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What's next? Sticking out their tongues at Trump voters? - Reminds me of "Yankee Doodle"

Posted: Jul 14th, 2018 - 1:57 pm In Reply to: Gotta love - that Trump balloon

The British troops sang it to make fun of their stereotype of the American soldier as a Yankee simpleton who thought that he was stylish if he simply stuck a feather in his cap.
...the Americans added additional verses to the song, mocking the British troops and hailing the Commander of the Continental army George Washington.

By 1781, Yankee Doodle had turned from being an insult to being a song of national pride.

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BTW We also called the Red Coats lobsters.

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Gotta love - that Trump balloon (Views: 646, 2018-07-14, 1:42 pm)
- It's nice to have a president with balls... - ... (Views: 554, 2018-07-14, 1:49 pm)
  - That demonstration in London not only was critical of - Trump but it was critical of Trump voters. (Views: 382, 2018-07-14, 1:52 pm)
  - You can't criticize Muslims in London or you'll get put in - jail. Ask Tommy Robinson. (Views: 392, 2018-07-14, 1:53 pm)
    - Since London has lost it's identity, they should make this - one of their greatest cultural landmarks (Views: 405, 2018-07-14, 2:38 pm)
      - I hear that the London crime rate is terrible now. How bad is it? - I hear London crime is so bad that (Views: 317, 2018-07-14, 3:51 pm)
        Better security than UK is providing Trump. Did you hear about the - major breach with the paraglider? (Views: 347, 2018-07-14, 4:46 pm)
        They protested like this during Margaret Thatcher's - funeral, too. Obama WH snubbed (Views: 273, 2018-07-15, 8:58 am)
      - Ann Coulter once said that the moment you are called - a racist or sexist by a liberal, you (Views: 306, 2018-07-15, 7:28 am)
    - Winston Churchill spoke out against Islam and the Nazis and - the Brits criticized him for it. (Views: 316, 2018-07-15, 3:24 am)
      - People in the UK seem to forget that Churchill's mother - was an American citizen. (Views: 328, 2018-07-15, 3:27 am)
      - The previous occupant of the WH didn't want a bust of - Churchill at all. (Views: 262, 2018-07-15, 5:09 am)
    - London is one big Monty Python skit. We should start calling - the Royal Family the Hanover's again. (Views: 348, 2018-07-15, 8:20 am)
      - Charles is the result of two cousins, the Queen and Prince - Phillip. There was a lot of inbreeding (Views: 349, 2018-07-15, 8:54 am)
      - A lot of UK royals supported the Nazis. Edward, the one - who had the affair and stepped down, (Views: 354, 2018-07-15, 9:04 am)
  - The funniest part is that they think we are offended by it. - Didn't they ever watch the Godzilla movies? (Views: 322, 2018-07-14, 2:08 pm)
    - Kahn (London's Muslim mayor) banned pro-Trump rallies. - But they let anti-Trump's organize outside (Views: 504, 2018-07-15, 3:50 am)
      - And they threw Tommy Robinson in jail for criticizing - Muslims. Londonistan is what it's (Views: 416, 2018-07-15, 3:52 am)
        The left is the same everywhere. "Everyone Welcome" - flags. What a bunch of hypocrites. (Views: 258, 2018-07-15, 5:08 am)
  - Remember the heat that guy got that dressed up as Obama - as a rodeo clown? Remember how that (Views: 347, 2018-07-14, 2:21 pm)
    - He was superintendent of the local school - System...a bit different (Views: 308, 2018-07-14, 8:11 pm)
    - Yes, there was a tradition of rodeo clowns dressing up - like presidents and doing this for fun. (Views: 319, 2018-07-15, 3:18 am)
  - The nation that voted Winston Churchill out after he - won WWII is now mad at Trump (Views: 302, 2018-07-15, 3:23 am)
- What's next? Sticking out their tongues at Trump voters? - Reminds me of "Yankee Doodle"
  - One of the countries that has plenty of helium for balloons is - Russia. LOL! The media clowsn (Views: 327, 2018-07-14, 2:12 pm)
  - This has been a staple of what it means to be American for a long - time. Take what insults your enemy has (Views: 332, 2018-07-14, 2:37 pm)
  - Dems and leftists everywhere think it's just fine for European - leaders to put their own national interests first, (Views: 325, 2018-07-15, 7:41 am)
- We Trump supporters think it's funny. There are many memes - online from the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (Views: 337, 2018-07-14, 2:04 pm)
  - One of the European leaders show up drunk for the NATO - summit. When I posted this on another (Views: 276, 2018-07-15, 7:42 am)
- I guess the left didn't learn the lessons from the Trump - Chicken... (Views: 340, 2018-07-14, 2:17 pm)
- Trump unhappy they don't like him - see link (Views: 330, 2018-07-14, 8:06 pm)