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calimary

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17. I remember that news conference. Dubya couldn't resist giving everybody a nickname.

Reply to Xavier Breath (Reply #4)

Wed Jul 9, 2025, 06:04 PM

Jul 2025

Guess he saw them all as pets of some sort? Or certainly subservient to him.

All I have to say is “Ick!” He’s just GOTTA give people cutesy nicknames. What was with that? Did he see them as merely more pets that he (their “master”) periodically threw a bone to?

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