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âŚthe burning of ex-wife elegies
Effigies are three-dimensional representations of a specific person. âIt is common to burn an effigy of a person (âburn in effigyâ) as an act of protest.â
Elegies are poems, songs, or other works of art composed as a lament for someone who has died.
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A story on Ron Swanson!!! A STORY ON Ron Swanson!!!1!!!11!!! Wait⌠Whatâs a Ron Swanson?
(Extra points for anyone getting the reference.)
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Ron is popular with liberals because they see how ridiculous his positions are and heâs popular with conservatives because they believe the things he says while they wonder what liberals are laughing at.
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This article had too many words.
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âwhere the President makes his debut on Twitter and is immediately met with an onslaught of hateful and racist comments and the Democratic Party sends emails comparing Republican politicians to evil Game of
Thrones charactersâ
She calls herself a âbleeding-heart liberal and a raging feministâ but the both-sides-do-it comment above reveals something else: sheâs a nitwit who canât discern the yawning, fundamental chasm between overt expressions of racist bigotry personally directed at the President and the DNC making fun of Republicans with fictional TV characters.
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This is how I was first introduced to Ron Swanson.
Six minutes and 57 seconds of Ron Swanson on food.
You can say that againâŚbut that would also be too many words. Luckily, I read the readerâs digest version! Opps I mean, read digest ed. Ha ha ha.
Yes, and those scrumptious Swanson Hungry Man dinners are just so convenient!
In this politically polarized climate where the President makes his debut on Twitter and is immediately met with an onslaught of hateful and racist comments and the Democratic Party sends emails comparing Republican politicians to evil Game of Thrones characters
Tap dancing Jeebus on a cracker. Talk about your false equivalenceâŚ
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The same thing jumped out at me as well.
I guess âliberalâ, like most everything else, just ainât what it used to be.
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Terrific piece!
I like Ron Swanson because I love Nick Offerman . I know he is not Ron Swanson, but plays him to perfection.
Half of the country was elated; they believed that Obama was returning America to its roots. The other half was terrified; they believed that Obama was hacking at Americaâs roots with a blunt axe.
I donât think this is accurate. At the time, around 66% of Americans liked or loved Obama, obviously including a fair number of people who had not voted for him. The Republicans freaked outâthey thought the Obama phenomenon was an existential threat to their party. Thus began their massive, unrelenting campaign to terrify Americans, resulting in the above-cited half of Americans being terrified.
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Set bluestatedonâs comment about her above.
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He was the 21st century Archie Bunker.
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Yes.
Swanson is a modern day conservative libertarian. Putting in a modest effort in a government job and just waiting for that pension. I have read commenters on other sites from small government types that crowed about the 20 years they put in the service and the second careers they have at institutions of higher learning (state institutions, no doubt) oblivious to the fact that they are looking for 2 government pensions and SS when their working days are done. These people are trash. Wasnât it Dick Armey, another small government conservative, that sued the government to keep his âworkâ health benefits. When these people are whores that must be pointed out.
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It is always kind of interesting, for lack of a better word, to see how many Libertarians you find working government jobs. And they often seem to be in areas which you would think they would decry as unnecessary big government intervention, if it wasnât their source of income.
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Was this article the final assignment in a high school creative writing class?
It reads like it.
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