Prickly City by Scott Stantis for March 19, 2024

Can’t argue, 2 geriatrics. Why can we get somebody that might live 4 years?

Notice what everyone is “not saying”, is they don’t like Vice President Kamala Harris. I’m voting blue, unlike the winer babies, I know what President Biden and the Democrats have done to improve the U.S.

Sure. 1952.

2008

FALSE EQUIVALENCY ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!

1972. Nixon trounced McGovern. Landslide victory for the Republicans but working in the trenches for McGovern was thrilling.

Jack and Bobby Kennedy.

1992, 2008, 2020. Anytime we’ve had to rescue the country from a disastrous Republican presidency. (Note I do NOT include 1976.)

Plenty of Trumpers are enthusiastic. That’s what’s dangerous.

It was 1980 and I was naive…

There was 2008

The fact that we even have a category called “The Working Poor” should tell you that something is wrong.

Jfk, Rfk and Mlk were great, that’s why the right wing murdered them.

Both Parties at the same time? I can’t think of one in the past 60 years except maybe 2000.

I don’t know about you, but I was excited about Obama.

I know it’s not popular, but, while I wasn’t excited about President Biden in 2020, I am now.

I received this from a former shipmate . . . I think everyone should read it, but unless we make it into a TIK TOK – no one will . . .

99% of people born between 1930 and 1946 (GLOBALLY) are now dead.

If you were born in this time span, your ages range between 77 and 93 years old (a 16-year age span) and you are one of the rare surviving one-percenters.

You are the smallest group of children born since the early 1900’s.

You are the last generation, climbing out of the depression, who can remember the winds of war and the impact of a world at war that rattled the structure of our daily lives for years.

You are the last to remember ration books for everything from tea to sugar to shoes. You saved tin foil and poured fried meat fat into cans.

You can remember milk being delivered to your house early in the morning and placed in the “milk-box” at the front door. Discipline was enforced by parents and teachers. You are the last generation who spent childhood without television and instead, you “imagined” what you heard on the radio.

With no T.V., you spent your childhood “playing outside”. There was no city playground for kids. The lack of television in your early years meant that you had little real understanding of what the world was like.

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1980