Poverty-Enthusiasts

 Over the past ten years, I've come to notice a fair number of politicians/activists/propagandists....who openly brag in some way of having grown up in poverty (sometimes trying to give you the impression of ultra-poverty (if there was such a thing)).  

My German wife reached a point last year...where she suggested I was overly-chatty on growing up in Alabama (1960s/1970s) poverty.

Popular hype now?  I would imagine that thirty-percent of Americans...over the age of fifty....claim some type of poverty.  Some elements might be true.....but it's about half-way fraudulent in nature.

People who bought coffee in the 1970s...probably paid a quarter at best....while today, they stop at some premium shop to pay $4.75 for a XXL-cup of marginal premium coffee.  

Some people will relate how they used to go to the theater....with $7 to get a ticket, medium-Coke, and small pop-corn....while today, they pay around $25 for the same experience.

Some former military folks will openly brag of the days at the enlisted club....$1-pitchers-of-beer on Friday after work....while the same pitcher today....would be $5.99. 

This all brings me to wonder.....the folks who grew in the 1920s/1930s....were they ultra-ultra poverty enthusiasts?

Q-and-A

 1.  Are Alabamians aware that the northern quarter of the state is part of Appalachia?  

It's one of the 300,000 facts they were told at some point about....but most don't give a damn.  It's not like something they brag about.

2.  Is there any possibility that from among these 300-odd data-centers across the globe being planned/built....that aliens may have a cable or two leading in, and planting accidental discoveries for humans to find?

Well....you know....some PhD folks probably wonder about data and if maybe is just a 'cover' for the aliens.

3.  Any truth to the idea that Iran is hoping for a big Democratic win in November to halt Trump's evil plans?

Shockingly....Demo's are seen as a 'hero' to the Mullahs.  

4.  Somalian gangs in the US....possibly triggering 'warfare'?

Minnesota-wise.....if you polled locals....I'm guessing near 50-percent of adults wonder about this.

5.  Any chance of a mental disease...if you are overly concerned about toilet-paper-being-over, or toilet-paper-being-under?

If it matters to you....you probably have TPDS (toilet-paper derangement syndrome).

6.  If the Census folks fail to count the 18-million non-Americans.....is it a big deal?

If you follow the news via CNN or NPR....it's doom-and-despair.  

7.  France riots?

I follow this daily....probably 60 minutes of observations, and have come to realize.....it's mostly a third-world tribalism rage.....against French civilization.  When they do interview with the riot folks....they seem to be mostly 12-year-old mentality.

8.  With all the hype over gender-BS....can't there be a crowd who wants fake intellectual transformation....where you have a IQ-index of 60 to 80, and have some fake way of convincing people you are 100 to 120?

To be honest, since the 1990s, I think there's a trans-intellectual movement going on....where people have some fake college BS (maybe even PhD-level fakeness), and they simply want you to buy off on this fake-Elon type of reality.

9.  Tennessee considering other execution options?

Well....if you follow the Pike episode....yeah, Republicans in the state want a perfect method of execution in the future.  Personally.....hanging is about as perfect as you can go.

10.  Chris Christie still trying to compare himself to 1980's Ronald Reagan?

Yeah....a sort of 50-50 Reagan-Clinton type character from NJ.  Out of a 100 Republican group....maybe three buy into his BS.