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[Purplelady1040]

"WTF!" comes to mind. 

[Exterminator]

Something interesting from NPR last night:

Novelist Sinclair Lewis made a contested convention central to his Depression-era novel It Can't Happen Here, which envisions the rise of a populist who sounds surprisingly contemporary. Fictional candidate Buzz Windrip believes that the U.S. should be run like a corporation. His rallies are marked by violence, he argues that the U.S. should go to war with Mexico, and, over the objections of his own party's bosses, he becomes not just president but a Hitler-like dictator.

Windrip's rise starts at a contested convention (in Cleveland!) where party leaders, the media and large swaths of the public watch helplessly as he claims to have (and I'm quoting the novel here):

"thoroughly tested (but unspecified) plans to make all wages very high and the prices of everything produced by these same highly paid workers very low; that he was 100 per cent for Labor, but 100 per cent against all strikes; and that he was in favor of the United States so arming itself, so preparing to produce its own coffee, sugar, perfumes, tweeds, and nickel instead of importing them, that it could defy the World ... and maybe, if that World was so impertinent as to defy America in turn ... he might have to take it over and run it properly."

Sound familiar?  This book was published in 1935.

[libby]

Something interesting from NPR last night:

Novelist Sinclair Lewis made a contested convention central to his Depression-era novel It Can't Happen Here, which envisions the rise of a populist who sounds surprisingly contemporary. Fictional candidate Buzz Windrip believes that the U.S. should be run like a corporation. His rallies are marked by violence, he argues that the U.S. should go to war with Mexico, and, over the objections of his own party's bosses, he becomes not just president but a Hitler-like dictator.

Windrip's rise starts at a contested convention (in Cleveland!) where party leaders, the media and large swaths of the public watch helplessly as he claims to have (and I'm quoting the novel here):

"thoroughly tested (but unspecified) plans to make all wages very high and the prices of everything produced by these same highly paid workers very low; that he was 100 per cent for Labor, but 100 per cent against all strikes; and that he was in favor of the United States so arming itself, so preparing to produce its own coffee, sugar, perfumes, tweeds, and nickel instead of importing them, that it could defy the World ... and maybe, if that World was so impertinent as to defy America in turn ... he might have to take it over and run it properly."

Sound familiar?  This book was published in 1935.

Yes, it sounds familiar -- eerily so. I'm sorry I didn't hear that program.

[me]

There are some very immature individuals around here for sure and I'm not referring to HH or me.

[Palehorse]

 

[me]

Man it's hot out there.

[libby]

There are some very immature individuals around here for sure and I'm not referring to HH or me.

Some immature individuals on here? Yourself included? I was looking at something you posted when I got kicked off the internet.  What was it you posted? Two simians you compared to democrats involved in 

[Locutus]

Some immature individuals on here? Yourself included? I was looking at something you posted when I got kicked off the internet.  What was it you posted? Two simians you compared to democrats involved in 

Yep!  It's another nugget from her inbox of FB feed.  It's on the Democrats sucks thread. 

[me]

Some immature individuals on here? Yourself included? I was looking at something you posted when I got kicked off the internet.  What was it you posted? Two simians you compared to democrats involved in 

Then you'd better be finding the post. If I get nasty with someone it's because they've gotten nasty or name called me first and Troll and Ex are the worst offenders by far.

[Purplelady1040]

Some immature individuals on here? Yourself included? I was looking at something you posted when I got kicked off the internet.  What was it you posted? Two simians you compared to democrats involved in 

I think I found the caption, check the Democrats Suck post.

[Palehorse]

Then you'd better be finding the post. If I get nasty with someone it's because they've gotten nasty or name called me first and Troll and Ex are the worst offenders by far.

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Some immature individuals on here? Yourself included? I was looking at something you posted when I got kicked off the internet.  What was it you posted? Two simians you compared to democrats involved in 

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Now I ask; Just who is acting mature here, and who isn't? 


Just another piece of validation surrounding just how deep the hypocrisy runs with these GOP'ers. 

[me]

There are some very immature individuals around here for sure and I'm not referring to HH or me.

And this has what to do with that meme of the monkeys? Was that replying to someone that was voicing an opinion?

[The Troll]

And this has what to do with that meme of the monkeys? Was that replying to someone that was voicing an opinion?

  But you forgot "ME".  You don't mess with some other monkey's monkey.   

[Locutus]

It's National Chicken Wing day today. 

Anyone saucing any up to mark the occasion? 

These are ghost pepper wings.  You get a free shirt if you can eat all of these in 5 minutes. 

[me]

It's National Chicken Wing day today. 

Anyone saucing any up to mark the occasion? 

These are ghost pepper wings.  You get a free shirt if you can eat all of these in 5 minutes. 

Those don't even look good.