83 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”

  1. I have a F150 & a Subaru. (& 2 Kawasaki’s)
    Steve Earle sang Sweet Little 66, Chevy outlasting Honda’s, Subaru’s.
    Journo snowflakes are confused by all the voices in their heads.

  2. This article embodies the entire mindset of the elite.

    “You have no right to ask me a question.” “ …what’s a pickup truck?”

    1. Exactly. We have a Sturgis pick up, Lincoln Mark LT, for towing the motorcycle trailer and a work truck, Silverado 2500, for hauling building material and recyclables and lending to friends and relatives so they can haul their stuff. I haul the dogs around in a Lincoln crossover built by you folks, quite well. Thank you.

  3. I own a pickup truck, my best friend owns a pickup. I can think of at least a dozen close family members who own a pickup and I drive a pickup for work.

  4. In our house we own a 67 year old Jeep pick-up, (novelty transportation), a Ram diesel truck, a Jeep Liberty, (my wife’s winter runabout), a Honda van, and a class A diesel land yacht. My favourite is the Honda van…an excellent cruising rig, reliable with comfort to spare. Rides like a limo and doubles as a useful cargo hauler when required to do so. Back seat down middle seats out, dog beds and crates in and my schnauzers travel in comfort and style. If I could keep only one vehicle it would be the Honda van.

  5. Maybe the term “Pickup” has an unwanted sexual context…but now that the Political Correctness ceiling has been broken with “Mother FU*Ker”… We can use the C word to describe silly females and the N word to sling insults at freeloading blacks….No need to feel guilty of gross behavior…..The words used by the FAKE Journalists, among themselves, are far worse!

    Nothing dumber than a silly C*nt

  6. Vehicle choices reflect political choices says the article.

    I drive a Nissan Sentra and pine for a Pinochet or Franco.

    I’m probably an exception.

  7. I’m someone who enjoys driving a sedan (Chevy Impala thank you), but I do own an old 1980 Chevy Cheyanne I use for the occasional dump run. I’d just like to point out that for 2018, the Ford F-350 held nine spots out of the top ten stolen vehicles in Canada. Thieves love Ford trucks, too!

    1. My “sedan” is a Chevy Silverado crew cab 4X4. Room for 6 adults, huge trunk, good in the snow and ice. Excellent for long trips especially with the satellite radio.

    2. Seen, when a vehicle is popular, used parts are in demand, and that is a large of what drives theft. And is why Ford started putting locks on tailgates.

    3. Yes indeed, the F350 is a popular model for theft, because:
      -It’s too easy to jack the lock on the front doors.
      -The ignition key lock is easy to override.
      Some dumb buggers tried to jack mine 2 years ago, but, thankfully, failed to drive off. A $300 deductible later, and a deadman security device will prevent theft of this one, but Ford trucks have a serious security problem, which will never be fixed by a formal recall.
      PS, would never part with this truck, solid, needs to be driven once a week, and something has to tow the boat. Replacement cost is NUTS! My diesel is a beast.

  8. My driver is an F150. My spare is a Dodge Ram 1500. I have an old parked F150 that still runs. Do you think that maybe I’m a conservative? Do I own a real car? No. My wife does, however, own a van.

  9. Heard this several years ago:

    If a conservative doesn’t like pickup trucks, they don’t buy a pickup truck.
    If a liberal doesn’t like pickup trucks, they tell you to not buy a pickup truck.

  10. I don’t really care what anybody owns the point is how out of touch these people are from the real world.A truck is a necessity for businesses and getting around in winter and summer in western Canada and rural areas.Climate Batbie and her cohorts don’t understand that either

    1. They want us to take public transit. Oh wait, in many places in Canada there is no public transit. Nothing that more taxes won’t fix…..

    2. “getting around in winter and summer in western Canada and rural areas”

      Really? You’re immobile without a pickup? For one thing, that’s not the case in urban or suburban areas. For two, all the more reason to not live in a rural area.

      1. hay unDork, I live out in the sticks, that makes it easier to avoid running into assholes like, you!!!

      2. For two, all the more reason to not live in a rural area.

        Another person who has no idea where food, lumber, oil and gas, and many other items that make for your good life come from. Someone has to live there to bring these things to you.

        No wonder you get called the names that you do.

