Political Humor Only Please

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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Steve James on Sat Jul 04, 2020 7:56 am

Interesting Facts about the Sons of Liberty

They had their own flag which had five red and four white vertical stripes.

In 1772, members of the Sons of Liberty set fire to the British ship the HMS Gaspee.

They had the motto of "No taxation without representation."

In protest to the Stamp Act, a mob formed by the Sons of Liberty got out of control and destroyed much of the home of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson.

A constant battle was waged in New York City over Liberty Poles. The Sons of the Liberty would put them up and British soldiers would tear them down. As a result, the Liberty Pole became a symbol of the colonists' freedom.

The British sometimes referred to them as the "Sons of Violence" in hopes of giving them a bad reputation.

By the time the revolution began, the Sons of Liberty were fairly well organized with groups from different colonies communicating and planning protests together.

Tsk, tsk, Adams bad boys.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Giles on Tue Jul 21, 2020 7:19 am

I guess this should be under the heading of 'political comedy'.
Trump's Fox interview with Chris Wallace:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=nof1LyQudAM&feature=emb_logo

or in its full glory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6XdpDOH1JA
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

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Re: Political Humor Only Please

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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Ian C. Kuzushi on Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:57 pm

Only a Republican would think that people are upset about the physical damage done to the Capitol. ::)

Thanks for the laugh.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Giles on Mon Jan 11, 2021 3:06 am

Yup. If the Trumpite mob had trashed a brand-new but empty shopping mall, even if they caused millions of dollars of damage, it would be a rather different story to what actually happened, no?

I would agree that the quote by this NYT reporter is in itself pretty dumb, unless it has been taken out of context so much that her message has been distorted. But not applicable here.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Giles on Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:01 am

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Guess you hit the nail on the head, Bill. 8-)


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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Steve James on Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:13 am

Did someone say Orwell? That's funny.

{Medal of Freedom winner] Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves Thursday to dismiss concerns over violence in the U.S. Capitol the day before, likening the rioting supporters of President Donald Trump to the country’s founding fathers. “We’re supposed to be horrified by the protesters. There’s a lot of people out there calling for the end of violence,” he said. “A lot of conservatives, social media, who say that any violence or aggression at all is unacceptable regardless of the circumstances. I am glad Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, the actual Tea Party guys, the men at Lexington and Concord, didn’t feel that way.”


See. They're like the Tea Party and Lexington and Concord. Right? Well, except he next says that it was Antifa and Democrat instigators who did the damage. See how that works, George.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby origami_itto on Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:16 am

Steve James wrote:Did someone say Orwell? That's funny.

{Medal of Freedom winner] Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves Thursday to dismiss concerns over violence in the U.S. Capitol the day before, likening the rioting supporters of President Donald Trump to the country’s founding fathers. “We’re supposed to be horrified by the protesters. There’s a lot of people out there calling for the end of violence,” he said. “A lot of conservatives, social media, who say that any violence or aggression at all is unacceptable regardless of the circumstances. I am glad Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, the actual Tea Party guys, the men at Lexington and Concord, didn’t feel that way.”


See. They're like the Tea Party and Lexington and Concord. Right? Well, except he next says that it was Antifa and Democrat instigators who did the damage. See how that works, George.


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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Steve James on Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:20 am

Ha, did you know that the Boston Tea Partyers dressed up like Mohawk Indians? I bet nobody would ever guess the reason why.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Bill on Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:22 pm

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'”

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.”
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Steve James on Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:38 pm

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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Steve James on Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:45 pm

Meanwhile, preparations for MAGA attendees at the inauguration.
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Re: Political Humor Only Please

Postby Bill on Wed Jan 13, 2021 3:02 pm

Steve
It is disappointing to see that you have bought the lie that Trump incited the mob.
He, in fact, said nothing inciting at all.
Quote for me any thing he said that would incite that crowd to violence.
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