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HassleCat

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1. The world or the US?

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Aug 11, 2015, 03:56 PM

Aug 2015

Schumer appears to feel we still live in the era when the US could tell everyone else what to do. The US president was "leader of the free world" and all that. We could beat up on small nations we didn't like, Cuba being a prime example, just to show the folks back home we were tough.

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