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JennSH from NC's avatar

All those trillions of dollars spent in the Middle East? A whole lot of those dollars were spent on trashing Iraq. Our military was sent over there based on Republican lies. Then there's all the money to Saudi Arabia. (Remember, most of the 9/11 hijackers were Saudis.) As usual the Republicans are ignorant of the facts of the situation, or they're just plain lying.

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Carla Childress's avatar

Frankly, I’ve never known a Republican who let something like a fact get in the way of their belief.

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RV maxima's avatar

If they had a spine they say what the hawkish GOP of those conflicts did. Insist the US go to Iraq, screw-up Afghanistan and remember the bumper sticker magnets.. support our troops? That was the political cudgel they used to keep the war going.

The GOP only knows revisionist history because they are unwilling to admit mistakes. Usually it interferes with their propaganda.

When Trump ran in 2015 he was a 6x bankrupt moron

and after a recession that clearly everyone should remember, so? Yeah morons. And of course FOX and Tucker Carlson helped. Oh how I wish I could kick his teeth in. Lemmings.

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David Levine's avatar

the people whose teeth I would particularly like to kick in are those fools who decided it'd be cool to put TFF on TV, presenting him as this wise, if occasionally abrasive, business mastermind. if any single factor made him think that politics was his "real" game, it was THAT. prior to "Apprentice," he was just a dumbass has-been who actually never was.

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TCinLA's avatar

You'll like knowing that the guy who did that ended up running MGM, and when the studio was bought by Amazon he landed on his kiester out in the cold (so far as power-trippping goes). Of course it's not a very cold cold, since he was smart enough to bank most of what he got from the Apprentice. But yeah, that is in fact the thing that made people think he was something besides a joke. He was so broke at the time the show really saved him.

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RV maxima's avatar

Totally. Prior to that," reality show" he WAS an assclown in NYC anyway.

I keep waiting for normal to come back but I guess that won't happen

Sheesh...

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