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Duncanpup

(14,518 posts)
Sat May 24, 2025, 07:58 AM Saturday

My Appalachian grandmother had this particular saying about a know it all. And it fits Trump and MAGA.

The saying was if you fart they’ll tell you what you had for dinner last night.
And over these years we’ve heard from Trumpig and maga some examples of knowing it all.
Russian meddling is a hoax - MAGA being intelligence experts
Covid is a hoax.MAGA - pandemic experts vaccines are bad they’ll be able to track you.
The election in 2020 was stolen .MAGA -Election experts.
J6 it was ANTIFA -MAGA playing FBI on domestic investigations.
Economic analysts -MAGA saying Mr.Biden economy is terrible. Now under their Orange Herod recessions are a good time. Fuck granny who lost cash in her 401K.

Military analysts .MAGA signal gate sure our Pete is an alcoholic. Yet he’s a lot better than your Pete who is gay and rides a bicycle to work.

Autism experts . MAGA sure our guy RFK Jr. swam in a shit filled creek. You missed the point lib he was showing us the holistic approach in how to boost the bodies natural immunity.

And now these people are prostate cancer experts over President Bidens health.
My Grandmother had another saying about idiots. She would say they need to be taken deep into the woods and then lose them.
She sure was an original my grandmother first time she met my wife from the go she loved my wife and my grandmother said in referring to my wife.
Boy you done good in picking her because she’s not a Beer Garden (Bar room) harlot.

At that moment i interpreted for my wife that’s a compliment dear and over the years i would have to interpret for my dear wife quite a few of my grandmothers proverbs.

Here’s one i remember i had to interpret for my wife be careful it’s the dog days out interpreting for my wife the snakes will bite.
My grandmother said you best get that girl in some boots. And honey when you’re feeshing if you smell cucumbers keep a sharp eye that smell tell you copperheads are about
As we were going to go wade this river on a hot August day fishing just wearing shorts maybe old sneakers to go after some bass or crappie and this is the first time my wife ever fished.

We were going to go catch for a fish fry or FEESH fry. I replied to my grandmother it’s already covered i bought her chest waders and she will be walking my slack when we’re on the banks of the river
That woman my grandmother knew her shit as i tell you about her D.U. Community in this dyslexic bad punctuation ramble.
I can still see her in my mind in maybe wearing old homemade dress or a store bought summer dress sleeveless never saw the woman in slacks she said women don’t wear britches.
In seeing her now in my memories heading to the stove to check on her cabbage rolls in the oven or perhaps soup in this old white soup pot.
And from that pot i ate a lot of bowls of soup with homemade bread growing up.

She was a Roosevelt democrat she never forgot how Mr. Roosevelt took them out of the depression. And she loved JFK and LBJ in what they did for Appalachia with the development act i heard about these men as a young boy and she didn’t care for Regan or those two Booshes when they were in office.
She passed in 2005 so she did not live to see Dubya Great Recession.

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My Appalachian grandmother had this particular saying about a know it all. And it fits Trump and MAGA. (Original Post) Duncanpup Saturday OP
Your gram was very wise SheltieLover Saturday #1
Damn. Sounds like my mamaw FirstLight Saturday #2
Beulah was a wise woman. Duncanpup Saturday #3
Thank you for bringing the memory up for me! FirstLight Saturday #4
Will be over. Duncanpup Saturday #5

FirstLight

(15,116 posts)
2. Damn. Sounds like my mamaw
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:24 AM
Saturday

Her name was Beulah maybel and she was from backwoods Mississippi.
God that woman was a role model for me...

I got to spend the summer before she passed when I was 12 with her. It was a revelation spending time with her in the kitchen in the garden. I learned a lot. She managed to leave an abusive husband in the 50s when that was unheard of but it was only because her oldest son was able to be the man of the house and get her situated on her own.
I remember asking her that summer why she never remarried after she left Grandpa. And her response was "I ain't watching no man's dirty socks!"

Years later when I was 22 and had been abandoned pregnant by my loser husband and I was packing his shit to throw down the stairs I remember coming across his nasty laundry and I thought about whether I should wash it before I bagged it. I heard clear as day bringing in my head her voice saying I ain't washing no man's dirty socks! So I stuffed his shit stained underwear in a bag and it festered downstairs for 3 weeks until he came to pick up his crap. It was petty revenge but I still thank Grandma Beulah for that beautiful inspiration!

FirstLight

(15,116 posts)
4. Thank you for bringing the memory up for me!
Sat May 24, 2025, 08:48 AM
Saturday

Going to make some down home Southern cooking this weekend now in her honor!.

Biscuits for breakfast with gravy. And maybe some potato bacon green beans in a pot with dinner!

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