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Political Humor Nov 17, 2022 1:59:19 GMT

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Announcements from Trump that would actually be a surprise. A few were funny.

Donald Trump steps up to the podium. “I just read up about the office of the presidency,” he announces, “and, wow, I was laboring under some big misapprehensions about exactly what its powers were and how it worked! King is different, it turns out! Whoops! I owe many people a huge apology!”

Donald Trump steps up to the podium. He heaves a heavy sigh. “I have had enough attention,” he says. “I am done now.”

Donald Trump steps up to the podium. “I keep making remarks about Joe Biden’s age,” he says, “but then I started counting back from the year that it is now to the year that it was when I was born, and I decided that if I took my age-related concerns seriously, I had better not run for office either.”

LFC Administrator Posts: 10,666	Political Humor Nov 18, 2022 16:57:27 GMT goldenvalley likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by LFC on Nov 18, 2022 16:57:27 GMT
	"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."

AnBr Associate Professor Posts: 1,819	Political Humor Nov 19, 2022 15:47:10 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by AnBr on Nov 19, 2022 15:47:10 GMT I posted that same one here a couple of years ago.
	Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn't freedom, it is adolescence. "To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder." — Keith Moon, May 6, 1967, Melody Maker magazine

AnBr Associate Professor Posts: 1,819	Political Humor Nov 19, 2022 15:47:31 GMT LFC and pnwguy like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by AnBr on Nov 19, 2022 15:47:31 GMT
	Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn't freedom, it is adolescence. "To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder." — Keith Moon, May 6, 1967, Melody Maker magazine

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	Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn't freedom, it is adolescence. "To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder." — Keith Moon, May 6, 1967, Melody Maker magazine

AnBr Associate Professor Posts: 1,819	Political Humor Nov 23, 2022 21:29:38 GMT goldenvalley likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by AnBr on Nov 23, 2022 21:29:38 GMT
	Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn't freedom, it is adolescence. "To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder." — Keith Moon, May 6, 1967, Melody Maker magazine

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	"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."

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	Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn't freedom, it is adolescence. "To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder." — Keith Moon, May 6, 1967, Melody Maker magazine

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Political Humor Nov 30, 2022 23:59:06 GMT

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Post by goldenvalley on Nov 30, 2022 23:59:06 GMT

From Alexandra Petrie at WaPO: Musk's version of free speech.

“This is a battle for the future of civilization. If free speech is lost even in America, tyranny is all that lies ahead.”
— Elon Musk, on Twitter, the social media site he owns

Free speech is dying!

If you don’t pay me money for my product, that means that this great country is wrecked! Wrecked on the shoals of oppression and political correctness!

Free speech is when you pay me money for goods or services. That’s free speech. When you do not give me money, that is censorship. Every second that you spend not paying me money for my services is another arrow stuck into the craw of liberty. Ah, liberty bleeds, and I weep for her! Please give me thousands of dollars; it is the only thing that can save her. Even if you must give them to me in small increments of $8 at a time, that is better than nothing. I believe that if you give me enough money (speech), we can still rescue this godforsaken country!

You might have thought that free speech was when a corporation gave a lot of money to a politician. This is a very, very important form of free speech, and it is getting freer all the time! But that is certainly not the only kind of speech you can make. Just as important is when you take your small-dollar amounts and press them into the hands of a billionaire, or when an advertiser does the same thing with a larger dollar amount.

No, I am not taking advantage of you. I am offering to give you a voice. It is very sad that you are letting liberty die because you are refusing to give me your wallet. I can’t believe you hate free speech so much!

Oh, okay, I see where there may be some slight confusion: There is the word “free,” right there, at the start of “free speech.” It almost sounds as though you didn’t need to pay for it! But this is a common misunderstanding. This is free as in “buy one, get one,” the kind of free that is only free if you have made a purchase first.

Why I remember when our Founders, our brave Founders, fought so strongly and so bravely for free speech. Benjamin Franklin stood there begging and beseeching the business owners of his day to put their advertisements in his Poor Richard’s Almanac. Everyone knew then as they know today that the only true free speech is when you pay somebody money to run advertisements for your business. The Bill of Rights is absolutely clear about this. Why do you think it is called a bill if not because rights require somebody to pay money to somebody else?!

And the people who do not have money? What of them? As though they had anything to say!

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Political Humor Dec 4, 2022 13:39:10 GMT

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I came across this quote and immediately thought it should be here.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

H. L. Mencken

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Rev Martin Luther King Jr.

Obamacare took my guns away and put me in a FEMA reeducation camp. Anonymous

Calumny is only the noise of madmen. — Diogenes

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. Marcus Tullius Cicero

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. Donald Trump

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	"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."

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	"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."

LFC Administrator Posts: 10,666	Political Humor Dec 5, 2022 22:52:54 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by LFC on Dec 5, 2022 22:52:54 GMT Gravy Seals. McNugget Militia. Classic. I have no idea if this is real. Frankly, I don't really care.
	"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."

LFC Administrator Posts: 10,666	Political Humor Dec 7, 2022 18:53:05 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by LFC on Dec 7, 2022 18:53:05 GMT Oh, Sean. And this clown is supposedly in the U.S. Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander. What a dolt.
	"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."

LFC Administrator Posts: 10,666	Political Humor Dec 7, 2022 23:23:18 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by LFC on Dec 7, 2022 23:23:18 GMT
	"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."

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Political Humor Dec 7, 2022 23:32:15 GMT via mobile

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Dec 7, 2022 18:53:05 GMT LFC said:

Oh, Sean. And this clown is supposedly in the U.S. Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander. What a dolt.

Two seminal events in US History. Unfortunately, idiots like this show why the Navy is the “Junior” service. Either that or he’s been drinking torpedo juice

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Rev Martin Luther King Jr.

Obamacare took my guns away and put me in a FEMA reeducation camp. Anonymous

Calumny is only the noise of madmen. — Diogenes

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. Marcus Tullius Cicero

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. Donald Trump

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	"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."

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	"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."

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Political Humor Dec 15, 2022 13:30:29 GMT Bact PhD, LFC, and 1 more like this

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Once again, the jesters get the message across.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Rev Martin Luther King Jr.

Obamacare took my guns away and put me in a FEMA reeducation camp. Anonymous

Calumny is only the noise of madmen. — Diogenes

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. Marcus Tullius Cicero

What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate. Donald Trump

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	Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn't freedom, it is adolescence. "To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder." — Keith Moon, May 6, 1967, Melody Maker magazine

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	"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."

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	"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."

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	Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn't freedom, it is adolescence. "To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder." — Keith Moon, May 6, 1967, Melody Maker magazine

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