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In reply to the discussion: Hot gossip from Alaska!1 Whole PALIN gang in party brawl: "Don't you know who I am?!1" [View all]PatrickforO
(15,398 posts)54. Well this is what happens when...
We embrace anti-intellectualism. The Palins are the anti-intellectual movement taken to its extreme.
We should never have catered to the lowest common denominator, because now we have a whole bunch of those people 'serving' us in the US Congress, and more coming if we don't get out the vote this November.
This whole thing reminds me of the old Beverly Hillbillies series I watched when I was a kid. Remember?
Granny to Jethro: And how do we do that, Mr. Sixth-Grade Graduate?
Jethro: I can cipher!
Well, I think I'll go on out to the See-Ment Pond.
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Hot gossip from Alaska!1 Whole PALIN gang in party brawl: "Don't you know who I am?!1" [View all]
UTUSN
Sep 2014
OP
"And to think, this whole sordid mess was plainly visible from Russia." . . .
Journeyman
Sep 2014
#4
Please tell me the question in the title was answered "I'm the Juggernaut, bitch."
Arkana
Sep 2014
#89