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hatrack

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3. "Let a hundred Rotary Clubs bloom! Let a thousand branding efforts contend!!"

Reply to JHB (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 10, 2026, 11:28 PM

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35 years ago, we beat Russia in the Cold War.

Yeah. We conquered a kleptocracy suffering simultaneously from Korsakoff's Syndrome and Alzheimer's. Huzzah.

USA. USA. USA. USA. USA. USA.

Now, on to the looting.

Now we fucking are Russia, in the chop shop, up on the jacks and waiting to be parted out.

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