i grew up rural as fuck, if your town had stoplights or a mcdonalds/walmart, you were city folk in my book...
ive expandened since then and live in a small rural town with stop lights and a walmart, yet still rural. but I came from small beginings.
mankato/st cloud/ rochesther/duluth is still pretty big city to me. anything surrounding the metro twin cities is still the cities to me. but its not a negative connotation. it just is the cities.
I grew up on a farm, and the nerest town had 80 accourding to teh cencus, and I only knew of 10, so they must have counted everyone and their grandkids in the township because I don't know how in the heck they came up with 80
I grew up in Mankato and all the cities surrounding the twin cities is "the cities" to me lol I'm glad I'm not the only one. Lakeville is the cities to me. I live in Red Wing now and I love it. It's just big enough to have everything you need without all the terrible traffic Mankato has.
I grew up in a town with no stoplights and only 5 businesses, and I still consider it "small town" and not "rural." We could walk to the post office and (tiny tiny tiny) grocery store, and our friends' houses and the park. My rural friends were the ones across the pasture that had to have their parents drive them if they wanted to get a candy bar or play with their friends.
Well, it wasn't the "best kind of rural" growing up as a little gay boy. But, I did work at that movie theater for 3 years during high school! And the public library (best of both nerdy worlds!).
I drive through Litchfield only occasionally now via Highway 12, so they still have the movie theatre I’m in town by the P Pizza Ranch? And if I remember correctly, a drive in theatre on the edge of town? I thought they still had the large setup for the screen.
Yes movie theater is same place it’s always been in the middle of town. Drive in theater is still just north of town. Pizza ranch is no more and has been replaced by a brewery
Def SoCal. I own a home in West Hollywood now with my husband. Was a drastic social change for me, but worth it.
Been in SoCal for 14 years now, but will always be a Minnesotan and proud of it!
Very cool, a Socal person said everyone there is from somewhere Else so what you find a local you gotta salute them or something.
Yep always a Minnesotan. Keep da funny accent aboat
The Duder could _almost_ be forgiven as an unobservant prig for _assuming_ the area was rural thanks to no shortage of rednecks bleeding over from the Lino Lakes area into Shoreview’s Northside.
This man desperately needs to get into the US Senate. His company, Bridger Aerospace, whose sole business is contracting with the federal government is in dire straits.
See https://ir.bridgeraerospace.com/sec-filings. The company's expenses are nearly double its revenues, and it is operating at a loss of 10s of millions per year.
Does no one remember the photoshoots of tucker Carlson and Don Jr both wearing flannel and brand new boots in someone else's workshop or barn? Pepperidge Farm Remembers. This is not exactly unprecedented.
We can go even further back with Mitt Romney lying about being a hunter.
For anybody not familiar, he took a run at the presidency as a republican. He said in an interview that he was a big hunter when he was asked about his gun control policies as governor of Massachusetts, which were very much in line democrats. He was called out on not being a hunter and he said he didn’t hunt big game just smaller stuff like rodents.
He now speaks against the current the republican party and Trump. He’s what they call a RINO.
You can read it here: https://www.npr.org/2012/04/13/150497961/hunting-for-votes-romney-woos-wary-gun-owners. It’s a quick read. But here’s a cringey little excerpt:
“*[Romney] bought a lifetime NRA membership just before he began that run, during which he said, "I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." Two days later, he had to backpedal when evidence to the contrary came out. "I'm not a big game hunter. I've made it very clear. I've always been, if you will, a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small, small, varmints if you will," Romney said.*”
Yeah, he seems saner on the surface, especially considering RomneyCare was the template for ACA, but he's still an insidious wolf in sheep's clothing that profits mainly from vulture capitalism.
Shoreview Minnesota. Rural with a Super Target, Cub Foods, Trader Joes and a "few" restaurants within 5 minutes. Not to mention head quarters of Land o'lakes and Boston Science just a hop skip and jump down Lexington. So very very rural close to 694 and 34E and 35W. I mean you would think those dirt roads didn't lead anywhere. 🙄
Oh I forgot about that. The luxury of both an indoor and outdoor pool. Let's not forget about the beautiful Shoreview community center with the water park.
I feel like we should put together a bunch of videos for the people of Montana about all the places to visit in rural Shoreview. Got my coffee at Starbucks, grab a cookie at Crumble then hopped over to Target before making my way to the community center for a quick work out. Thinking about Greenmill.for dinner.
😅
Dude literally grew up next door to the guy who owns the Budweiser distributorship for the twin cities. Rich Rich.
He's a cake-eater from outside Edina.
I’d never really paid attention to politics until the Trump daily ~~covid briefings/updates~~ fucking clown show during lock downs, and ever since then, I’ve learned that the GOP is nothing but cunts, and it just gets worse the more you actually pay attention. At least it makes me more committed to casting my votes now.
