North Carolina Turning Red

[Billiejeens]

Roy Cooper currently has a double digit lead in the Senate race.

Right now
It's name recognition
He has sucked off the Government teet his entire adult life.

 

[Billiejeens]

OMG you seriously posted that?

Just omfg you really are fckn stupid

Extraordinarily stupid.

Cults are not really conducive to creating great thinkers.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Extraordinarily stupid.

Cults are not really conducive to creating great thinkers.

That was beyond stupid. The asshat doesn't have the first clue what he's yammering about

 

[Doc7505]

Well that doesn't make sense. Why didn't they move to upstate New York, strong Republican districts. No, you were welcomed here. That is what we do. Legal, illegal, doesn't matter if you are from New York or El Salvador. You are welcome here, participate, contribute, and we will go to the wall for you. **** it up, we will come down on you like a ton of bricks.

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Indeed, I moved from Brooklyn then to Queens. When I retired I moved Upstate to Binghamton.
Bad move. Syracuse no better.
The town I moved to had much less crime than Brooklyn and Queens by far. yet the tax burdens on land owners is outrageous.
I was paying nearly $10,000 a year between State, County, plius school taxes.

 

[Doc7505]

Well that doesn't make sense. Why didn't they move to upstate New York, strong Republican districts. No, you were welcomed here. That is what we do. Legal, illegal, doesn't matter if you are from New York or El Salvador. You are welcome here, participate, contribute, and we will go to the wall for you. **** it up, we will come down on you like a ton of bricks.

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All well and goof. except there's little industry in upper New York State, or in New York City,
IBM, Kodak, Remington and other industries have moved from upper New York state. whereas NY City is more related to service related industries.
Indeed many companies have their corporate offices in NYC but like IBM, Pfizer, IPCO, Pepsico, their Corporate and manufacturing centers are no longer in NYC.

 

[Monoculturalist]

Wait a minute. North Carolina is a purple state? Do tell, 10 of 14 representatives Republican. Both Senators Republican. What gives?

Look, I have lived in North Carolina all my life, outside of a couple years just across the border in South Carolina in my childhood.

Esse Quam Videri​

"To be rather than to seem". Yes, North Carolina has changed much over the years. Those from other states moving in, North Carolina is ranked as the number one state in the country for business. Of course, ranked dead last for worker's rights. But we don't care. We just dig that much harder.

Sure, we have Trump nuts, lots of them. But we also have blue haired people standing on street corners with their "Impeach Trump" signs. I saw them this past weekend. Was puzzled a little. But like most North Carolinians, who the **** cares.

I mean the OP is talking about voter registrations. What the OP doesn't tell you is that the percentage of eligible voters that are actually registered is lower in North Carolina than any other state. Like I said, for the most part, we don't give a shit. My family has lived here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains since well before we were a nation. I have said it before, we allow the rest of you yahoos to live here because, for the most part, you have the good sense to leave us the **** alone. You prod us, you push us, then hell hath no fury. Don't poke the tiger.

Problem is, Trump has already poked the tiger. He clawed back funds Congress allocated for the Helene clean-up. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. You think those good mountain people are not going to remember that? Sure, we suck it up, we cover it, but we don't forget. We won't forget.

You bookmark this thread. I mean damn if history don't repeat itself, over and over again. Trump, his inept clown circus staff, and Republican Congress members that hang on to his outstretched pocket like some prison queer, they are about to see vengeance come calling. This country exists because of the good people of North Carolina, don't you doubt it. Not ten miles from where I sit right now, a group of people called the "Overmountain Men", formed together. One of them carrying the rifle of my great, great, I don't how many greats, Grandfather.

It was after the battle of Ramsuer's Mill. Learn your history. Mass grave not five miles from my house, underneath a high school football field. But those Overmountain Men made it to King's Mountain and put the British down. Well, not the British, there was one British soldier on that battlefield, Fergunson, shot off his horse by the very rifle I spoke of. The rest were loyalist. But they got their asses handed to them.

And yeah, they stripped his dead ass. Pissed on him. And fatass "Round top", General Cleveland, he got Fergunson's horse. Poor damn horse. But the pivotal moment in US history came two days later, at Biggerstaff fields, again, just a few miles from where I sit right now. In one moment, this nation was conceived. It wasn't conceived in Philadelphia, the white wigged aristocrats debating in the heat. It was conceived right there, under the "hanging tree". It became a nation of live and let live. We will get back to that, and it will be good people of North Carolina that brings it home, AGAIN.

I've lived in NC all my life as well. The only thing that could turn this state blue is the flow of New Yorkers, Jerseyites, and Pennsylvanians into the Triangle. They are admittedly significant in numbers, and as Apple starts to put more infrastructure here (along with other tech companies), that may tilt things leftward. Big Pharma also has that effect in the Triangle.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Roy Cooper currently has a double digit lead in the Senate race.

The NOVEMBER 2026 senate race?

Like 15 months out and you are actually paying attention to polls ??????

The POS won't even put his party affiliation on the front of his website.

Yeah....we need more milquetoasts.

 

[MagicMike]

OMG you seriously posted that?

Just omfg you really are fckn stupid

I am astonished at your wilfull ignorance. You didn't know this? Why not?

There was one prominent person seizing on the misinformation for his own purposes: Donald Trump. As a candidate, Trump leveled the baseless accusation that the Biden administration was diverting FEMA assistance from North Carolina to house illegal immigrants. He claimed $1 billion of FEMA spending was “stolen” for migrants. He said all FEMA had to offer people in North Carolina was $750, which was not true.

