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mtngirl47

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1. I'm laughing so hard that I'm crying

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Feb 1, 2026, 09:25 PM

Feb 2026

It's theater of the absurd. It's the movie plot none of us would believe. It's authoritarianism that was once reserved for the movies or some poor, uneducated, primitive society.

I don't even want to do the math on what else we could have spent 1/2 Billion dollars on.

I'm afraid that magats would think it was money well spent.

So are they tears of mirth or sadness to the depths of my heart?

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