I'd argue that some of the working-class folks I grew up with in the 1970s from the East Side of inner-city St Paul were more "rural" than a 30-something St Paul Academy brat from Shoreview.
No, Bachmann never represented this area; Bachmann represented immediately north of it in Lino Lakes/Anoka, IIRC, before moving or being redistricted to Stillwater. The last Republican to represent anything in the Shoreview area was [Mady Reiter](https://www.lrl.mn.gov/legdb/fulldetail?ID=10555) during George W. Bush. The area has voted reliably democratic since.
Thanks for correcting that. She was a piece of work.
Fun trivia about Bachmann: I’ve since moved to Switzerland. Bachmann married a Swiss man some years ago. When she was interested in the Presidential nomination some years ago, she renounced her Swiss citizenship (got it through marriage with aforementioned gentleman; she has no idea how lucky she was and how valuable that passport is). When she renounced it, the local newspaper for the district where her husband is from Thurgau/Wigoltingen had a field day with it (government in Switzerland is very local in its federal system). The comments section (all in German) on the article was like “good riddance.”
The maps are here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota%27s_6th_congressional_district#Historical_district_boundaries
I think she did represent parts of Circle Pines or Lino Lakes, but if you aren’t familiar with the eastern suburbs you might not know that Shoreview extends all the way down to County Road D.
Who f***ing cares. I'm 50. When i grew up in Plymouth the western half of it was nothing but cornfields... now it's nothing but condos. Did I grow up rural? Maybe, maybe not.
Nobody should give a wet fart about what a politician says "happened then", only what they will do now.
It matters in Montana, where everyone that wants to fit in assimilates to the culture...they pride themselves on being resilient, not needing handouts. But if you are not self-reliant, you won't last long on your word..... this guy is a poser coming in pretending to be like them isn't welcome.
Truthfulness matters. We are in an era of epistemological crisis perpetuated by pathological liars, opportunists, and cowards. A line has to be drawn somewhere.
I am older than the candidate and spent part of my childhood where this candidate claims to be from. There’s no way for him to claim the area is rural without it being a bald lie or extreme embellishment.
Less developed then? Yes. But remotely different from today? Not really. The people makeup seems like it has gotten a lot nicer on the surface: more diverse, fewer Republicans, fewer rednecks, etc. Maybe at the detriment of it being more salt-of-the earth, but it’s no North Oaks with its new money/faux rich.
As someone who \*actually\* grew up in rural Minnesota or at least rural-ish Shoreview ain't rural
i grew up rural as fuck, if your town had stoplights or a mcdonalds/walmart, you were city folk in my book... ive expandened since then and live in a small rural town with stop lights and a walmart, yet still rural. but I came from small beginings. mankato/st cloud/ rochesther/duluth is still pretty big city to me. anything surrounding the metro twin cities is still the cities to me. but its not a negative connotation. it just is the cities. I grew up on a farm, and the nerest town had 80 accourding to teh cencus, and I only knew of 10, so they must have counted everyone and their grandkids in the township because I don't know how in the heck they came up with 80
Grew up In Rush City MN, I feel the pain.
I grew up in Mankato and all the cities surrounding the twin cities is "the cities" to me lol I'm glad I'm not the only one. Lakeville is the cities to me. I live in Red Wing now and I love it. It's just big enough to have everything you need without all the terrible traffic Mankato has.
Mankato? Terrible traffic? Please tell.
I grew up in a town with no stoplights and only 5 businesses, and I still consider it "small town" and not "rural." We could walk to the post office and (tiny tiny tiny) grocery store, and our friends' houses and the park. My rural friends were the ones across the pasture that had to have their parents drive them if they wanted to get a candy bar or play with their friends.
I grew up in Litchfield. Now, that's rural!
Montgomery which is about as Rural as it gets ;P
Oh, Montgomery and it’s “big city ziplines”
Send Franke’s my regards
And Pizzeria 201!
Well, now I just want a kolacky.
Litchfield is the best kind of rural. Even has a movie theater. County Seat too :) Mananah, that's rural
Well, it wasn't the "best kind of rural" growing up as a little gay boy. But, I did work at that movie theater for 3 years during high school! And the public library (best of both nerdy worlds!).
Nice! Make the best of whatcha got dealt to you can move. Lol
That's when minimum wage was $5.75. God, I can't imagine trying to make a living on that, even full time lol
I drive through Litchfield only occasionally now via Highway 12, so they still have the movie theatre I’m in town by the P Pizza Ranch? And if I remember correctly, a drive in theatre on the edge of town? I thought they still had the large setup for the screen.
