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rurallib

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7. "War as a Republican election strategy"

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Sat Jan 4, 2020, 10:34 AM

Jan 2020

is the way I have phrased over the years.

And it most certainly is a strategy. My calculations had a war starting in March. That still sounds very possible.

Of course this will put any Dem on the defensive - if they back the war they lose a lot of their base, if they don't the corporate media will find all sorts of ways to label them "unAmerican."

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If you're guilty and you know it, start a war [View all] Soph0571 Jan 2020 OP

k&r thanks n/t lordsummerisle Jan 2020 #1

Interesting. Callalily Jan 2020 #2

I think you're on to something. I told a friend yesterday that I expect to hear Arkansas Granny Jan 2020 #3

Someone posted that one of the Fox idiots already stated that malaise Jan 2020 #4

I'm not surprised. They are his propaganda team. Arkansas Granny Jan 2020 #5

Gerald Ford was the last Rethug prez not to start a war Martin Eden Jan 2020 #6

"War as a Republican election strategy" rurallib Jan 2020 #7

I'm feeling VERY unpatriotic, pretty much since that thing hijacked the election. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2020 #8

Papa Bush's didn't work. paleotn Jan 2020 #9

I think the religious version of those middle lines of the song are defacto7 Jan 2020 #10

Heh Soph0571 Jan 2020 #11

First thing I thought when I heard the news cp Jan 2020 #12