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@McKay4Senate

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Always wondered what this guy does, like, day-to-day.
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From an American soldier's guide to China during WW2
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“If I had a massive empire across almost the entirety of the American continent extracting 200 tons of silver a year, I wouldn’t even industrialize. I’d just pay Germans to fight each other. It’s called staying on the grind set.”
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Formative JFK backstory: going to dinner with his father and his mistress and pretending it's normal Formative LBJ backstory: threatening his friends until they voted him for class president Formative Nixon backstory: wearing an apron and barking like a dog
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This is one of the wildest LBJ stories, and one you can’t really imagine happening with any other President.
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Maoists: Ni卐on, the loathsome fascist selected by corporate interests, rains death on the brave people of Indochina, who follow Chairman Mao’s lead in— Mao: Nixon’s cool. Maoists: wait what Mao: he’s invited to the cookout. 5:11 PM · Apr 25, 2024
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I don't think I've fully internalized Prigozhin. A half-Jewish hot dog vendor turned neo-Nazi mercenary marched on the capital of a nuclear power that hired him only to be convinced to stop by Lukashenko. I watched the Weltgeist possess and leave someone in real time.
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TIL the last Queen of Sikkim was a white American
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In hindsight we’re very lucky Neil Armstrong didn’t have strongly outspoken and weird political views. We could have had a second Charles Lindbergh situation.
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@pleonasm__ From what I've read, it sucks: little running water and electricity and no ability to interact with the civilian population. At least you get to ride your bike around huge empty streets
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2028 Democratic debate: Harris: men make... *laughs* men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please Newsom: it is worse than Texas, it is, may Allah forgive me, Mississippi Shapiro: do you guys like bridges?
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People loved Roosevelt so much that an illegal Latvian immigrant risked his immigration status to destroy a mural mocking him and his administration.
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Robert Byrd and John McCain basically said these things bar for bar in the Senate floor
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Third time's the charm...
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“Where are their souls now?” Hitler: spent many years reincarnated as bugs, now J.D. Vance. Stalin: was that rabbit that attacked Jimmy Carter, now your most annoying leftist mutual Pol Pot: new species of burrowing flesh worm in Borneo. Franco: Texas car dealer
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The illusion of choice… - unable to hunt, shot by Kristi Noem - able to hunt, shot by Dick Cheney
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The virgin John Fetterman: attacks Biden from the right on Israel and gives NY Post interviews to gain Republican support The chad Josh Shapiro: fixed a bridge so fast a deranged QAnon murderer explicitly told people not to kill him when the storm comes
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@Sean_Heuston_16 He did this all the time abroad as VP; he gave South Vietnamese children White House passes, and against the wishes of the ambassador on a trip to Senegal he went to a rural fishing village and shook hands with lepers.
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@pleonasm__ Apparently this dude just goes to all the awful places: Russia, Belarus, Afghanistan, Lithuania
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KMT cadre who fled to Taiwan: oh boy, I get to hold power over a rapidly modernizing US-protected island that will become a democracy for my grandchildren. KMT cadre in the Burmese jungle making drugs and getting shot at by everyone: this sucks. What the fuck.
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The White House gift shop sells FDR busts for $225 (not counting shipping). Really think this is one of those things that every American household should be given free to display whenever the Democrats are in power (the Republicans can hand out guns or something).
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This was the most “both sides are the same” election of all time. Wow, you both want to stop communism, keep our military strong, cautiously advance civil rights, grow our economy more, and make sure any needed welfare spending is done responsibly? So riveting.
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It's so cool that we had a Trotskyist city councilwoman in one of the most expensive cities in the United States and she resigned to form a "national movement" called Workers Strike Back that mainly just runs a podcast.
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Hey, nice tweet. The Menswear Guy quote tweeted it, James Medlock is asking if you want to make a bet, and Isaac Chotiner wants to interview you.
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Oh you’re a nationalist? Enjoy your imagined community. Oh, my community? I don’t have to imagine it—because it’s all mankind.
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This is the greatest 404 page of all time.
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Poor Ralph lol
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Mr. Kendrick Lamar, sir, I have evidence of another gang of pedophiles who hate you and your music. They're called the Republican Party.
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“So ‘Saudi Arabia’ isn’t a country?” “No, Jordan is a country. The Saudi entity consists of colonizers from Nejd who have been illegally occupying Hashemite lands in the Hejaz.”
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George H.W. Bush seems like a creature of a parliamentary system; he didn't move up in elected offices but in the party. He spent 2 terms in the House and lost 2 Senate races; he was RNC Chair, UN and PRC Ambassador, and CIA Director before becoming Reagan's VP and then POTUS.
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Jefferson: the tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants. Clinton: okay. *kills Gaddafi* Jefferson: Hillary this is exactly what I meant. Trump: this is so un-Hamiltonian. New York Post, help me beat her! Ghost of Alexander Hamilton: MAGA!
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@Grey_Athena PALPATINE: I respect homosexuality. Some of my best friends are gay. TARKIN: …who, my emperor? PALPATINE: Thrawn. TARKIN: I didn’t know he was gay PALPATINE: Of course he is, right Vader? VADER: (unintelligible) PALPATINE: well that’s not gay, everyone does that TARKIN: …sure
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Even if Fetterman assumes his position on Israel is 100% right and good (it’s not), I don’t see why he feels the need to meme about a conflict where tens of thousands have died like he did with that snake oil New Jersey TV doctor.
