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LilElf70

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11. Oh, this was

Reply to BWdem4life (Reply #7)

Fri Oct 24, 2025, 10:05 AM

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going around his first time, just to give people a reason (justification) to vote for his ass in 16. And they were so serious about it. I remember it well. "We need a businessman to run this country like a business." And we didn't have that at the time.

So we settled for a corrupt, failed, businessman to run economics for a country of 330 million people. A con man, total failure, and major grift was the result. It was all about him.

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