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MisterP

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5. splendiferous! and then they can tap into the diseased-and-dumped vets' movement

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Sep 8, 2015, 06:34 PM

Sep 2015

star-spangled rhetoric is so good at linking the two together, and then dumping them when they dare ask for something besides being props to win the current round of votes

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