26 thoughts on “I’m just going to leave these right here…”

  4. I may have kids but I’ve now been classified as the cat lady of my block. That waste of space JD Vance needs to be very careful who he offends, stupid mofo. Anyone who is running with McDonnie is never going to listen to women period, so I guess his mom is very proud of his dumbass. Related but not related, I’ve seen Hillbilly Elegy on Netflix, it’s an amazing film. It does stray from the book a bit, but Glen Close is spectacular in it.

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    1. He grew up middle class in Ohio, in a four bedroom house. Took golf lessons and went to Yale. That doesn’t scream hillbilly to me. It’s hard to believe there’s someone worse than Trump, but this misogynistic idiot comes close.

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      1. After about two minutes (I’m a generous person) of listening to his dreck, I said, and I quote: “He ain’t no fuckin’ Hillbilly!” My grammar is as good as anyone’s. That’s the right way to say it. Hopefully, after election day, I won’t ever have to say it again.
        In the meantime, I would like to suggest that the Kamala Harris campaign pony up a few million dollars to put up billboards all over the country with the cat lady quote and his fat punk face, mouth wide open, of course.
        Oh, and someone needs to tell Matt Groening and James Brooks to get hot on the election episode of the Simpsons. Now is the time for Eleanor (My Grandmother’s name) Abernathy to stand tall and strike a blow for justice, or throw a couple of cats at it, anyway.
        I love the title, it’s so you.

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      3. Sorry, can’t agree. Appalachian. Born here, live here, most likely gonna die here. Hillbilly proud. Now some poseur who buys a pair of overalls and moves to the mountains from Charlotte, as if that’s all it takes to be one of us? Members of other social groups might call that cultural appropriation but how would a bunch of dumb hicks know anything about that?
        As far as the name goes, think about Black people: If you are Black then you can drop a B-52 full of N-bombs and it’s all good. If not, then you better keep that bird on the tarmac, especially if you mean it as a pejorative statement. We don’t like being called Hillbillies by people who aren’t Hillbillies.
        When I came here from south FL in 1995, I wasn’t moving away, I was coming home. It took a while for the NY with palm trees thing to wear off and for some time I felt like I didn’t belong. Much better now.

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      4. My husband’s BIL was born, raised and still lives in the mountains of West Virginia. When he married my SIL he taught her how to cook squirrel and opossum. They had an outhouse until the ‘80’s. Call him a mountain man, call him a son of a b*tch but never call him a hillbilly. I learned that right away…

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      6. Of course. Stereotypes of any sort are dangerous… and I’ve always found hillbilly to be derogatory. After our trip to Tennessee and the Blue Ridge, I fully appreciate Appalachian ingenuity.

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  8. If you have a cat you’ve chosen to take care of something that cries when it’s hungry, cuddles with you only when it wants to, loves the food you give it one day and doesn’t want it the next, runs through the house wildly for no reason, and expects you to pick up anything it knocks off the table. Don’t tell me cat people are “childless”.

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