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Jeff Tiedrich just keeps knockin' it out of the park! (Original Post)
Heartstrings
Jun 2020
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Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)1. K&R
James48
(4,436 posts)2. Good question.
dem4decades
(11,296 posts)3. LOL. Looks like this kind
Mopar151
(9,983 posts)4. Russia. n/t
niyad
(113,315 posts)5. KNR
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)6. Ditto!
sandensea
(21,635 posts)7. One where big business writes the campaign finance laws - & where presidents have martial law powers
Those are two of the common denominators of most 3rd world countries - for all those Republicans who obsess about about being "as little like them places as possible."
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)8. Hallelujah, holy shit, where's the Tylenol! n/t
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)9. Unfortunately, I know the answer to that question.
bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)10. wait, wait...hang on a sec, I know this one...
soldierant
(6,874 posts)11. I never thought of those countries as handing it to the dictators, somehow.
I thought of the dictators as grabbing it. So I would have said - a country where the citizens are so little empowered that they have no idea they are part of the problem or how to stop it.
C Moon
(12,213 posts)12. A: Putin's GOP USA
dalton99a
(81,506 posts)13. Kick
unblock
(52,234 posts)14. Where does Jeff stand politically? Who can get a read on thus guy?
Rhiannon12866
(205,405 posts)15. I've wondered that since 2016!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)16. That was poetry.