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Maeve

(42,281 posts)
9. Our history center is interpreting 1898 this year
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 11:04 AM
Mar 2016

(That's the preferred term to "re-enacting&quot and it is amazing the parallels between the Gilded Age and our own (one of the reasons they decided to move forward from the Civil War era). Big money ruling the land, corruption, the government being kept weak to allow the corporations/monopolies/trusts to prey on the workers, immigrants demonized...

 

pintobean

(18,101 posts)
5. Trashing. I just don't want to keep seeing those words.
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 10:16 AM
Mar 2016

It's not cute, and that subject line doesn't belong here.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
8. 'All you Trump voters are 'mad' because you have a disease
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 10:57 AM
Mar 2016

Hate is a disease you catch from others who are already infected. It is contagious, virulent, and can be incurable unless the infection is caught in time ...

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
12. That is the PERFECT WAY to get my ass
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 01:45 PM
Mar 2016

deported to Asia...despite the fact I am a United States Citizen. (I am part Hawaiian, I would love to be deported to Honolulu...I hear I have relatives there.)

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
15. Drumpf is probably stupid enough to think Hawai'i is a separate country.
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 02:22 PM
Mar 2016

It was, of course, until the 1893 overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani backed by U.S. Marines. Quite a few native Hawaiians do not recognize the legitimacy of the overthrow and subsequent U.S. territorial and state governments.

https://kalahuihawaii.wordpress.com/

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
16. Yeah I read about Hawaii's History
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 02:26 PM
Mar 2016

quite intriguing, but for sure, I am sure I will be sent to China, cause, don't ya know, we all look alike.

randr

(12,411 posts)
18. Thanks KamaAina
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 03:19 PM
Mar 2016

People seem to have lost their sense of irony.
I think the Tag would make a great Trump protest sigh.

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