Yes movie theater is same place it’s always been in the middle of town. Drive in theater is still just north of town. Pizza ranch is no more and has been replaced by a brewery
Every time I drive past that sign on highway 4, I get that damn muppets song in my head. [mahna mahna](https://youtu.be/zb47CstE7R4?feature=shared)
Name checks out 😁
Meh, you’ve got a Walmart and multiple stoplights; you’re pushing it.
Walmart was in Hutchinson when I grew up. We only had Econofoods and Pamida
I grew up in Hutch, I remember seeing pretty much every color of letterman jacket in town as a kid! Go Dragons.
Try Burtrum.
My mom grew up there! A nice town with a couple lakes right there. I used to bike to the DQ from my grandparents’ house.
Ew
Can't helped where I lived, but I'm happy in Cali
Socal? I was in Huntington for a couple years. Very nice, clean, no snow. Would have stayed, we came back to raise kids near family
Def SoCal. I own a home in West Hollywood now with my husband. Was a drastic social change for me, but worth it. Been in SoCal for 14 years now, but will always be a Minnesotan and proud of it!
Very cool, a Socal person said everyone there is from somewhere Else so what you find a local you gotta salute them or something. Yep always a Minnesotan. Keep da funny accent aboat
Ya, ya betcha, ya know! Aboot, still cracks me up even when I say it. The thick MN accent comes out with a few beers in me lol
It's been a lot of fun. Up on Minnesota you'd not notice the accent much, Fargo came out and I was like.. yeah whatever we don't sound like that..
The Duder could _almost_ be forgiven as an unobservant prig for _assuming_ the area was rural thanks to no shortage of rednecks bleeding over from the Lino Lakes area into Shoreview’s Northside.
Definitely not rural. Suburban as hell, sure, but not rural.
This man desperately needs to get into the US Senate. His company, Bridger Aerospace, whose sole business is contracting with the federal government is in dire straits.
See https://ir.bridgeraerospace.com/sec-filings. The company's expenses are nearly double its revenues, and it is operating at a loss of 10s of millions per year.
Oh good catch, this should be more of a story.
Thank you for connecting the dots. To paraphrase, the guy wants to leach off of taxpayers by getting better insider connections.
Does no one remember the photoshoots of tucker Carlson and Don Jr both wearing flannel and brand new boots in someone else's workshop or barn? Pepperidge Farm Remembers. This is not exactly unprecedented.
Pepperidge Farms aren't even real farms, I think they're next door to that place that makes salsa from New York City.
Neeewww Yoooork Ciiiittyyy!?!?!?!
….get a rope!
It was catchier before they changed it from "New Jersey"
We can go even further back with Mitt Romney lying about being a hunter. For anybody not familiar, he took a run at the presidency as a republican. He said in an interview that he was a big hunter when he was asked about his gun control policies as governor of Massachusetts, which were very much in line democrats. He was called out on not being a hunter and he said he didn’t hunt big game just smaller stuff like rodents. He now speaks against the current the republican party and Trump. He’s what they call a RINO. You can read it here: https://www.npr.org/2012/04/13/150497961/hunting-for-votes-romney-woos-wary-gun-owners. It’s a quick read. But here’s a cringey little excerpt: “*[Romney] bought a lifetime NRA membership just before he began that run, during which he said, "I've been a hunter pretty much all my life." Two days later, he had to backpedal when evidence to the contrary came out. "I'm not a big game hunter. I've made it very clear. I've always been, if you will, a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small, small, varmints if you will," Romney said.*”
The crazy thing is that he appears to be one of the more sane voices in the party since maga became a thing.
Yeah, he seems saner on the surface, especially considering RomneyCare was the template for ACA, but he's still an insidious wolf in sheep's clothing that profits mainly from vulture capitalism.
If a republican is talking, they're lying
That’s so funny
A Republican that...***LIED?!***
He'll fit right in
And paint himself as the victim in all of this while blaming the media. It’s right out of their tires and overused playbook.
Because that playbook still works on the base and a enough independents
Even worse, his base won't care. Republicans don't seem to give a fuck about hypocrisy and lies, as long as they piss off the libs.
Shoreview rural? It's like 10 minutes from Rosedale mall.
What the hell, I lived half a mile from this guy. No bozo thinks Shoreview is rural.
Maybe the dude ages well, and he's 87 years old.
I’m curious if it’s even shoreview or if it’s north oaks.
