4/30/21234505/mitch-mcconnell-trump-republican-party-jane-mayer
brer cat
(24,606 posts)Thanks, Hortensis.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)examined McConnell before, but how interesting that some of McConnell's colleagues believe he'd have actually preferred Democrat Hillary as president. His party would have been weaker, but he would have been the most powerful person in it, instead of just one of a pair who together are almost overwhelmingly powerful, to the point they may still succeed in bringing our nation down.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,610 posts)it is just is probably more effective when aimed at Republican voters.
marble falls
(57,239 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,713 posts)Scalded Nun
(1,240 posts)FakeNoose
(32,767 posts)She deserves her own separate skewering!
I really HOPE this is the last of Moscow Mitch. Retire the fraud in 2020.
Raven123
(4,867 posts)I agree Mitch should go, but it seems like it took a long time for his party to figure out (or admit) it.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)2Legit
(90 posts)that the Republicans are doing what the Democrats can't bring themselves to do. Republicans never seem to have a problem going for the jugular. The Lincoln Project has been killing it lately against their own. Whoda thunk it?
tom_kelly
(962 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)We got to vote on who to go after. Moscow Mitch overwhelmingly won.
Ditch Mitch!
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)But we should resolve to do more.
As soon as I got my COVID-Payment from the IRS, I sent a good-sized chunk of it to LtCol. Amy McGrath's campaign. She has a solid chance to unseat Yertl McTurtle, but that sub-reptile had a huge war-chest even before she decided to run.
Honestly, any amount will help!
BComplex
(8,066 posts)I'm glad these guys are on our side. (?)
Cha
(297,686 posts)too.
Appreciate The Lincoln Project.. interesting they just went after moscowmitch's wealth.
Now it's Richmitch.
Cha
(297,686 posts)iscooterliberally
(2,863 posts)Good riddance to bad news. F that guy.
wryter2000
(46,082 posts)I didnt know they were going to go after other Republicans. Good on them.
DemoTex
(25,403 posts)Looks like a jockstrap for his many chins. Might as well be, because he is certainly without balls.
cp
(6,660 posts)Thanks for posting this.
kyburbonkid
(251 posts)But of course, we don't all speak with that much of a country accent.