Lo Cortaron Con La Misma Tijera Analysis

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“Lo cortaron con la misma tijera!” is a saying we have in Puerto Rico when we are saying, “they’re all cut with the same pair of scissors” - which really means they all follow the same pattern. It’s so easy to say that about the incumbent. “He’s a big fat loser!”, or “Get that bum out of office!”, or “I don’t like his feet!” But it’s not really practical to use that to base our decisions on, is it? When it comes to the realities of our lives, we have to base our decisions on something with a little more substance

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