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wryter2000

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18. They still worship him

Reply to calimary (Reply #12)

Fri Dec 20, 2024, 03:15 PM

Dec 2024

When I got a new co-worker, who was an AA woman, she was astonished to learn I didn't adore Reagan. She thought all white people did. I can't blame her for thinking that.

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Yep. Nothing like a slick made-for-TV "spokesman" so easily fooling America back then. calimary Dec 2024 #12

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