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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Jul 6, 2025, 02:06 PM Jul 6

Borowitz - Who Created Trump?

The 2024 film “Reagan” tells the heroic story of how our 40th president transformed America into a shining city upon a hill and single-handedly slayed the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union.

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Let’s get real about Ronnie.

“The fox, as has been pointed out by more than one philosopher, knows many small things, whereas the hedgehog knows one big thing,” Christopher Hitchens wrote. “Ronald Reagan was neither a fox nor a hedgehog. He was as dumb as a stump.”

The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all,” Molly Ivins opined. “His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts… was nothing short of splendid… This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/who-created-trump

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Borowitz - Who Created Trump? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 6 OP
Oh, I miss Molly ... recently read "Bill of Wrongs", which reminded that Bu**sh** was much worse than we were aware of eppur_se_muova Jul 6 #1

eppur_se_muova

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1. Oh, I miss Molly ... recently read "Bill of Wrongs", which reminded that Bu**sh** was much worse than we were aware of
Sun Jul 6, 2025, 03:16 PM
Jul 6

at the time. People who think Turnip is worse than Bu**sh** might want to pick up that book. You'll find the comparison becomes a contest of depth versus breadth of venality.

And yeah, let's never stop blaming things on Reagan because, well, facts.

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