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plimsoll

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16. That's true but,

Reply to grantcart (Reply #14)

Fri Jun 19, 2020, 08:43 AM

Jun 2020

Doesn't it bother you that the GOP, the least republican political party in America is customarily referred to by that?

I'll accept the correction, but ONLY if we never call the GOP "Republicans" again. Whatever the philosophy at their founding, they are not republicans now, and shouldn't get to exert such newspeak on the rest of us.

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That's true but, plimsoll Jun 2020 #16

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