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JHB

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24. Precisely my beef with "NeverTrumpers", though my position gets scolded.

Reply to Cirsium (Reply #13)

Sat Dec 27, 2025, 11:09 PM

2 hrs ago

Apparently, they're our "allies" now. They utterly failed at what was supposed to the reason for making nice with them, namely to getting like-minded Republicans to vote for Democrats to beat Trump, and they're crowding actual liberals out of media spaces, but hey, allies, so you can't do anything rude like bring up the fact that they spent their careers creating a voter base of easily-manipulated Ahabs who were ripe for a guy who promised them White Whale steak dinners for life (and the hagfish will pay for it).

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Stone-Aged? czarjak 1 hr ago #27

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Is that a voice from the grave?? lastlib 4 hrs ago #12

Not so fast Cirsium 4 hrs ago #13

Precisely my beef with "NeverTrumpers", though my position gets scolded. JHB 2 hrs ago #24

hear, hear Cirsium 52 min ago #29

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