Bubba Goes to Shanghai
Bubba goes to Shanghai to find out what happened to his town’s off-shored jobs, eventually doing battle with sassy toilets, witches, pirates, and the main castle of outsourcing.
Category Archives: Down & Out in Bumblefuck: The Rural News
Why Didn’t Democrats Take Back Texas?
One of the loftiest goals for the Democratic Party has been to flip Texas blue. Or perhaps “take it back” would be more accurate since it was Democratic for over a century before W. Bush put his carpet bagging ass in the Governor’s mansion. They wanted it bad for Hillary in 2016, for Beto in… Read More »
The Election Wasn’t a Blowout but it Still Proved People Hate Trump
“Damn, how did Trump get more votes than last time? How did he do so well?” I’m not sure an incumbent President losing by the biggest margin since Herbert Hoover is really “doing well” by any objective measure, but I understand the sentiment: how did so many people vote for an impeached, incompetent, traitorous criminal… Read More »
Wow, Check Out this Doug Jones Attack Ad
Tommy Tuberville unleashes his wildest attack ad yet
Actually, Obama DID Care About Red States and Rural Areas
It is a common misconception that Obama didn’t try to win over red states or rural areas or the white working class or older white rural voters or people who are 50 miles from a Target or however you’d like to phrase it. In contrast to Trump–who is perfectly fine letting California get consumed by… Read More »
Fossil Fuels KILL More Jobs than they Create
While in an area that was economically devastated by the BP oil spill, AL explains how fossil fuels actually wreck more jobs than they create. [Note: The sound quality in one video was so bad, I had to redo it with a second take–but the first footage was too beautiful to scrap completely.]
What is Gender Drain?
Alabama Liberal coins the phrase “Gender Drain” to explain rural areas having way more men than women, and explains why this is not only making rural men angrier and more radical, but stopping Democrats from regaining political power.
Why Do People in Rural Communities Vote Republican?
Even though 80% of America lives in cities, rural people have as much control over our electorate as they ever have. Republicans obnoxiously answer that the Founding Fathers designed America that way–back when predicting the invention of skyscrapers would’ve gotten you burned at the stake. But now it seems almost obscene that North and South… Read More »
Introducing: “Ask Me Anything” Feature
Alabama Liberal wants you to ask him a question about literally anything…
What is Coastsplaining?
AL details his life-long struggle against Coastsplaining–and how most of the issues coastal liberals talk about (from immigration to abortion to guns to income inequality) actually affect “flyover country” more directly. Then, I propose that Trickle Down Economics got its earliest start in Plantation Economics.