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DFW

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10. They then shut up nice and quick when Obama returned them to the private sector

Reply to Grins (Reply #7)

Mon Aug 25, 2025, 06:12 PM

Aug 2025

A true hard core socialist would have had Obama beheaded for such a move, and yet the extremist right-wing “antikommanists” all lost their voices when it came to praising Obama for such a blatantly capitalist action.

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