In 1982 I was in middle school. The Gipper was in the White House. Movie theaters were showing films like E.T., Rocky 3 and Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan, First Blood and Conan the Barbarian. The Road Warrior, Blade Runner and Fast Times At Ridgemont High, 48 Hours and Porky’s. I would say without reservation that if I had to watch only moves from a single year, 1982 would be a sold contender.
The November elections of 1982 brought a relative unknown Democrat candidate to run for Congress in the district that represents Toledo, Ohio. Her name was Marcy Kaptur, a “Catholic” polack, and she won her race by almost 20 points.
Fast-forward to 2024. I am in my early 50s and Marcy Kaptur is 78 years old, around my dad’s age. She is also still in Congress.
Marcy is in a perfect spot. She is an ethnic Catholic Democrat and plays the “working class champion” angle. She never really worked an actual job in her life, between college and Congress she did some political jobs but she never punched a clock in a factory. She has rarely been challenged, according to Wikipedia: “From 1986 to 2002, she won every election with at least 74% of the vote”. She also has never sought higher office in Ohio, never running as a Senator or for any statewide offices. She has been content to simply go back to Congress year after year, decade after decade, for more than 40 years. See if you can guess why?
There is never any mention anywhere of Marcy’s personal life and that is because it certainly involves a great deal of carpet. Her personal life section of Wikipedia talks about her alleged Catholic faith but nothing about a husband or boyfriend. She seems to have figured out that she could run for Congress as a Democrat in Toledo and people would pretend to not notice that she was a dyke. If she wanted to run for higher office her personal life would become fair game.
As the year passed she just managed to keep getting elected by wide margins but this year? This might be the year she goes away.
While Ohio often still elects some Democrats like current Senator Sherrod Brown, Brown is also considered one of the most endangered Senators up for re-election as Ohio is comfortably Trump territory and with Trump on the ballot, his odds of winning are pretty poor (see also John Tester in Montana among a number of other Senate seats in jeopardy for Democrats). Other state offices are pretty solidly Republican, even if the Republicans in question are asshats like Mike DeWine who has been kicking around Ohio politics for decades.
Anyway, Marcy is in some trouble this year as her working class base in Toledo grows steadily more MAGA and less tolerant of Democrats. She has gotten some bad press after yammering about preventing foreclosures only to have it discovered that some properties she owns have filed eviction notices: Ohio Rep. who defends squatters’ rights has tried evicting tenants from her properties: report. As always, if leftists didn’t have double standards they would have no standards at all. She is facing a solid challenge from State Representative Derek Merrin, who also happens to be the former mayor of my hometown of Waterville.
Will this finally be the year that Marcy gets kicked out of her more than 4 decade run in Congress? I sure hope so, she is as phony as they come. The Toledo Blade, a leftist rag if ever there was one, endorsed Marcy yet again because she brings home the bacon but their endorsement was pretty tepid and pragmatic as opposed to principled, especially since Marcy refused to debate Merrin in an event sponsored by The Blade.
A lot will depend on how much momentum and enthusiasm Trump brings to Ohio on Tuesday and whether that MAGA -mentum will be enough. Marcy has won many times before when the same voters chose Reagan and Trump and split-ticket voting is something that makes little sense to me but it does to a lot of low information voters in Toledo who are taken in by Kaptur’s working man champion shtick and her bullshit “Catholic” faith.
Sure politics is all fake and gay but it will be sweet nonetheless if Marcy gets sent home for good.
It’s the same in Montana Brother people would vote for a Republican President but then also vote for Tester or Bullock it just fucking didn’t make any sense…Pain though always brings reality back into focus though and Bullock was out because he tried to impose lockdowns and that didn’t work out so well for him… Hopefully people are hurting enough this time to kick Tester to the curb…
I think Tester is toast
Let’s do hope.
Butte is the most awful that way.
Super conservative people who will vote (which is fake and gay) Democrat all day because “Dad was a Union miner and the Democrats took care of us!”
Guys, all but one of the mines shut down in 1980 and haven’t reopened…time has moved on.
I cannot grok this long term allegiance. After greater than 4 decades distant from that justification, I’d be asking “what the fuck have you losers done for me lately”.
Ok, actually I wouldn’t, since I’d never ask a democrat anything except to “shut up and face the wall”. I can barely be persuaded to vote for an R (who pretty well all suck) and the D’s suck even worse by multiple orders of magnitude.
Everyone still has some magic they are holding on to no matter how dead and gone it is…See it on our side as well… Boggles my mind as well…
Most voters don’t think at all, they just pull the lever for whoever they are told to.
The Dixiecrats are the same way. The union mindset is just white nigger gibs “loyalty”. Hell most unions are just Mexican fronts at this point. But hey, gotta get mine.
The workin man still can’t see how he is getting gamed. Used and tossed away. His old union bosses retired on fat pensions while the factory is now closed because the union and globocorp vampired all the value out long ago and his sons have no future but those defined benefits are mighty nice while they last I guess.
Same goes for the weak evangelicals with delicate, feminized sensibilities who “can’t get past Trump’s vulgar and unpresidential character” as if “voting” for overtly evil people is better.
At this point if you are White and a democrat in any sorta way you are too far gone and frankly dangerous.
