96 Years Ago

[Minimalist]

[onlinebiker]

"This is the most important election of our lifetime" -- the war cry of every political huckster since voting began......

SSDD

[vulcanlogician]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Less than two years ago, 9 November 2016:

Dear America -

You're boned.

Condolences,

Boru

Uncanny, that man.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Stupid people seem to have greater influence these days.

[Cato]

Plebeians, Patricians and Equestrians anybody? Demagoguery has always existed in politics and likely always will. Everyone does it. Chastising a political foe for doing so is just a round about way of declaring one's political affiliation.

[Rev. Rye]

Really, it’s the same old story, and it has been since (at the very least), the second century BC, when Cato the Elder ended all of his speeches with “Carthago delenda est,” insisting that Carthage must be destroyed even when the speech he gave had absolutely nothing to do with Carthage. And now, for a more eloquent take on the same subject from Burt Lancaster in Judgment at Nuremberg: