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allegorical oracle

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19. SIGH...it happens every presidential election. There's always a faction that

Reply to RandySF (Original post)

Mon Aug 19, 2024, 09:35 AM

Aug 2024

allows the perfect to be the enemy of the good. Nothing is perfect; nobody is perfect.

Understand the frustration over Gaza, but the notion that djt would be more sympathetic to that issue is pure fantasy.

Hope it's untrue, but keep hearing murmurs that Arab Americans AND djt crazies plan to disrupt the convention. Hope like hell that doesn't happen.

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