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OldBaldy1701E

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26. I agree

Reply to wryter2000 (Reply #6)

Thu Oct 7, 2021, 08:51 AM

Oct 2021

I think that is all it is. Who will blink first? DO the rethugs really want to allow all their control to lapse as the federal government stops functioning? How would all those rethugs grifters milking massive government contracts get paid? Yes, it was a game of chicken. But isn't politics in general little more than a 'game' to these people?

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