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Also, free range kids are likely to be reported by ‘concerned’ neighbors.

Pretty soon, ‘Stand By Me’ and ‘The Goonies’ are going to be classified as dangerous propaganda.

Rich parents can afford nannies who force the children to interact with them.

Poor parents use TVs and smart phones to amuse their kids.

The amazing thing to me is that Trump has been completely open about his predilections for decades.

He went on Howard Stern and boasted about barging into the dressing rooms at the Miss Teen USA Pageant.

I heard an interview where Ivanka talked about asking Daddy not to date girls younger than her.

He talked about sex yachts to the Boy Scouts.

Now they are noticing it?

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Great graphic novel, “High Crimes.” A disgraced Olympic snowboarder now works as a corpse retriever on Mt. Everest. She and her partner charge $50,000.00 for the return of the dear departed.

https://comichub.com/products/high-crimes-graphic-novel-mature-

Did a quick search. The LBJ Library charges around $16.00 per adult visitor.

Trump is going to build his Library in Las Vegas, give it slots and a shooting range and charge the faithful ten times what any other Presidential Library charges.

Hell, he’ll give Stormy Daniels her own wing and run X-rated movies on an Imax screen.

True story. I saw an interview with Ivanka where she said that when she was in her twenties she asked her father not to date women younger than she was.

USSR imploded with little help from the West.

Brezhnev invaded Afghanistan; Solidarity trade union in Poland was homegrown; Chernobyl wasn’t sabotaged; the old guard who went against Gorbachev hated the West more than anyone.

And you think your opponents won’t mischaracterize you?

Leave the ivory tower and look at the real world.

Politics is a dirty game at the best of times. People lie, steal, cheat, and connive on a daily basis.

So, your plan is to waste debate time and call yourself a Socialist.

Why not do something like say “This is what Ike backed back when he was President. Are you calling Ike a Communist?”

One thing that drives me crazy is when Progressives insist on talking about Socialism.

Talk about the policies and ignore everything else.

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“The Whore Of Mensa” A private eye goes up against a escort service that provides lonely men with intellectual conversations.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/12/16/the-whore-of-mensa

The Stonewall Riots occurred in 1969. Star Trek’s controversial interracial kiss was a big scandal a few years before. The movie “The Legend of Nxxxxr Charlie” was shown and advertised all over the country. The movie “Midnight Cowboy” got an X-rating with zero nudity and one off screen man on man blowjob.

Sorry, I think you’ve got it backwards.

otoh, people in both eras used gas powered cars, telephones, telegraphs, and manual typewriters. They could both go to movies, ride trains, and take ocean voyages.

A person from 1903 would need a few days to adapt themselves to 1969 technology.

But someone from 1969 coming into 2025 would be lost. Most people in 1969 didn’t use credit cards, and had never seen an ATM. They used rotary phones and antenna TV.