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llmart

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2. All the goodwill we garnered after September 11th...

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 23, 2025, 07:22 AM

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is gone all because of the GOP traitors who favored loyalty to a criminal rapist over patriotism.

A good portion of our populace are very short sighted and let their guard down by not taking what he told us he would do seriously. "Oh, that's just trump being trump." "It's all just political talk." "It could never happen in the US." "Both parties are the same, so I don't vote." "I don't follow politics." "I voted for him because he was an outsider with no D.C. ties." I heard a version of each one of these from various people.

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