HEARTLAND TRAGEDY! Is Joe Biden responsible, or is New York City?

I thought this was some crazy, dramatic tabloid. It's the NY fucking Times.

Jesus Christ. They should be ashamed for printing this shit.

Relax, most of it's just me being stupid :)

Is this real? Guess I gotta click and find out. Goddamnit. OP stop foolin.

Answer = NAFTA and essentially liquid borders.

Plus no labor law enforcement, and devolving unions.

Fuck New York

The lengths the NY Times will go to absolve flyoverland white trailer park trash/MAGATs of their sins is breath taking.

[quote]Yet today about one-quarter of the children on that No. 6 bus are dead, mostly from drugs, suicide, alcohol or reckless accidents. Of the five Knapp kids who had once been so cheery, Farlan died of liver failure from drink and drugs, Zealan burned to death in a house fire while passed out drunk, Rogena died from hepatitis linked to drug use and Nathan blew himself up cooking meth.

[quote]Longtime residents of this sleepy hamlet worry: is the brutality of New York City bleeding into America's heartland?

What the fucking fuck is this fucking shit? Rural America has LONG been awash in drug abuse and alcoholism, and it has nothing to do with New York City.

This got published in the New York Times? Some dipshit Middle American morons from Oregon see their peers making bad choices brought on by economic stress and think, "I know, let's blame New York and Biden!" and the Times thinks it's a good idea to publish this shit?

I'm appalled. This is just unbelievable to me. This is the kind of stupid, backwards thinking old conservative people were engaging in decades ago, the "New York and LA are corrupting the nation's youth, rock & roll is corrupting the nation's youth, television is corrupting the nation's youth" crap, slightly repackaged and turned into clickbait.

Embarrassing. Absolutely fucking embarrassing.

This was the last article that Kristof guy wrote before he decided to run for governor of Oregon, apparently, He quit the Times, announced he was running, and was promptly disqualified because he didn't meet residency requirements.

Insert Nelson Muntz laugh here.

"You mean this damn salsa was made in New York City?! We only eat Pace Salsa when we eat that beaner food."

This is from two years ago (non-paywalled link) during the Trump admin.

Your treatment is funny OP but it's too close to true as to how Dems / progressives get blamed for everything. Therefore, too soon.

The price of fishing bait has gone up in this Michigan town. Here is why it is bad news for Biden.

In Russia, these same kind of people who vote for Putin

The most hilarious part is that maga-idiots and rethugs are constantly screaming about personal responsibility and bootstraps...

...until it's time for a handout or blaming other people. Then, it's ALWAYS someone else's fault.

I'm glad you and a few others got it, R10. I thought it was pretty obvious I took an existing headline and embroidered it a bit.

Then again, it probably doesn't seem too outta left field that the NYT might publish something so stupid.

[quote]Was Will Smith's vicious slap the catalyst to this senseless savagery?

Even for a parody, this sentence makes no sense to me. The Will Smith incident is too recent to have been a catalyst for anything, and also, of course, it had nothing to do with New York.

Why is ANYONE listening to this idiot, let alone interviewing her? I feel bad she lost most of her kids, but she needs to look in the mirror for the cause.

Damn OP that looked real. I never doubted it for a second. Don’t know what it says about me or the state of public discourse, but damn.

Btw everyone should read the article. This is the hidden cancer of America. If you don’t think that one day, it will bring down this country, you’re willfully putting your head in the sand.

Anyone who read past the Will Smith reference and still thought that this was real is a dope, or seriously hung over - maybe still drunk from last night.

I would like to remind the people of rural Oregon that they live in a coastal state, and therefore are elites, and thus, the problem.

[quote]The most hilarious part is that maga-idiots and rethugs are constantly screaming about personal responsibility and bootstraps...

I know someone who had a drug problem in 2001. She had a few arrests and the justice system treated her like she murdered someone. Now that all the republicans' and their kids have drug addictions, it's a different story.

That did seem real OP. I wouldn't put it past the Times to publish something like that. You're a much better writer than half the people that work at the Times.

[quote]I'm glad you and a few others got it, [R10]. I thought it was pretty obvious I took an existing headline and embroidered it a bit.

If by "obvious" you mean so poorly written it's embarrassing.

Who killed the Knapp family?

Themselves....they are responsible for their own individual demise. 🙄 It's NO different from any other race/class iteration.