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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsR.I.P. Lyndon LaRouche
LaRouche got one of his followers on the ballot in 2010 and 2012 for Texas CD 22 as the Democratic nominee on a platform of going to Mars and impeaching President Obama. His people are nut cases
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Renew Deal
(81,869 posts)Gothmog
(145,486 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)Stinky The Clown
(67,817 posts)Good riddance.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,748 posts)I'm not going into mourning.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)They are occasionally in the subway at Grand Central.
Also see them from time to time in Oyster Bay, NY.
They are freaks!
TexasTowelie
(112,354 posts)at the post office in Brenham.
underpants
(182,865 posts)His followers used to be mainstays at the DMV where I grew up they were ALWAYS there.
TexasTowelie
(112,354 posts)There was a group of about two dozen of them at the post office in Brenham when I stopped in for a visit.
I even posted a thread at the end of 2012 with a couple of photos:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10784982
NutmegYankee
(16,201 posts)I remember running into his followers as they crashed and interrupted a Virginia Young Democrats convention.
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)Of course, that was way back when Trump was more interested in copping BJ's from the NJ General's cheerleaders than forcing the American public to bend over and grab some ankle.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,349 posts)I can't see any news items about that.
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An even worse human being than Trump
More concentrated malice in LaRouche, I think. Trump is an amateur hater. And his wish to be admired holds him back a little, as does his laziness.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)He's 96 so that may not be the case for long.
I remember some bizarre news article where he said that Queen Elizabeth was behind the scenes, orchestrating a conspiracy against Bill Clinton. Oh, and she is also secretly a Zionist, controlling the world's drug trade.
This guy has always been nuttier than a christmas fruitcake.
underpants
(182,865 posts)I just stumbled in to this trying to see if LaRouche had died. This is from a month ago. Enjoy.
Heres an Insane Story About Roger Stone, Lyndon LaRouche, Vladimir Putin, and the Queen of England
The international cult leader has long-standing ties to Russiaand Robert Mueller.
Eleven days after President Donald Trumps election, Roger Stone, a longtime self-proclaimed GOP dirty trickster and Trump adviser, invited an unusual guest on his short-lived radio show, Stone Cold Truth, and began the interview with a question about former President Bill Clinton. "Well, I think the question of Bill Clinton is sometimes confused. Bill was framed, Lyndon LaRouche replied. And he was framed by the Queen of England.
It was typical fare from LaRouche, the 96-year-old leader of a fascist political cult group that has long pitched a variety of dark conspiracy theories, including his pet notion that a Zionist British aristocratic oligarchy secretly orchestrates world events. The queen has long been a favored villain of LaRouche, who has claimed she presides over the international narcotics trade. He has also accused Henry Kissinger of being a Soviet double agent, and has led a campaign for opera to be sung at a lower pitch. While LaRouches followers and their wild ideas have been a sideshow for five decadesas they have distributed leaflets and crashed political eventshe earned surprising prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, before a 1988 federal conviction for mail fraud sent him to prison for five years.
Stones recent association with LaRouche is consistent with his decades-long evolution from a mainstream GOP operative to an advocate and ally of the conspiratorial and political fringe. Stone is reportedly being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is examining his possible interactions during the 2016 campaign with WikiLeaks ahead of its releases of emails stolen by Russian government hackers. (Mueller himself is no stranger to LaRouche; he was a key player in the 1980s investigation that sent LaRouche to jail.) Despite all the scrutiny over Stones role in the 2016 campaign, his alignment with a political group that the Heritage Foundation once described as a strange asset for the KGBs disinformation effort remains a little-examined aspect of his recent activities.
Also under-examined has been a tantalizing clue about possible ties between LaRouches organization and Moscow. Buried in Christopher Steeles dossier on Trumps possible links to Russia was an August 2016 report with this allegation: A Kremlin official involved in US relations had claimed that Russia facilitated a LaRouche delegations trip to Moscow, offering members of LaRouches group assistance and enlisting them in an effort to disseminate compromising information as part of the Kremlins 2016 influence campaign. A lawyer with ties to both Stone and LaRouches network has claimed that he introduced Stone to a key LaRouche aide in early 2016, as Trump began to secure the Republican nomination.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/lyndon-larouche-roger-stone-russia-robert-mueller/
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)LaRouche is a friend/associate of Roger Stone ?? WHY didn't I see THAT coming ?
happybird
(4,616 posts)I grew up in Loudoun and remember, vividly, the big raid on King St. in Leesburg. I was only in middle school at the time, but it was such a BFD. As were his heavily armed guards posted right off of Rt.7, near his property entrance. We had lots of very wealthy people in area, but only one with paramilitary-like guards with huge guns. He would do some new, usually weird, shit-stirring in town every few years.
Good times.
RIP, dude
Addition: Found an archived article from '86 about some of the craziness he and his followers brought to our little county:
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/04/11/us/small-town-in-virginia-tense-host-to-larouche.html
edbermac
(15,942 posts)Those guys were nuttier than Trump and his MAGAts.