To: skimbell
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
H. L. Mencken
8 posted on
03/19/2020 5:28:09 PM PDT by
ExGeeEye
(For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
To: ExGeeEye
Wow. He said that before there was even TV. Truly prescient.
13 posted on
03/19/2020 5:31:21 PM PDT by
Eleutheria5
("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
To: ExGeeEye
I have his book. Brilliant caustic angry bastard. Great writer.
16 posted on
03/19/2020 5:32:59 PM PDT by
blackdog
(Making wine cave appearances upon request.)
To: ExGeeEye
The children’s Winnie the Pooh movie “Tigger and the Jagular” explains it all.
64 posted on
03/19/2020 5:54:01 PM PDT by
lightman
(I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
To: ExGeeEye
Oddly enough, the menacing has driven gun and ammo sales wild again.
71 posted on
03/19/2020 6:02:15 PM PDT by
Paladin2
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