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When Life Was Easy [View all] milestogo Jun 2023 OP
I grew up near a "sundown" town UpInArms Jun 2023 #1
Does anyone ever heal from an experience like that? Marthe48 Jun 2023 #24
I don't know about healing UpInArms Jun 2023 #43
I understand this KentuckyWoman Jun 2023 #79
... UpInArms Jun 2023 #87
OMG that's horrible.. whathehell Jun 2023 #69
Did you ever see the 1993 movie "A Bronx Tale", Directed and starring Robert De Niro? A HERETIC I AM Jun 2023 #75
She's shouting out to old white people about the good old days Iggo Jun 2023 #2
True dat. IrishAfricanAmerican Jun 2023 #18
Well, I'm one of those old (80) very white (German, British, Scandie) people and I don't remember sarge43 Jun 2023 #40
I don't recall anyone ever mentioning it Conjuay Jun 2023 #47
Never heard about the dog tag whistling past the grave yard "let's pretend" sarge43 Jun 2023 #66
YOU ARE RIGHT. I am 75 years old. I remember all this. raging moderate Jun 2023 #56
where I was we didn't have duck and cover drills. We were close to an air base and demigoddess Jun 2023 #86
I was stationed at two SAC bases sarge43 Jun 2023 #89
AMEN! misanthrope Jun 2023 #77
I'm an old white person from Kentucky. KentuckyWoman Jun 2023 #78
This old white person wants Nikki Haley to take her bs and shove it! 50 Shades Of Blue Jun 2023 #3
Agreed! Rebl2 Jun 2023 #10
Nikki do you mean Diamond_Dog Jun 2023 #4
+1 nitpicked Jun 2023 #5
Powerful reply. MOMFUDSKI Jun 2023 #13
I know, right? Diamond_Dog Jun 2023 #25
✔️ enough Jun 2023 #14
as a child she didn't know about any of that orleans Jun 2023 #17
How does Joe Biden stop her from any of that? Diamond_Dog Jun 2023 #26
"How does Joe Biden stop her from any of that?" ..... exactly! orleans Jun 2023 #44
Nikki Haley's "faith" is a prop. Mariana Jun 2023 #71
It almost sounds like she may have gotten hit in the head with one of those Jarts... SeattleVet Jun 2023 #68
you were reading my mind with the jarts -- but i didn't even orleans Jun 2023 #73
Or even get the job you wanted in the first place? Retrograde Jun 2023 #19
I remember those ads, too Diamond_Dog Jun 2023 #27
I'm bordering on Gen Xer ExWhoDoesntCare Jun 2023 #72
Exactly as I remember those days. My childhood was not txwhitedove Jun 2023 #22
You have it made, txwhitedove! Diamond_Dog Jun 2023 #29
Ha, yes she is and I predict will never be president. txwhitedove Jun 2023 #33
To add to your list, I recall when guidance counselors told women students that we could allegorical oracle Jun 2023 #41
+ 1 nt pazzyanne Jun 2023 #46
And in certain professions... Trueblue Texan Jun 2023 #48
In 2002 Sears refused to come out for a window estimate unless my husband was home. KentuckyWoman Jun 2023 #81
Simple Minded Goonch Jun 2023 #6
👆👆👆 Rebl2 Jun 2023 #9
LOL! Except that she wouldn't have soldierant Jun 2023 #36
I wonder if Nikki ever thought about Mr.Bill Jun 2023 #7
Exactly. Diamond_Dog Jun 2023 #31
I love having Ted Lieu in our California lineup. Nikki Haley is an embarrassment to womankind. Hekate Jun 2023 #8
I'm going to need to see her husband's signature before I take her seriously... JHB Jun 2023 #11
Excellent tweet Congressman Lieu. Had friends whose families had crosses burned on their yard. Good Evolve Dammit Jun 2023 #12
Icky Nikki. calimary Jun 2023 #15
Oh, I like that! ShazzieB Jun 2023 #16
What a great nickname for her! Diamond_Dog Jun 2023 #30
Good nick...ptp Trueblue Texan Jun 2023 #49
When Nimarata Randhawa ran for governor of South Carolina as Nimarata Randhawa and won. dalton99a Jun 2023 #20
K&R betsuni Jun 2023 #21
More Nostalgia Cyanide from the Trite Wing . . . hatrack Jun 2023 #23
The long arc of the moral universe has bent too far towards justice Martin Eden Jun 2023 #28
There are so many people in this country that don't remember those days. patphil Jun 2023 #32
Plus, when we did land a job equal to men, we never got paid the same salary. My SSecurity allegorical oracle Jun 2023 #42
I remember those days ... aggiesal Jun 2023 #34
Damn, lady, life has never been "simple". republianmushroom Jun 2023 #35
Yes, I doubt that anyone's life has ever been easy. Or simple. soldierant Jun 2023 #37
True...I lived in a town where there were zero black people. Trueblue Texan Jun 2023 #50
Ah yes the good old days! Permanut Jun 2023 #38
Could somebody please post Kristin Lems' "The Fifties Sound"? Thanks niyad Jun 2023 #39
here... Ysabel Jun 2023 #55
Thank you. niyad Jun 2023 #57
A quibble with her lyrics misanthrope Jun 2023 #80
Yes, it goes something like this maxrandb Jun 2023 #45
Boy the way Glenn Miller played, songs that made the hit parade Danmel Jun 2023 #51
and you knew who you were then treestar Jun 2023 #64
WTF? lonely bird Jun 2023 #52
I am luckier - agree life was easier, simpler. BUT even if it Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2023 #53
It wasn't that long ago, maybe 1990's, that my evangelical Republican boss said, LakeArenal Jun 2023 #54
I was told at my workplace Diamond_Dog Jun 2023 #76
Yikes. I know I was paid less than a man in the same job LakeArenal Jun 2023 #82
Unbelievable. Diamond_Dog Jun 2023 #84
I remember one Manager's job description said: LakeArenal Jun 2023 #85
If you were in a middle class family edhopper Jun 2023 #58
Even Pepperidge Farm doesn't remember it that way. Wingus Dingus Jun 2023 #59
per google, she is 51 treestar Jun 2023 #60
Things had gone south for "faith and family" with the divorce rate. Wingus Dingus Jun 2023 #62
Yes a lot of the things righties decry treestar Jun 2023 #63
That's why this statement is so stupid. She's acting like she was an early white boomer. Wingus Dingus Jun 2023 #65
When I was 4 we lived in Memphis, my dad was from Mississippi. elocs Jun 2023 #61
She is such a self loathing woman kimbutgar Jun 2023 #67
Don Lemon got canned, in part, for saying Nikki Haley is past her prime IcyPeas Jun 2023 #70
According to 23 and me cksmithy Jun 2023 #74
Before WWII female schoolteachers were required to resign kskiska Jun 2023 #83
Yeah, she know exactly what's she's saying. Torchlight Jun 2023 #88
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