Strains Credulity

[kairos12]

Last edited Tue Jun 5, 2018, 05:58 PM - Edit history (1)

How Bone Spurs Twitler thinks he can define patriotism for anybody is beyond me. Well OK, the deplorable brigade salutes him from mom’s basement.

[Ohiogal]

1. Really.

The moron doesn't even know the words to the Star Spangled Banner.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel

As well as the first.

Decent people have better things to talk about.

[First Speaker]

4. That saying has actually been misunderstood...

...it's a quote from Dr Johnson. He wasn't attacking patriotism; he was attacking scoundrels. He had in mind people like Wilkes, demagogues who wrapped themselves in the flag to whip up hysteria. The equivalent in American terms would be Joseph McCarthy--or, of course, Donald Trump. Johnson himself was as patriotic, in his way, as you could ask for, and was the only prominent English intellectual of his time who fully supported the British cause in the American Revolution.

[FiveGoodMen]

5. Regardless of its first use

I stand by mine, which is based on observations throughout life.

[tulipsandroses]

3. Its the same people who think its just fine that Russia hacking the DNC is patriotic

its Bonkers.