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PlanetBev

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6. The frog boil started forty years ago...

Reply to Cyrano (Original post)

Mon Aug 10, 2020, 02:06 AM

Aug 2020

the second that Ronald Reagan was escorted into the White House. I cried for a week. Once the GOP hitched their wagon to the Christian Right and the greedy supply side bastards, I knew America’s finest days were numbered.

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Are we all frogs being boiled? [View all] Cyrano Aug 2020 OP

Been simmering for about 30 years now... Wounded Bear Aug 2020 #1

Yes, for sure. LisaL Aug 2020 #2

I'm cooked, hoping I grow a hard shell stillcool Aug 2020 #3

Boiled frogs legs with a nice Brie cheese and slightly chilled white wine is good some say.... magicarpet Aug 2020 #4

Alas, that's a remarkably enduring myth. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2020 #5

The frog boil started forty years ago... PlanetBev Aug 2020 #6

I'd say the pot is now at a rolling boil Hekate Aug 2020 #7

That's my sense, and it's been going on for a very long time. smirkymonkey Aug 2020 #8

I was using that very analogy the other day... SKKY Aug 2020 #9