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Hahahaha Found on facebook. Pass the popcorn please. (Original Post) Lunabell Oct 2016 OP
Excellent! Cha Oct 2016 #1
I totally stole it from facebook. Lunabell Oct 2016 #2
It's brilliant.. I'll help pass it on. Thank you! Cha Oct 2016 #3
It is, indeed, BRILLIANT! sarae Oct 2016 #4
Aloha, sarae! Cha Oct 2016 #5
Bahahaha HAHAHA! PunksMom Oct 2016 #6
Is that a 3 D movie? njcpa1978 Oct 2016 #7
Donald Does Deplorable world wide wally Oct 2016 #10
Definitely don't forget DEPLORABLE! calimary Oct 2016 #19
I swear-- today is like Christmas Fast Walker 52 Oct 2016 #8
I would camp out in line in a Malbrownluna8708 Oct 2016 #9
Yeah! Am there! Madam45for2923 Oct 2016 #11
! Achilleaze Oct 2016 #12
I know my 3D glasses Mme. Defarge Oct 2016 #13
Letter to Donald Trump from some unhappy ladies OldRedneck Oct 2016 #14
OH GOD!!!! calimary Oct 2016 #18
Glasses? Is that is IMAX 3D or Real3D? NAO Oct 2016 #15
OH PLEASE!!!!!!! PLEEEEEEEZE!!!! calimary Oct 2016 #16
I love your 'healthcare for people not for profit' sticker! If you don't mind, I'm PatrickforO Oct 2016 #17
YES!!!!! If anyone wants to study where this all got started, THE POWELL MEMO!!! calimary Oct 2016 #20
Buh bye deplorables workinclasszero Oct 2016 #21

njcpa1978

(114 posts)
7. Is that a 3 D movie?
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 11:15 AM
Oct 2016

Which 3 Ds are there for Donald? Deceitful, Degenerate, Debauchery or maybe Derelict, Disingenuous, Despicable.

Malbrownluna8708

(76 posts)
9. I would camp out in line in a
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 11:22 AM
Oct 2016

Yoda costume if this movie ends the way I want it to. The Dark Lord Trump to meet his defeat.

calimary

(80,693 posts)
18. OH GOD!!!!
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:32 PM
Oct 2016

This is Fucking BREATH-TAKING!!!!!!!!

I'm copying this and keeping it, for sure! What an OUTSTANDING find, OldRedneck! What a Fucking BRILLIANT find! This one doesn't merely "speak" for me. This one ROARS for me! This one IS me. Literally. Because the strong daughter this talks about who knows her "proper place" is anywhere she damn well CHOOSES it to be. Because of the strong son who looks up to his big sister and respects her like nobody's business, and knows she can out-match, out-fight, out-argue, and if necessary out-lead - any time she might choose to. She got here first, too, and he remembers, as a kid, stepping tentatively into the tracks left FIRST by HER footprints. And they both came from a mother who pointed out more than once - that even GOD Himself needed a WOMAN to get the Job done that He had in mind.

He's 24 now. She's 27. And he STILL thinks the sun rises and sets around her. And if I have anything to say about it, with my now-waning influence over them, it'll be that way for the rest of their lives. Our daughter married a young man who grew up similarly, only moreso. He's the only boy for miles in that family. Two older sisters. Ten other cousins - all girls. No wonder he always treated our daughter and other girls with such respect and deference. It's what HE learned as a kid. Because HIS parents were brilliant and insightful and compassionate and as wonderful as all the rest of that extended family is, too. (And I literally CANNOT believe our good fortune there, btw!)

It makes a difference. REAL men know what all that REALLY means. REAL men know it's not about the swagger, the brawn, or the braggadocio. OR how much you have or boast that you have.

NAO

(3,425 posts)
15. Glasses? Is that is IMAX 3D or Real3D?
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:43 PM
Oct 2016

I want the best possible viewing experience.

