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Swede

(33,306 posts) Tue Jan 4, 2022, 04:59 PM Jan 2022

Thoughts On Our Political Exhaustion It's the background noise of our world - Charlie Sykes

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Thoughts On Our Political Exhaustion It's the background noise of our world - Charlie Sykes (Original Post) Swede Jan 2022 OP

Charlie, Sir, Really Ought To Close These Pieces The Magistrate Jan 2022 #1

Totally agree, he helped bring the divisiveness in this country Bluethroughu Jan 2022 #2

The Magistrate

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1. Charlie, Sir, Really Ought To Close These Pieces

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Tue Jan 4, 2022, 05:19 PM

Jan 2022

By quoting the little girl in the old Shake 'N Bake television spots:

"And I helped!"

I do consider the man has largely come around, and allow for the possibility of redemption, but still, I heard his old show in Milwaukee, and he really should make clear it's his own handiwork he's now deploring.

Bluethroughu

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2. Totally agree, he helped bring the divisiveness in this country

Reply to The Magistrate (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 4, 2022, 06:44 PM

Jan 2022

To where we are. He has not repent enough, he can sit in purgatory for the next 100 years, for all I care.

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