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thebigidea

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

Reply to CaptainTruth (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 17, 2026, 10:35 PM

Mar 17

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.

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Prophecy from Hunter S. Thompson [View all] orangecrush Mar 17 OP

I miss Hunter S. Thompson UpInArms Mar 17 #1

Wondering, do you think he'd be MAGA? 617Blue Mar 17 #3

Oh my, no UpInArms Mar 17 #4

Cool!!! calimary Mar 18 #10

Not even a remote chance! debsy Mar 17 #8

Hunter was ornery. Ornery people do not reflexively agree with anything. They don't fall in line. soldierant Mar 18 #11

Polar opposite of MAGA orangecrush Mar 18 #12

I'm at the point where I assume every white dude is MAGA - and I'm a white dude. 617Blue Mar 18 #13

Truthfully orangecrush Mar 18 #14

I love Hunter. I believe I have everything he wrote, at least everything that's publicly available... CaptainTruth Mar 17 #2

those two volumes of letters are the best things he ever published thebigidea Mar 17 #5

His writing was delightful, and I've always loved that quote. enigmania Mar 17 #6

❤️ littlemissmartypants Mar 17 #7

A somewhat parallel statement from the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm.. Permanut Mar 18 #9