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struggle4progress

(118,330 posts) Thu Oct 26, 2017, 05:44 PM Oct 2017

Wades back into monument controversy

By KELSEY TAMBORRINO
10/26/2017 10:50 AM EDT

President Donald Trump raised the removal of Confederate statues and memorials .. while touting his support for .. Gillespie.

"Ed Gillespie will turn the really bad Virginia economy #'s around, and fast. Strong on crime, he might even save our great statues/heritage!" Trump tweeted on Thursday ...

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/26/trump-ed-gillespie-tweet-monuments-244205

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Wades back into monument controversy (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2017 OP

Grasping for strawmen? L. Coyote Oct 2017 #1

If a republican can take that seat after what trump has done then I submit Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #2

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)

1. Grasping for strawmen?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Oct 26, 2017, 05:49 PM

Oct 2017

Gillespie is going to get his ass handed to him thanks to Trump.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,115 posts)

2. If a republican can take that seat after what trump has done then I submit

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Thu Oct 26, 2017, 05:50 PM

Oct 2017

to you that as a nation we are not smart enough to survive.

Literally.

I dont mean we should all die, but if this keeps happening we need to probably be ostracized by the UN at a minimum and just be "watched" by the adult countries.

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