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Rhiannon12866

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3. What used to be satire has been getting closer and closer to the truth

Reply to brer cat (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 2, 2020, 10:20 PM

Sep 2020

What Trump says on a daily basis makes so little sense and is so far removed from actual reality that a few years back no one would have believed that anyone could get away with such statements. But with Trump, the surreal and the ridiculous has been "normalized."

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Thank you! nt USALiberal Sep 2020 #1

I'm not sure that is actually satire. brer cat Sep 2020 #2

What used to be satire has been getting closer and closer to the truth Rhiannon12866 Sep 2020 #3