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Former FBI Official: the FBI Tried to Keep 'Progressives and Socialists Out of Office' Long After... (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP
Irony: Putin-Trump-Koch scandal is getting progressives to side with the FBI. sharedvalues Jan 2019 #1
Borowitz beat you to it. nycbos Jan 2019 #2
Did this yutz somehow start at the FBI during Hoover's reign? hedda_foil Jan 2019 #3

nycbos

(6,034 posts)
2. Borowitz beat you to it.
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 05:48 PM
Jan 2019

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Former hippies across the United States have been put in the unbearable position of rooting for the F.B.I., hippies have confirmed.

From Vermont to California, erstwhile hippies bemoaned a nightmare scenario that has forced them to side with a law-enforcement agency they have despised since the Summer of Love.

“I always dreamed I’d spend my retirement surrounded by my grandchildren, telling them that the F.B.I. were fascist pigs,” Carol Foyler, a former hippie who lives in Santa Cruz, said. “That dream has been shot to hell.”

Her husband, Mick, nodded his head in sad agreement. “We were so happy when pot was legalized in California,” he said. “But the fact that we’re now on the same side as the F.B.I. has ruined even that.”


https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/former-hippies-put-in-horrible-position-of-rooting-for-fbi

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)
3. Did this yutz somehow start at the FBI during Hoover's reign?
Sat Jan 19, 2019, 05:49 PM
Jan 2019

It sounds very much like they were the source of oppo against Dems for god only knows how long.

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