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Cartoonist

(7,558 posts) Sat Feb 9, 2019, 05:49 PM Feb 2019

Solomon. He's one of the good guys, right?

Thanks for the hearts

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Solomon. He's one of the good guys, right? (Original Post) Cartoonist Feb 2019 OP

Why a guy... uriel1972 Feb 2019 #1

Hey, he didn't mean it!! It was a test to see which woman was the real mother bobbieinok Feb 2019 #2

They overlooked the obvious backfires uriel1972 Feb 2019 #5

it was edhopper Feb 2019 #3

Like Trump, he married foreign wives Bretton Garcia Feb 2019 #4

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)

1. Why a guy...

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 06:43 PM

Feb 2019

who advocated cutting a baby in half is one of the good guys is beyond me.

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)

2. Hey, he didn't mean it!! It was a test to see which woman was the real mother

Reply to uriel1972 (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 08:09 PM

Feb 2019

That's what we learned in SoBapt Sunday School in te 40s and 50s!

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)

5. They overlooked the obvious backfires

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 11, 2019, 01:54 AM

Feb 2019

Like, the woman backing down not being the birth mother, both women backing down and the nasty one, neither woman backing down.

So easy to be up excrement creek with that one. Solomon had no idea about human nature, obviously.

edhopper

(35,064 posts)

3. it was

Reply to uriel1972 (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 9, 2019, 10:17 PM

Feb 2019

a metephore.

Bretton Garcia

(970 posts)

4. Like Trump, he married foreign wives

Reply to Cartoonist (Original post)

Sun Feb 10, 2019, 10:49 AM

Feb 2019

Last edited Tue Feb 12, 2019, 06:07 AM - Edit history (1)

And was therefore implicitly accused of collaborating with an enemy.

He also had concubines.

Unlike Trump, he was said to be wise. Not just a wisenheimer.

Still, Trump's willingness to split America in half, recalls Solomon's risky, traumatic baby strategy.

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