This was the most fascinating thing about all this to me. For the longest time, it seemed to me to New Yorker loved Trump. If you were speaking to a New Yorker and the subject of Trump came up, you'd get the feeling of "Yeah, Trump. He's Our Guy" from how the New Yorker spoke of him. So when Trump announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination, and many of the New Yorkers I knew or knew of loudly disclaimed him, I was confused. Was it because he ran under the Republican ticket? Was that taken as some sort of betrayal?
I think a lot of it was just because he dared to run against their chosen one, Hillary. Or because he chose to run as a repub. I guess if there was no Hillary and he ran as a dem, it probably would have been fine. I think the funniest thing Trump did was release that book of letters with all the people who talk shit about him, with their letters praising him in the past. Just makes them look like bigger clowns.
How do people believe Helen Keller said any of this shit lmao
Still catching up on the thread so I might be late with this take--while I want to see Tulsi in action (no boys, not that way) before I make a judgment, part of the reason she seems so robotic is we're not used to a female politician who isn't screeching, wailing, shaking, etc. with emotion. Harriet Hageman is pretty calm, but Tulsi has very still body language, a low timbre voice, and stone faced demeanor. I don't think that's a bad thing, especially for a woman. It gives her gravitas, something extremely lacking among our politicians as a whole. The hearings have been a clown show, but they always are. I will say while Mark Kelly came off as an idiot with his Iran/Russia concern I appreciated the calm way he asked the question and let her respond.
I believe Tulsi has seen actual combat. According to wiki she received a medal for "participation in combat operations under enemy hostile fire in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom III." Just throwing it out there but I have a feeling if you've been through that, you probably tend to be unshakable in general. So she's used to keeping control of herself and keeping her head screwed on rather than reacting emotionally.
That’s actually just what I thought of unionized car workers
Worst union worker I ever dealt with was an elevator operator for a party I was playing in Manhattan. I had to actually get there two hours before I needed to be because he was going on his lunch break and I wouldn't be able to use the elevator to get my equipment up to the party in time according to when he would have come back. And it turned out the elevator was too small and I had to make two trips up to like the 40th floor so he went like 3 minutes into his lunch time and I had to listen to this stupid fuck whine nonstop about how lucky I was that he was willing to work into his lunch break and how I was inconveniencing his day. I was seconds away from telling him he was a fat fuck who was probably making $60 an hour to sit on a fucking chair all day in an elevator and press the "40th" button and to shut his fucking face, but I've also dealt with union guys before and if they receive even the slightest reality check they will completely cease to work and fuck your day up so I just grit my teeth and growled. But I hate union workers with the fire of a thousand suns.
Most people in New York City aren’t New Yorkers, they’re transplants and immigrants.
More New Yorkers live in Florida than in NYC.
Lol every once in a blue moon when I ask someone where they're born and and say, "Manhattan" I tell them, "Bullshit. No one comes from Manhattan"
Fuck me dude. This is why I refuse to get on a plane.
When I was touring all the time, this one tour me and the production manager had to fly out to Miami to meet the tour. So we land and the instructions on the paperwork tell us to take the free shuttle to the hotel. It's like 10pm so the shuttles are running few and far between so we had to wait a while. While we were sitting there this guy standing nearby hears us talking about the tour and starts chatting with us asking us what we do. So we tell him about how we're constantly flying and going to all these cities on these multiple tours for this one company and he's like, "Man you guys are nuts. I'd never set foot on a plane". I mention to him how he's waiting with us so he must have flown in from somewhere and he's like, "No. I work here. I'm an air traffic controller". I remember how the production manager's face lost all his color lol. That shook me up for a long time.
Felt like watching a Cinderella sports team defeat the reigning champions. You just couldn't believe it happened when it did. You were letting yourself hope, a little...after all, you made the playoffs, then made it to the finals, but come on, that juggernaut you're going up against can't lose, can they?
I'm a Queens boy. I lived through the '86 Mets. I believe anything is possible.
I literally put the trash can next to the shower so she'll throw her hair in there. I'm so tired of buying drain-o bros.
It's always the chicks who bitch most about me shaving in the sink and not washing every fucking little speck of hair out of the sink who leave hairballs in my shower drain that could choke a fucking tiger.
What's the % of artists that are in the closet about Trump, in your experience?
