Stupid Republican idea of the day

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill explains why there ain’t no more good shows on the teevee:

Telling US citizens to, “go back where they came from” is focusing on what unites us and complaining about it is fixating on our differences. Did I get that right?

Hell, I still watch Gumsmoke, Bonanza, and The Virginian for the hot gay sex parts. Subtext, people.

Piss off, you panderer. You were born in 1963. You’ve never watched Gunsmoke, *I Love Lucy *or the Andy Griffith Show in your entire misbegotten life.

Wow, that last sentence came out of, literally, nowhere.

Merrill apparently doesn’t realize what he just revealed about himself.

Remember:
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[li]There are a lot more of us than there are of them. Trump’s hardcore white-supremacist base is, at most, around a quarter of the country–that’s a lot, but it’s far from being a majority. At least half of white people are sane and non-deplorable.[/li][li]A lot of people (including well-known figures such as Obama) have their eyes on the election process, to make it as fair as possible. We have a real chance in 2020 to get rid of Trump and the worst of his enablers.[/li][li]If you, merely through conversations and on-line activity, can influence even one person to get registered and vote for Democrats, you’ll have doubled the impact of your own vote. And you may well influence more than one person, over the course of the coming months.[/li][/ul]

Don’t despair. Instead, focus on throwing the bums out.

Trump rally participants chant “Send her back” about Ilhan Omar.

This is very encouraging. I hope it works out. It’s easy to get sucked into the pit of despair. It seems like it’s been so long and still a long way to go, especially if 2020 goes how I fear. I wish there was some way to reach the potential voters who are not paying attention! And Democrats running for election really, really need to hire better PR advisors IMO.

Maybe not first run, but reruns. I was born in 1964, and I’ve seen multiple episodes of all three shows. (NB: Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is an asshole. But you knew that.)

Look, the rebuttal to that can be summed up in three words: Floyd the barber.

I think what he meant was "Why does every show on TV these days make me think of hot steamy man-on-man sex? Constant. Constant . nothing but sex with men, all the time.

I hated that character almost as much as I hated Aunt Bee. Seriously, how on Earth did those two characters become so popular and how on Earth did those two “actors” get jobs as actors?

But like… by choice ? No gun to your head or nothing ?! :o

Between Floyd and *Lost in Space’*s Dr. Smith and Paul Lynde on Bewitched, my third grade psyche was slapped with a trifecta of “Not necessarily gay, but certainly effeminate” actors.

I think some UECs (Uptight Evangelical Congressmen) were affected, and soon adopted Suspiciously Wide Stances in airport restrooms.

And you will lose with this strategy.

They are prepared to kill people to get their way. Some of them have recently (within the past month) declared that they will murder anyone who tries to stop them, even law enforcement officers.

Until the left is willing, ready and able to defend themselves and their ideals with the same level of gusto, the left is doomed to lose.

For instance: what will you do if the bums refuse to leave?

in an unguarded moment,
CALLER: In 2019, there’s gonna be a $1 trillion deficit. Trump doesn’t really care about that. He’s not really a fiscal conservative. We have to acknowledge that Trump has been cruelly used.
LIMBAUGH: Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore. All this talk about concern for the deficit and the budget has been bogus for as long as it’s been around.

a big fat idiot pulls back the curtain

Yeah, I probably should have spelled that out.

A lot of Jews got “ornamental” German names when family names became a thing.
Goldfarb
Silberberg
Gruenwald
Rosenfeld

and so forth.

From your link:

Aye; call it what it is.

I’m about ten years younger, and I saw all of those shows in syndication as a wee thing.