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bdamomma

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Mon Jan 22, 2018, 09:52 AM Jan 2018

H.L Mencken Journalist Knew Many Years Ago

we would be in this situation:

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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. Wikipedia
Born: September 12, 1880, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Died: January 29, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Education: Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
Influenced by: Mark Twain, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ambrose Bierce, MORE

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