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IbogaProject

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2. The Media has allowed the GOP and the Military Industrial Complex to pull this scam

Reply to SamuelAdams (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 1, 2026, 06:52 PM

Jun 1

Since the 1960s at least. But severely since the Reagan Administration. There is always feigned concern about the deficit during elections and our administrations but during the GOP ones not a peep.

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