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Hekate

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10. Damn, that is the sad truth

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Feb 2, 2018, 05:24 PM

Feb 2018

Hubby and I were just talking about this last night -- you don't have to have been a hippie to mostly distrust the FBI and hope to hell your paths never cross. Do we remember COINTELPRO? Yes we do.

Yet the agency is also full of straight arrows doing their job, which is to defend this nation. And now they need us to defend them.

What strange times we live in.

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Buzzstomper man underpants Feb 2018 #1

Thanks for posting get the red out Feb 2018 #2

Know it's Borowitz, but this should be in LBN bigbrother05 Feb 2018 #3

Now that is funny. Thanks. n/t Turn CO Blue Feb 2018 #4

i'm a former hippie barbtries Feb 2018 #5

But it IS ironic RandomAccess Feb 2018 #54

Same here. SergeStorms Feb 2018 #66

LOL RandomAccess Feb 2018 #73

Yeah..... SergeStorms Feb 2018 #84

I hear ya RandomAccess Feb 2018 #85

There's so much that is ironic right now, not the least of which is Republican support Nitram Feb 2018 #72

True, but that's actually been building for a while. RandomAccess Feb 2018 #74

That is huge. CentralMass Feb 2018 #76

Yes, and it further shows how big our current problem is RandomAccess Feb 2018 #81

lol.. I felt a wee bit funny last night Cha Feb 2018 #6

i love your quotes and emoji!!! orleans Feb 2018 #62

Thanks, orleans! Funny Cha Feb 2018 #65

LMAO nycbos Feb 2018 #7

Well, a look to the left shows where I was in the 70's... Wounded Bear Feb 2018 #8

... orangecrush Feb 2018 #15

Well, in fairness, hippies have been saying all along that it's the GOP Downtown Hound Feb 2018 #9

Damn, that is the sad truth Hekate Feb 2018 #10

Not only that, but today we are smiling because the stock market is down. TNNurse Feb 2018 #11

A strong job market and rising wages were behind the Dow falling as investors worry about inflation. EL34x4 Feb 2018 #21

Just think if the Dow had gone down 25 more cents LiberalArkie Feb 2018 #22

"Dow plunges 666 points -- worst day since Brexit" klook Feb 2018 #40

We pulled out when the orange menace became president. Canoe52 Feb 2018 #44

If only Fred Trump had pulled out 73 years ago. CentralMass Feb 2018 #77

lol! Canoe52 Feb 2018 #83

Yep. murielm99 Feb 2018 #12

Dammit! orangecrush Feb 2018 #13

In the olden days I used to answer the phone: OldHippieChick Feb 2018 #14

I used to answer the phone: dhol82 Feb 2018 #55

Even into the Bush administration I'd occasionally throw a buzz word into a telephone chat dflprincess Feb 2018 #60

Yes but it's one more time House of Roberts Feb 2018 #16

My wife (a former hippie) was saying the same thing just this morning flyingfysh Feb 2018 #17

As someone who knows someone that was victimized by a rogue agent, Ilsa Feb 2018 #18

LOL. Oh, the irony of it! Too funny. nt Honeycombe8 Feb 2018 #19

and this former hippie SCantiGOP Feb 2018 #20

This is the best and most succint explanation... 3catwoman3 Feb 2018 #79

Thanks Andy--you made this old hippie laugh. panader0 Feb 2018 #23

I assure you this former member of SDS is feeling exactly this pain. mulsh Feb 2018 #24

... handmade34 Feb 2018 #25

I've been living with this cognitive dissonance since the election. The_jackalope Feb 2018 #26

thanks orangecrush Feb 2018 #31

Rockin the FBI orangecrush Feb 2018 #27

wow, man. that's heavy shit Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #28

When we went to bed last night mountain grammy Feb 2018 #29

that ran through my head also gopiscrap Feb 2018 #30

Yup. As one who almost certainly has an FBI file . . . Ms. Toad Feb 2018 #32

My husband and I just said exactly the same thing to each other this morning. Having grown up in the OregonBlue Feb 2018 #33

Never a former hippi - still am one Miigwech Feb 2018 #34

The Word Hippie The River Feb 2018 #35

"Old time hippies believe in working, klook Feb 2018 #43

You're Welcome The River Feb 2018 #52

Country Joe CentralMass Feb 2018 #78

J. Edgar Hoover has been gone for a while jberryhill Feb 2018 #36

I actually was thinking this yesterday lunasun Feb 2018 #37

It's funny because it's true. nt Xipe Totec Feb 2018 #38

It's a fact, not a joke!!! LeftInTX Feb 2018 #39

Very funny, but klook Feb 2018 #41

Never thought I'd miss J.Edgar rickyhall Feb 2018 #42

Can you imagine J. Edgar dealing with a president that was selling the country out to Russia? dflprincess Feb 2018 #61

I still don't trust the FBI. Scruffy1 Feb 2018 #45

Same here. I don't trust them now and I never will Raine Feb 2018 #49

The enemy of my enemy Nevernose Feb 2018 #53

Hippies were against Unconstitutional Vietnam War thbobby Feb 2018 #46

*sniff* What have we come to? *sniff* Buns_of_Fire Feb 2018 #47

Hi-larious!! JDC Feb 2018 #48

I've been thinking that for weeks now! Hamlette Feb 2018 #50

I love good satire Gothmog Feb 2018 #51

I know!!! KT2000 Feb 2018 #56

Far out, man... Blue Owl Feb 2018 #57

Hippies were about truth. We still are. kwassa Feb 2018 #58

That thought has crossed my mind dflprincess Feb 2018 #59

The same FBI that interferre with a Presidential Election??? Crash2Parties Feb 2018 #63

Normally I don't post profanity, but here it is: Lifelong Protester Feb 2018 #64

very funny, but underneath, binary thinking regarding the FBI. tomp Feb 2018 #67

hahaha JHan Feb 2018 #68

Also having to kind of defend FISA and keeping it secret madville Feb 2018 #69

Back in the day I knew some guys... DiverDave Feb 2018 #70

The FBI kept an illegal database of anti-war protestors. Nitram Feb 2018 #71

upside down enid602 Feb 2018 #75

They did this to us during Ruby Ridge, Waco, kamikazi Joe Stack, etc. Mc Mike Feb 2018 #80

I love Borowitz, but he doesn't know that to change with the times is part of hippie philosophy. ancianita Feb 2018 #82