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judgmental pricks

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The only kind memory I have of Reagan was his performance at the memorial for the Challenger crew. I voted for Bill Clinton twice and Hillary once, despite the many disagreements I had and have with them on policy (remember Don't Ask, Don't Tell & The Defense Of Marriage Act?), because I know you can't always get want you want, and I plan on voting for democrats for the rest of my life, so maybe I really am an idiot.

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Before TANF, women on AFDC were not allowed to engage in work training, education, or any form of employment. It was built on a terrible model of women as passive recipients. There were raids on women's house to make certain that there was no "provider" aka a man in the house. Bill Clinton was a great President. He balanced the budget by raising taxes on the rich, and the entire debt would have been long paid off without W. The only time he used troops was to stop a genocide. The only drone-strike-behavior he used was to bomb a biological weapons plant owned by bin Ladin. He and HRC got CHIPS, health care for millions of children, after health care was defeated. They created health plan portability. He signed the first Family Leave Act. He appointed The Notorious Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Court. He was a great president, and as a presumptive leftwing person trashing him you are doing the work of republicans. Reagan was a traitorous hateful bit of racists scum, but is remember kindly because of useful idiots LIKE YOU.

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right, forgot. everything's our fault.

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Liberals.

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When Granny ends up eating cat food after her rent support & SNAP are cut, who are they going to blame?

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The Third Way or The Highway. I was never quite sure what triangulation was, I just knew I didn't like it.

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Don't you all know ,money hurts the poor ,and is only for the rich ? This is how Gaaad , bestows favor in a Puritanical Based America ! Trump of course being the finest example of Purity !

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Every Trump voter I know ,but one is poor ,and on some program ,Food Stamps, Medicare , Obama Care , Social Security...everyone heard him say ," We won't throw anyone in the street , nor did he make the safety net " Welfare " an issue.This helped him avoid being Romniezed . His attacks on Ryan tickled many ....some older voters saw him as a " New York liberal ! " He was embraced by the GOP extremist , flattery ,pandering ,desperation and base Politics ... ,plus being a filthy liar brought him to all of this horror .

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Every ,and I mean every well off person I know ,or observe inherited money ,or had a generous patron ,break ,or windfall . " The hard work " cliche is for fools to believe .

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He was the most Conservative Democrat since Grover Cleveland. 1884 - 88 , 1892 - 96 . That's what being " A new Democrat " meant . Sorry everyone.

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Eventually one of them would get wise to the redundancy of the title, and you'd just be Secretary of Human Services. Under the Dept. of "Defense" of course.

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And then Fock Snooze would push the meme that walking in counter-clockwise circles is the patriotic American way.

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You don't think he's gonna go for the department of truth news first?

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The local Walfart has eliminated half of the checkouts and put in self scan areas that you will need a credit/debit card to use. Directly across from the scan areas is a kiosk that sells prepaid debit cards. Fire the cashiers/profit off the debit card sales. Win/win.

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At least they weren't stealing $2,000 in children from a closed Walmart.

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