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Hüsker Dü said:
It's as if the plumber and Co. know the are being slimy, disingenuous, spreading lies and propaganda but don't care, it's what they do, they writhe in it.
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You grown ups crack me up. Espola spooled you up and out comes your hate and cluelessness. I thought he liked you. Now I'm not so sure.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
You grown ups crack me up. Espola spooled you up and out comes your hate and cluelessness. I thought he liked you. Now I'm not so sure.
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What cracks me up about 'you guys', is that you can never dispute the message you can only attempt to attack the messenger. It has become rather mundane calling you people names as it's a given, you tell us everyday.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
What cracks me up about 'you guys', is that you can never dispute the message you can only attempt to attack the messenger. It has become rather mundane calling you people names as it's a given, you tell us everyday.
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We always dispute the message and are accused of attacking the messenger because you donʻt like being disputed. All the while youʻre the one doing the attacking to the point where you even admit that name calling, to the point of being mundane, is all your fragile soul can muster.
 
Bruddah IZ said:
You grown ups crack me up. Espola spooled you up and out comes your hate and cluelessness. I thought he liked you. Now I'm not so sure.
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Bruddah IZ said:
We always dispute the message and are accused of attacking the messenger because you donʻt like being disputed. All the while youʻre the one doing the attacking to the point where you even admit that name calling, to the point of being mundane, is all your fragile soul can muster.
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. . . ? Like Trump to Stormy, you haven't said a word.
 
At Politico Jeff Greenfield writes about “The Hollywood Hit Movie That Urged FDR to Become a Fascist.” The movie was “Gabriel Over the White House” in 1933 and, Greenfield writes, “it was designed as a clear message to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that he might need to embrace dictatorial powers to solve the crisis of the Great Depression.” Greenfield assures us that FDR did not become a dictator, but he notes that “the impulse toward strongman rule” often stems from a sense of populist grievance, along with the scapegoating of “subversive enemies undermining the nation.” Depending on the time and the strongman, those subversive enemies can be Jews, capitalists, Wall Street, the 1 percent, the homosexuals, or in some countries the Americans.

Gene Healy wrote about “Gabriel” 10 years ago in The Cult of the Presidency and in this column in 2012:

…many of us still believe in authoritarian powers for the president.

In a November 2011 column, the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank offered “A Machiavellian model for Obama” in Jack Kennedy’s “kneecapping” and “mob-style threats” against steel-company executives who’d dared to raise prices.

Despite the obligatory caveat: “President Obama doesn’t need to sic the FBI on his opponents,” Milbank observed that “the price increase was rolled back” only after “subpoenas flew [and] FBI agents marched into steel executives’ offices”: “Sometimes, that’s how it must be. Can Obama understand that?”
 
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