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Trump's health care plan, Meidas Touch: (Original Post)
Kingofalldems
Aug 2020
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Dem2theMax
(9,650 posts)1. "I've been saying this for a long time."
Wounded Bear
(58,645 posts)2. K & R...for visibility...nt
MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)3. BEST EVAR!!!!!!!
Love the "honky-tonk" piano music - just points out how "honky-tonk' BunkerBoy really is - a cartoon with nobody laughing!
Tanuki
(14,918 posts)4. Also, the song is "Dixie," which was pretty much the theme song
of the Confederacy, so it both draws attention to his reactionary racism, and the fact that whenever he talks about his "healthcare plan" he is "whistling Dixie."
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/whistle--dixie#idioms-section
"whistle Dixie
Engage in unrealistic, hopeful fantasizing, as in If you think you can drive there in two hours, you're whistling Dixie. This idiom alludes to the song Dixie and the vain hope that the Confederacy, known as Dixie, would win the Civil War."
MyOwnPeace
(16,925 posts)5. Great catch!
GAWD, I feel like I'm back in college, having the "hidden message" explained to me!!!
ismnotwasm
(41,975 posts)6. K&R