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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf the internet was around then, This site would be called Republican Underground 150 years ago
I hate when conservatives and republicans pretend that the Democrats of yesteryear have the same ideology as Democrats today
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If the internet was around then, This site would be called Republican Underground 150 years ago (Original Post)
USAFRetired_Liberal
Jun 2021
OP
And the PC we'd be using would fill the parlor completely, and be driven by a steam engine ...
marble falls
Jun 2021
#4
The GOP lives in the past at all times. The Jan 6th monkeys thought it was 1776. nt
Progressive Jones
Jun 2021
#8
Jim G.
(14,811 posts)1. It Wouldn't Have Gotten Much Traffic 150 Years Ago
USAFRetired_Liberal
(4,167 posts)3. Fixed my OP
pwb
(11,261 posts)2. They think they are clever.
Most are on to them.
marble falls
(57,077 posts)4. And the PC we'd be using would fill the parlor completely, and be driven by a steam engine ...
... as designed by Tom Swift.
dweller
(23,628 posts)5. So, the bay window
would be the monitor ?
🤔
✌🏻
marble falls
(57,077 posts)6. Mechanical semaphore. Hey, this is 1870, the golden age of technology.
Desk sized!
multigraincracker
(32,673 posts)7. And all of the great Civil War
Generals would be Republicans.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)8. The GOP lives in the past at all times. The Jan 6th monkeys thought it was 1776. nt
ansible
(1,718 posts)9. Weren't republicans always pro-business though even before the civil war?
And especially the post-civil war gilded age era where businesses were unbelievably corrupt.