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RandomNumbers

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4. What is your point?

Reply to orangecrush (Original post)

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 10:29 AM

Saturday

I started to reply "Only if the pro-Hamas wing of the left throws America under the bus."

But perhaps I mis-read where you are going with this.

AIPAC is a fact of life in American political campaigns. As is big money generally.

We may need to educate some uninformed "idealists" about the facts of life, but we should be doing that anyway.

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