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The Magistrate

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2. It Should Never Be Forgotten, Ma'am

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Fri Mar 5, 2021, 01:06 AM

Mar 2021

“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”

https://www.balloon-juice.com/2009/10/07/open-thread-lagging-lexicon-indicators/

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So constituents really don't matter. [View all] babylonsister Mar 2021 OP

They bdamomma Mar 2021 #1

It Should Never Be Forgotten, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2021 #2

+10000000000000000 Celerity Mar 2021 #6

The GOP knows if this passes than everybody gets happy and Biden and Dems win voters. Midnight Writer Mar 2021 #3

Their suffering matters. aocommunalpunch Mar 2021 #4

Their voters want gaslighting, ignorance and bigotry and they are obliging. BlueNProud Mar 2021 #5

They are using our public airwaves to blame Democrats for the delay RandiFan1290 Mar 2021 #7