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An 80s song that could apply to the past 4 years.
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An 80s song that could apply to the past 4 years.
The birtherism was the start of it, the escalator was the lighter fluid, the inauguration was the padded cell. 



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RE: An 80s song that cold apply to the past 4 years.
Escalator as in moving stairs or accelerant as in a substance used to spread fires?
  
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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RE: An 80s song that cold apply to the past 4 years.
(November 20, 2020 at 1:50 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Escalator as in moving stairs or accelerant as in a substance used to spread fires?

Funny thing about art, it is far more metaphor than literal. But even art tells the truth. 


I actually am being very literal in how Trump followers are willing to follow him off a cliff. 

Trump used the imagery of dominance in starting at the top of the escalator, in a ridged physical position of dominance and power, to assert his wealth and power, to come down that escalator and assert authority. He knew it would play to his bigoted base. It was an accelerant.
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RE: An 80s song that could apply to the past 4 years.
(November 20, 2020 at 1:47 pm)Brian37 Wrote: The birtherism was the start of it, the escalator was the lighter fluid, the inauguration was the padded cell. 




Fuck you. 

No, it doesn’t apply to the last four years at all. You need to learn to look beyond the title.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: An 80s song that cold apply to the past 4 years.
(November 20, 2020 at 2:13 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(November 20, 2020 at 1:50 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Escalator as in moving stairs or accelerant as in a substance used to spread fires?

Funny thing about art, it is far more metaphor than literal. But even art tells the truth. 


I actually am being very literal in how Trump followers are willing to follow him off a cliff. 

Trump used the imagery of dominance in starting at the top of the escalator, in a ridged physical position of dominance and power, to assert his wealth and power, to come down that escalator and assert authority. He knew it would play to his bigoted base. It was an accelerant.

You are an idiot.
  
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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RE: An 80s song that cold apply to the past 4 years.
(November 20, 2020 at 2:40 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(November 20, 2020 at 2:13 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Funny thing about art, it is far more metaphor than literal. But even art tells the truth. 


I actually am being very literal in how Trump followers are willing to follow him off a cliff. 

Trump used the imagery of dominance in starting at the top of the escalator, in a ridged physical position of dominance and power, to assert his wealth and power, to come down that escalator and assert authority. He knew it would play to his bigoted base. It was an accelerant.

You are an idiot.

Yea, he isn't currently trying to undermine our voting system.
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RE: An 80s song that could apply to the past 4 years.
:lighter  



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RE: An 80s song that cold apply to the past 4 years.
(November 20, 2020 at 2:44 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(November 20, 2020 at 2:40 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: You are an idiot.

Yea, he isn't currently trying to undermine our voting system.

I was wondering where you were the last couple of days.  I'm going to guess trying to recover from a botched ice pick lobotomy.
  
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RE: An 80s song that could apply to the past 4 years.
(November 20, 2020 at 2:50 pm)Ranjr Wrote: :lighter  




Lawyers, guns, and money...what a blast from the past.  I hadn't thought about that song in ages.
  
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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RE: An 80s song that cold apply to the past 4 years.
(November 20, 2020 at 3:04 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(November 20, 2020 at 2:44 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Yea, he isn't currently trying to undermine our voting system.

I was wondering where you were the last couple of days.  I'm going to guess trying to recover from a botched ice pick lobotomy.

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