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underpants

(182,788 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 07:47 AM Mar 2017

Where have you gone Joe McCarthy....

A Republican nation turns its soulless eyes to you
Woo woo woo

Oh the irony is so thick you could cut it with a sickle.

Officially there is a disconnect between the Soviets and "Russia" or at least there was for a time. Now a former KGB black operative is running the show for his rich oligarch friends.

When McCarthy's "Red Scare" was in full force lives and careers were ruined by the slimmest hint of a connection to anything RUSSIAN. These were civilians as well as government, most State Dept., but they tended to be lower level not the heights of power including national security.

We have a Presidential campaign and administration that is directly connected to Russia up down and sideways. An entire political party really. A former US Army General in the role of National Security advisor, the Attorney General of the United States, and the majority leader in the US Senate who covered up or dismissed reports of these direct connections going back to at least September. A President A PRESIDENT with vast business dealings (and probably debt) with Russian elements. Oh and the Attorney General was a sitting US Senator .

And their own press is shooing away every accusation like flies on a turd. In desperation to project the desperation back at the accusers.

The party of the "shining city on the hill", the flagged draped defenders of AMERICA, the party of GOD (against those Godless communists) no less.

Joe would shake his head at them. And it's pretty bad when Joe McCarthy can look down on you from moral grounds.

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Where have you gone Joe McCarthy.... (Original Post) underpants Mar 2017 OP
What's so bad about Eugene McCarthy? Kolesar Mar 2017 #1
Edit - changed "lonely eyes" to "soulless eyes" underpants Mar 2017 #2
Perfect. nt littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #4
Ever seen the movie "The Majestic"? Wounded Bear Mar 2017 #9
Now I think of McCarthyism as a Nixonian attack on the labor unions Kolesar Mar 2017 #11
Well! littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #3
Coo coo cachoo underpants Mar 2017 #5
. littlemissmartypants Mar 2017 #6
That was a witch hunt JustAnotherGen Mar 2017 #7
Too bad Meryl Streep didn't get pressbox69 Mar 2017 #8
Ann Coulter loves her some Joe too. Now she loves a Russian puppet because she Johonny Mar 2017 #10
Ou sont les birchers d'antan? Mc Mike Mar 2017 #12

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
1. What's so bad about Eugene McCarthy?
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 07:56 AM
Mar 2017

I used to hear references to McCarthyism and think they were too harsh on the old peacenik. I was born in the 60s and had never heard of Joe.
Anyway, excellent post, Underpants.

Wounded Bear

(58,648 posts)
9. Ever seen the movie "The Majestic"?
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 01:12 PM
Mar 2017

One of Jim Carrey's best, actually. He did some real acting in it.

The culminating scene shows the main character in front of the Congressional committee. I don't know that they actually used McCarthy's name in it, but it spells out the atmosphere in the 50's when McCarthy was at his height.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268995/

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
11. Now I think of McCarthyism as a Nixonian attack on the labor unions
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 07:47 AM
Mar 2017

Thanks for the movie recommendation. I can relate

At the library:

JustAnotherGen

(31,818 posts)
7. That was a witch hunt
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 12:58 PM
Mar 2017


In this case – we KNOW who the Americans are that have turned traitor. All we have to do is attend a WH Cabinet meeting and well – there ya go! They're all right there.

pressbox69

(2,252 posts)
8. Too bad Meryl Streep didn't get
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 01:07 PM
Mar 2017

another chance to heap abuse on fake #45 again at the Oscars. He must hate her since she played Ethel Rosenberg's ghost and tormented his legal guru Roy Cohn on his deathbed in Angels in America.

Johonny

(20,841 posts)
10. Ann Coulter loves her some Joe too. Now she loves a Russian puppet because she
Fri Mar 3, 2017, 02:09 PM
Mar 2017

was sell her soul for more money. Wait she already has...

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