      3. You continue to set new standards in stupidity and intolerance, unny. Keep being Liberal, dork!

  11. I’v said for years that car choice is linked to political leanings. I only worked in the car industry for 15 years. I’v said for 50 years that urnolists live with their head up their buttholes. Phunny, that some just notice this now.

  12. Good article. I would have bet lots of money that most Reporters do NOT know anyone who drives a pickup, just as most probably don’t know any tradesmen ,miners, loggers, or oil patch workers. Same with hunters and other legit gun owners, we’re like someone out of a 1950’s era National geographic to the media.
    They live in an increasingly insular community, we are freaks to them.

    But we shouldn’t be surprised, the academics who instructed them in college are equally as cloistered, but they DO read about us in the Press in articles by former students they taught, so they know they are getting the facts. It’s called a circle jerk.
    With rare exceptions, should never elect a Reporter or professor to parliament, they live in a different world.

  13. I help build the roads and freeways that we all need to traverse this grand and vast nation and for us to drive from wherever right up to our homes and into our garages or acerages, or leave and seek out those recreational spots of choice to get away from it all.
    When I arrive on site I run skid steer, smooth and padfoot packer, articulated rock truck (40 or 60 ton) up to 50 ton excavator, D3-D6 dozers, and up to 980 loaders. Rain and snow on our sites is a nightmare of epic proportions. There are some who drive cars, but only a handful out of the 500 or so vehicles.

    My last three vehicles have been Ram 1500 4X4, F350 4X4 diesel and now an H2 Hummer. The conditions I drive in to make those roads test the limits of engineering at times, especially when things start getting stuck.

    I don’t know any journalists or reporters, would probably have protracted and hostile conversations anyway. My political leanings are not hard to guess.

    Back at work this week to armour the new bridge abutment and build crane pads so they can fly in the girders.

    Oh, and we use millions of litres of oil and tar, spraying and laying it on the gravel so no matter which mode of transportation anyone chooses to use, they are able to do so safely and conveniently to wherever their heart’s desire. Even the Prius, Tesla and Outback drivers.

    1. You’re my hero, G.Man! I LOVE AND ADORE people who BUILD things. Real things. Things we need as a culture and society, so that we no longer have to live in the dirt digging for grubs … like the UN wants us to be.

      Good luck with those pads. Hope the underlying soils are competent and consistent.

      1. Thnx Bro.
        Less than 20 feet from the river. Warm weather has prevented the ground from freezing solid but the river’s pitrun should support the 100 ton crane plus the weight of the 80ish foot steel girders, but it could be touch and go. Rig mats are the invaluable invention brought to us by the nasty oil companies which allow us work in the craziest of conditions.

        1. Do the mats simply ‘float’ on the surface to distribute the weight … or do they have any pilings or footings to stabilize? Just curious how the mats deal with varying substrates (like the unfrozen tundra you described)? Or do you have to grade and prep the ground? Send me a link about these mats, if available. I am always amazed by human ingenuity, and fabrication skills. Most of the population are beyond clueless at the technology and fabrications that provide the “effortless” world they live in.

    2. When I worked in Northern Alberta I drove a pickup. Once I was back in Cowtown I bought a sedan. But on my frequent trips to drilling rigs and field locations I used the pool pickup or rented an SUV. Many of the roads we travelled were not suitable for cars.

      Now on my cowtown street there are a lot of pickups. The vast majority owned by self employed trades people.

      I knew a freelance writer who lived on our street. He used to work for a newspaper, but is now freelance. He owns a pickup cause he helps his wife with her business.

      Some of my green friends would criticize me for working for a big bad oil company. My reply? “I’m one of the people who finds and produces the stuff you use to heat your homes and power your vehicles. I drive a four cylinder car, yet all you greenies drive big SUVs!”

      In my long working life, the oil and gas industry has gotten a lot more efficient, but the chattering greens keep increasing THEIR consumption, whilst asking everyone else to cut back.

    3. It was interesting to learn while Obama was busy assisting GM in destroying itself that most Pontiacs were purchased by Dims. And a business associate, a generational Dim, indicated that there were largely American manufacturers purchased in Chicago in support of unions. I mentioned it at lunch there about five years ago. My immediate family buys American in honor of fallen brothers during WW2. No need to reward the aggressors given their roles continue to be whitewashed in their education systems AND they make it very difficult to buy American in their countries.

