Recent Posts

Pages: 1 ... 7 8 [9] 10
81
The DUmpster / Re: Mike Fanone is a national treasure
« Last post by 67 Rover on January 23, 2026, 10:16:06 AM »
Quote
JPPaverage (624 posts)
3. If Fanone would have cold cocked that guy

Then who could really blame him? That..."guy" threatened to rape Fanones kids. That troll would have had it coming to him.

So just like a certain DA in Virginia? Oh I forgot that's (D)ifferent.
82
The DUmpster / Re: At the hair salon
« Last post by BannedFromDU on January 23, 2026, 10:08:31 AM »
Quote
AverageOldGuy (3,426 posts)



At the hair salon



Wife goes to salon, I find cheap barber shop, however, I had become very shaggy so took her to her appointment and she asked her hairdresser to clean me up.

Sitting in the chair making small talk I pointed out to hairdresser that Trump is as bald as l am so what does he do to cover his head? She went on about growing it very long, comb it over, use lots of hair spray, have to repair it a few times a day.

Then she launched on Trump “HE’S AS PHONY AS HIS COMBOVER . . . “ she proceeded to turn the air blue swearing at Trump!!! And all dozen or so people in the place cheered her — “Right on , sister, right on!!”

It was a great day!! Gave her a BIG tip!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220959098


83
The DUmpster / Mike Fanone is a national treasure
« Last post by CC27 on January 23, 2026, 10:04:03 AM »
Quote
Aviation Pro (15,295 posts)

Mike Fanone is a national treasure

And should be elevated as an example of fighting back.

Quote
Duncan Grant (8,883 posts)
2. He's fearless. Flippin' the bird at Republican members of the committee.

The highlight of my day.
Quote
JPPaverage (624 posts)
3. If Fanone would have cold cocked that guy

Then who could really blame him? That..."guy" threatened to rape Fanones kids. That troll would have had it coming to him.
Quote
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220960683

Seems airport idiot has a boner over nothing
84
General Discussion / Re: Nazis and Commies
« Last post by SVPete on January 23, 2026, 09:52:58 AM »
Painting with a broad broom, by the late 1920s, Germany was on the point of coming under Communist or Nazi rule, and the main difference between them was whether industrialist and farm owners would get exterminated or did their singing in golden or gilded cages.
85
The DUmpster / Re: At the hair salon
« Last post by SVPete on January 23, 2026, 09:20:43 AM »
And a cop jumped out from behind the barbicide....

Or out of the Barbicide, :-) . One of my uncles was a barber, so that brings back memories. He was Italian, left Italy in the 1920s, and one by one sponsored over his family (when that required work and actual $$ commitment). He married my Dad's older sister, who came as a toddler from Czarist Russia with her parents, who saw what was coming (and did a decade later).

Oh, yeah, DU onlurkers, I am so-o-o-oooooo anti-immigrant! :tongue:

Hair salons are chatty-gossipy places, and I'm sure a Prog woman would eventually come to patronize one whose workers have similar socio-political views. DU-grade Progs cut family and friends with differing views out of their lives, so a hairdresser having and voicing anti-Trump views is at least plausible.
86
General Discussion / Nazis and Commies
« Last post by SSG Snuggle Bunny on January 23, 2026, 09:20:11 AM »
I've been going through William L. Shirer's. "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" looking for a passage about how the judges of the day refused to allow meaningful prosecution of the Nazis.

While searching online for additional clues, I stumbled upon a different book: "Weimar Radicals: Nazis and Communists between Authenticity and Performance" by Timothy Scott Brown.

On page 136 he writes that Rudolf Diels, the first head of the SS estimated that 70% of the Brownshirts were former Communists.


https://books.google.com/books?id=Vh6OnfbJRwgC&pg=PA121&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false
87
This MAGAt (how pathetic are DUpipo when they can't even spell their own juvenile nickname for people they hate correctly?!):

* Has worked among speakers of Vietnamese, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog, and Cantonese for some 45 years;

* Has attended, for over 17 years, a church that at various times has had black, Hispanic, Iranian, Indian, Korean, Assyrian, and Taiwanese (that I can remember) leaders and pastors; the current executive pastor, of several years, is Korean;

* Our previous church of nearly 20 years had black, Hispanic, and Taiwanese pastoral staff, and hosted (with the pastor being on staff) an Amharic-speaking church;

* Supported his munchkins' travels to non-touristy parts of Fiji, Cambodia, Thailand, Egypt, South Sudan, India, and China; in the latter, the pertinent munchkin spent several years learning Mandarin and earned the Chinese equivalent of a Liberal Arts degree in a Chinese university (all classes in Mandarin).

Oh, yeah, I'm so-o-o-oooooooo racist, DU onlurkers ... and I am not unique among fellow Cave-People, other than some specifics.
88
The DUmpster / Re: Grocery store yesterday - never assume
« Last post by SVPete on January 23, 2026, 08:52:30 AM »
In my 55+ years, I've never had a single person mention Thom Hartmann's name in real life. Only at the DUmp and our responses.
 :mental:

Ditto. First heard of him from rowed-over DU threads. I don't wander around in Prog circles, but some names I do recognize. Hartmann may not be the most prominent of Prog prattlers.
89
General Discussion / Re: Confessions of a Recovering Liberal White Woman
« Last post by SVPete on January 23, 2026, 08:41:32 AM »
There is a progression. I think, from:

* I don't think that happens, to

* That's just an outlying crazy, to

* Some do that but that isn't my friends, to

* Oh, crap, I'm in the sane minority, to

* I can't be that, to

* Leaving and letting family, friends, and acquaintances know of the change of heart.

The stages don't have solid boundaries, and progressing from one stage to the next takes time and thought. There is significant reluctance, I think, to move to recognition of being in the "sane minority". It's uncomfortably close to admitting, "I've been wrong."
90
The DUmpster / Re: At the hair salon
« Last post by 67 Rover on January 23, 2026, 08:04:04 AM »
Cool story bro, although the hair salon angle is new so 1 bong.  :stoner:
Pages: 1 ... 7 8 [9] 10