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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 02:57 PM Original message |
When did it become socially acceptable to be hideously stupid in public? |
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scrubthedata (216 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. I think it goes back to Reagan.... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:05 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Definitely, Raygun. And, welcome to DU! |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 07:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. Agreed. What we elected was the guy who said "never mind about all that crazy-talk |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 07:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
29. Yup, it was definitely Raygun. |
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lob1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
2. Fox News (I know, oxymoron) made it popular to be |
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MissMarple (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 04:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
19. Faux made it publicly embraceable . We have always suffered from this stupidity and ignorance. |
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Angry Dragon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 04:18 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Yes....we tell Iowa jokes in Minnesota |
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dkofos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. I believe it started about the time bush ran for Gov. in Texas. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
5. Argh, I couldn't read it either. |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Maybe they should all just be summarily executed. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:31 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. There's so many of these authoritarian freaks in power all over the world |
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lpbk2713 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. This lady has no problem with proclaiming her stupidity. |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
7. Why not discuss this in the thread you linked to? |
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rug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
9. When the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened. |
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Altoid_Cyclist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
10. I don't know how much non-faux news press it got nationwide. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:36 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. This whole decade has made me realize, unhappily, that |
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Altoid_Cyclist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 04:00 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. As much as I am addicted to DU, there are times when I have to get away from here. |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 09:01 PM Response to Reply #17 |
34. Ditto, that. A lot of people are vicious around here just because they can be. |
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Altoid_Cyclist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:49 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Mea culpa. I was afraid that the way that I worded that might be taken the wrong way. |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 05:31 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. Blondeatlast knows what I mean. nt |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 04:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. You must not shop at malls |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 05:54 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. I haven't set foot in a mall for the last ten years or so. |
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Altoid_Cyclist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:03 AM Response to Reply #13 |
36. It's me again. I wanted to clarify my statement. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
12. Before this, there were the Birchers |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
14. It may have started with Raygun..but it reached its apex with pres shit-for-brains. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:44 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Before him, Roger Ailes at Faux. |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 03:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Yep. Launched in 1996...thanks in no small part to Clinton's signing the bill that |
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FBI_Un_Sub (610 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 04:01 PM Response to Original message |
18. Sarah |
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dbt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 04:23 PM Response to Original message |
22. Talk Radio. |
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Sen. Walter Sobchak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
24. It is more widespread that politics, |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 07:23 PM Response to Original message |
26. Rush Limbaugh and the like emboldens them |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
27. you have to realize, this is in Staten Island, one of THE most racist boroughs in Metro NY |
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rotund1 (66 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 07:30 PM Response to Original message |
28. When the first preacher gave the first sermon. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
30. Probably TV has a lot to do with it. |
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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
31. Unlike the "War on Drugs," which has been an abject failure...... |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 08:06 PM Response to Original message |
32. reagan made idiocy and greed fashionable |
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mistertrickster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-12-10 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
33. Ha -1 |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:05 AM Response to Original message |
37. Nothing new about it. |
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Toasterlad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 07:09 AM Response to Original message |
38. Let's See....How Long Have People Been Building Churches? |
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live love laugh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
39. I can't read that either. The dumb...it burns. nt |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
41. When Christianity was made the state religion of Rome. |
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boston bean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
42. The day GWB ascended to the presidency with the blessing of the Supreme Court. nt |
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Jakes Progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-13-10 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
43. Don't know but it reached apex with palin rallies. |
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