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Scrivener7

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3. This HAS been the standard answer. For about FORTY YEARS. One would think some

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 08:39 AM

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thought would have been given in all that time to a plan to work around that.

It is not a valid excuse. Especially when I call my rep and ask how he plans to make the Democratic position known and his staff member says, "Well, he is drafting a press release."

Yeah. Seriously. They must all just love that sweet, sweet high they get from sniffing the wet ink on the mimeograph machine.

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