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You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President (theonion.com)

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Nixon did his damnedest, before winning the 1968 election, to prolong the Vietnam War in hopes of leveraging the conflict for political gain.

I can't even comprehend being so ruthlessly evil that I would gladly fling tens of thousands of people into a wood chipper to boost my political career.