• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    10 days ago

    Lindsay Graham was in his current office for 23 years. His predecessor, Strom Thurmond was in that seat for 47 years.

    You know, back in the 70s, we used to joke that you could tell the Soviet Union was a dictatorship because the Politburo was full of immovable decrepit crusty old apparatchiks who were never replaced from one “election” to the next. Kind of like the US…

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      10 days ago

      We also made jokes about how when whoever was leading Russia died, they never announced it publicly for some time. 😉