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stopbush

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4. Don't fall for it. Typical Repug ploy.

Reply to Jose Garcia (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2017, 02:38 PM

Jan 2017

Send out a couple of Rs who "have questions or concerns" right before a vote is to be taken, safe in the knowledge that once it's time to vote, they will be trolloped out yet again to proclaim, "I had my doubts, but after talking to the nominee/president/other RW shill I am fully on board."

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