Society of flabby pasty conservative white guys meets for lunch:

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Link to tweet

[Vinca]

1. I bet they're all over outlawing abortion rights. You'd think there would be a token woman.

[BigMin28]

3. Not in

Not in the "He-Man Women Haters Club". Angry little boys that never grew up

[yankee87]

9. Love it

Love the throwback to my childhood. You made me smile. Bring on Spanky.

[BigMin28]

22. I guess

I dated myself. No matter. Glad it made you smile.

[LakeArenal]

2. I see a bunch of guys who have 13 year old wives waiting at home pregnant.

Waiting for the Hispanic wait staff to bring them food.

[getagrip_already]

6. You forgot the part....

Where they are "mentoring" underage youth in the ways keeping a man happy.

[LakeArenal]

17. Yes.

[Walleye]

4. They want Missouri to remain a redneck state. I don't think they need to worry

[milestogo]

8. We wanna be like Florida and Texas.

We want asshole governors, backwards laws, all women pregnant, and loaded guns everywhere.

[Walleye]

11. I get a visceral reaction of disgust looking at the this

One of their least endearing characteristics is that they are so fucking boring and predictable. Also ugly

[peacebuzzard]

18. FL and TX will go blue way before MO

I agree...no worries there

[Aristus]

5. They do conform to a certain phenotype, don't they?

They may as well be wearing signs.

I'm a little astonished at the unaccustomed display of good manners, though. Only one of them is wearing his ball cap at the table.

Guys wearing hats and caps inside, especially at the table, is a little rage-inducing to me. I was raised with real Southern manners; and one never, ever wears one's hat or cap inside or at the table. Any guy who does is low class, whatever economic class he fits into.

I really, really hate it when I go out for a nice meal, and some ill-bred fuckstick is wearing a hat at the table. I'm like: "Dude, stick to Taco Bell, all right? Trying to enjoy a fine dinner here."

[The Bopper]

10. Apparently

You’ve never heard of a Redneck toupee. There might be a little honey looking and they wouldn’t see their physical prowess if they seen the lack of hair. You know, the important crap.

[milestogo]

13. Hey I just found out what a wife-beater shirt is a couple of weeks ago.

Somebody dropped it into a work conversation and I had to ask.

[FakeNoose]

31. I think it's a "New-York-ism" because that's where I learned the term

Not that New-Yorkers are more likely to beat their wives....

This style was popular there among the lower classes and immigrants around the Big Apple before it was adopted in other areas of the country. I always think of Marlon Brando playing Stanley Kowalski in "Streetcar Named Desire."

[whfinlay]

53. Me too!

[ProfessorGAC]

62. Around Chicago, They Were Called...

..Dago Tees. Interesting that I never saw a single member of my family wear one & we were pretty Italian.
So, different regions, different names I suppose.
When they became fashionable in the 70s, the name changed to tank top & that seems to have stuck.

[Conjuay]

40. Hubba, Hubba -

Check out all that manliness!

Okay- I'll confess - I wear those tees as well, but not for a photo op!

[SergeStorms]

54. Those tee-shirts are short on material.

Or could it be the redneck bachelor's cotillion is more than slightly overfed? 🤔

[JanMichael]

70. This has got to be a joke photo. Seriously they can't be serious.

Also, and I hate to say this, if you're going to go with a sleeveless shirt you have to have the bi's tri's and delts to go with it. None of them do.

[Aristus]

16. Rednecks and their insecurities.

I'm almost totally bald, and I have never even once tried to hide the fact, either by wearing a hat everywhere I go, or by creative acts of hair-engineering to fashion a combover for my bald skull.

Long before I started losing my hair at age twenty-four, I had heard women talk about how baldness can be sexy. So I didn't worry so much about it. And I was right not to.

[LakeArenal]

21. Baldness is a natural state and sexy comes from inside anyway.

Better than a toupee or tats.

