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hunter

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40. Maybe the reason politicians seem so peculiarly respectful of Kissinger...

Reply to FarCenter (Reply #9)

Sun Jan 8, 2017, 02:46 PM

Jan 2017

... is that they believe he stood between angry drunk Nixon and all-out nuclear war.

It may be too much to hope for, but maybe some sane person in the Trump Administration will break Trump's tiny thumbs and assign the tweeting to staff.

If this happens the mainstream media won't say a thing, they'll just make up some nonsense about Trump maturing into the job.

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