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Hekate

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36. The GOP alone could have stopped him at 3 points: when he filed to run as a Repub...

Mon Jan 30, 2017, 03:41 PM

Jan 2017

....by pointing out he never was one, at the Convention by old-fashioned smoke-filled room machinations, and again at the Electoral College. They OWN this catastrophe, every damn bit of it.

The rest of us did our very best to defeat him, and in fact the majority of Americans voted for Hillary Clinton.

Now we have to pick up our weary bones and engage in a battle we never thought would happen in real life. No, it is not our fault, nor is it Hillary's fault.

But here we are. Imua.

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RIGHT !!! uponit7771 Jan 2017 #13

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