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Eliot Rosewater

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3. Thoroughly despised and laughed at by almost every New Yorker for decades

Reply to GreenWave (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 14, 2025, 12:18 PM

Sep 2025

They are the most surprised by this insanity.

All of it made possible by a political party that refuses to put the country first, we knew they had it in them and we just hoped they wouldn’t do it.

But they did.

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