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5. this is payoff -- red meat for the base

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Thu Apr 6, 2017, 07:22 PM

Apr 2017

the social conservatives are going to need some shoring up as the economic squeeze begins and the fool-in-chief continues his debauched corruption. they need a way to justify continuing to vote for the criminal scumbags picking their pockets. racism and sexism alone won't do it, but getting a hardcore Scalia clone on the court probably will.

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