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In reply to the discussion: Venezuela: Tens of thousands march in anti-government protests [View all]Judi Lynn
(160,707 posts)47. Strange to have never heard it back then. Didn't happen.
So odd to hear anyone claiming it now.
George W. Bush was called a lot of things, but never heard him being called "Dear Leader," especially considering he wasn't elected, and certainly never heard Clinton called "Dear Leader," at least among ordinary people.
Can't speak for right-wingers.
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BIG difference between "didn't happen" and "I never saw it happen." Feel free to admit you
Common Sense Party
Mar 2014
#83
You've been a member since 02 and never once saw it? I don't think you're lying, I just...
DRoseDARs
Mar 2014
#45
Stilll, the fact remains that you could have easily typed in "dear leader bush"
smokey775
Mar 2014
#96
Don't assume Democrats are as stupid as Republicans. That wouldn't be accurate. n/t
Judi Lynn
Mar 2014
#48
Follow the money. Astroturfed movements don't just happen in the USA, you know.
reformist2
Mar 2014
#16
There was violence, lots of shooting with plastic bullets, etc., those armed gangs, tear gas, etc.
MADem
Mar 2014
#17
The Guardian: "Venezuela's poor join protests as turmoil grips Chávez's revolution"
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2014
#30
I don't give a fuck about OWS, and neither did anyone else. I just thought someone should correct
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2014
#36
I'm sorry, I can't talk to someone who sounds like they swallowed an Occupy manifesto. OWS was a...
Tarheel_Dem
Mar 2014
#102
Absolutely, Hindus! Just after the Principality of Santa Lucia del Carmen though...
ChangoLoa
Mar 2014
#38
Yep. Your tax dollars is buying propaganda the right-wingers try to stuff down
Judi Lynn
Mar 2014
#49
"the same people praise the opposition in anther country that does all of those things and more."
reddread
Mar 2014
#86
You don't understand the "moral principles." It's a dysfunctional dictatorship now.
MADem
Mar 2014
#129
And then, during the Bush pResidency, they stopped estimating crowds at protests
Judi Lynn
Mar 2014
#51
I wouldn't call them a movement. They're a presence from centuries ago that never left. They are not
freshwest
Mar 2014
#64
ANONYMOUS VZ is collecting images from protesters round the clock and putting them up on Twitter.
MADem
Mar 2014
#114
The Keystone Pipeline protest in DC yesterday had more people protesting than the Venezuelan
Zorra
Mar 2014
#29
If you can find any credible information that the Keystone protesters were attacked
Common Sense Party
Mar 2014
#58
Yes, the biker gangs shootings are terrifying and destabilizing government as well. I don't think
freshwest
Mar 2014
#65
Authoritarianism is older than the definition as we use it. Before the pharoahs, even. And it's not
freshwest
Mar 2014
#127