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Slinky Kinks

And War

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Roy Blount Jr
Mar 04, 2026
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Senator Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, has shown some old-school Southern-pol phrase-turning chops. After Trump vowed that the U.S. would “take over the Gaza Strip,” Tillis told reporters: “There’s probably a couple of kinks in that Slinky.”

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