[Diamond_Dog]

37. ++++ agree

[milestogo]

23. I took a writing course and one of the students used the term

"wompage" to describe a comb-over. Then there is a term "bilateral wompage" which indicates that side hair from both sides is being combed over in an attempt to disguise the baldness on the top of the head. I found these terms really funny.

And then there's Trump - who uses both wompage and hair dye to cover up baldness that is evident to all. Who does he think he is fooling?

[evolves]

49. I think

he’s trying to fool himself.

[not fooled]

55. And don't forget plastic surgery

He had a flap with hair pulled over from some other part of his head. I believe it was Ivana who wrote in her autobiography that he became enraged at the outcome and assaulted her because she suggested the plastic surgeon (something along those lines).

So, he doesn't have just a combover but a flapover.

either way.

[milestogo]

65. Oh my.

I did not know about that. Seems a bit desperate.

[Midnight Writer]

48. Hats prevent skin cancer. Bare pates are susceptible.

I don't care about covering up my baldness. I wear a hat because my head fries like an egg if I go out in the sun.

[Aristus]

56. Mine, too.

I just take my hat off indoors and at the table.

That's a proper Southern upbringing combined with military training. The only time a soldier is supposed to wear headgear indoors is if he is under arms (wearing or holding a weapon). Once, when I was in Basic Training, I didn't whip my cap off fast enough when entering the barracks. A drill sergeant saw me, and smacked me across the head, knocking my cap to the floor. "Now get down with it!" he said, meaning drop to the floor and do punishment pushups. Never forgot after that.

[MiHale]

60. Yeah my MOM did that to me...

The Army was not as strict as my mom. It felt like sweet release.

[The Bopper]

57. Chandelier cancer

The worst kind. 😀

[niyad]

14. Actually, there are two, but your point is still correct.

[Aristus]

19. I missed the guy on the left.

I just thought his brow was lower than the usual.

Good catch!

[LakeArenal]

25. I think you seem overly harsh on the hat thing.

My mama from Texas wouldn’t stand for us to us the word fuck in any company nor in print. So I feel your inbred fuckstick comments not all that classy or well bred.

[Aristus]

33. Possibly it's contagious.

Anyway, I would never tell baseball cap guy that. Everybody packing these days. And we know how touchy they are.

[Conjuay]

38. That was the first thing I noticed as well, - but I noticed two 'uncouthians', not one!

[Aristus]

41. Yeah, as above, I missed that.

Got to work on my powers of observation...

[onethatcares]

39. they think it's manliest

to wear that cap backwards.

[Lonestarblue]

63. You had the same reaction as I did about the two guys with hats.

Channeling my mother, take those hats off immediately and get those elbows off the table. And sit up straight. I can’t slouch at the table many years later as a result of those lessons!

[KentuckyWoman]

7. Those 3 dudes with the black polo won't last long.

The memo clearly said, white or pastel polo and white or grey shorts or pants.

In 1776 all women, all children, and all non white men were "property" - or at best - had no legal standing at all.

Even wealthy white married women had no citizenship and no political rights. Married women in 1776 could not own property, sign contracts or access the judicial system. Any money they inherited or wages they earned legally went to their husbands. They didn't even have the right to see their own children.

This is what these men want.

[onethatcares]

42. way back in the 1950s

woman needed their husbands approval to get credit and they still haven't achieved political equality.

[evolves]

52. 1970s, actually.

[onethatcares]

76. yes, I was aware of it stopping

in the 70s. I had just joined the army (duh)and my wife needed tires for our car. She was royally ticked off when Sears Roebuck and Co would not advance her credit to buy them.

[KentuckyWoman]

59. 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act

Originally the provision for women was not there. Lindy Boggs added the provision banning discrimination due to sex or marital status without informing the other members of the banking committee beforehand. Later she simply said she realized it was missing and added it assuming the omission was an oversight with "I'm sure you'll approve." And they did.

Lindy Boggs was an interesting woman, worth reading about. Look her up.

