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regnaD kciN

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2. One case where I wish BOTH sides could lose...

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed May 1, 2019, 06:12 PM

May 2019

Maduro needs to be gone, but the last thing I want to see is Trump getting to frame himself as the Great Liberator (a la Reagan in Grenada), while Pompeo and Abrams get to install a U.S.-friendly authoritarian junta (probably starting with another Chile-style Caravan of Death) and pundits everywhere get to bloviate on how, once again, it's been "proven" that socialism is a failure.

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Eric Prince. ret5hd May 2019 #1

One case where I wish BOTH sides could lose... regnaD kciN May 2019 #2

Yeah, and I don't think 2naSalit May 2019 #3