That people still have the luxury of voting against their own people’s best interest and can openly feels good about that means there is still far too much ruin in the FUSA to affect any real change.
Many rats are jumping ship with all kinds of rationalizations that totally avoid any sort of repentance or actual awakening, favoring instead the kind of economic self-interest that got us where we are now. But that is exactly how the uniparty works. Just keep following the gibs, the blank slate, the tilting at the mythological to avoid becoming raciss or whatever. Cowards every one of them.
You Sir, hammered that nail square on the head.
The race traitor cucks in evangelicalism are far more dangerous than cities full of niggers.
That is auto workers in Toledo in a nutshell. They are loyal to a party that was bullshit back then and openly hates them now.
I personally believe that vermin like Tester are products of the voter fraud systems that the dems have had in place since at least the 90’s when they got Bill Richardson “elected” in a staunchly conservative New Mexico. There is no way that Tester is getting support from the average Montanan. No way.
I don’t know if there are enough California transplants plus hippies to elect a Democrat but it is possible
I forgot about the Kali’s. That infestation is why we left N Idaho years ago. Truly a cancer. Well, not as bad as choos, but they’re pretty bad. “Let’s see…I’m leaving a state that has been destroyed by leftist policies, so I’m going to rail and whine and insist on having those same, broken, leftist ideals where I moved to.” Makes sense. I guess they are as bad as choos. Maybe just not given to quite as much violence and murder.
Blast from the past. I grew up in that area, and remember all her political ads. Had no idea.
She has been coasting along for decades and no one asks the obvious question
I always smirk when I see someone use the term “low-information voter” as a slur. People are almost exclusively low-information everything! Voting, building – I’m astounded by the idiocy I see all around. I never believe the first thing I hear/read. Nor the second. I try to figure out who benefits, who profits, who has a stake. The truth always lies somewhere in the middle, albeit often closer to one extreme or the other. Politics has always been a theater and money and influence have always been involved. AINO did not invent this, but most murkans are utterly ignorant about history. Back when we lived in Texas there was Congressman Sam Johnson. Older than dirt and endlessly re-elected pushing the same old stories. I’m all for common sense, but anyone betting on the average individual’s intelligence or credulity deserves what he gets.
Sad isn’t it Sister…At a time that we have more information and knowledge at our fingertips than ever before we are as a populace more ignorant and less informed…
There is still something about Toledo voters, people who are working class Whites that still clamor for Cumala because they think the Democrats in 2024 are the same as the Democrats in the 1970s.
Don’t forget, Arthur, Toledo (where I currently live) has a very large number of Jews and Poles: the former just want their lib/anti-white agenda, which Nancy delivers, and the latter are in general loath to abandon a “fellow Catholic.” There are relatively few founding stock type whites here.
I remember an older Polish woman (our family were friends with some Polish families who lived near Point Place) who resolutely refused to believe that the nominal Catholic Kennedy was a cheater–not the idea that such would have made him a bad president (I don’t care, and I at least admire him standing up to Israel on the nukes issue) but that he did that at all. There is among some of them a kind of see-no-evil attitude toward fellow Catholics, no matter how nominal their faith may be.
I think the ley lines that cross there and other cities make a lot of people stupid or crazy.
At least Michigan losing the war over Toledo meant I didn’t grow up a cheesehead, there’s too many serial killers from there.
There has never been a more lopsided peace deal than Ohio getting Toledo and Michigan getting the UP
I’m a Toledo polack myself, on the dad side, Irish Catholic on the mom side, but those neighborhoods are unrecognizable now. When I stop at Stanleys in town to get kielbasa the place is in the middle of a shithole of negroes but the guys behind the meat counter all look like they could be my uncles.
That list of movies says a lot. Nowadays pedowood would probably find it impossible to make one movie that good in a 5 year span. No wonder I liked going to the movies as a kid… they were good back then.
Those were the days before girlfriends for me so I went to the movies with buddies. The later 80s movies were all about making out so I missed a lot of them but on the other hand I was still entertained.
Lemme guess, she’s been in office for 40 years, never held a real job, isn’t married (so no spouse working hard) and is somehow magically worth 10’s of millions of dollars……………
something else never mentioned by the propaganda organs.
She owns a lot of properties somehow, weird how that happens
I remember Jesse Ventura as governor of Minnesota. He stated his disdain for lifetime politicos:
[paraphrasing]: “You get elected, you serve out your term, THEN YOU GO HOME!”
Perfect! Term limits!
They will never surrender power voluntarily…
Term limits were on the agenda for the “Contract With America” back in the Newt Gingrich days, weirdly never became law
1982 was indeed a great year. All of those movies bring back some fond memories of my high school senior year and being a college freshman. Plus I made it to third base for the first time that year.
I forgot The Seduction with Morgan Fairchild, terrible film but a few pivotal moments in my youthful development
Democrat voters are just plain stupid. They’re easy to manipulate, that’s the easy part.
Esteemed CPUSA (D) party member Hillary Clinton to comrade Dick Morris, 2005
We are for the working class while they are all millionaires with multiple mansions.
Only drooling mongoloids fall for that horseshit.
Some are born to be serf slave peasants and happy about it.
We’re all in this together.
Eat Shit Commie.
The amusing part is that they think They are smarter than us, the less amusing part is that many Whites living in the rest of the country seem to think so too.