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Dan Rather FTW (Original Post) Buttoneer Apr 2 OP
That's from October 2020 but it still applies. Dan's 10/17/2020 tweet: highplainsdem Apr 2 #1
Thanks! Buttoneer Apr 2 #5
Amen! Jack Valentino Apr 2 #2
Love that man Grim Chieftain Apr 2 #3
Hasn't been MW67 Apr 2 #6
He should get his own show....... a kennedy Apr 2 #4
Love ananda Apr 2 #7
Still brilliant after all these years! calimary Apr 2 #8
And rats are actually smart. 3catwoman3 Apr 2 #9
And rats act in their own self interest not fooled Apr 2 #10
Pukes trying to save their own ass because they know the jig is up. NBachers Apr 2 #11
Post removed Post removed Apr 2 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author JHB Friday #13
Message auto-removed Name removed Friday #14
know what actually IS weird? Skittles Friday #15
How the hell are you still here? jfz9580m Friday #17
trying the fly-under-the-radar tactic Skittles Friday #18
Well I am not in the US jfz9580m Friday #19
Oh no! He is gone! jfz9580m Saturday #23
Kaaaaabooooom!!!! oasis Friday #16
Kick. N/T Upthevibe Friday #20
Spot on. The country's Republican party problem isn't just Trump; it's also Republicans. n/t Beartracks Friday #21
COURAGE czarjak Friday #22

MW67

(182 posts)
6. Hasn't been
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 09:37 PM
Apr 2

Anything close to the level of powerful investigative journalism that Dan Rather offered ,since the rats got him taken off air in the days of shrub, grad to hear he is still putting foot to there sorry asses

a kennedy

(36,034 posts)
4. He should get his own show.......
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 09:14 PM
Apr 2

Has lotsa memories of damn near everything of importance that might help us all live through this shit of an administration.

calimary

(90,174 posts)
8. Still brilliant after all these years!
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 09:58 PM
Apr 2

Loved Dan Rather’s work for years.

Anybody remember that Nixon White House news conference during which Dan Rather asked a very pointed question. Nixon was getting annoyed by then and snapped at Dan Rather with “are you running for something?” And Dan Rather didn’t miss a beat. “No, sir. Are you?”

Shit, I still remember that AND how almost electrified I felt at that moment. NOBODY had ever even slightly dared to talk back to The President before that. But the walls were really starting to close in on Nixon, and anybody would be right to guess it was starting to get to him.

Way before I was old enough to pursue a career, I still remember feeling like “um… SOMETHING REALLY SERIOUS is happening here…” regarding then-President Nixon.

not fooled

(6,694 posts)
10. And rats act in their own self interest
Thu Apr 2, 2026, 10:11 PM
Apr 2

unlike MAGAs committing economic and national suicide by voting for krasnov.

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Skittles

(171,908 posts)
15. know what actually IS weird?
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 02:12 AM
Friday

a fucking orange fascist multi-felon conman sex offender seditionist mass murderer pretending to be PRESIDENT, THAT is what is fucking WEIRD

jfz9580m

(17,264 posts)
17. How the hell are you still here?
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:50 AM
Friday

This is the longest run I have seen. Is this mandatory in America now? Does DU’s TOS “violate the first amendment!!!!!”.

I “predict” you will make a lot of new friends and change hearts and minds with your scintillating one-liners converting all!

Skittles

(171,908 posts)
18. trying the fly-under-the-radar tactic
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 04:59 AM
Friday

it's pretty boring

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jfz9580m

(17,264 posts)
19. Well I am not in the US
Fri Apr 3, 2026, 05:16 AM
Friday

And with all the craziness these days wrt the present admin (like Voldemort I am not naming the worst at the moment thanks to the increasing shittiness of the web), sometimes you wonder if the US is behind the nouveau Iron Curtain and whether Dave has to allow some crackpots in mandatorily. The whole thing is like a damn social experiment. That would be rather bleak.

I myself default to brute force “No” and refusal to comply with drivel mostly as it encourages human jerks to force one to change one’s behaviors to adjust to their rot.

Otoh minimal temporary forebearance may be unavoidable some thanks to just how much they have gummed up the works.

Goddamn idiots causing polycrises after poly crises with their wet markets, wetware markets etc. My position was and remains that vaccines are inadequate, wet markets/factory farms should be banned. They are cruel and a health hazard. And that extends to these technologies.

jfz9580m

(17,264 posts)
23. Oh no! He is gone!
Sat Apr 4, 2026, 10:47 AM
Saturday

I was starting to get fond of him! Or her! Or it (if a bot!)
I have heard another DUer refer to Freepers as “chew toys” . This entity had the longest run I have ever seen. I thought EarlG must be testing bot removal or some such thing. Because normal MIRT is really fast. And this was such an obvious troll.

Worse I was worried that this is some real iron curtain shit and DoHge insists on having a presence on DU. Free speech!!!! Good riddance. It was skewing my sense of reality!
lol..

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