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marble falls

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2. A lot of them are like my father was: he hated PoC as a whole group - HATED, but tended to like almost ...
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 07:49 AM
Sep 2025

... every individual he met. A black mason's laborer he hired, Roosevelt Dobson, always was the 'boss' when he wasn't around. And Mr Roosevelt (as I always called him) was known as the black Marble Falls brother. When my father took over a plant in Houston, he forced his bank to cash checks, open bank accounts, make loans to his black and Hispanic work force, threatening to take all company and personal banking elsewhere.

He's have been MAGA if he'd been around for TACO. He have voted to cut off his nose to spite his face. He'd have supported ICE even while he'd be angry that they were taking away all the wrong individuals.

Being MAGA means living in a world of cognitive dissonance.

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