[LastDemocratInSC]

80. The mother of Cokie Roberts.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

78. Banks required my grandfather to co-sign with my mum

So that she could get the standard bank accounts (checking and savings). They required him to co-sign for her car loan and lines of credit. The utility services required the same. Stock brokers and investment firms--same thing.

Never mind how she earned more in one year than grand-da had in his 3 peak earning years--adjusted for inflation.

The year: 1971.

In 1974, just before the credit laws changed, Mum got engaged, and decided she wanted to start her married life in a home of her own. She found her dream home, so time for a mortgage. Except no bank would give her a mortgage without a husband or male relative co-signing. No, it didn't matter that she was ready to make a 50% down payment on it. Bring in a man of the house, little lady, or get out. She couldn't call on Grand-Da anymore--he'd died. Her brothers weren't in a financial position to co-sign. So a husband is necessary? Fine.

The wedding date got moved up. She had to give up the big wedding she'd wanted, for that house. Because sexist pigs wouldn't let her get a mortgage otherwise.

I think it was 6 months later when the law passed, about 10 days after Mum's original wedding date.

[brush]

12. Let 'em keep embarrassing themselves. And they don't even know it.

[niyad]

15. geez, and I thought I was melanin-challenged!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. Who is surprised by this?

[Trailrider1951]

24. Yep, pale, male and stale

[Sky Jewels]

89. And together they're one big FAIL.

[NNadir]

26. You forgot to add "bald." It's my demographic of course.

In my case we can add "fat" to "bald."

The nice thing about my Demographic is that time is winding down for us.

In a similar post in this space, I quoted Frank Zappa, "I'm not black but there's a lot of times I wish I could say I'm not white."

[Brainfodder]

27. Let me guess, all have pickup truck debt, meet the family gun decays and maybe on truck nuts on it?

[hermetic]

28. Back in the early '70s

my boyfriend and I, hippies in our early 20s, were doing a road trip around the country in a tricked out van with a dragon painted on the side. Shortly after entering the state of Missouri, the van broke down on the highway. We were trying to figure out what was wrong when along came a couple of cops. They looked the van over closely then radioed for a tow truck which took us to a garage close by. While the carburetor was being repaired, they sat in their car and waited across the street. When we got back in the van they came over and told us to leave the state and never come back. They did not want "our kind" in their state. They did follow us all the way to the border.
Well, I have never set foot in that state again and never will. I have also never purchased anything that came from there. I can assure you other states have benefited nicely from my visits. Screw 'em. They were evil back then and still clearly are. That photo does not surprise me in the least.

[milestogo]

35. We don't need no stinkin' hippies in Missouri.

Especially ones with dragons on their vans... we don't know what it means.

[Aristus]

44. Did they even bother to specify what they meant by 'your kind'?

Right now, all I know is you had a really cool-looking van.

I know they tend to serve now as examples of 1970's kitch. But as a kid growing up back then, I thought all those creatively painted and airbrushed vans were cool. I kind of miss them.

[hermetic]

50. Painted it myself

It was "Sunfighter" an homage to Jefferson Airplane's album. Woman with a large lance on a flying horse in the sky with a dragon who has a large sun on its belly. Wish I had photos of it.

We are both white and had very long hair. First time I'd ever experienced discrimination for my looks.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

79. I have a feeling that this

Is your album cover:



The Sunfighter cover featured China Kanter, the (then) infant daughter of Grace Slick and Paul Kanter:

[Sky Jewels]

90. I drove across the country a couple times in the 90s.

The two states that really gave me the heebie jeebies were Missouri and Wyoming. Yikes! There were some scary folks about and I'm sure it has only gotten worse.

(I know, "not everyone" in these state is scary; does not apply to liberals and Dems who live there; assorted other applicable disclaimers, etc., etc.)

[Scottie Mom]

29. Well...

...I see:

Male, old/older, flabby, white as snow, RW assholes on steroids.

