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BumRushDaShow

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15. I am collecting Social Security

Reply to DenaliDemocrat (Reply #14)

Sun Jul 6, 2025, 12:33 PM

Jul 6

so I suggest you not go there with that idiotic assumption and maybe learn a thing or two when called out on your incorrect statement about anyone from California ever elected President.

The "beat" culture came out of CA in the '50s as did much of the modern and more radical Civil Rights protest movement and specifically out of Oakland. Maybe look up Bobby Seale and Huey Newton and even this woman -

She ran on the Communist Party ticket against Nixon (the same election that Shirley Chisholm was also running) -

She's still around giving speeches and interviews -

They all preceded Nixon and Raygun's ascendancy.

Your comparison of the GOP of the past and of now just underscores the ignorance.

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