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bucolic_frolic

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11. Politics is like a marriage. You can't share power with someone who refuses to tolerate you.

Reply to EleanorR (Original post)

Wed Mar 31, 2021, 03:01 PM

Mar 2021

Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 because they knew how to expel all opposition.

We seem not to know how to do that. If we don't find a way to excise traitors, we could ourselves be the expelled.

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Garry Kasparov spot on about Gaetz and the rest of the GOP criminal cabal [View all] EleanorR Mar 2021 OP

Can only assume that the sex trafficking charge is worse than 25 million extortion charge spanone Mar 2021 #1

How many of them really face any consequences? BlueNProud Mar 2021 #2

the truth is DENVERPOPS Mar 2021 #8

Criminal juries have a remarkable way of getting the right result-good or bad. Pepsidog Mar 2021 #12

If the trials are held in DC Elessar Zappa Mar 2021 #13

I wonder whether his chess skills could be applied to politics? lagomorph777 Mar 2021 #3

The Chess Skills leftieNanner Mar 2021 #4

He's been involved in politics for quite some time EleanorR Mar 2021 #9

Wow - thanks! lagomorph777 Mar 2021 #10

Most definitely. Here's the Wikipedia summary of his political career after chess: TheRickles Mar 2021 #16

Kasparov knows well the heart of trumpcult politics. ancianita Mar 2021 #5

The Republicans are doing their best. . . Hugh Bloody Bastards Mar 2021 #6

"Sure, I paid for sex with children." LudwigPastorius Mar 2021 #7

Politics is like a marriage. You can't share power with someone who refuses to tolerate you. bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 #11

That's what arrogant Nazis do when they are allowed to do it. hadEnuf Mar 2021 #14

Garry K has a point Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #15

Apparently Roy Moore's mistake was in not bragging about Hassler Mar 2021 #17

"He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise, follow him." oasis Mar 2021 #18