Some guy with a bow tie is on CNN talking about "coastal elites".

[DemocratSinceBirth]

HARLAN HILL








SMH

[JHan]

1. the most tired trope ever

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Yup

But remind me again about why need to constantly listen to and shape our political strategies around people whom shoot up Pizza joints based on insane conspiracy theories ("bad intel&quot about the DNC/Clintons?

[JHan]

9. what i've realised is...

there are limits to my understanding.

All the talk about "reaching out" without challenging people on their nonsense is excusing BS. There are crazy ass Americans out there who consume Alex Jones like the gospel truth, and believe the craziest shit imaginable. Coddling them is not the solution. Show them the error of their ways and if they still can't get a clue, they are a lost cause.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Oh, I agree 100%

I fight with some of them all of the time on FB and try to give them the facts when I have the time and/or energy to do so. Do I make a difference with them? I have no clue.

[JHan]

14. A relative of mine supported Trump..

I frequently let him have it. He's very quiet these days too, maybe he's starting to see it for himself.

He's proof that people can be willfully ignorant. Trump supporters aren't babies or children, they're grown adults who can vote. Why all the delicateness?

You may find this useful since you have to deal with Trumpians on FB. It covers the coastal elite BS, in this case "Trump won because Meryl is a coastal elite and she criticized him"

[smirkymonkey]

18. +1000

[barbtries]

20. that is perfect.

it's a psychological tool of abuse.
makes so much sense.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. Interesting

It also reminds me of a Tumblr post I read once about why we shouldn't worry about oppressed groups "alienating allies" by not being "nice enough".

[barbtries]

26. i friended him on fb and can't find the quote

would love to share it. do you have a link? thank you

[JHan]

28. No I don't, sorry. I tried a search as well and it didn't come up.

I doubt he deleted it

[HAB911]

2. I love it when someone talks of elites

e·lite
əˈlēt,āˈlēt/
noun
plural noun: elites
1. a select part of a group that is superior to the rest in terms of ability or qualities.



Antonyms for elite

lower
worst
second-rate
inferior

poor
bad
common
lower-class

ordinary
low-class

Better yet when they call me elitist

I rest my case

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. I love it when some guy in a bow tie talks of elites.

[HAB911]

6. LOL, that could be just bad taste!.........n/t

[delisen]

3. A coastal elite is some type of endangered frog. Don't remember the Latin name.n/t

[Achilleaze]

7. Divide and Conquer - basic Republican-Russian strategery against America

[Baitball Blogger]

8. You mean, Americans who have done well economically because of American freedom?

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Yeah Because, Chicago, Cleveland, . . .

. . .Detroit, Denver, or Dallas aren't giant urban centers. Gee, only about 30 million people live in those 5 metro centers, but they're so much more "country" than the coastal elites!

What a moron!

[DetlefK]

11. I remember something similar from the founding-days of the Tea Party:

There was an interview with some heavily-tanned, heavily-bejeweled Madame something-something-Rothschild in Orange County, California. She voiced her support for the Tea Party because finally us little people were standing up against that meanie Obama.

Yes. A literal billionaire and literal aristocrat styled herself as being one of the little people fighting against those in power.

[JustinL]

23. Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild. She was a PUMA.

She served in the Bill Clinton administration and was a major fundraiser for Hillary in the 2008 primary, but then supported McCain in the general election. Last summer, she held a fundraiser for Hillary.

[Scurrilous]

13. He has a very punchable face.

Just saying...

[Rustyeye77]

21. I thought the exact same thing.

it was the whole bow-tie thing.

[spanone]

15. i heard that shit...as if trump isn't part of the 'elites'

a little tucker carlson wannabe

[democratisphere]

16. Harlan Hill is stuck in a time warp from the middle of the last century.

Put this guy back in mothballs.

[onenote]

17. Harlan Hill: private prep school grad from SC, college in DC, lives in NY

Opportunistic twit who claims he was a Democrat but who founded a "Democrats for Trump" group.

There is a special place in hell reserved for the like of people like him.

[barbtries]

19. that picture.

i laughed out loud. does that make me a bad person?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

24. You mean the ones who pay all the taxes that middle America leeches off of?

[Rex]

25. Coastal elite - Donald Trump.

They will pay just about anyone to put on a cheap suit and blovate.

[unblock]

27. dismissing those us near a coast as "elites" is itself a form of elitism.

they're trying to say, in their own twisted martyrdom way, is that they are the "real americans" and the rest of us are just arrogant fools whose opinions they can dismiss with an simple insult.

[Cha]

29. How about the fucking trump elite?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

30. It worked for LBJ.

Except, instead of a smart phone, he had a secretary.