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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:31 AM Feb 2016

Greetings from South Carolina. It's Primary Time.

The birthplace of dirty politics.
It is a cage match. No holds barred.
Several of the GOPeas were at Bob Jones University for a conference. Those people are batshit crazy. Think of the wildest RW evangelical you know about and multiply it by a million. That's BJU.
The BJUers used to come over to my campus and try to save us. We had BJU alerts.

Things are so 'interesting' here that the Charleston paper printed a form for people to use to report any unusual happenings they were aware of. I thought, "Who has time?'.

W will be here to campaign for Jeb.
Marco broke a tooth on a Twix bar and somehow found it necessary to tell people that. He seems to be using it as a badge of honor.
Carson went to Gaffney which is where 'House of Cards' is set. Gaffney is known for the giant peach water tank. I lived there one summer. What a thrill.
Nikki Haley hasn't endorsed anybody. She trashed Trump a couple of weeks ago. She has to be busy figuring out what to do to enhance her chances for a possible job with some candidate if they are elected.(gawd help us)
Kasich tried to compliment the Clemson football team by saying he got Ohio State to hold back. Thus he implied that OSU quit for him and Clemson could not have beaten them. He pissed off two groups of people.
Trump is in trouble with some voters because of his language. Go figure. I don't know how many but they are offended.

If you hurry, I bet you could raise brazillions of dollars with a gofundme account to build a wall around SC and trap all of them here. We would sacrifice ourselves for the greater good.

Frank Underwood has set up a headquarters here. He might win both primaries with write-in votes.



Reporting from the heart of darkness.

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Greetings from South Carolina. It's Primary Time. (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Feb 2016 OP
Lol EdwardBernays Feb 2016 #1
How's Carson doing there? nxylas Feb 2016 #2
I don't think he will do very well. Are_grits_groceries Feb 2016 #3
Kathleen Parker brer cat Feb 2016 #4
Oh dear god please oh PLEASE Volaris Feb 2016 #5
Yes.Netflix set that up. Are_grits_groceries Feb 2016 #13
A friend of mine's sister married a nutjob that considered BJU too liberal. hobbit709 Feb 2016 #6
Sounds like my daughter's SIL. Hortensis Feb 2016 #9
Now I love plain rice. Are_grits_groceries Feb 2016 #14
LOL grits ! Thanks for the morning laugh. I lived in Berkeley County livetohike Feb 2016 #7
I read this thread and then made grits to go with my Saturday morning eggs and sausage. Stinky The Clown Feb 2016 #8
Thanks for the terrific rundown, Grits. Hortensis Feb 2016 #10
Ha. mercuryblues Feb 2016 #11
ROFL malaise Feb 2016 #12

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
2. How's Carson doing there?
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 07:24 AM
Feb 2016

I have seen a couple of pro-Carson messages from SC friends that I keep in touch with via Facebook. I was wondering how typical that was.

brer cat

(24,577 posts)
4. Kathleen Parker
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 08:39 AM
Feb 2016

did a number on SC in WAPO. She even quoted James Petigru: “South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.”

You have my sincere condolences for enduring the hoards of even-crazier-than-natives camping out there. At least here we can turn off GDP, you have to live with it.

Volaris

(10,272 posts)
5. Oh dear god please oh PLEASE
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 08:52 AM
Feb 2016

Tell me Netflix actually paid money for that to be a real thing
Because that would be the best troll ever!!

'Your loyalty will not go unnoticed.' Genuis.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
9. Sounds like my daughter's SIL.
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 09:38 AM
Feb 2016

Sat next to me and ate plain white rice in an expensive and genuinely fine Chinese restaurant, owners friends of our new son-in-law -- refused to touch anything else.

livetohike

(22,145 posts)
7. LOL grits ! Thanks for the morning laugh. I lived in Berkeley County
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 09:19 AM
Feb 2016

for a couple of years back on the 70's. It was eye opening 😊.

mercuryblues

(14,532 posts)
11. Ha.
Sat Feb 13, 2016, 10:16 AM
Feb 2016

absolutely brilliant.

If you hurry, I bet you could raise brazillions of dollars with a gofundme account to build a wall around SC and trap all of them here. We would sacrifice ourselves for the greater good.

No need to sacrifice, I have connections. Are you afraid of being airlifted?

I might add. If you do not have DVR, get it now. It is worth the few dollars to skip The Cruz/Rubio/Jeb! ads. After the primaries, you can cancel it.

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