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(3,790 posts)Greg Stillson in The Dead Zone. It's on my TBR list.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Anyway - you can grow a dragon with their teeth? I thought they came from eggs?
malthaussen
(17,242 posts)... involving Cadmus and the founding of Thebes and Jason and the Argonauts.
-- Mal
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Two topics in one email, not a great idea.
so 'i will do it again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_teeth_%28mythology%29
I had not read that in a long,long time. Thank you.
longship
(40,416 posts)Akamai
(1,779 posts)bringing about the end-times. That is, the destruction of the effing planet. You and me and all we hold dear. The lives and futures of all on this world.
This is a fairly good reminder of what it means.
On the other hand, hedonist Trump doesn't want the world to end but is too lazy to figure out how to help it. And with his lack of attention, the world is at perilous risk.
Go Bernie!!!
Bucky
(54,106 posts)Trump is Biff Tanner.
raccoon
(31,138 posts)randr
(12,418 posts)with people who, right out front, declared they would go to Washington to bring down the government.
They have succeeded and now the fright wing is terrified of their own choices and are still blaming everyone except themselves.
The GOP is actually the party of zero responsibility.
malaise
(269,365 posts)accreditation. It is their ideological and theocratic graduates who were pushed into the civil service to spread their propaganda, then destroy government with one main intent - to loot and plunder - always follow the money.
the Responsibility part of Party of Personal Responsibility only applies if you are poor and/or not white and/or not male.
PatrickforO
(14,608 posts)Walter O'Dim.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)I think he's more of a Greg Stillson than a Randall Flagg.
At least Flagg was funny.
Puglover
(16,380 posts)PatrickforO
(14,608 posts)whimsically, dangerously insane...
snort
(2,334 posts)forget the hawk shit.
bedazzled
(1,771 posts)my favorite stephen king book by far...
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)That spells payday bar.
kimmylavin
(2,284 posts)Pompous and badly groomed. Keeps a ledger. And in a general snit fit about a woman, he's willing to destroy the whole world.
I think you nailed it.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Trump has a unique talent for bringing out the dark and vicious in people.
Separation
(1,975 posts)Trashcan Man!
MY LIFE FOR YOU!!!!
Chiyo-chichi
(3,594 posts)but, yes... spot on.
wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)They've been sowing furiously since Clinton was elected in 1992.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)wickerwoman
(5,662 posts)More or less every other speech he gives could have been given by Trump or Cruz.
The sad fact is that there's a significant portion of the US population that has never gotten over the end of segregation.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)pressbox69
(2,252 posts)but with tiny hands.
lame54
(35,360 posts)Party Above Country
ExtraGriz
(488 posts)the most down to earth guy you can meet...he was wearing worned jeans and t-shirt, and will take time to talk with you. this was a long time ago, we were both in a movie rental store, looking for movies...ummm, VCR movies were a huge thing at that time, it was 1987...lol
cab67
(3,012 posts)There were hints of the kind of extreme partisanship we see today during the Reagan years, and Republicans acted like children during the Clinton administration. This brew has been fermenting for decades.
(Not disagreeing with what Mr. King said - just raising a pedantic point.)
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)TlalocW
(15,394 posts)This guy should look into becoming a writer or something.
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