I've spent a wonderful couple days driving through the US "Heartland" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_(United_States) while chasing a particularly handsome vintage motorcycle. I just love this part of the country; the people are real, the lifestyle is real. Folks even drive more politely here - no road rage - you pass in the "passing lane" and you use your signal and return to the right lane. No riding along in the left oblivious to traffic behind you and folks move over to let oncoming traffic merge - that sorta thing - they pay attention.
This is the part of the country that makes things. One of the things made here is your food: fertile fields ready for crops as far as the eye can see - for hundreds, nay, thousands of miles. Just look at the hue of that soil:
They produce things here. Your steel comes from here (historically Pittsburgh PA) and I passed a big Steel Dynamics plant today in northern IL. Your oil comes from here: Texas, famously, but oil was first discovered in PA and WV (debate) and Rockefeller and Standard Oil was in Cleveland OH. The coal that powers your lights comes from here: southern IL has one of the most abundant coalfields, mostly once owned by a proud Mountaineer, Chris Cline (RIP). Taint as good as low sulphur WV coal but..... I also passed hundreds and hundreds of Wind Power turbines this trip, so the Heartland is producing that too:
So, I love it here. Them coastal elites can kiss my ass because this is where folks actually produce shit, not just manipulate some angle on the fringes. You can actually ride a motorcycle here because the traffic is not a total mess, drivers pay attention and they're relatively courteous. The real part of this country is in the middle. The stuff on the coast....it's popular (crowded rat race). Take Palm Beach County, for example, produces nothing,as far as I know, except willfully ignorant, narcissistic assholes (not the former Pres. LOL).
Oh yeah, I'm at the hotel for the night and I'm only taking-up 5 spaces
This is the part of the country that makes things. One of the things made here is your food: fertile fields ready for crops as far as the eye can see - for hundreds, nay, thousands of miles. Just look at the hue of that soil:
They produce things here. Your steel comes from here (historically Pittsburgh PA) and I passed a big Steel Dynamics plant today in northern IL. Your oil comes from here: Texas, famously, but oil was first discovered in PA and WV (debate) and Rockefeller and Standard Oil was in Cleveland OH. The coal that powers your lights comes from here: southern IL has one of the most abundant coalfields, mostly once owned by a proud Mountaineer, Chris Cline (RIP). Taint as good as low sulphur WV coal but..... I also passed hundreds and hundreds of Wind Power turbines this trip, so the Heartland is producing that too:
So, I love it here. Them coastal elites can kiss my ass because this is where folks actually produce shit, not just manipulate some angle on the fringes. You can actually ride a motorcycle here because the traffic is not a total mess, drivers pay attention and they're relatively courteous. The real part of this country is in the middle. The stuff on the coast....it's popular (crowded rat race). Take Palm Beach County, for example, produces nothing,as far as I know, except willfully ignorant, narcissistic assholes (not the former Pres. LOL).
Oh yeah, I'm at the hotel for the night and I'm only taking-up 5 spaces
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