Tough to estimate but honestly it's not some crazy number. I'd guesstimate about 1/5th just based on various situations. Also bandleaders tend to be pro-trump or at least chill with him. For example corporate band I'm in, 10 members. Me and Trumpet player are rabid trump supporters. Drummer and Bandleader are kind of center but trump leaning. Everyone else is a lefty. Bass player is rabid lefty who has the vax, every booster, and will still wear 2 masks on occasion when the news says there's a covid surge. He's also had covid the most times - like 6 or 7 lol. So out of 10 people, 2 pro trump. 2 can tolerate him. 5 are lefty, 1 virtually socialist.
Another band I'm in, Abba tribute band - 7 members - Manager and 1 singer are Trump supporters. Others are lefty. Drummer and bassist are ultra left. Guitars is nuts and ended up quitting the band because I wasn't vaxxed so he refused to play with me. So in that band, 3 of us are pro trump, 4 are lefty.
70s era disco band - 10 members, me and bandleader are pro trump. Everyone else is a lefty with the sax player and black male singer being ultra left and will go into fits if you mention Trump. So 2 pro trump, 8 against.
You're not really gonna find a band with the majority being pro trump, but like I said, I've networked with pro trump musicians and we feed each other work. For example a pro Trump drummer I know, has a guy who needs someone to produce his album and he only wants a Trump supporter as his producer and no democrats (or demon rats as the guy called them lol) to be involved in his album. So the drummer passed on my number to him and I got the gig so I hired my drummer friend who recommended me and a bunch of other pro-Trump musicians I've networked with for the recording sessions.
Also, very strangely, I work a bit in Jersey circles as well and while the majority of musicians and bands I work with in Jersey are lefty and dislike Trump, they're more tolerant of me being a Trump supporter and it doesn't bother them as much. But the NYC scene is where I get the rabid anti Trumpers who give me problems. So the liberal mental illness among musicians is definitely much stronger in NYC.
Actors? They make musicians look sane. I barely work with them anymore. I have one actress I work with who's kind of center but that's because most actors are so batshit that she's kind of drifted center because their madness even freaked her out.
Our food sucks. I have a few East Asian coworkers and they look so sickly and out of shape compared to Asians in East Asia. Same thing with White people but most assume Europeans are all hitting the gym and running a 5k daily when in reality smoking is still popular in the EU and they drink heavily.
I personally know 3 asian chicks and 1 indian dude who all told me that they eat the same as they did in their home countries but for some reason they've all gotten chubby since coming to America. Also, one chick I know who enrolled in school in Europe told me that she also eats the same in Europe as she eats here but that she dropped like 10lbs with changing any of her habits. I tell them it's because the food here is shit.
Every zoomie I've ever met is so depressed and irony poisoned, because from day one, all of their media and day to day was cynical and filled with endless problems magnified by globohomo and cattle social media brain so all their friends tell them they have to care about Palestine even though they work at McDicks.
70s were a blast. I loved wood panelling and disco. I have great memories of my older sister taking me to see Alien, Star Wars, and Buck Rogers in the movies. 80s were so much fun. I mostly remember just seeing amazing movies all the time, listening to music constantly, going to roller rinks, and constantly being surrounded by new technology and being optimistic for the future. Even the 90s were fun - mostly hooking up with chicks and going to shopping malls. Playing gigs and having fun.
Somehow the rise of the internet and smartphones throughout the 2000s - I don't know. I feel mostly numb. I know it's killed a lot of my enthusiasm. It's like a 24 hour news cycle of depressing shit. I talk on the phone all the time with my fellow Gen Xers but from millenials onward only communicate through text. It's like I'm always on the fucking phone and my text chime goes off all day. It's nothing but texts and shitty news articles all day and you can't get away from it. I do know it's affected me negatively. I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like for a kid to be raised on this and not knowing anything else. When the non-stop texts and shit news on the phone really wear me down, I always retreat back to the 80s or 90s or something and relive some past memories and that kind of cheers me up or call a friend and chat about some past shit. But modern kids don't even have that. It's really sad.
The main thing I remember is the suddenness of it, the shift really did seem to happen overnight like a dam bursting all at once, the exact same vibes as that photo from today of the FBI DEI wall being painted over, just in reverse. This time around I haven't witnessed as many reactions as extreme as 2016, they seem more demoralized and trying not to think about what's happening, and when they discover a group is not a leftie echo chamber they just slink away in silence now instead of shrieking.
I really think that the news just outright lying and telling people, right up through halfway through election night, that Hillary was a definite winner and that clown Trump was going to be a footnote to be laughed at and be humiliated really broke them. I think that's why there was such a visceral reaction and such hatred when he won. If the news had been more honest and made it seem like it was 50-50, it wouldn't have been so bad but these were people who were certain their horse was gonna win until their horse tripped one step from the finish line. You really can't hate "journalists" enough.
