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marble falls

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7. Grassley is someone who should know better than to be a MAGA fascist. He started out a blue collar ...

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Sat Mar 22, 2025, 08:31 AM

Mar 2025

... worker before he went to college. In the 1950s, Grassley farmed and worked in factories in Iowa, first as a sheet metal shearer and then as an assembly line worker.

I don't think for one moment he thought his public would ever turn on him. His ego made him do it. He thought he was loved unconditionally by the public. He's 91 years old.

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Grassley is someone who should know better than to be a MAGA fascist. He started out a blue collar ... marble falls Mar 2025 #7

He knows now that everything he is doing is wrong, un Christian, and un-American Walleye Mar 2025 #9

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