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In reply to the discussion: 'Con man, crook, draft dodger, racist'--actual words House Republicans want to ban in Trump hearing [View all]70sEraVet
(3,474 posts)There's an OLD joke about the days of the Czar in Russia. After a particularly harsh set of laws were imposed, three poor tailors in a tiny Ukrainian town were complaining to each other at a local inn about the Czar. One says "He's a thief and a swindler!" Another says "He's an idiot, a nitwit!" The third says "He guzzles vodka lie a swine!" The local gendarme appears and promptly arrests them and brings them before the commissioner of police. The commissioner shrieks "How dare you insult out beloved Czar!" But the three frightened tailors told him that they were not talking about the Czar - they were complaining about the Inkeeper. Then the commissioner says, "How was the gendarme to know? When he heard 'idiot', 'thief' and 'swine', naturally he thought you were talking about the Czar".