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moondust

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3. "Kings and tsars
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 04:59 PM
Aug 2020

always blamed bad provincial leaders for national ills. Putin blames the governors all the time... just like Trump."

I've always assumed this was a big reason for Dump's inaction in the early days of COVID when it was critically important: so he could blame the governors...just like Putin.

Last night I *think* Mary Trump suggested something darker--that it wasn't negligence--but I'll leave that to the "Nuremberg" investigation.

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