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		SEJeff on Sept 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How do people learn to cook a poisonous plant safe... Quite a few people have declined for the current POTUS, but then again, would you want cold fast food and rhetoric shouted at you in the Whitehouse?

whenchamenia on Sept 4, 2019 [–]

Lets put petty political posturing aside. If you have any issue you care about, the opportunity is singular. It would be a great waste to decline, no matter the dinner faire.

SEJeff on Sept 4, 2019 | [–]

Oh I agree with you, but it seems to be a matter of principals.

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