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Tanuki

(14,918 posts) Tue May 12, 2020, 04:38 AM May 2020

"We have met the moment and we have prevailed."

Did 45's obviously ghost-written mock-heroic bit of melodrama remind anyone else of this Pogo classic?

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"We have met the moment and we have prevailed." (Original Post) Tanuki May 2020 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author bullimiami May 2020 #1

trump was quoting Nixon Gothmog May 2020 #2

Interesting. I am not familiar with that quote. When did Nixon say it? Tanuki May 2020 #3

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Gothmog

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2. trump was quoting Nixon

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Tue May 12, 2020, 07:54 AM

May 2020

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)

3. Interesting. I am not familiar with that quote. When did Nixon say it?

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #2)

Tue May 12, 2020, 08:31 AM

May 2020

I know that the Pogo panel was a riff on a famous quote from Commodore Perry. Funny but fitting that 45 (or his ventriloquists) would go to Nixon for inspiration!

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