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colsohlibgal

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6. If Only He Was Still Here

Mon Aug 8, 2016, 03:30 PM

Aug 2016

He would have had a field day with his orangeness.

He is right about who really creates the vast bulk of the debt and what really drives it but thanks to right wing talk saturation enough people have been buffaloed into believing it is a few welfare queens and Medicaid.

The viability of the right wing depends on enough dummies believing the big lie. Getting enough folks to realize the real truth will be exceedingly hard unless we reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine.

It has been described as the " Two Santa Claus" strategy, republican presidents balloon the debt then when dems are in the WH they become deficit hawks.

God do I miss HST, Matt Taibbi is the closest thing going to him now but what a tough act to follow.

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Words of wisdom from Hunter Thompson [View all] cali Aug 2016 OP

A observant man... bonemachine Aug 2016 #1

Money and power and death. Wow. That hooks you right in the guts. PatrickforO Aug 2016 #19

love Doctor Thompson SheriffBob Aug 2016 #2

That was the whole idea Diremoon Aug 2016 #30

Add to that SheriffBob Aug 2016 #39

I actually met him back in the early '70s pinboy3niner Aug 2016 #3

I spent quite a bit of time with Hunter over the period of a year cali Aug 2016 #5

Wow--how cool is that? First Speaker Aug 2016 #7

He just kind of looked after me for some reason cali Aug 2016 #8

Very cool cali panader0 Aug 2016 #14

very cool! nt TeamPooka Aug 2016 #23

Cali... kentuck Aug 2016 #28

I surrender pinboy3niner Aug 2016 #10

hey, it's not a competition. I was a lowly au pair girl cali Aug 2016 #12

That's still way cool pinboy3niner Aug 2016 #13

Have you read the biography by William McKeen? DinahMoeHum Aug 2016 #22

I never have. I will now. Thank you so much, Dinah. cali Aug 2016 #34

How incredibly cool! BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2016 #31

I was very lucky to ride Further with the Dr. and Ken Kesey out to Kesey's farm. callous taoboy Aug 2016 #21

K&R. nt DLevine Aug 2016 #4

If Only He Was Still Here colsohlibgal Aug 2016 #6

Yes, Matt won me over with Griftopia. PatrickforO Aug 2016 #17

I'm truly curious what he would have thought about Bernie bonemachine Aug 2016 #38

I can only imagine the choice adjectives he would come up with to describe the spectacle of decades Warren DeMontague Aug 2016 #9

The most important and accurate thing here is that republicans don't believe in democracy. Spot on Augiedog Aug 2016 #11

Hunter Thompson had STYLE. PatrickforO Aug 2016 #15

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." thucythucy Aug 2016 #16

Thomas Paine on Acid mjvpi Aug 2016 #18

"Trickle down, trickle down, is anybody wet?" bucolic_frolic Aug 2016 #20

I admit that I see their game and take advantage of it Cary Aug 2016 #37

trickle down economics=the rich get richer & the rest of us get tricled down on Motley13 Aug 2016 #24

+1000 smirkymonkey Aug 2016 #25

I went to hear him at a university in the 70's. He walked onstage completely plowed LuckyLib Aug 2016 #26

He warned us all shadowmayor Aug 2016 #27

I remember reading that remark. BlancheSplanchnik Aug 2016 #32

Damn I love Hunter. And it's Hunter S Thompson (gotta get the S in there). CaptainTruth Aug 2016 #29

K&R!!!!!! burrowowl Aug 2016 #33

True as far as it goes. malthaussen Aug 2016 #35

Evil! n/t Cary Aug 2016 #36

"where the buffalo roam" SheriffBob Aug 2016 #40