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I'm calling it now - for the 2020 election

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posted on Jan, 20 2017 @ 05:18 AM
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a reply to: HarumphHarumph
There is a lot of historical precedent for this; people taking a defiant pride in adopting nicknames which were originally hostile. Apart from the two examples I mentioned, we have seen "Contemptible" (the British army of 1914, according to the Kaiser), "Beggars" (the Dutch independence movement, according to the Spanish), "Methodist", and probably even "Christian".
People self-describing as "deplorable" are simply following the same defiant route.




edit on 20-1-2017 by DISRAELI because: (no reason given)



posted on Jan, 20 2017 @ 06:24 AM
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Well put.



posted on Mar, 25 2019 @ 10:55 PM
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I'm still going with:

Hyneman/Savage 2020

They worked well together (even if they didn't like each other), they know how to blow stuff up, and The People liked them.



 
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