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Probably also his look when reading every damn Trump tweet.
We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin
Mr. Franklin, in addition to inventing like, almost everything . . .
To the Genius of Franklin by Marguerite Gerard (1779)
After inventing the lightning rod, some conservative religious groups demanded that they not be used because . . . wait for it . . . 
Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower, June 3, 1902
God had the divine right to lightning-bolt-smite anything or anyone. Franklin, naturally, had a response. Surely the thunder of heaven is no more supernatural than the rain, hail or sunshine of heaven, against the inconveniences of which we guard by roofs and shades without scruple. - Benjamin Franklin and being a literary genius and a wit extraordinaire . . .  Franklin loved pranks and satire and the Founding Fathers were concerned he would insert jokes in the document.
and a promotor of flatulence and nudity and socialized medicine . . .
Timothy Busfield as Benjamin Franklin in Sleepy Hollow.
and an admirer of the rattlesnake and the turkey . . . 
Benjamin Franklin cartoon Join or Die from 1754
[A rattlesnake] never begins an attack, nor, once engaged, ever surrenders. - Benjamin Franklin  For in Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America. He is besides, tho’ a little vain and silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on. - Benjamin Franklin
but not so much of the Bald Eagle . . .
  
Franklin became, at age 70, a French fashion icon and sex symbol.
 Franklin, one of the most cosmopolitan of the Founding Fathers, strategically arrived in France dressed as an adventurer and backwoodsman. Jefferson, who was already in France attempting to arrange for military assistance, was handsome, sophisticated, and well-coiffed. Franklin, reportedly without his younger friend's knowledge, played off the differences in appearance and endeared the French to ideas of vast romantic wilderness and rugged individualism.  The French purchased accessories and decor with Franklin's portrait and women wore oversized wigs stylized to look like Franklin's fur cap in a style called “coiffure a la Franklin.” A republic, IF you can keep it. - Benjamin Franklin Franklin's answer when asked if the newly formed US government was a republic or a monarchy. |
I'm thinking, while our republic is on the precipice of becoming a kleptocracy, it would be great if Franklin could dust off the fur cap and head over to Paris again.
We could use some help.
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