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Cheezoholic

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8. When Raygun was Governor of California in the 60's my mother was in her 3rd year of college
Thu May 29, 2025, 01:03 PM
May 29

Raygun saw college students as a bunch of freeloading entitled pot smoking left wing communist radicals so he put an end to it in California. My mother couldn't afford to pay for college so she was done. She never got to graduate. That's when it started. That's when the 20th century war on intellectualism began and Raygun put it into full motion after Stone and Manafort cut a deal with the radical Iranian theocracy to hold the hostages until after the election. Like FatAss, Raygun was merely a puppet on the end of a hand connected to a far more sinister ideology that learned from the post war 50's and 60's that they must keep people so fucking dumb they will elect a Ham Sandwich and that's just what we did.

The war on education, which results in free thinking smart people of all kinds, started many many decades ago.

Long game. We need to learn it.

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