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Are you calling the Irish white?? What's next, Italians!!!? /s, just in case.

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Not knowing a thing about her, I know I would like her because there's no way he would have chosen to spend his life with anyone who wasn't a decent, respectable human being.

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I hope she wins.

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Socialist, but not globalist, because that's a dogwhistle for "Jooz"

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May she Add to the Cummings family Legislative Badass Awards.

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He has also said a lot of gross things about Latinos.

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I wish someone would primary him. There are a number of NY Democrats I am unhappy with. The Democratic machine in NY is the worst. I am tired of voting for an anti-vax Democrat who only cares about the UES portion of the district she represents. Ugh.

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I've watched videos from Cummings' homegoing a couple of times since the service. It just soothes my soul to see the celebration of a life well-lived. It reminds me of what I want in a public servant.

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He was a thoughtful, kind, compassionate man who did the work for the people of his district. When people spoke well of him it was a testament to the type of person he was. When Trump goes the struggle will be to find someone who will be willing to speak well of him without having a laughing fit over the number of lies that will have to be put over to make him seem like a somewhat decent human being.

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That and his love of veteran Aryans -- no, not the doggie doctors, Bitburg.

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I think it was Kurt Vonnegut who said "I could carve a better man out of a banana."

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You're forgetting Warren "Gangsta" Harding, also too.

In fact, Harding reminds me the most of Trump, as he was a clueless incompetent who won by surprise and packed his cabinet with the most corrupt cronies he could find.

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Before my time.

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Do abysmally stupid gaffes qualify as "pithy" sayings?

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In Ronnie's case, sure.

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Let me get this straight. The planet is literally burning, and the Republicans still don't want to do anything about it because it might fuck up the quarterly report.

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