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Torchlight

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4. Half of me thinks it's talk and bluster, a distraction

Reply to wcmagumba (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2026, 02:04 PM

Jan 6

The other half of me thinks he really is that foolish and would see it done by hook or by crook, and damned the consequences because he's got his. I do understand that every media minute given to reporting on this is one media minute less of reporting about the Trumpstein tapes, but I also understand his mind just really isn't there and he may be actually trying to legislate his dementia into policy.

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