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TeamPooka

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7. He's fooled you with words and you fell for it. protestors and looters are not the same

Reply to virgogal (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 1, 2020, 07:04 PM

Jun 2020

One group may be thugs but you just tainted both groups, like trump wanted you to when he said it.
But now you just agreed with Trump who is trying to conflate a false equivalence to the two groups.
Congratulations, you just lessened the quality of this discourse.

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JFC, this speech is bad . He's back to calling protestors thugs. [View all] octoberlib Jun 2020 OP

Sorry,but some of them are thugs. virgogal Jun 2020 #1

Sure. Some are. RussBLib Jun 2020 #5

those bdamomma Jun 2020 #6

He's fooled you with words and you fell for it. protestors and looters are not the same TeamPooka Jun 2020 #7

Nixon's Law and Order - he's appealing to all his boot-licking rightwing authoritarians chia Jun 2020 #2

Pot "criminal" calling the kettle black! Backseat Driver Jun 2020 #3

He's a thug alright. RussBLib Jun 2020 #4