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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:40 PM Sep 2022

The same one-word question popped into my head the instant I heard that DonaldTrump, Sarah

Palin, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Herschel Walker, Mehmet Oz, Doug Mastriano and Kari Lake had been really---actually---no kiddin'---selected as their party's candidates: "SERIOUSLY???"

Sadly, the answer was some variation of "You betcha!"

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The same one-word question popped into my head the instant I heard that DonaldTrump, Sarah (Original Post) Atticus Sep 2022 OP

Matt gaetz has been in politics since 2010. Well before Trump. jimfields33 Sep 2022 #1

Scum forms on unmoving water. n/t FSogol Sep 2022 #2

To quote John F. Kennedy cyclonefence Sep 2022 #3

I remember a so-called Independent, running for President in 1999, told us.... OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2022 #4

jimfields33

(15,786 posts)

1. Matt gaetz has been in politics since 2010. Well before Trump.

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:47 PM

Sep 2022

FSogol

(45,480 posts)

2. Scum forms on unmoving water. n/t

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:51 PM

Sep 2022

cyclonefence

(4,483 posts)

3. To quote John F. Kennedy

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:53 PM

Sep 2022

"Where do they *find* these people?"

OAITW r.2.0

(24,455 posts)

4. I remember a so-called Independent, running for President in 1999, told us....

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Tue Sep 27, 2022, 03:56 PM

Sep 2022

"there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party",

Maybe the biggest lie ever uttered by a politician.

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