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I also apologize for being a Phoenix native (though I left that sweltering trashcan as soon as I graduated high school).

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Are you saying they didn't know it was just a grift?

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Dolly Parton said she used to carry a pair of panties in her purse in case she got lucky, but now she carries them in case she sneezes.

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It sadly all boils down to the fact that there are millions of really horrible people who strongly believe being white should elevate them above others and feel threatened anytime that is jeopardized. These people love racist, anti-Semitic people like Rogers. She knows her only value is with the most deplorable, so doubling down is the only path. She’s not about to apologize and be called a hypocrite for her trouble, but it’s not only that. She is truly a terrible person who can’t comprehend how small-minded you have to be to believe “being white” while condemning all others is something to be proud of. She’s an embarrassment to the AZ GOP, which is proof enough.

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You have clearly never had a Costco croissant. Unless you were digging in the frozen food section? There may be some prepacked namebrand stuff there? But their bakery section ones are really good.

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No, I mean the ones baked there. They are OK but a real croissant should be flaky inside, not solid bread.

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No. I don't really agree. The problem is that she is anasshole. Blaming her problems on being white is a red herring.

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Absolutely she is an asshole, and not all white people are assholes. Unfortunately, the US's racial/ethnic cultural biases have provided fertile ground for assholes like Wendy Rogers to not just plant roots and grow, but to flourish.

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Be that as it may, her point is that we are picking on her because she is white. That makes US the racist assholes. We are not picking on her because she is white. You could plaster a cardboard face of Candace Owens over her and her language, and the result is the same.

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Pretty much

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That certainly isn't how the ones at my Costco can be described.

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Being a Wonketeer means KNOWING about this shit and DOING something.

I look loveningly on my packed bags and sigh. I was going to leave California and go to live with/near my brother in Arizona, but shitstorms kept falling and I stalled.

Back in the day, we used to read a magazine called Arizona Highways, and it was all sunsets and desert arches and proud cactus. But then, just before my father was fixing to die, Arizona real estate property values went stratospheric, and Dad said, "hold on." Being a libertarian, he shifted his focus about political rights land holdings and decided on Missouri, which rhymes with misery and blew the family fortune on a 30-acre spot in that piss poor miserable state. Thus it was that I inherited ten acres of down-sloping ignorant bigotry and idiocy with a dried creek at the bottom.. I won't bother you with my viewing of his eviscerated body during the morgue viewing as a result of Missouri's execrable response to appropriate treatment of Veterans in hospice care. My sister talked me out of suing everybody in the state, because "Chinatown". She was sort of right, but still, well, fuck that.

Frankly, I hate everybody at this point.

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Absolutely.

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They pulled it out of their butt, just like the rapture nonsense.

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When I see her name I think it’s the Texas legislature woman who put on sneakers and did the filibuster for hours for about abortion rights—wasn’t her name Rogers? Or Wendy?

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