The allegations spurred anger toward Biden, but FEMA’s statistics show no significant uptick in aid since Trump’s inauguration. As of April 22, the agency had given nearly $432 million of assistance to 158,600 households in North Carolina, $100 million of which came under Trump, FEMA said in a statement. FEMA also obligated nearly $459 million in public assistance to repair infrastructure in North Carolina, including $138 million under Trump.

Meanwhile, Trump’s FEMA has halted $10 billion in disaster relief funds intended to help people across the country, cut off housing assistance for thousands of Helene survivors and ended a policy of fully reimbursing the state of North Carolina for debris removal.

Now, in further evidence of how political attacks can create a reality of their own, Trump officials are using FEMA’s struggles in western North Carolina as a rationale to dismantle the agency.

“I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away,” Trump said during a January visit to Asheville to survey the damage shortly after taking office.

Three key takeaways:

1. Trump amplified misinformation about FEMA’s response to Hurricane Helene that sowed distrust in the agency, paving the way for his administration to dismantle it.
2. The recovery effort in western North Carolina is lagging during Trump’s first three months.
3. The Trump administration has frozen disaster relief funds, canceled grants to help communities prepare for disasters and signaled it will pull back federal help for long-term disaster recovery.

At a congressional hearing on May 6, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who oversees FEMA, called the agency a failure and reiterated that Trump believes “FEMA as it exists today should be eliminated.” Trump fired then-acting FEMA chief Cameron Hamilton on May 8, just one day after Hamilton told a House committee the agency should not be abolished. His replacement, David Richardson, warned staff: “I will run right over you.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/22/trump-fema-north-carolina-hurricane-helene-00352614

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I am astonished at your wilfull ignorance. You didn't know this? Why not?

There was one prominent person seizing on the misinformation for his own purposes: Donald Trump. As a candidate, Trump leveled the baseless accusation that the Biden administration was diverting FEMA assistance from North Carolina to house illegal immigrants. He claimed $1 billion of FEMA spending was “stolen” for migrants. He said all FEMA had to offer people in North Carolina was $750, which was not true.

The allegations spurred anger toward Biden, but FEMA’s statistics show no significant uptick in aid since Trump’s inauguration. As of April 22, the agency had given nearly $432 million of assistance to 158,600 households in North Carolina, $100 million of which came under Trump, FEMA said in a statement. FEMA also obligated nearly $459 million in public assistance to repair infrastructure in North Carolina, including $138 million under Trump.

Meanwhile, Trump’s FEMA has halted $10 billion in disaster relief funds intended to help people across the country, cut off housing assistance for thousands of Helene survivors and ended a policy of fully reimbursing the state of North Carolina for debris removal.

Now, in further evidence of how political attacks can create a reality of their own, Trump officials are using FEMA’s struggles in western North Carolina as a rationale to dismantle the agency.

“I think we’re going to recommend that FEMA go away,” Trump said during a January visit to Asheville to survey the damage shortly after taking office.

Three key takeaways:

1. Trump amplified misinformation about FEMA’s response to Hurricane Helene that sowed distrust in the agency, paving the way for his administration to dismantle it.
2. The recovery effort in western North Carolina is lagging during Trump’s first three months.
3. The Trump administration has frozen disaster relief funds, canceled grants to help communities prepare for disasters and signaled it will pull back federal help for long-term disaster recovery.

At a congressional hearing on May 6, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who oversees FEMA, called the agency a failure and reiterated that Trump believes “FEMA as it exists today should be eliminated.” Trump fired then-acting FEMA chief Cameron Hamilton on May 8, just one day after Hamilton told a House committee the agency should not be abolished. His replacement, David Richardson, warned staff: “I will run right over you.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/22/trump-fema-north-carolina-hurricane-helene-00352614

I'm not scrolling through and reading that BS. Your potato was POTUS when NC was hit. Not Trump. You knew it but you're fckn stupid and thought nobody would challenge you

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

The NOVEMBER 2026 senate race?

Like 15 months out and you are actually paying attention to polls ??????

The POS won't even put his party affiliation on the front of his website.

Yeah....we need more milquetoasts.

He was just recently the governor. Everyone knows his party affiliation and while the race is 14 months out and, of course, could change drastically before then, the poll is a current snapshot in time. With that big of a lead at this point, the extra padding of Republican voters doesn't seem to be doing much.

 

[MagicMike]

I'm not scrolling through and reading that BS.

Fine. Stay ignorant. Your choice.

Your potato was POTUS when NC was hit.

You seem to think Helene was a one day event. That's probably because you wilfully choose ignorance over information.
You sound like a ******* idiot trying to discuss things that you're obviously very stupid about...and then refusing to read any info that may help you form a more informed opinion.
It's almost like you MAGAts ENJOY looking like clueless fools.

Not Trump.

uh...yeah. Trump spread the misinformation about FEMA that wound up hampering rescue/cleanup work and hurting North Carolinaans.
Then his admin. starting cutting FEMA funding.
Enen now, a year later, North Carolinians are fighting the Trump Administration trying to get assistance for rebuilding.
But you wouldn't know any of this because you're dumb as a rock and you apparently prefer it that way.

You knew it but you're fckn stupid and thought nobody would challenge you

Irony!

 

[Winston]

He was just recently the governor. Everyone knows his party affiliation and while the race is 14 months out and, of course, could change drastically before then, the poll is a current snapshot in time. With that big of a lead at this point, the extra padding of Republican voters doesn't seem to be doing much.

And people in North Carolina know Whatley. A Trump asskisser, which only looks good to the Trump nuts. Cooper has never lost a state wide election. NEVER.