Prophecy from Hunter S. Thompson

[orangecrush]

"In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile — and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely..."

~ Hunter S. Thompson

[UpInArms]

1. I miss Hunter S. Thompson

He was so clear about everything

[617Blue]

3. Wondering, do you think he'd be MAGA?

I sometimes wonder what dead writers musicians etc would think of Tramp. Lord knows I've been surprised at some of the people in my life who turned out to be MAGA.

[UpInArms]

4. Oh my, no

I can say, I was published in a book with him …

One of the highlights of my life

https://archive.org/details/ihaterepublicans00willrich

[calimary]

10. Cool!!!

BIG Congrats!!!

[debsy]

8. Not even a remote chance!

[soldierant]

11. Hunter was ornery. Ornery people do not reflexively agree with anything. They don't fall in line.

MAGAs may be curmudgeons, but they are not ornery. They have cookie-cutter politics. They fall in line.

Both can grouch, but that's the difference.

[CaptainTruth]

2. I love Hunter. I believe I have everything he wrote, at least everything that's publicly available...

...including many of his letters to a wide variety of people.

All of his published articles are wonderful, but reading his personal letters, where he's unguarded & expressing himself freely without reservation, just takes it to another level.

He was brilliant, & now I want to pull out my stack of HST books!

[thebigidea]

5. those two volumes of letters are the best things he ever published

It kills me that we've been waiting how many decades now for vol 3, The Mutineer? I talked to his widow about it once and she wasn't making much sense about it. Shrug.

I'd love to read the 80,000 word manuscript he wrote called THE GUN LOBBY, Fear and Loathing at the NRA... locked away in a vault, alas.

[enigmania]

6. His writing was delightful, and I've always loved that quote.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. ❤️

[Permanut]

9. A somewhat parallel statement from the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm..

"All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others".