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KS Toronado

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11. Repugs always use fear to motivate their base, but we remember what FDR said about fear

Reply to teach1st (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 01:37 PM

May 2020

Our local paper used to have at least one Leonard Pitts article a week which I enjoyed reading, then a repug group (tribune?) bought it out and now it's just a propaganda rag for repugs

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McConnell, just go ahead and call Obama the n-word [View all] teach1st May 2020 OP

I love Leonard Pitts! Very well spoken, always RainCaster May 2020 #1

If He Did, Kentuckians Would Still Vote For Him nt sfstaxprep May 2020 #2

Been saying too. I remember when my family flipped when I was 9 years old, as he just described. czarjak May 2020 #3

From Michael Steele Gothmog May 2020 #4

they have been saying that word near me ,at me for years and prolly he has heard it for years too. AllaN01Bear May 2020 #5

Since doing that would be honest, he won't be doing that in public. 2naSalit May 2020 #6

But sir, he does not always lie........... MyOwnPeace May 2020 #7

What I think would be 2naSalit May 2020 #8

As Mark Twain once said: MyOwnPeace May 2020 #9

+1 2naSalit May 2020 #10

He may not.... paleotn May 2020 #18

Repugs always use fear to motivate their base, but we remember what FDR said about fear KS Toronado May 2020 #11

LBJ had them all pegged back in the '60s. catbyte May 2020 #12

The truth... nt iluvtennis May 2020 #14

That is a thing of beauty Warpy May 2020 #13

Does he take his Chinese wife along with him to campaign? Scarsdale May 2020 #15

Wish someone with a mic could catch him saying it. Squidly May 2020 #16

Seriously.... paleotn May 2020 #17

Hey Mitch go take a smoke break next to a leaky propane tank Blue Owl May 2020 #19

This message was self-deleted by its author Blue Owl May 2020 #20