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1 posted on 06/07/2019 10:28:25 PM PDT by ETL
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For those who might be interested, here is some more trash from the famous Pablo Picasso...






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2 posted on 06/07/2019 10:28:46 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

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From "45 Communist Goals", as per "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen

Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals [1963]:

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150407052635/http://uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

3 posted on 06/07/2019 10:29:53 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: ETL

And this one is called “GRANNY GRUNT”!


4 posted on 06/07/2019 10:35:55 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Introducing the 2020 dimmacrat Presidential Candidate, Gropey Joe and his little friend Mr. Wiggles!)
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To: ETL

He paid far more for the painting than its worth.


5 posted on 06/07/2019 10:40:39 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: ETL
talking life-changing sums of money for the owner.

Yeah- right after the royals get a huge cut or just confiscate the picture, leaving the Dude broke.

8 posted on 06/07/2019 11:41:05 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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To: ETL

Be a degenerate communist and the leftist art world which is nothing but a political social circle will declare your random scribblings art and sell it to wealthy leftists having no sense of art at exorbitant prices.


10 posted on 06/08/2019 2:42:10 AM PDT by fso301
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To: ETL

Picasso has done plenty that grabbed me...but this painting does zip.


11 posted on 06/08/2019 3:00:16 AM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitch!)
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I don’t believe it.


12 posted on 06/08/2019 3:26:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Ah! The enlightened art crowd of Free Republic weighs in with the usual results.


15 posted on 06/08/2019 5:33:47 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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Seems to me to be a bogus copy of the real Picasso Seated Bather.

I’m not going to try to defend Cubism here, but I did do up some art appreciation lectures for FR many years ago. They may still be under my page.


16 posted on 06/08/2019 5:40:25 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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To: ETL

Bunch of poorly written nonsense. “Could” “may” “if”. No substance there at all.

And anyone who thinks picasso is an artist is stupid.


19 posted on 06/08/2019 6:17:10 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam, not a religion, a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination. -Wilders)
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As some of you know I dabble in art.

When I was young I went to a Shadchan - a marriage broker - to try and find a match.

Now at that time I was very handsome, had money, a good job, etc.

So the guy finally calls me with “the perfect girl.”

I go and meet her.

The longest hour of my life. She was UGLY!

(and utterly boring.)

I went home and called him up:

“What the heck were you thinking? That girl had one ear out to here, a crooked nose, one eye up here... The other down here...”

So he just waits for me to finish and says...

“Well you’re an artist, aren’t you? Either you like Picasso or you don’t”


25 posted on 06/08/2019 7:27:02 AM PDT by golux
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How could anyone not love that drawing? And pay far more than its perceived value? /sarc


29 posted on 06/08/2019 9:22:03 AM PDT by EDINVA
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I have received more money with a $2 ticket. Where is the proof?


40 posted on 06/08/2019 10:50:39 AM PDT by keving (We the government)
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