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walkingman

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4. A politician will always be a politician....he has the looks, talks smoothly and I think would

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Apr 24, 2025, 02:55 PM

Apr 2025

be a viable contender for POTUS. I'm personally turned off by him when I see that he was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle. Just not my genre of people.

I personally am more attracted to a progressive candidate.

I hardly recognize America these days. Pretty much everyone looks like a conman to me. I think America is all about money, How much do you fucking need?

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