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Shipwack

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35. I took it the other way, at first read...

Thu Apr 12, 2018, 07:33 AM

Apr 2018

Crones are wise and experienced, no? I also thought that he meant that “the agenda of limited-government conservatism based on fiscal probity, personal responsibility, free trade, and limited government is as dead Donald Trump’s marriage...” was a good thing.

Then I realized the source, and figured out that crone was a misogynistic slur, not a compliment.

My bad.

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