  14. Progressive journalists will never admit that there is a snobbish, classs based undertone to their world view and reporting, summed up as the “not our kind, dear (NOKD)” sentiment. No one wants to see themselves as a snob so progressives cover it up with self-righteousness and sanctimonious preaching about fashionable causes. That way making life worse (more expensive) for rural blue collar workers, energy workers, farmers and non-urban poor, middle and working class families (the truck owing demographics) doesn’t feel like punching down.

    Asking questions about things like “do you know any truck owners/rig workers, grain farmers etc.?” reveals their NOKD thoughts. So, simply saying “No, I don’t know any” becomes problematic because that leads to further questions that inevitably reveals both their snobbery and ignorance of non-urban issues. Hence, the absurdly evasive, defensive answers to a simple question about trucks.

    We own a truck and a car that’s cheaper on gas.

    1. I think this is also why when reporting about the carbon tax and pipelines, journalists focus almost exclusively on “evil” oil companies and horrible conservative politicians while ignoring parents and children losing their livelihoods and homes or communities struggling. Apparently, if the media just ignores negative consequences that make them uncomfortable – like suffering workers, families and communities – then such issues simply disappear and they don’t need to think about “those” people. Ask France how that works out.

    2. Yup, a 2010 F-150 with 51,000 Km, basically pulls a 37ft camper and goes ice fishing. Otherwise a Ford Edge for mileage and convenience.

      1. We use our truck for hauling a camper and a boat . It’s also used to haul construction materials because we are DIY builders. Then there’s hunting of course – an ATV plus a deer or moose won’t fit into the Camry. These are all lifestyle choices. Choices that progressives would love to take away claiming climate change and animal rights, but at their core they’re really just authoritarian control freaks.

        But…the truck is also an insurance policy. Weather is extreme in this part of the country and dirt roads are difficult to traverse in bad weather. Unlike the truck, my Camry is useless at these time. We put far more miles on the car per year but not having a truck would be foolish from a safety perspective.

      1. Non-association isn’t a problem. Complete ignorance combined with sanctimonious preaching and incessant meddling certainly is a problem. If only progressives were content with minding their own business.

        If your kids are giving evasive and defensive answers t simple questions then you definitely need to ask more questions.

          1. Point is, you people are pretty much the same. Replace ‘sanctimonious’ with ‘perpetually indignant/dyspeptic’.

          2. Your answers and arguments are curious to me.

            I have to ponder where and what kind of residence you live in. Where you were educated and by whom? How did you get there? Have you done any world travel?

            For the answers to all those questions I would say that you despise and hold very low value to those who build, create and toil with their hands. Your condescension to those whom you see as hewers of logs and drawers of water, drivers of pickups and machines is palpable. But, without the army of those folks your life of leisure and acerbic tongue would be put to a test which I believe you would miserably fail at.

            Wormtongue would better suit the likes of you.

    3. Nailed it. Journos are so completely out of touch with anything approaching an average life they can’t even recognize it when they see it.

      As for me? Prefer cars (and motorcycles) of a sporting variety, but own a pickup, and have done since I could drive, and will continue to until I can’t drive, and so do 95% of the people I know.

  15. This one made me think.
    I’ve known a few journalists, had to with the volunteer work I was doing with several charities and my sports television RF technical work. No continuing relationship with any of them except one would have been good to know, but he moved away. Done a couple of evenings in the bar, dinners, etc., but nothing lasting.

    Being mainly city dwellers, I never considered what they drove as a pointer to their politics. Now in retrospect, pretty accurate. With the noted exception, most drove small cars or minivans. Lots of minivans. Lots of liberals.

    My wife traded her 17 year old Sllverado Z71 in for a Cherokee 4X4 last year, I drive a 14 year old Jeep Rubicon. Used her pickup often, really liked that truck. Don’t need it for it’s intended purpose anymore, so when my wife wanted to downsize, had to let it go. But she still bought a useful vehicle. We are outdoors type people.

    Our friends and family all drive useful vehicles. Jeeps, trucks, sports cars or high-end vehicles. Not a prius or battery driven roller skate in the bunch. Brother-in-law is running a 68 Super Bee for fun.

    We may be city, but we’re definitely not Liberal.

  16. The comments on the post are great.
    The media parties reaction is so classical.

    Funny thing the masters of society are so insecure they can never use these word;”I don’t know”.

