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R.I.P. Lyndon LaRouche (Original Post) Gothmog Feb 2019 OP
Does that mean he's not running in 2020? Renew Deal Feb 2019 #1
I am not sure Gothmog Feb 2019 #4
Good Riddance Lyndon LaRouche...nt GReedDiamond Feb 2019 #2
La Rouche La Douche Stinky The Clown Feb 2019 #3
Finally jberryhill Feb 2019 #5
Only the good die young. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2019 #6
I see his followers defending trump dhol82 Feb 2019 #7
I had an interesting experience with them TexasTowelie Feb 2019 #8
Him directly? underpants Feb 2019 #11
No, not LaRouche himself. TexasTowelie Feb 2019 #15
More like Rest in Hell. NutmegYankee Feb 2019 #9
Christ! I remember a time when LaRouche was the biggest loon on the American political landscape. jcmaine72 Feb 2019 #10
Are you saying he's dead? muriel_volestrangler Feb 2019 #12
No, he's still alive. Haggis for Breakfast Feb 2019 #14
Okay Haggis, now I REALLY going to make your day. LaRouche, Roger Stone, Mueller, Putin, & the Queen underpants Feb 2019 #16
OMG. Underpants, you're killing me. Haggis for Breakfast Feb 2019 #17
I had forgotten about him ... happybird Feb 2019 #13
I remember his followers protesting William Weld in Boston. edbermac Feb 2019 #18

dhol82

(9,353 posts)
7. I see his followers defending trump
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 09:00 PM
Feb 2019

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)
15. No, not LaRouche himself.
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 09:27 PM
Feb 2019

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)
9. More like Rest in Hell.
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 09:10 PM
Feb 2019

I remember running into his followers as they crashed and interrupted a Virginia Young Democrats convention.

jcmaine72

(1,773 posts)
10. Christ! I remember a time when LaRouche was the biggest loon on the American political landscape.
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 09:15 PM
Feb 2019

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)
12. Are you saying he's dead?
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 09:16 PM
Feb 2019

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)
14. No, he's still alive.
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 09:26 PM
Feb 2019

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)
16. Okay Haggis, now I REALLY going to make your day. LaRouche, Roger Stone, Mueller, Putin, & the Queen
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 09:52 PM
Feb 2019

I just stumbled in to this trying to see if LaRouche had died. This is from a month ago. Enjoy.

Here’s an Insane Story About Roger Stone, Lyndon LaRouche, Vladimir Putin, and the Queen of England

The international cult leader has long-standing ties to Russia—and Robert Mueller.

Eleven days after President Donald Trump’s 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 LaRouche’s followers and their wild ideas have been a sideshow for five decades—as they have distributed leaflets and crashed political events—he earned surprising prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, before a 1988 federal conviction for mail fraud sent him to prison for five years.

Stone’s 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 Stone’s role in the 2016 campaign, his alignment with a political group that the Heritage Foundation once described as a “strange asset for the KGB’s disinformation effort” remains a little-examined aspect of his recent activities.

Also under-examined has been a tantalizing clue about possible ties between LaRouche’s organization and Moscow. Buried in Christopher Steele’s dossier on Trump’s 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 delegation’s trip to Moscow, offering members of LaRouche’s group assistance and enlisting them in an effort to disseminate “compromising information” as part of the Kremlin’s 2016 influence campaign. A lawyer with ties to both Stone and LaRouche’s 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)
17. OMG. Underpants, you're killing me.
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 10:12 PM
Feb 2019

LaRouche is a friend/associate of Roger Stone ?? WHY didn't I see THAT coming ?



happybird

(4,616 posts)
13. I had forgotten about him ...
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 09:20 PM
Feb 2019

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)
18. I remember his followers protesting William Weld in Boston.
Tue Feb 12, 2019, 10:15 PM
Feb 2019

Those guys were nuttier than Trump and his MAGAts.

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