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90-percent

(6,828 posts)
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 11:56 AM Jan 2017

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is my co-pilot for the next four years

These times call for emotional fire blankets and bomb shelters. Here's my inspiration to help all of us cope with the impending tyranny.

plagerizing my own FB post:


I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.


-90% Jimmy

If I start reading books again, it must be some HST and all the Nazi books Trump kept by his bedside all these years.


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Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is my co-pilot for the next four years (Original Post) 90-percent Jan 2017 OP
HST??? Raster Jan 2017 #1
Hunter S. Thompson, I think. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2017 #2
I believe the op is referring to Hunter S Thompson. aidbo Jan 2017 #3
Ah, thank you... Raster Jan 2017 #4
These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced & fooled by stupid little rich kids like Donald Trump? FSogol Jan 2017 #5
Opps 90-percent Jan 2017 #6
I was in college when he was writing for the Rolling Stone. I ran down to the Nay Jan 2017 #8
Just in the nick of time. IADEMO2004 Jan 2017 #7

FSogol

(45,360 posts)
5. These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced & fooled by stupid little rich kids like Donald Trump?
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 12:36 PM
Jan 2017

"These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid
little rich kids like George Bush [easily replaced by Donald Trump, and Hunter would have agreed, I believe]?
They are the same ones who wanted to
have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill "gooks". They speak for
all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They
are racists and hate mongers among us-they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss
down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether
they like it or not. Fuck them." Hunter S. Thompson

90-percent

(6,828 posts)
6. Opps
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 12:37 PM
Jan 2017

I'm 62 and grew up with Thompson books. One of the best political writers of our times, in my opinion. I got to get used to the concept that most people are younger than I am at this stage of my life!

-90% Jimmy

Nay

(12,051 posts)
8. I was in college when he was writing for the Rolling Stone. I ran down to the
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:25 PM
Jan 2017

bookstore to get that mag every month, just to read the latest shit on Nixon and other outrages. He is, and was, a magnificent writer and a real hero.

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