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Of one candidate, she blurts out — in an example of Huneven’s spot-on dialogue — “I’m not impressed by some wussy bread baker … who wears black dress socks with his Birkenstocks.”

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Milley is now likely in for another round of prep school Republicans calling him a wussy war-losing scumbag, as a new book documents some of the insults Milley lobbed Trump’s way when he was actively trying to prevent Trump from launching a coup.

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With great fanfare, the Republican Party announced in June that it would move the crowded portions of its convention—including the president’s nomination acceptance speech—to Jacksonville, Florida, after being unable to strike a deal with North Carolina’s incorrigible Democratic governor and his wussy concerns about “not dying.”

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If this had happened in the United States, the solution might have been simple — for safety purposes, our bathroom doors are generally made so they can be jimmied with a tool as primitive as a toothpick or a paper clip — but Zambian rooms aren’t that wussy.

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The point is, even we, the wussy day campers who couldn’t handle being outdoors or away from our families for too long, told ghost stories.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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