When the DVD comes out, will it have "bonus features" such as footage of Clinton HQ on the night of Friday October 7?

calimary

(80,693 posts)
16. OH PLEASE!!!!!!! PLEEEEEEEZE!!!!
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 12:57 PM
Oct 2016

PLEEEEEEZE take that damn racist, misogynist, misbegotten party down with you!!!!!

PatrickforO

(14,514 posts)
17. I love your 'healthcare for people not for profit' sticker! If you don't mind, I'm
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 01:15 PM
Oct 2016

adding it to my signature line.

As to your picture, you bet. Someone on Daily Kos quipped that this thing is going 'full Cosby.'

I guess decades of increasing craziness are finally catching up with Republicans - biting them on the butt. When you think about the 1971 Powell memo and the massive corporate propaganda machine that rose from the capitalist swamps of immorality, it's refreshing to watch these people recoiling over and over at the latest Trump horror.

calimary

(80,693 posts)
20. YES!!!!! If anyone wants to study where this all got started, THE POWELL MEMO!!!
Sat Oct 8, 2016, 02:53 PM
Oct 2016

OMG YES!!!

http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/

Bill Moyers referred to it as "a call-to-arms for corporations."

http://billmoyers.com/content/the-powell-memo-a-call-to-arms-for-corporations/

THAT'S where it started. In the early 70s when Lewis Powell was asked to think on a problem that the business community found increasingly frightening and perplexing:

To be more precise, what had become very apparent to the business community was that it was getting its clock cleaned. Used to having broad sway, employers faced a series of surprising defeats in the 1960s and early 1970s. As we have seen, these defeats continued unabated when Richard Nixon won the White House. Despite electoral setbacks, the liberalism of the Great Society had surprising political momentum. “From 1969 to 1972,” as the political scientist David Vogel summarizes in one of the best books on the political role of business, “virtually the entire American business community experienced a series of political setbacks without parallel in the postwar period.” In particular, Washington undertook a vast expansion of its regulatory power, introducing tough and extensive restrictions and requirements on business in areas from the environment to occupational safety to consumer protection.[2]

In corporate circles, this pronounced and sustained shift was met with disbelief and then alarm. By 1971, future Supreme Court justice Lewis Powell felt compelled to assert, in a memo that was to help galvanize business circles, that the “American economic system is under broad attack.” This attack, Powell maintained, required mobilization for political combat: “Business must learn the lesson . . . that political power is necessary; that such power must be assiduously cultivated; and that when necessary, it must be used aggressively and with determination—without embarrassment and without the reluctance which has been so characteristic of American business.” Moreover, Powell stressed, the critical ingredient for success would be organization: “Strength lies in organization, in careful long-range planning and implementation, in consistency of action over an indefinite period of years, in the scale of financing available only through joint effort, and in the political power available only through united action and national organizations.”[3]

Powell was just one of many who pushed to reinvigorate the political clout of employers. Before the policy winds shifted in the ’60s, business had seen little need to mobilize anything more than a network of trade associations. It relied mostly on personal contacts, and the main role of lobbyists in Washington was to troll for government contracts and tax breaks. The explosion of policy activism, and rise of public interest groups like those affiliated with Ralph Nader, created a fundamental challenge. And as the 1970s progressed, the problems seemed to be getting worse. Powell wrote in 1971, but even after Nixon swept to a landslide reelection the following year, the legislative tide continued to come in. With Watergate leading to Nixon’s humiliating resignation and a spectacular Democratic victory in 1974, the situation grew even more dire. “The danger had suddenly escalated,” Bryce Harlow, senior Washington representative for Procter & Gamble and one of the engineers of the corporate political revival was to say later. “We had to prevent business from being rolled up and put in the trash can by that Congress.”[4]

It was a "Businessmen of the World - UNITE!" manifesto. And it was conceived at a time when we were starting to see the whole idea of the corporate lobbyist start dining on steroids and protein shakes and dietary supplements. The National Association of Manufacturers decided in the early 70s to move its headquarters from New York City to Washington DC.

And MAN were they ever good at following it and carrying it out. Its results are what we're suffering under, today!

And, btw, the lawyer Lewis Powell was eventually named to the Supreme Court. By Richard Nixon.

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