What would the founding fathers and past presidents think of current day USA?

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There have been 7 presidents that served in the Civil War, 8 presidents (in a row) that served in WWII, but 0 presidents that served in Vietnam. Why is this?

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What do you think George W. Bush’s long term legacy (50-100 years from now) will be?

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A man doesn’t win four consecutive elections by being a poor leader. I miss the strength we had under FDR. God bless him 🦅

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Donald Trump tweets for the first time in over 2 years

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Muhammad Ali gave Ronald Reagan his endorsement in 1984, stating, He's keeping God in schools and that's enough.

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Obama and McCain were like a perfect matchup. Because they both disagree politically, but were very humble and respectable towards each other's political opinions. And recognized each other's strengths. Wish more politicians on both aisles acted the same way.

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CHAD

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I watched Oppenheimer today, and in the movie Truman is portrayed as being kind of an asshole, especially to Oppenheimer. For those who have seen the movie, how historically accurate is its portrayal of Truman?

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George H. W. Bush last day as President as he takes a look at the Capitol after leaving Bill Clinton's inauguration

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Since we’re seeing all these Robert E. Lee posts, here’s a pic of the man who defeated him.

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Reagan, 1980: “Instead of putting up a fence, why don’t we make it possible for (immigrants) to come here legally and open up the border both ways.”

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Ronald Reagan was saved because of Ronald Reagan

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What caused Hillary Clinton to lose the 2016 election?

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I'm a Nixon hater. Comment any bad event at any point in American history, and I'll tell you why it's Nixon's fault.

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Who ran the saddest presidential campaign?

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Obama is just plain wrong here. Die Hard is clearly a Christmas movie.

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In this information age, with all this explosion of access to information, one of the things that's happening that's not good is people are more and more listening to people who tell them what they wanna hear. - Bill Clinton, June 1995

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if you were Harry truman would you have warned japan or simply dropped the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki anyway

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At the time, the 2000 Election was described as the election for who would you rather have a beer with. Between Bush and Gore, who would you rather have a beer with?

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Which president died the worst way?

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I respect Bush’s composure during this moment, but I have one question: Why wasn’t Bush and the school evacuated by Secret Service the moment they learned America was under attack on 9/11, given there was a great chance he was a target?

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Show me presidential photos that haunt your nightmares

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How would have Trump done if he ran against Obama in 2012?

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How would the public react to Biden pardoning Trump?

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The undergraduate major of every US president

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Romney plans to retire after this term

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Always have to remind myself of this classic. What are some other similarly insane things presidents have done?

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How did Republican presidents gain a “fiscally responsible” reputation? Classic case of repeating a lie so often it becomes true?

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George Bush on a divorced mom with 3 jobs

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J.J. McCollough’s art of every president (up to Trump)

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Say a hot take about a President that will give the subreddit this reaction.

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If Bill Clinton had managed to get his and Hillary’s universal health care plan passed in 1994, what would be their reputations today?

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What did the Presidency of Donald J. Trump teach you about America?

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Do you guys think Obama meant what he said or he was trying to relate to some Americans that felt this way?

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What's your favorite wtf picture of a president?

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I fired him [MacArthur] because he wouldn't respect the authority of the President ... I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail. - Truman

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Which Presidents dealt with the most stress

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A disheveled Mitt Romney is photographed pumping gas just days after losing the Presidential Election (November 2012)

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Bob Dole is helped up to salute fellow WWII veteran and Republican leader George H.W. Bush. Dole saluted with his left hand due to limited mobility in his right arm from combat wounds.

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What piece of foreign policy enacted by a President backfired the hardest in the long to very long term?

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Say something nice about your Worst/least favorite president.

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This guy has had some bad luck

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In 1972, photos of Jackie Kennedy sunbathing nude on a Greek beach were taken and published in Hustler Magazine entirely without her consent. This horrible breach of privacy was orchestrated by her then-husband Aristotle Onassis as a gesture of his anger during the downward spiral in their marriage.

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Vice President Thomas R. Marshall being mobbed by a crowd of former child laborers he helped set free as Governor

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What JFK was doing just before WW2

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Who would be the better President? Gus Fring or Walter White?

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What’s your favorite campaign moment? I’ll always respect McCain for this speech.

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What were the positives of George W Bush's presidency?

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You wake up from your coma on January 20th, 2025. Jimmy Carter’s second term has begun. What are your thoughts?

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If I see this exact image of Ronald Reagan with some loaded question attached one more time, I’m going to go insane.

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Ask me questions about the US presidents and then edit your questions to make me look bad

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Each president with the president they were born under to their left, and the president when they died to the right.

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What's something progressive that a very conservative President did?

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Has there ever been a running mate that ruined it for a candidate.

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As a US Representative, George H.W. Bush broke from his party on the issue of Birth Control, which he supported. He also voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1968, despite it being very unpopular in his Texas District. Truly a man of principle through and through.

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The USA is a young nation......

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What is the most embarrassing thing a president has done?

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What is the most famous phrase uttered by the President?

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What was your reaction to President Jeb Bush launching every warhead in our nuclear arsenal during his 6th term?

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When it first started, were you for or against the War in Iraq?

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What a character!

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Did Obama’s election make race relations worse?

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Excerpt from Yeltsin’s conversation with Clinton in Istanbul 1999

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What is something a president did that personally affected you negatively?

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President Truman with the documents of Japan's surrender (1945)

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How would have Teddy Roosevelt handled WW2?

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Which president gets credit for something someone else accomplished?