  17. Regarding “big city media”, I think it would be a safe bet that, there are more people in the MSM that don’t own any vehicle, than there are numbers of people that actually own a pickup or personally know someone that does.

    One reason that likely does truly explain, the lack of concern from media in their questioning of Just ins carbon and glowball warming policies. For them, it’s here nor there as they have no car on the road.
    Another reason would be that both sexes in the MSM continue to get all tingly, hot and aroused when they’re in eye shot of Just in.

    BTW, notice how all the Canadian Sunday News Shows, completely avoided talking about energy transportation, protests here or France(yesterdays) or “yellow vests” ?

    1. Yep, the media are like a toddler that thinks he’s hiding if he closes his eyes because he thinks if he can’t see you then you can’t see him. 🙂

  18. All those idiotic leftwing journalists will soon be confined to buying only foreign sedans. Ford has announced it is discontinuing all cars except the Mustang and concentrate on trucks and SUVs. Fiat-Chrysler has pretty much already done that. GM may follow soon.

  19. It’s not a fair question for me … because most of my friends are General Contractors. And, no, they don’t carry their tools in the back of a Prius. However, they all have enough $$ to purchase several Teslas if they so chose to do.

    1. Oh … and PS … my newly minted Canadian son-in-Law just bought a brand new pickup truck! Good thing they live on the So.CAL coast … otherwise I’d be pestering him to borrow it all the time up here in N.CAL

  20. Some great comments here but what a lot of people don’t realize, especially journalists, is that today’s pick-up truck is yesteryear’s buckboard. There is the rub. The buckboard and the accompanying horse were the backbone of the American dream, the work vehicle of the working class. The buckboard and the bigger model the prairie schooner were the vehicles that formed America. There is a whole chapter and verse to be written about this, too big a volume by far to be encapsulated here, but just think about it.

  21. “Emma Beckerman
    @emmabeckerman1
    Why does this fucking matter?”

    Good question Emma. Wow The Federalist has gone right downhill. Who friggin’ cares? Could you focus on something less important? It’s not the job of journalists to know of ‘average people’, their job is to report objectively. Trucks are mostly bought for stupid reasons anyway unless you’re actually often hauling stuff it’s completely dumb. Good luck parking that tank.

      1. As in Ferret Armored Car?

        I’d be surprised if he knew how to drive never mind owned car. Typical millennial cockroach lost without a guiding hand of the nanny state telling him where to go and how to get there.

        1. Actually … he strikes me to be an Uber driver. He appears to sound like every Uber driver that’s ever shown up on the app. Usually a Mohammed, or Ahmed.

          And they’re always working the phone, like they’re detonating something remotely

          1. Well Uber drivers tend to be millennial cockroaches …

            Still don;t get the ferret reference. Are you back to the Richard Gere hamster thing?

          2. One of the snarky Twitter retorts from some leftist douche was to ask the questioner if he owned a ferret … as if to imply the irrelevance of the truck-owner question. Which is beyond pathetic since asking the truck question is absolutely relevant to the out-of-touch media bubble-dwellers.

            However UN-human does strike me as the type who might set a ferret loose in his own pants in a desperate attempt to … feel … alive.

        2. colon

          “Typical millennial cockroach lost without a guiding ”

          you spelt cocks*cker wrong

          Hey unDork, I’m over 70, and can still drive 10 times better than you, in my PU truck, or sports car!

          1. I believe the current PC term is “sucker of cock”. Still I would not let it anywhere near my love pump.

    1. “[T]he job of journalists [is] to report objectively.”

      Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

      I just have to assume you meant that satirically.

    2. Have some sympathy for unme. Suspect he operates out of mom’s basement and doesn’t have two cents to rub together much less buy an F-150. Heh.

  22. The question posed is whether journalists know anybody who works for a living.

    The more interesting question is why anybody who worked for a living would want anything to do with a journalist.

    One of the journalists cited is from Alaska. I dare say his father sits up at night wondering where he went wrong.

  23. I’m very conservative and my vehicle for the past 18 years has been a Subaru Forester. Of course I live in the city and when I worked it was in a downtown office, no need for a pickup. My Forester will carry a lot of stuff with back seat down, last summer it was 8 foot long pieces of trellis.