[KS Toronado]

30. What I noticed

is a total lack of MAGA red hats and P01135809 T-shirts. Wonder why?

[Initech]

32. They all look exactly how I picture Trump supporters to look?

[SWBTATTReg]

34. And I guarantee you that there are hundreds that are NOT members of such a disgusting club,

and never will be. Figures, no minorities or blacks or women either.

And what really pisses me off is that they need to proclaim that they alone, and only them, are saving Missouri for liberty and freedom.

Today, I feel like I got just as much freedom and liberty as I want, and w/ tRUMP gone, it's even better since I don't have to worry about djt stealing the cookies from the cookie jar or putting his family in government service (in short, in a position to steal everything). I also don't have to worry about thugs like this passing laws that don't allow the cities to do as they please (it's called self-governance) and not let these people who have no idea of how big cities operate (oh no! these places are riddled w/ crime!).

I had more crime committed at my place in the Missouri Ozarks than I ever did in my place in STLMO city. That's why I am so down on these thugs who think that they know it all, know what everyone should have and do, etc. I want to throw up when I hear nonsense like this.

[Ferrets are Cool]

36. I see a bunch of racist, misogynistic, homophobes but what do I know?

I could just be a prejudiced white boy from the deep south.

[Conjuay]

43. The Milky Way.

[rurallib]

45. "beacons of liberty"

they couldn't light a birthday candle

[Demobrat]

46. Ugh. Looks like an incel convention.

[catbyte]

47. Meal Team Six generals?

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66. ...

[Midnight Writer]

51. For me, it's like looking in a mirror.

[murielm99]

58. We are all pretty white and pasty

in my family.

I think it depends on what one does. Quite a few of my white pasty family members are political activists. We are all Democrats.

[Iggo]

83. LOL...me, too, pretty much.

Stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason, though. Exceptions notwithstanding.

[TexasBushwhacker]

61. Damn, 50 Shades of White!

[AnrothElf]

64. "Link to Nazi bar" LOL I mean, "Link to tweet"

Some of us have a conscience and no longer drink at the Nazi bar known as "X"

When you post these lazy tweet-posts, all we see is "Link to tweet," which now reads as "Link to Gab" or "Link to Parlor" or "Link to Truth Social" or "Link to the Daily Stormer"

Get a clue. Boycott Twitter. It's easy and it improves the internet by a factor of X

[Tribetime]

67. There's always a couple bald guys with baseball hats

[Bird Lady]

68. No wonder they are mad at women.

They can only get women as ugly as they are.
As my mom used to say, "they look like they have been beaten with an ugly stick."

[relayerbob]

69. White faces, red necks

No brain activity

[oregonjen]

71. "Liberty and Freedom?"

[True Blue American]

72. Bloated old men.

[Sky Jewels]

91. Even the young men are old men.

[Biophilic]

73. Mostly old, fat white guys.

I don’t think they should be in charge of anything. What a truly awful photo.

[GreenWave]

74. Beacons of liberty or bacons of libation?

[Malmsy]

75. Basal Carcinomas just waiting to happen.

[moondust]

77. Would-be slave owners.

Longing for the "good old days." MAGA!

[Cha]

81. A bunch of Fucked up Fascist Gaslit

Assholes.

[Takket]

82. where is a highly focused tornado when you need one?

hope their server isn't dependent on tips.

[flashman13]

84. Do any of these defenders of the faith look like they are capable or ready to fight a civil war?

Hey, I can see it now. Patriots with their ARs and pickups flying the stars and bars versus Bradley's. Right!

[milestogo]

85. What they look like is people who think

that they or people who are just like them should be in charge on making laws, decisions, and judgments about everyone else. No women or minorities have a right to power, it is all for them. And they are not good people.

[Ilsa]

86. What do I notice? Most of them

need bras. Some of them have racks.

[Iggo]

88. That's why I never wear white shirts anymore...lol.

Once you go black, you never go back.

[UpInArms]

87. Ick

Just … ick