The Republican Party is considering repealing the 11th Commandment.
The first 10 came from the Book of Exodus, and were greeted by what the Bible described as “the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking.” The 11th Commandment — Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican — became gospel after a speech Ronald Reagan gave in the Lafayette Hotel in Long Beach, California, on April 1, 1967. That, too, was greeted with thunderous applause, though there were no reports of lightning flashes or mountain smoking. Those would not hit California until decades later.
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LYING Loser failure # 45 and his supporters can go to hell
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