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ashling

(25,771 posts)
Wed Nov 28, 2018, 01:46 PM Nov 2018

What do Donald I and the GOP have in common with England's George III?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110428/

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Warren: When will you get it into your head that one can produce a copious, regular and exquisitely turned evacuation every day of the week and still be a stranger to reason.
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Pitt: We consider ourselves blessed in our constitution. We tell ourselves our Parliament is the envy of the world. But we live in the health and well-being of the sovereign as much as any vizier does the Sultan.

[Pitt exits]

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Thurlow: [to Dundas] The Sultan orders it better. He has the son and heir strangled.

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Fox: God rot all royals! Give us the wisdom of America!

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Thurlow: [referring to the Prince of Wales] It takes character to withstand the rigours of indolence.
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President Trump Says He’s Too Intelligent To Believe In Climate Change

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Republicans Increasingly Believe That Education Is Bad For America

“Why does a kid go to a major university these days?” said Frank Antenori, 51, a former Green Beret who served in the Arizona state legislature. “A lot of Republicans would say they go there to get brainwashed and learn how to become activists and basically go out in the world and cause trouble.”






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