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In reply to the discussion: So, if I understand some people correctly -- if Bush detained Mr. Pitt's family that's be OK. [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)to describe people used by drug dealers as beasts of burden to transport drugs internally via the use of prophylactics and either swallowing or having such drugs forced elsewhere into the used "beasts's" body.
So uhh... NO... never heard the word mule in this context before it's current new use as a smear against a man's husband.
You of course know that,
I know that, and everyone reading this knows that, but it nonetheless used by the nastiest to make it appear as if Glenn Greenwald thinks of his partner as a disposable beast of burden often sacrificed in the dirty world of narcotics trafficking, while at the same time implying the printing of information and the collaboration of journalists and couriers to accomplish such journalism is somehow the equivalent of drug smuggling.
No one but you nasty little farts ever use that term to describe a courier.
Stop feigning such overwhelming ignorance or I just might believe what you feign is true.