  24. I wonder who these journalists bother when they have to move something.
    I drive a work F150.
    My wife drives a Subaru.
    The rifle cases fit in the Subaru way better.

    1. Your wife’s a lesbian?

      Just givin you stick … I’m sure she’s ALL woman! Tell me that’s not a ‘black’ assault-styled rifle … the horror, the horror …

        1. I don’t actually believe the car is shit … but the local Rockridge (Oakland) neighborhood culture has established a certain lesbo-owner profile for the vehicle. Annnnnd I am absolutely revulsed by “Subaru is Love” ad campaign … like when the hipster Subaru owners pick up a blind man to act as their tour guide of the great outdoors. Ugh … who writes this stuff?

          From all I read, the Subaru is a great little 4WD runabout for anyone living in snow country. I don’t really have anything against the MECHANICS of the car … however … Subaru KNOWS who their primary customers are … and it ain’t Republicans … it ain’t (primarily) men … and it ain’t (a lot) of cisgendered folks. Their targeted advertisements explain it all. Or … their ads targeted to the SF Bay Area are “Market-specific”

          1. Kenji…..saabs, subarus, Volvos, VWs are predominantly driven by far lefties. Hondas by centrist liberals ( I am a Honda fan) Crapolacs and Rincolacks, (cadilacs and Lincoln) by cons. Pick up’s by cons and wanna be men liberals. Most chevy and GMC’c are driven by lefties. And again, I used to drive chenies, and SBC’s make great hotrod engines. Now I drive a F150 with V-6, that has more pulling power than most V-8 PU’s

          2. Damn I like Honda and VW. Must be a closet UnMe.

            And SUV’s from Mazda, Toyota, Audi, BMW and Mitsubishi? Just asking to find out who I am?

          3. Hmmm…clears throat and coughs! We have had several Volvos and a Suburu Forester and a couple of VW’s and also a Nissan Pathfinder. We are definitely not lefty or lesbian or whatever other label comes to mind!
            Once, in England, we had LibDems friends who made an error of judgement about our politics as we had a Volvo and I used a tricycle with child seats to deliver our children to school and kindergarten. I took great delight in flying a blue ribbon from the handlebars on the day of the election…it’s the colour for the Conservative party in England. Shock, horror when it was seen 😉

          4. I have owned a VW bug, Honda Civic, a horrible space-lander-module Toyota minivan … (what was I thinking) … and a VW (hippie caravan) Vanagon … all before I went BMW and LandRover … and never went back.

      1. Subaru’s ad campaigns are distinctly snowflake targeted. I would never buy Pacific rim, but Subaru’s in particular are out of the question. I suspect over half the Sub’s I see around here must be driven by ‘Pubs. It’s a deep red county.

  25. One set of journalists don’t know anyone with a pickup truck while the other set drive their pickup trucks to the global warming conference. Either way they’ve got us covered.

  26. It’s from last year but it’s still pertinent. It brings to mind Tucker Carlson’s recent monologue on what ails America’s ruling class because, in both instances, the people who most need to gain some insight from the episode can’t even be bothered to really think about what is being said to them. They already have all the answers…. like my 4-year old.

    1. slaw, a person with an IQ of 150 has all the questions, an idiot with a low IQ has all the answers, just read unme’s posts for “answers”:-)))

  27. Kenji says “I have owned a VW bug, Honda Civic, a horrible space-lander-module Toyota minivan … (what was I thinking) … and a VW (hippie caravan) Vanagon … all before I went BMW and LandRover … and never went back”
    This is likely a generalization but I have noticed people that tend to lean to the right politically seem to be more open-minded about the wheels they buy. I once owned a VW bug for example but now tend to favor domestic vehicles. My leftist friends on the other hand wouldn’t be caught dead in a unit with a domestic name plate which seems odd to me.
    Many of the vehicles they tend to buy like Toyota are built in right to work states or non union plants.
    Where is their solidarity with the union man?

    1. Without a doubt, we conservatives are FAR more open-minded on ALL topics than uptight narrow-minded leftist scolds.

      1. Kenji
        I totally agree. All
        the conservatives I know are far more tolerant than the leftists I know, or the leftists I see I political office.

  28. The old Volvo is as tough to kill as a Viking, and the included emergency kit has a helmet w/horns, a two bladed battle-axe and a sharpening stone.

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