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MyOwnPeace

(16,955 posts)

6. But Saint Ronnie Raygun

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Nov 9, 2019, 08:39 PM

Nov 2019

wanted that wall torn down!!!

"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. ... Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom."

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Is the stupidest tweet ever? [View all] kpete Nov 2019 OP

The stupid....it hurts... Pachamama Nov 2019 #1

Was it the wall that worked or was it the barbed wire, mines and armed machine gun towers? TheBlackAdder Nov 2019 #27

Really, no shit. Mr. Evil Nov 2019 #39

I just can't phathom the ignorance SterlingPound Nov 2019 #2

Wow, that's a heck of a lot of ignorance to be so stupidly proud of. nt WePurrsevere Nov 2019 #3

That is called "weapons-grade stupidity". lastlib Nov 2019 #41

Please be the Onion...please? jpak Nov 2019 #4

My favorite response to this fascist piece of shit Eliot Rosewater Nov 2019 #5

Yes, they've shown where they're heading for some time. Hortensis Nov 2019 #17

But Saint Ronnie Raygun MyOwnPeace Nov 2019 #6

Thispp happens when foreign policy is boiled down to a meme. Ilsa Nov 2019 #7

Wait, what? The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2019 #8

Who is this woman? rownesheck Nov 2019 #9

Treasury spokeswoman. JohnnyRingo Nov 2019 #29

Clueless. moondust Nov 2019 #10

I do think it is. mcar Nov 2019 #11

K&R Walls haven't worked since da Vinci improved the catapult. real Cannabis calm Nov 2019 #12

And since Monte Python invented the cattlepult. patphil Nov 2019 #14

Ha! Very good! ZZenith Nov 2019 #20

Win! Pacifist Patriot Nov 2019 #32

Whaaaat? Karadeniz Nov 2019 #13

yes! let's Make East Germany Great Again! #MEGGA 0rganism Nov 2019 #15

They work until they don't... czarjak Nov 2019 #16

We're not public shaming these people enough. Hotler Nov 2019 #18

Maybe. Harker Nov 2019 #19

What Trump wants is a magic wall that only keeps brown people out. tclambert Nov 2019 #21

I'd say she needs a history lesson BigMin28 Nov 2019 #22

Columbia wants their PhD back aeromanKC Nov 2019 #23

Yea, the wall "worked" because E. German soldiers murdered civilians Tarc Nov 2019 #24

Worth noting, the Berlin Wall was to keep people IN TexasBushwhacker Nov 2019 #44

One cannot even calculate the amount of stupidity Ferrets are Cool Nov 2019 #25

If it worked, they wouldn't have needed snipers and machine guns. Iggo Nov 2019 #26

Never underestimate the ignorance and pure stupidity TNNurse Nov 2019 #28

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity iluvtennis Nov 2019 #30

That ratio though blogslut Nov 2019 #31

Obviously failed 8th grade history. Initech Nov 2019 #33

Say it with me once again, "You can't fix stupid." Pacifist Patriot Nov 2019 #34

Posted in 2015 DesertRat Nov 2019 #35

Even with the snipers and barbed wire it was not wnylib Nov 2019 #36

Well that there is Monica "the plagiarizer" Crowley ain't it? luvallpeeps Nov 2019 #37

Monica, Monica... jmowreader Nov 2019 #38

Is that a phallic symbol she's proudly standing next to? KY_EnviroGuy Nov 2019 #40

Colgate and Columbia Turbineguy Nov 2019 #42

WTaF does she mean? SammyWinstonJack Nov 2019 #43