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In reply to the discussion: The President is Crazy. Al Franken [View all]yellowdogintexas
(22,250 posts)36. Charlie Pierce always uses president* to describe #45
Grammatically it tells you there is a foot note but in sports it is used as a qualifier, like when a winner in a race is disqualified or a team's entire season is disqualified despite the fact that they won March Madness.
President* sort of tells me that the * means "not really"
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Franken deserves the credit for setting things up to enable the Mueller investigation,
tblue37
Mar 2020
#10
We certainly lost a powerful voice in the Senate. Its time to draft him into a meaningful ...
marble falls
Mar 2020
#16