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Why Am I Still Here?

A Savage Roast of WNC’s Trumper Circus, Post-Helene and No Kings Rally

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Jun 28, 2025
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Fifteen years in this Trump-obsessed, muffler-mad hellhole of Western North Carolina, and I’m still howling: Why the hell am I still here?! This county of 15,000 hillbilly holdouts, 11,000 voters (6,500 GOP nutjobs, 3,500 spineless unaffiliateds, and 1,000 Democrats clutching their organic kale) is a redneck reality show gone rogue, now a muddy mess pos…

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