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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGive a Republican a fish and he'll think he learned how to fish.
Teach him to fish and he'll call you socialist.
(Seen on Roger Ebert's twitter.)
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Give a Republican a fish and he'll think he learned how to fish. (Original Post)
pokerfan
Jul 2012
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rateyes
(17,438 posts)1. Republican?
Think?
surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)7. Think?
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)2. Brilliant!
Wish I'd thought of it!
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)3. Ha!
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)4. lol
Funny cause it's true.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)8. Perfect.
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)9. He will then claim that he invented fishing!
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)10. ROFL
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)11. better yet give him a pacu
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)12. "A fish is an animal that swims in a brook
"He can't write his name or read a book.
To fool the fisherman's his only thought,
but though he's slippery he still gets caught
But then if that kind of life is what you wish
you may grow up to be a fish."
Sounds appropriate enough
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