The Clay Eater

A redder brand of redneck.

Monday, August 17, 2020

Making COVID Great Again

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P roving once again that white people do not understand irony, Trumpflakes have released a new line of whining that compares the COVID-19 p...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

Blockbusting proved the pudding

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F ortunately, in a way, multiple generations may be growing up and growing old without ever hearing the word, but the history of racist bloc...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Diversity among Dems - and not the good kind

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I dentifying Democrats with "liberals" (as we say*) has always been wide of the mark -- much less with the proverbial "left,...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

A Very Not Good Positiion

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T hat's what the incoming POTUS would call the particular branch of Shit's Creek that we are, collectively, up.  This should be news...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Raise the Minimum, Bring Back Welfare

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F irst, what's not true.  It's not true that unemployment follows a rising minimum wage. Now what is.  Welfare helped a lot of pe...

Free State of Jones THE MOVIE!

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I grew up hearing and inspired by the legend of " The Free State of Jones ," the county that seceded from Mississippi after Missi...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Pawns

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I grew up with people who look like these dumb clucks , talk like these dumb clucks, and I know how liberal snobs look down their noses at ...

P.S. Why SEIU endorsed Clinton

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T o quote one of those things that I say all the time, of course there are reasons - there are always reasons.  There just happen to be be...
Friday, November 20, 2015

"Give me your tired, your poor..." unless they're Muslims.

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Y eah.  So the " nation of immigrants " wants to turn away women, children, old people, fleeing the "terrorists" we sa...

Why, SEIU?

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O kay, I know why.  But the decision to back Clinton over Sanders by any labor union, especially one that mostly represents poor people, i...
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My father was the first in his family to finish high school, maybe the first to attend. He worked in a truck stop when my parents got married. My mother quit college and went to work in a factory, but she got "laid off" for taking co-worker who collapsed on the job to the hospital. My dad died when I was 4. We lived in a trailer after that. When I was old enough, I washed dishes, worked on a railroad, in factories, and went to college before I went to work in the labor movement. Long story short, I grew up in the foothills of the Appalachians in NE Mississippi, with double-digit unemployment. At the time it was the insurance fraud capital of the US, and the number one industry was car theft and chop shops. But when the feds decided we needed a nuclear power plant, we got ourselves together and fought it off. They tried not to listen to us hillbillies, and they built the plant. You can still see the cooling towers over the tree tops. It was built, but never operated, not even one single day. We beat them. That was round one, for me, growing up.
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