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pnwmom

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19. I wonder what they would have said if you asked them:

Mon Jan 15, 2018, 08:55 PM

Jan 2018

How would you feel if Obama had said he didn't want to allow any immigration from "shithole" countries like Poland, and that we should only get them from Africa?

Would they have found that acceptable?

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And RW radio like rush lunasun Jan 2018 #36

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I live in NYC ... markpkessinger Jan 2018 #44

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You and 70% of whites are the same then. lunatica Jan 2018 #71

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Government is not real to them. It's zentrum Jan 2018 #17

I wonder what they would have said if you asked them: pnwmom Jan 2018 #19

They are convinced that Obama actually said that and worse. yardwork Jan 2018 #25

Or from Slovenia😁 Orange Free State Jan 2018 #34

Hell, they believe Obama is an immigrant from a "shithole" country. Mariana Jan 2018 #39

They think Hawaii is a shithole country. n/t pnwmom Jan 2018 #40

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See, that's the thing . . . . markpkessinger Jan 2018 #92

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It's also self evident that they love a bully as a leader lunatica Jan 2018 #70

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I have something that ends most any conversation like that. GulfCoast66 Jan 2018 #89

If he had made the shithole comment OR the Norway comment Nevernose Jan 2018 #91