• Jaywarbs@artemis.camp
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    10 months ago

    I didn’t even realize he was a real person. I thought that “Joe the Plumber” was just a name they used in the debates to signify some kind of common person.

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      10 months ago

      I can see that, especially since the term Joe Six-pack is as you described, a common blue collar person.