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Trump’s Hoover flags

Posted on April 2, 2020 by Brick Wahl

Hoover flags, they called empty pockets in 1931, and they became emblematic of Herbert Hoover’s abject failure in dealing with the Great Depression. I suspect homemade face masks are becoming Trump’s Hoover Flags.

Posted in Coronavirus, Donald Trump | Tagged Covid-19, Donald Trump, Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Hoover flags, pandemic | 1 Comment

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And suddenly it was 2021

Hanging with our fellow isolating neighbor last night—he was our Thanksgiving partner too, and Christmas—drinking wine and smoking weed and after blasting some way old school punk rock like the geezers we are (Wire and the Vibrators, don’t ask) and the newer if defunct The Mallard (who are just as interesting as the articleless Mallard, […]

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