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popsdenver

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23. NO Problem here............

Reply to liberal N proud (Original post)

Thu Nov 27, 2025, 01:09 PM

Thursday

I PERMANENTLY dis-owned most of my family, friends, and even aquaintences, by the end of the WBush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld years.
The few remaining, precious few......... I dis-owned the first month of Trump's first occupation of the White House...

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