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Algernon Moncrieff

(5,790 posts)
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 06:59 PM Oct 2018

I want to discuss irony for a moment

So today, I was push polled by somebody backing Don Bacon (Russian Peoples Front - NE). So I want to say this:

Bacon attempts to paint his opponent, Kara Eastman, as a liberal who wants a big government takeover of healthcare. Ostensibly, part of Bacon's appeal is that he was a General in the USAF. Isn't it ironic that a man who received his healthcare from the government for most of his adult life now campaigns against someone wanting the same thing for all of us other taxpayers?

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I want to discuss irony for a moment (Original Post) Algernon Moncrieff Oct 2018 OP
"Irony is wasted on the stupid." WheelWalker Oct 2018 #1
Just because someone was a general in the AF doesn't mean anything to me, ... SWBTATTReg Oct 2018 #2

SWBTATTReg

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2. Just because someone was a general in the AF doesn't mean anything to me, ...
Thu Oct 11, 2018, 07:29 PM
Oct 2018

especially after I saw Flynn and the way he acted in leading the chant 'lock her up' during the 2016 elections. Despicable and distasteful. There are, by the way, many other persons who have served with honor and integrity far better than this type of behavior.

And by the way, if I recall, our so called president 'bone spurs' got deferments for serving.

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