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"Donald Trump is Archie Bunker with Jed Clampett's money" (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2020 OP
I disagree...Jed's money was REAL KewlKat Jul 2020 #1
+1 lol North Shore Chicago Jul 2020 #3
My thoughts True Blue American Jul 2020 #4
Yep. And, Archie Bunker was a bigot, but he wasn't a sociopath. GoCubsGo Jul 2020 #12
Such a block head North Shore Chicago Jul 2020 #2
By the time the series got to Archie Bunker's place he had mellowed a lot. DemocratSinceBirth Jul 2020 #10
No Jed was a decent human being. dem4decades Jul 2020 #5
1 thing about Archie Bunker is that He always got taught a lesson progressive nobody Jul 2020 #6
Archie had more love in his heart nt lostnfound Jul 2020 #8
nope, he is neither of those 2 . JI7 Jul 2020 #7
Reminiscent of a Roseann Barr Arnold quote: no_hypocrisy Jul 2020 #9
I've often thought that Trump is basically an Archie Bunker type HotTeaBag Jul 2020 #11

North Shore Chicago

(3,315 posts)
2. Such a block head
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 08:43 AM
Jul 2020

Archie could be at times, Edith usually prevailed with her sound and mature ways. I can not see orange anus demuring to anyone, or anything.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
10. By the time the series got to Archie Bunker's place he had mellowed a lot.
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 09:51 AM
Jul 2020

I could see that Archie voting for Joe. As an aside I remember watching the pilot and he was very angry. He was still a bigot after that, just not as angry.

 

progressive nobody

(816 posts)
6. 1 thing about Archie Bunker is that He always got taught a lesson
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 08:48 AM
Jul 2020

that his view point was wrong. He Ended up becoming a better person by show's end. Trump won't learn and as for Jed's money I think that is highly over estimated.

 

HotTeaBag

(1,206 posts)
11. I've often thought that Trump is basically an Archie Bunker type
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 09:52 AM
Jul 2020

who screams at the TV all day about how bad (in this case Obama) the President is doing and how much better he would be at it, and then someone says - "OK, here are the keys to the White House, go for it" and then predictably fails.



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