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AOC Mocks 'SHORT TROLL' Stephen Miller and He Goes CRAZY STEPHANIE MILLER SHOW (Original Post) YoshidaYui Oct 2025 OP
YIPPEE for the YIPPIES!!!!! BigmanPigman Oct 2025 #1

BigmanPigman

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1. YIPPEE for the YIPPIES!!!!!
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 01:06 AM
Oct 2025

"During the 1973 presidential inauguration, the Youth International Party (Yippies) ran a prank campaign urging Americans to send one dollar to President Richard Nixon. The protest was a satirical commentary on government spending and the counterculture's belief that money was corrupting society."

"In 1967, Hoffman, Rubin, and satirist Paul Krassner started the Yippies, a group that combined New Left antiwar politics with the theatricality and humor of the hippie movement. Their "guerrilla theater" actions included:
"Exorcising" the Pentagon: In October 1967, they organized a march to levitate the Pentagon building to cast out its evil spirits.
Protesting Wall Street: They threw money onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 1967 to protest American greed.
Running a pig for president: As a satirical political gesture, they nominated a pig named Pigasus as a presidential candidate."

Woohoo!!! Thank you Abbie and Jerry (my heroes)! I still have my YIPPEE button on my jean jacket! I was an activist since I was a teenager!

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