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Scubamatt

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10. Imagine

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 02:06 PM

Jul 8

if this had been a Democratic senator; there'd be non-stop coverage for the next news cycle and the talking heads would be talking about how the "Democrat-party" just doesn't care about the people. And Jake Tapper would have found his newest biggest scandal to write about. While I've come to expect nothing from Republicans, the absolute dereliction and treachery of the once vaunted "Fourth Estate" is particularly painful, because I expected more.

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