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MADem

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14. Wag the dog. Autocratic distraction.

Reply to EarlG (Original post)

Thu Jul 27, 2017, 04:22 PM

Jul 2017

"Mad Dog" isn't implementing it until he gets precise, detailed orders.

Decree by tweet doesn't cut it.

It's rather like "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

But Trump's no Henry II.

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