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ihaveaquestion

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10. My favorite republican was (and still is) my late Uncle John.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 03:31 PM
16 hrs ago

He was an Annapolis graduate and most of his career served on old-school diesel submarines, which he allowed us to tour once in the mid sixties... they are way smaller that you imagine, btw.

He and my mother got into knock-down drag out fights over Nixon at Christmas, but I still remember him very fondly. He never married or had children, but had a "girlfriend" who he cared for through all the years of her breast cancer treatments, improvements, relapse, until her death.

He was one of the good ones and would have hated, ABSOLUTED HATED, the orange shitstain.

I'm almost glad he's gone and not a witness to recent events and this timeline.

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I'm so sick of Republicans. [View all] milestogo 18 hrs ago OP
I've hated them since 1960 young_at_heart 17 hrs ago #1
Nixon was a self-loathing, slimy piece of crap.... SergeStorms 15 hrs ago #13
I was just a child, but I remember my father saying that milestogo 14 hrs ago #17
I'm right there with you Grim Chieftain 17 hrs ago #2
There is no longer a Republican party -- it's the Rethuglican party now. OMGWTF 16 hrs ago #3
Jealousy, greed, hatred, racism and misogyny. pfitz59 16 hrs ago #4
I agree, but don't forget stupidity. Hard to believe, but there are actually some Trump voters who even we would call Fil1957 16 hrs ago #8
+1 peppertree 15 hrs ago #14
Nice pull BaronChocula 6 hrs ago #24
When I was just a kid I had a friend who lived with his grandmother. She had a boyfriend who was quite a character Cheezoholic 16 hrs ago #5
I am old enough to know they were clowns back in the 90s Cosmocat 16 hrs ago #6
I absolutely feel the same! BadgerMom 16 hrs ago #7
Pretty much Johonny 16 hrs ago #9
My favorite republican was (and still is) my late Uncle John. ihaveaquestion 16 hrs ago #10
Because they've been brainwashed by propaganda for 45 years. Initech 16 hrs ago #11
Cruelty and/or ignorance MaineBlueBear 15 hrs ago #12
Conservatism Artimus1 15 hrs ago #15
Yup. I'm 77 and my Dad was a "pull yourself up by the bootstraps' Republican... Joinfortmill 15 hrs ago #16
You remind me of one of my dad's favorite sayings. calimary 2 hrs ago #27
And literally all of the problems that Trump gripes about were the direct result of Murdoch republicans. Initech 12 hrs ago #18
This post made this song go through my mind... BigmanPigman 11 hrs ago #19
Same. Blue_playwright 10 hrs ago #20
Amen. hamsterjill 9 hrs ago #21
The entire world is sick of Republicans. And sick FROM Republicans. thought crime 9 hrs ago #22
Ignorance, hatred, and greed, for starters. niyad 7 hrs ago #23
Most Republicans I have met have been decent jfz9580m 6 hrs ago #25
I have them in my family! One has a Charlie Kirk tattoo! Another wears a Charlie Kirk t-shirt! They believe all the Doodley 6 hrs ago #26
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