I keep telling people, Trump pissed off the old money in Georgia by putting the biggest possible spotlight on the states election systems which are corrupt as all hell. And they are a spiteful group of fuckers that really hate when someone gets “uppity”. Fuck all of them too but they are not the type of people you want to fuck over and that’s how they see that “perfect phone call”
Alright so to start off my credentials are that I was born and lived in Georgia for nearly 40 years before wising up and getting the hell out despite loving Atlanta and the surrounding area very much
The whole state is corrupt as shit, I think we all remember how the current governor Brian Kemp was allowed to oversee his own election results against Stacy Abrams in 2018. Well that shit is the tip of the iceberg in GA, the state makes Chicago and Louisiana look on the up and up by comparison, but the people who are corrupt and in control in Georgia(see Augusta) are much shrewder than other corrupt state and local governments. They like things to appear “proper” even if they aren’t, these are the people that own Augusta National and put on the Masters. Anything that might threaten that “propriety” is seen and treated as an existential threat.
I’m certain that all of these old rich racist fucks voted for Trump in 2020 and wish he had won because that gave them more leeway to be assholes and get even more rich. But he stepped out of line with that phone call and put himself above the grift. Old money in the south plays the long game, they know they won’t win every battle, and if they thought Trump winning was imperative to their goals he would have gotten the votes he asked for without him asking. But since he did ask/threaten they’re going to nail him to the wall
All that text to say Trump forgot his place to the bunch of old, petty, rich assholes and they don’t take kindly to that kind of thing.
Great write-up. For someone on the other side of the pond the internal state politics are rather hard to follow.
It makes sense now, as I could not really parse the sudden tien around in Georgian backing. Them dropping Trump seemed it off character.
Good that they did, though it’s an enemy of my enemy sort of thing, but I’m happy someone called a limit to his bullshit, albeit for almost the opposite reason.
And yeah I want to be very clear that these are not our friends, I’m glad Trump pissed in their cornflakes because they are effective at extracting retribution but ultimately they need to go too
