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Laelth

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7. Sure.

Reply to Dustlawyer (Reply #6)

Tue Apr 28, 2020, 11:50 AM

Apr 2020

The oil companies want the economy “open,”
but if nobody’s buying oil, nobody’s buying oil, and there’s nothing that Republicans (or anyone else) can do about that. Eliminating stay-at-home orders (the alleged goal of these protesters) will accomplish NOTHING (except for blame-shifting, and that, I think, is the ultimate goal of these protests).

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