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STOP: And drop a badass or hilarious political cartoon in the comments.

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Who was president when you started school(K-12 education)?

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I would like to hear some more unpopular/controversial opinions you guys have on Presidents that will get you downvoted anywhere else

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How well do you think President Obama delivered on his promise of change?

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I've heard a stories about LBJ, are they true? That while in the Oval office, if he was in an intense debate/argument that he would just drop trou in an attempt to bully the other guy?

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I heard you guys like pictures of US presidents, here is one taking a picture of me in 2008

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If all US presidents were car salesmen, who could sell the most cars?

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How would Bush be remembered if there were WMDs discovered in Iraq during the 2003 invasion?

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JFK’s Princeton application essay.

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I wonder how Nancy celebrated in the moment..

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What was the dullest, most uninspiring Presidential ticket ever put up?

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Woodrow Wilson's daughter just looks like Woodrow Wilson with a wig on

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Favorite Bushism?

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It's November 4, 2008. Barack Obama has just been elected president of the United States

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I wanted to share two oil paintings I really enjoy (kinda), Artist Andy Thomas, 2017

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What if 9/11 had happened in 2000 under Bill Clinton? How would he have handled it?

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What if Deez Nuts won in 2016?

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Presidents ranked by how fun they would be at parties

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Could Lincoln have survived the bullet wound had he been shot today?

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Funny Carter moment thought I’d share

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Statement of Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States, on the passing of former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman.

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Franklin Roosevelt dead

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Is this the most iconic image in the history of presidents?

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What’s the worst thing a President has done to their secret service?

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Where were you when they announced President Jeb! Bush had shot and killed Osama bin Laden?

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It feels very eerie realizing that former President Jimmy Carter is the last surviving member of this group..

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Jimmy Carter has become the first President to live into the calendar year of his centennial!

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Most significant action by a lame duck President?

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Which politician in American history was the closest to becoming a dictator?

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Most Devastating/Saddening Presidential Moments/Quotes?

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Who should represent America in Civilization VII?

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Tier list of presidents' mental health

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First NBA Champions visit to the White House.

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This peanut statue was constructed in 1976 to help Jimmy Carter's election. Would this make you vote for him?

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Official presidential portraits ranked based on how hard they go

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Show me your hardest presidential photos

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What did you all think of Truman’s portrayal in Oppenheimer?

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John F. Kennedy visiting his 97 year old grandmother Mary Josephine Fitzgerald. She is, as of 2024, the only grandparent to live to see a grandchild become president of the United States.

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Alternate universe: Nobody can decide who the true winner of the 2000 election is, so the Supreme Court rules that Bush and Gore will take turns being president on alternating days

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I'm a Kennedy fanboy, drop something bad he did and I'll justify it

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Nixon crying at his wife Pat's funeral. I know a lot of people on this sub haven't seen this picture before so I thought I'd share it. It really moved me.

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Which president had the most haunting last words?

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Did Reagan stand up for the “little guy”?

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In June of 1980, Chancellor of Germany Helmut Schmidt yelled at Jimmy Carter during a Summit in Venice. Story below.

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My experience with things said by the man

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George Washington’s uniform he wore from 1789-1799. Amazing it survived long enough to make it to a museum

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I like this one more than the official painting

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What’s your favourite alleged presidential conspiracy/scandal?

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How different would our history have looked if Hillary Clinton beat Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries?

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Seriously, it’s getting old

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What President was the best to Native Americans?

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Which president hated the establishment the most?

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If the founding fathers could be brought back from the dead, what do you imagine they would think about how suitable the constitution (including amendments) is for our modern society?

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It’s funny how this subreddit’s icon is someone that most people here seem to hate

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JFK's last meeting with his father, Joseph P. Kennedy in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. Summer of 1963.

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Dick Cheney said this about his donor heart, which he received at 71:

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Are there other examples of candidates defending their opponent like McCain did with Obama?

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Rank modern American presidents based on how tough they were on autocratic Russia

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Would America elect a President with a physical disability in the 21st Century, why or why not?

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Presidential narrative vs reality table

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Dick Cheney received 5 draft deferments during the Vietnam War. Upon graduation, Cheney was eligible for the draft, but he was married. October 26, 1965, the draft was expanded to include married men without children; Cheney's first daughter, Elizabeth, was born 9 months and 2 days later.

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If every President got arrested for committing a crime

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Senator Joe Biden at the 1982 White House Congressional Picnic hosted by President Ronald Reagan. His sons Beau and Hunter accompanied him.

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Did Reagan really flood urban areas with crack?

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What time do presidents wake up in the morning?

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Happy 146th Birthday, Mr. President

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What are some of your favorite funny-president photos?

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Which president had the best relationship with their political rival?

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Worst things a U.S. President ever did | Day One: George Washington

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Why did America love Republicans so much in the second half of the 20th century?

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Why was the 1972 presidential election so lopsided?

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Republicans say something good about Biden, Democrats say something good about Trump

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Which President lied the most frequently?

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The First Meeting of a Sitting US President and Reigning British Monarch - Woodrow Wilson with George V in December 1918

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How do you feel about Reagan's stance on gun control?

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Besides Lincoln, which other president would have handled the civil war best?

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The Nixon tapes are quite the listen

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Which President was the most hilariously incompetent?

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Why do people say that Nixon was a crook when he literally said he wasn’t? Are they stupid?

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Reminder of that time a cancer survivor’s “Make a Wish” was to meet Jimmy Carter

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Still can't believe this is a real quote

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You have 20$ to defend yourself. The rest will fight you. Who's your picks?

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