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H2O Man

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18. It wasn't popular.

Reply to MustLoveBeagles (Reply #17)

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:28 PM

Dec 5

It was at a time when republicans had scandal fatigue, and only the hardcore were not upset by Nixon's crimes and Ford's pardon. So it was a fun time to be a Democrat, and to vote for Jimmy Carter.

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CNN's Jake Tapper skewered for calling black DC pipe bomb suspect Brian Cole Jr. a 'white man' on air [View all] usonian Dec 5 OP

Poor little Nicky Sorter. Did the big bad CNN say something bad about white people? Walleye Dec 5 #1

Huge blunder by Jake Tapper MustLoveBeagles Dec 5 #9

Everybody makes mistakes, Jake makes a little more than his share sometimes Walleye Dec 5 #10

This is true MustLoveBeagles Dec 5 #12

I'm sure it was unintentional, but it will be repeated by the maga folks time and time again Walleye Dec 5 #13

Of course MustLoveBeagles Dec 5 #15

Yes, predictability is one of the things I'm growing to really hate about these guys, butthurt boys Walleye Dec 5 #16

Wait, WHAAT?!? Fiendish Thingy Dec 5 #2

Perhaps maga will "forgive him" for being Black, because he told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories. usonian Dec 5 #3

Yes. H2O Man Dec 5 #11

I've heard that's what cost him the election MustLoveBeagles Dec 5 #17

It wasn't popular. H2O Man Dec 5 #18

I'm guessing it took the FBI so long to locate and arrest the bomber Coldwater Dec 5 #4

Freudian slip maybe? Faux pas Dec 5 #5

"The suspect looks remarkably like Joe Biden." LOL 😂 Emile Dec 5 #6

My quote, not Jake's. usonian Dec 5 #7

Your quote was hilarious. Emile Dec 5 #8

I lulzed MustLoveBeagles Dec 5 #14