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Eliot Rosewater

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1. Before Obama became president, that accusation or that fact would be enough to turn 90%

Reply to Iggo (Original post)

Mon Mar 6, 2017, 01:12 PM

Mar 2017

of the nation against him.

But in Putin they see someone who also hates black people, who also hates gay people and who is not afraid to murder his opponents to get his way.

Being a Russian agent, is no longer a detriment in the eyes of many.

Obama created a focused racism that existed but was not focused and organized, Hillary created a focused misogyny that existed but wasnt focused or organized. Their existence and insistence on wanting to run for high office created this, they did not know only white men were allowed.

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The President of the United States is an honest-to-goodness Russian agent. [View all] Iggo Mar 2017 OP

Before Obama became president, that accusation or that fact would be enough to turn 90% Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #1

before hate radio and foxnews created an army of right-wing loyalists. unblock Mar 2017 #4

And this is why the GOP will repeal ACA with little to replace it, they will take Medicare and Soc Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #5

Russian agent or useful idiot. nycbos Mar 2017 #2

AND not OR. Iggo Mar 2017 #3

Indeed! sagetea Mar 2017 #6

With all due respect... Mme. Defarge Mar 2017 #7