And America Continues to Show it's True Colors. . .

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Also, regarding all of the sexual accusations... I'm worried that any day now they'll start accusing dead people.

Please spare us Jim Henson and the Rev. W. Awdry!!
 

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Also, regarding all of the sexual accusations... I'm worried that any day now they'll start accusing dead people.

Please spare us Jim Henson and the Rev. W. Awdry!!
Well, after Patrick Swayzee died, Kirstie Alley came forward and bragged about an affair they were having.

But then again, Kirstie is a classless piece of trash.
 

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I have only a few issues with Mr. Awdry in regards to how he dismissed some episodes of Thomas and Friends.... But that's another deal for another day.

I doubt Awdry or Henson have ever sexually assaulted someone.... But at least you can always put your fingers in your ears and go "lalalalalalalala" until the bad stories go away.
 

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Yes, I recall a time in the not-so-distant past when people said he would never become President.
In the not too distant past
When the country wasn't spent
There was a guy named Trump
Who we never thought would be president

I'm sure no one will get my reference but eh, whatevs.
 

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I think it's only a matter of time before Trump is impeached.... But as you pointed out, we still can't predict the future.
We also have to remember that being impeached and having to leave the office do not always go together. As of today, the only 2 Presidents who were impeached were Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, neither of whom had to leave office. The only President forced out of office was Richard Nixon and he was NOT impeached. It’s a complicated system.
 

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Well, after Patrick Swayzee died, Kirstie Alley came forward and bragged about an affair they were having.

But then again, Kirstie is a classless piece of trash.
It's quotes like this that give them a leg to stand on. :wink:
 

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Also, even if their side was fighting for the wrong cause, the Germans of WWII had some genuine heroes.

Take Franz Stigler, for instance. He had the opportunity to shoot down a damaged B-17, but decided it was an unfair go and instead escorted it back over the English Channel and out of harm's way.

For more, read:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brown_and_Franz_Stigler_incident
On the satirical and fictitious side, we have Col. Klink and Sgt. Schultz, who were both played by German-Jewish actors Werner Klemperer and John Banner (from Austria), both of whom got the "heil" out of their homelands and emigrated to the United States, where they both served in the U.S. Army.

Even though Klink was a bungling, cowardly fool and Schultz frequently pretended to "see, hear, and know nutting!", with Klink being from Prussian World War I aristocracy, and Schultz whose toy factory was seized by Germany, with the old political parties being abolished in the dark 1930's, and both of them being in the army with Schultz actually despising the Nazi regime.

Klink's screechy violin playing spoofed the fact that in real life, Klemperer was actually a skilled musician, and his father was a renowned conductor.

One of the worst things that could have happened to the show might have been if they hired actors who were revealed to be full-blooded non-Jewish Germans who had served in the German Army or government during World War II, but it's a good thing that it didn't happen that way...
 

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It should also be noted that Werner Klemperer's only condition was that Klink always be made a fool, and his schemes always be foiled by the Heroes.

John Banner has also said that he believed Schultz, "Represented the little bit of good found in every generation."

The only Jewish castmember who had issues with the show was the actor who played the Russian tailor in the pilot: he felt the premise treated the Nazis too lightly and made them seem like lovable loons, and refused to sign on when the pilot went to series.
 

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The only President forced out of office was Richard Nixon and he was NOT impeached. It’s a complicated system.
Unless I'm mistaken (and I might be), in May of 1974, the House Judiciary Committee began impeachment proceedings against Nixon (they have power to commence impeachment, with the Senate acting as the jury to decide on actually convicting the President), with Tricky Dickie resigning in August '74 before the Senate convened instead of actual physical force...
 
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