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muriel_volestrangler

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8. LOL. I refer you to Betteridge's Law

Reply to turbinetree (Original post)

Thu Nov 20, 2025, 10:50 AM

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" (journalism) An adage stating that any headline ending in a question mark can be correctly answered by the word "no"."

Republicans looking for a scapegoat to get them out of a current mess in no way means "they are going to stick with this excuse". Jeez, hasn't Crooks and Liars learned anything about Republicans in the past 30 years or so?

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