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WILLIE BROWN’S GUYS AND DOLLS
Powerline ^ | 24 Aug 2024 | Lloyd Billingsley

Posted on 08/25/2024 11:07:11 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Joe Biden is “the best candidate Democrats have” and would win reelection, despite a “crazy Congress” and an opponent “crazier than Dewey.” That was former San Francisco mayor and California Assembly speaker Willie Brown back in March, before the Democrats dumped Joe “sharp as a tack” Biden for coup clucker Kamala Harris. She owes her start in politics to poontronage from Brown, who had other ladies on the line.

In 1995, Brown met Carolyn Carpeneti, a woman of no color who became his political fundraiser. Over a five-year period, non-profits and committees controlled by Brown paid Carpeneti $2.3 million, but there was more to it. The attractive blond became Brown’s main squeeze and the unmarried power couple had a daughter in 2001, when Brown was 67 and Carpeneti 38, about the same age gap as Harris.

Brown backed Harris for San Francisco district attorney, state attorney general and the US Senate, but with the presidency in view he dumped her again. “It’s time for Hillary Clinton to come out of retirement, lace up the gloves and get back in the ring with President Trump for what would be the biggest political rematch ever,” Brown told reporters in October, 2019. “Clinton is the only candidate short of Barack Obama who has the brains, the battle-tested brawn and the national presence to take out Trump.”

In March, Brown was backing Joe Biden as the Democrats best candidate and a surefire winner. In late July, Brown praised Kamala Harris as “outstanding” in all the jobs she’s had, adding, “I hope all those Democrats who’ve been pushing Biden to quit will now show up and ring doorbells with me.” As it happens, Brown’s promotional skills have always been diverse and inclusive.

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As Daniel Flynn explains in Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days that Shook San Francisco, Willie Brown was a supporter of Jim Jones, whom he compared to Einstein and Martin Luther King. Jones was a big hit with San Francisco Democrats, who gave Jones a seat on the city housing commission. Brown even wrote a letter to Fidel Castro, urging the Communist dictator to extend an official state visit to Jones, a “close personal friend and highly trusted brother in the struggle for liberation.” To be fair, Jones supporters included Harvey Milk, Walter Mondale, and Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.
1 posted on 08/25/2024 11:07:11 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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I gotta give Willie Brown a bit of appreciation for using the phrase “crazier than Dewey.” I just wonder which Dewey he was referring to. Truman’s opponent Thomas Dewey? If so, how many people today even know who Thomas Dewey was?

Maybe Brown meant one of Donald Duck’s nephews.


2 posted on 08/25/2024 11:17:08 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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3 posted on 08/25/2024 11:23:30 AM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Rummyfan

The guy’s only doing it for some Doll.


4 posted on 08/25/2024 11:28:44 AM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: kiryandil

Carolyn would be pretty if she didn’t dress like the Marlboro Man.


5 posted on 08/25/2024 11:30:54 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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6 posted on 08/25/2024 11:44:34 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Rummyfan
The Oldest Established [A Biden Musical Parody]

Something of mine from 2021 (the references are a little bit dated).

-PJ

7 posted on 08/25/2024 11:51:32 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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Daniel Flynn, “Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days that Shook San Francisco”


Willie Brown was a supporter of Jim Jones, whom he compared to Einstein and Martin Luther King.
<><>Rev Jones was a big hit with San Francisco Democrats,
<><>Dems gave Rev Jones a seat on the city housing commission.
<><>Brown wrote Fidel Castro, urging the Communist dictator to extend an official state visit to Jones,
<><>Brown told Castro Rev Jim was his “close personal friend”
<><>and that Rev Jim was a highly trusted brother in the “struggle for liberation.”


Reality check: Jim Jones is infamous as the leader of the Cali-based People’s Temple religious group, and for the Jonestown Massacre, when he fed his followers poisoned Kool aid leading to the Nov 1978 mass murder-suicide of more than 900 members of the California group he inveigled into joining a commune in the jungles of Jonestown, Guyana.


8 posted on 08/25/2024 12:06:53 PM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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To: Dr. Sivana

RE: Carolyn would be pretty if she didn’t dress like the Marlboro Man.

A survey in a magazine a few years ago reported that men chose “blue jeans and T shirt” as the most attractive look for women. Cannot believe it myself.

What happened to an MTV report a while ago that the LBD (Little Black Dress) was “The Deal Closer”? If the man didn’t decide to make a commitment the woman could give up on him.


9 posted on 08/25/2024 12:30:30 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Liz
he fed his followers poisoned Kool aid

Actually, it was cherry "Flavor Aid", the man wasn't even willing to spring for the name-brand stuff.
10 posted on 08/25/2024 12:39:09 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: frank ballenger

“ A survey in a magazine a few years ago reported that men chose “blue jeans and T shirt” as the most attractive look for women. Cannot believe it myself.”
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I’ve always been partial to the look of a good woman in nice blue jeans and a long sleeve white dress shirt. Don’t know why but I do.


11 posted on 08/25/2024 12:50:41 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: House Atreides; frank ballenger

The only problem with women in jeans is that it takes a little longer to undress them.


12 posted on 08/25/2024 1:05:34 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: House Atreides

No argument with all the looks appealing to some of us.

In the book Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown (1962) she wrote that some man will find some aspect of any woman appealing and she shouldn’t compare herself to a movie star with several advantages.

She listed a full head of shiny hair, pretty smile and eyes, or one thing such as pretty legs and so on. This helped account for examples of thousands of supposedly plain looking women getting married all over the country each week.

It was reported Racquel Welch in her prime in the late 1960s always wore flannel pajamas to bed.


13 posted on 08/25/2024 1:11:02 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: wjcsux

It is interesting as to how the Democrat Ministry of Proganda (the MSM) completely buried the story of Democrat and other radicals (Jane Fonda) support of Jim Jones.


14 posted on 08/25/2024 1:14:50 PM PDT by Robwin ( )
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To: Rummyfan

“Two Tails of Two Cities”


15 posted on 08/25/2024 1:23:40 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Kool Aid rebranded.


16 posted on 08/25/2024 9:31:01 PM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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Kool Aid rebranded.

It isn't just rebranded Kool Aid. I grew up with those powdered mixes. Kool Aid, Wyler's, Funny Face, Flavor Aid, I had them all. Flavor Aid was definitely cheaper tasting, and not as good as Kool Aid. Flavor Aid is to Kool Aid what "All" is to "Tide".
17 posted on 08/25/2024 9:56:04 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Dr. Sivana

The K/A mfg uses less of the key ing to make it cheaper and sell it cheaper.


18 posted on 08/26/2024 2:28:43 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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