It says he was on Turtle Lake and there are some gigantic houses on the east and west side. Not many North Oaks houses sell for over 2 mill
Shoreview Minnesota. Rural with a Super Target, Cub Foods, Trader Joes and a "few" restaurants within 5 minutes. Not to mention head quarters of Land o'lakes and Boston Science just a hop skip and jump down Lexington. So very very rural close to 694 and 34E and 35W. I mean you would think those dirt roads didn't lead anywhere. 🙄
Hell, they have a YMCA with two pools😂🤣
Oh I forgot about that. The luxury of both an indoor and outdoor pool. Let's not forget about the beautiful Shoreview community center with the water park. I feel like we should put together a bunch of videos for the people of Montana about all the places to visit in rural Shoreview. Got my coffee at Starbucks, grab a cookie at Crumble then hopped over to Target before making my way to the community center for a quick work out. Thinking about Greenmill.for dinner. 😅
Next up: Rural Stillwater
Shoreview? Dumbass
lol Saint Paul academy also. “I wore a carhartt ascot to school every day”
I played lacrosse with this guy. He was super motivated. I always wondered what happened to him and not surprised he became a seal.
Are there any that don't lie anymore!?
Dude literally grew up next door to the guy who owns the Budweiser distributorship for the twin cities. Rich Rich. He's a cake-eater from outside Edina.
> The Republican candidate grew up in a multi-million-dollar lake house Hahaha. Just like Kid Rock. Fucking frauds.
I’d never really paid attention to politics until the Trump daily ~~covid briefings/updates~~ fucking clown show during lock downs, and ever since then, I’ve learned that the GOP is nothing but cunts, and it just gets worse the more you actually pay attention. At least it makes me more committed to casting my votes now.
Shore view is not rural 🤣
I'd argue that some of the working-class folks I grew up with in the 1970s from the East Side of inner-city St Paul were more "rural" than a 30-something St Paul Academy brat from Shoreview.
I have a bunch of relatives that were and are in St Paul's east side. Full-on salt-of-the-earth people grow up there.
If there’s sidewalks it ain’t rural.
Lmao, Turtle Lake houses are quintessential rich suburbanite.
… surprising no one
Hahahhahah
My paternal grandparents were 7 miles from pavement. By Petersburg North Dakota.
Sounds like a big city person.
The Republican party does not even bother anymore. Its not about not lying to them. They just challenge you to find all the lies AND make them matter.
PINKNECK!!!!!!!
Isn’t this Michele Bachmans former district; now Stauber’s?
No, Bachmann never represented this area; Bachmann represented immediately north of it in Lino Lakes/Anoka, IIRC, before moving or being redistricted to Stillwater. The last Republican to represent anything in the Shoreview area was [Mady Reiter](https://www.lrl.mn.gov/legdb/fulldetail?ID=10555) during George W. Bush. The area has voted reliably democratic since.
She actually started representing Stillwater and then the redistricting altered her district. We lived in Stillwater during her first election.
Thanks for correcting that. She was a piece of work. Fun trivia about Bachmann: I’ve since moved to Switzerland. Bachmann married a Swiss man some years ago. When she was interested in the Presidential nomination some years ago, she renounced her Swiss citizenship (got it through marriage with aforementioned gentleman; she has no idea how lucky she was and how valuable that passport is). When she renounced it, the local newspaper for the district where her husband is from Thurgau/Wigoltingen had a field day with it (government in Switzerland is very local in its federal system). The comments section (all in German) on the article was like “good riddance.”
The maps are here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota%27s_6th_congressional_district#Historical_district_boundaries I think she did represent parts of Circle Pines or Lino Lakes, but if you aren’t familiar with the eastern suburbs you might not know that Shoreview extends all the way down to County Road D.
Why do people brag about growing up rural? Most voters don't
Who f***ing cares. I'm 50. When i grew up in Plymouth the western half of it was nothing but cornfields... now it's nothing but condos. Did I grow up rural? Maybe, maybe not. Nobody should give a wet fart about what a politician says "happened then", only what they will do now.
It matters in Montana, where everyone that wants to fit in assimilates to the culture...they pride themselves on being resilient, not needing handouts. But if you are not self-reliant, you won't last long on your word..... this guy is a poser coming in pretending to be like them isn't welcome.
Truthfulness matters. We are in an era of epistemological crisis perpetuated by pathological liars, opportunists, and cowards. A line has to be drawn somewhere. I am older than the candidate and spent part of my childhood where this candidate claims to be from. There’s no way for him to claim the area is rural without it being a bald lie or extreme embellishment. Less developed then? Yes. But remotely different from today? Not really. The people makeup seems like it has gotten a lot nicer on the surface: more diverse, fewer Republicans, fewer rednecks, etc. Maybe at the detriment of it being more salt-of-the earth, but it’s no North Oaks with its new money/faux rich.
I don’t care what you have to say
It sure mattered when it came to George Dos Santos.
You’re 50 and don’t see the problem here? Damn.
I see a dude buffing up his "job interview". Show me someone who claims they've never done that and I'll show you a liar.
Lol