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Frank Luntz: kids are using socialism to get sex
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applegrove
(118,677 posts)that isn't just a socialist thing.
KPN
(15,646 posts)applegrove
(118,677 posts)Exotica
(1,461 posts)on so many millions of my fellow Americans.
The word itself has a depressing possible etymology :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardonicism
Among the very ancient people of Sardinia, who were called Sardi or Sardoni, it was customary to kill old people. While killing their old people, the Sardi laughed loudly. This is the origin of notorious sardonic laughter (Eugen Fehrle, 1930).
applegrove
(118,677 posts)wingers these days.
KPN
(15,646 posts)Word of the week: sardonic.
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,943 posts)He sounded as though he hasn't slept in months. Poor thing!
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)A couple of years ago he complained, in an amazed voice, that the younger generation is "frighteningly liberal."
It was DELICIOUS.
edbermac
(15,940 posts)Worked every time!
Wounded Bear
(58,662 posts)edbermac
(15,940 posts)My best pickup line: Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains...Workers of the world unite!
Wed be in the sack in a heartbeat.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Exotica
(1,461 posts)You made me spit my 10:18 am Bellini
Codeine
(25,586 posts)from each according to their abilities.
Works for me!
Renew Deal
(81,860 posts)applegrove
(118,677 posts)Last edited Tue Apr 10, 2018, 12:49 AM - Edit history (1)
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)Exotica
(1,461 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Skittles
(153,164 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)near as I can tell.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)DFW
(54,397 posts)I haven't seen him since, but Frank Luntz is no idiot. This is pure theater for the stupid. He knows he's spouting nonsense. Probably had to rehearse this line twenty times in front of a mirror before he could say it with a straight face. He's playing to an audience, and it's his audience that should frighten us, not Luntz. They think he's serious. He knows he's not.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)That kind of cynicism and intellectual dishonesty is just sad and indefensible.
DFW
(54,397 posts)He went with who pays highest, and that is the Republicans. If we had had the funds at the time (and I'm talking over 20 years ago), when he was starting out, he would have done the same for us. What he truly believes is anyone's guess, but this garbage isn't anything he believes.
Luntz is incredibly smart, which means he knows perfectly well that kids are not "using socialism to get sex." He plays Uriah Heep on TV, but his "aw shucks" routine is just an act. He knows perfectly well what is going on. He didn't get to be a multi gazillionaire by being dumb enough to really believe that claiming socialist beliefs boost your student sex life. He DID get rich by recognizing that Republicans ARE dumb enough to believe it.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)grew up in the town next to where I live - West Hartford, CT and West Hartford is known for being very liberal.
So many RW media icons are from CT - Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Frank Luntz...
DFW
(54,397 posts)He's a guy I was at school with in my last year of high school. I knew nothing of West Hartford, so when I met this guy, I assumed all of West Hartford was solid Republican. I wasn't in with the in-crowd at this school anyway, as I was a first-year senior who definitely did NOT fit in, and was made to feel it in no uncertain terms. Bush 41 and 43 both graduated from there, so I would have figured it out sooner or later. At the time, 43 was nothing but the deatbeat son of 41.
My West Hartford classmate was class head of our school's chapter of the so-called "Young Americans for Freedom," the Republican youth organization known to the rest of us on campus as the Young Assholes for Fascism. I have no idea what he's up to now. Probably the retired CEO of some insurance company drawing a $5 million a year pension, if he didn't change his spots any in the meantime.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)and Coulter in New Canaan, CT, which is one of the wealthiest towns in the country.
ExciteBike66
(2,358 posts)Sancho
(9,070 posts)...it was a big strike out.
karynnj
(59,503 posts)"And if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you're not going to make it with anyone any how." in Revolution.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)LSFL
(1,109 posts)No wonder it didn't work!
ProfessorGAC
(65,057 posts)Geez, that wouldn't even have worked with my wife, and she actually likes me.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,057 posts)Made me laugh!
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Last edited Tue Apr 10, 2018, 08:02 PM - Edit history (1)
At the racist Charleston rally compared to a Sanders event makes things clear. One group hangs out with women and one doesnt. One group is in fear of women and one isnt.
Sanders isnt even close to a socialist. Capitalism runs deep in that circle. As it does in most all others.
DiverDave
(4,886 posts)Isn't the same thing.
Unless you forgot the sarcasm thingy.
Then never mind.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Seems Luntz is the one who forgot.
Shouldnt be so quick to jump.
Capitalism runs deep in those circles.
DiverDave
(4,886 posts)Did you not?
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)rgbecker
(4,831 posts)They'll be all over you.
Coventina
(27,120 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)Lots more laughs to go along with the original
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)how does socialism get sex? Just curious on this one. Sometimes I have an idea what they will talk about, but on this one, I'm at a loss.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)If you're a young person, telling a girl you're a socialist makes you much likelier to "get some action" at the end of the evening because socialism is cool right now.
But it's so much funnier with Luntz. Bookmark it and watch it when you get home.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)since this was back in the 80s, my pick up line would have involved discussing Olof Palme and Democratic Socialism. Nah, I was still too shy throughout most of college to throw out pickup lines (the first time I got laid, it was the young woman doing most of pursuing)
Thanks for the summary, though.
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)while socialists give it away for free. Those damn freeloading young millennials and their free sex ruin everything.
rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,464 posts)0rganism
(23,955 posts)back in the '80s, all my socialism got me was weird looks and lower grades on social science essays. really had no idea of its potential for sex appeal.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Socialised sex,😁
lame54
(35,292 posts)DBoon
(22,366 posts)start reading Volume 1 of Capital, and they nod off immediately
Instant sleep!
wellst0nev0ter
(7,509 posts)Well it is true that trumpanzees are so desperate for dates, they had to create their own app.
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)What a great, fun thread this is.