SmashMouth

I guess you’re ASSUMING I voted for Trump in the primary? Trump got 76.42% of the primary vote. Haley only 19.68%. DeSantis just over 1.5%. Trump vs Kamala was the final choice. Everything else was a wasted vote. My vote counted and won by the way.

Still a cub!

I don't agree with everything DJT does. If I did, then I would be a mindless automaton like many people seem to be. But I can tell you right now, between DJT and Crazy Uncle Joe or Kamala the Ho, the choice is simple and crystal clear. Those were the choices. I made mine, and I'm happy with it. The choice to me was to go in the exact opposite direction of where I thought we should be headed (Biden/Harris) or head in the right direction with a few roadblocks and detours to navigate (Trump). It may take longer than I'd like, and the detours may be a little bumpy, but I'm gonna have a better chance at getting where I want to go with DJT. The alternative choice (ultra-progressive) was not only never going to even get me in the vicinity of where I wanted to be, it was going to put ALL of us in a bad place. Piss...moan... do whatever you like, but we will be in a better position when this is all said & done.

I grew up in Tyrrell Park - a predominantly black neighborhood. Those stories I told about looking back on the good times were with both my white & black friends. No matter the color - WE ALL SHARED THOSE GOOD TIMES! Sometimes, life is what you make of it. We were on the poorer side than most. I never knew it though. I said this about my Mom at her funeral. "She made EVERYTHING out of NOTHING". You can't tell me your Dad never laughed, never smiled, never enjoyed anything when he was young. YOU have chosen to spotlight the difficulties in his life instead of the shining points, though they may be few. Try reversing your approach, and I guarantee you'll be a better person for it.

Once again, I find myself sharing common ground with you. I wish more on here and in the mainstream would reach across when it's fitting. Although we've definitely been through trying times, embarrassing times and downright treacherous times, I can't imagine a better country at any point in time than the United States of America.

We like to call that a "tax increase".

Damn women drivers...

Which, by definition, makes him a winner, right?

So what? Sounds like you came out of it pretty clean. Concentrate on that, maybe?

I still don't understand the proponents of this legislation or the gain they really hope to achieve...

58 as of December. For some reason, I still think I’m 27.

Yeah, we had a green Matador station wagon, hopping between the back seat and the “back back seat”, as we called it, with Mama smoking up front with the window rolled up because of the rain. Heading to Showtown Drive-In which is now a driving range on the North end of Beaumont. Tuesday nights were $1 per car night. We didn’t have a lot, so mom cut corners where she could. She would pop a huge paper grocery bag full of popcorn, and bring a pitcher of Kool-Aid. My son, who didn’t grow up in such a less fortunate household, doesn’t believe all of the stories I tell him. Sometimes I wonder who was really more fortunate though, him or me. I wouldn’t trade those days for anything.

I lived 5 houses down from O'Bannions on 124 near Tyrrell Park in the early to mid-70's. My neighbor, Judy, would give me money to walk to the store, buy her a pack of Eve's Menthols, a Tab (remember, the diet drink in the pink can that tasted like cat piss), and I could have a nickel or so to buy some candy for my troubles. All of that was less than a dollar. I was seven buying smokes... Lol.

No matter your family’s economic, ethnic, religious background, we were all privileged to grow up in the lost era of humankind. Remember collecting glass coke bottles that you found in a ditch or out of somebody’s trash or just laying on the side of the road to turn in for some change to buy some Penny candy?

Lmao. This is no exaggeration. I do the alcohol on q-tips thing to this day. Just did it this morning. It's funny you included that...