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displacedvermoter

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3. Alan Simpson was a dick, Robert Reich

Reply to justaprogressive (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2026, 11:33 AM

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Another of our problems, even our greatest advocates for social justice get all wobbly about their "dear friends" who are opponents of all the good they are striving for.

Simpson - Bowles, remember that anyone?
Remember Simpson decrying seniors whose only concern was "cashing their Social Security checks so they could go to Ponderosa"? Remember Alan Simpson's scamming the taxpayers through his shady farm subsidies?

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