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It’s pretty funny that FDR’s own sons became political failures in their own lifetimes while random Kennedys are still getting boosts for their last names.
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@souljagoytellem The whole "Professor X is MLK and Magneto is Malcolm X" thing was kind of stupid, but the difference between the two was always "should oppressed people pursue separatism and nationalism or try to integrate into a cosmopolitan society with their oppressors."
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Average pre-Senate run tweet Mandela Barnes: Could I teach Assad to hoop? Cory Booker: I love coffee! She's so tall and dark. If only I could marry her... Jon Ossoff: A key difference between the EU and new canon is Leia and Han's relationship. In the Truce at Bakura,
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McCain defending Kerry’s military service in 2004:
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@RuNoseP And you all laughed when they said a folksy enough Democrat could win deep red counties in Tennessee
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@ProgDirectorate Imagine being a Starbucks board member and having no idea what to do in response to a TikTok trend whose kernels of truth have already been handled.
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In a Project 2025 labor camp, three prisoners recount how they got there. “I supported Kathy Hochul,” says the first, “a woke liberal Democrat!” “I opposed Kathy Hochul,” says the second, “by voting against her maps.” Both look to the third. “I am Kathy Hochul!”
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@souljagoytellem Wow, a rapper has confusing and incoherent politics?
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Left wing groups are called things like “The Racial Justice and Civil Liberties Institute” and their main goal is increasing the SALT deduction. Right wing groups are called things like “Ordinary Joes for Sane Politics” and they support using chemical weapons on the border.
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Jacobin is wild because you’ll see original scholarship about unionization among Cornish mine workers in Montana one day and the next they invite Twitter user RappinWhiteBoi to give the most misleading interpretation of the Korean War. To say nothing about their media opinions.
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@sock_dem Original version had a typo so I copied it, fixed it, and reposted. This one has engagement so I’m not gonna do it again.
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@RegimeTwink Technically the initial Cuban Revolution wasn’t communist; hell, the Communist Party of Cuba backed Batista!
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Whitmer: in 2022, I overperformed Biden's margin in 2020 by 7.8 percent, an overperformance not solely explainable by the weakness of my opponent. Fetterman: I am the only candidate who supports Israel's right to start a regional war. Raimondo: I was on the cover of Politico!
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So cool how Bill Clinton was considered the big gun for the Democratic Party up until 2012 (the famous DNC speech that year) and now everyone's agreed to more-or-less memory hole him.
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Quebec consists of a population of Frenchmen who joined the Anglosphere too late for the English Revolution, left France too early for the French Revolution, and didn’t join the American Revolution. They barely know what liberalism is, it’s like the Ancien Régime up there.
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Sean Evans: I wanted to ask you. Of all your elections, which was your favorite? Biden, hyperventilating and lightheaded: Mary, mother of God, what did you put in this... reminds me of the stew the neighborhood Pollacks... I didn't say that word, I should not have said that word
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Biden is going to go on Hot Ones. We all know this. It's inevitable. Why are we delaying the inevitable.
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Twitter in 1972 ottingermentum: Nixon didn’t even break 70% in NH… replace with Rockefeller at the convention whathas37done: these leftists refuse to acknowledge Nixon’s ongoing peace talks in Paris selassie_sports: [insert comment about Shirley Chisholm here]
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Wilson was a racist progressive liberal. Roosevelt was a racist progressive conservative. Debs was a racially apathetic progressive socialist. Taft was fat.
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@souljagoytellem Love to mock Slick Willy, but tbh if you wouldn’t do this the second you became President you’re squandering the opportunity.
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Loser historians: 🤓☝️ "Actually, RFK wasn't the liberal hero people think of him as. Putting aside his work for Joe McCarthy and MLK wiretapping, he ran on a platform similar to Bill Clinton, attacking big government and welfare." The saintly and martyred Robert Kennedy:
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"Explain the history of the modern Democratic Party"
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Democrats who fuck (Truman, JFK, LBJ, Clinton) win, while Democrats who clearly don't fuck (Stevenson, Humphrey, Dukakis) lose. To this end, McGovern's illegitimate affair child being revealed probably would have helped him.
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Fetterman tweet: sorry Hamas fans, but I’ll always stand with Israel 🇮🇱 Torres tweet: the latest trick by leftist academics is to say that Mizrahi Jews are indigenous but somehow Ashkenazi aren’t. These fake distortions try to hide the fact that Zionism is based on the right of
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@ASPertierra This is far from the worst thing in that article
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"Socially conservative communist" isn't a particularly weird combination in Eastern Europe and the developing world (though they usually aren't Islamophiles) but it's weird seeing a British MP who's like that.
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NEW: in an interview with @novaramedia , George Galloway repeatedly says that gay relationships aren't "normal", and children shouldn't be taught to think that they are. Full interview out on Sunday at 3pm.
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Republicans in 1940: I can’t believe we nominated that liberal Willkie… it’s like having to choose between 100% Stalin and 99% Stalin… Democrats in 1940: HOLY CRAP TWO STALINS
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This is the kind of thing movement conservatives were posting in 1976 when they were trying to get a Ronald Reagan/George Wallace third party ticket going.
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Please like and share if this resonates with you.
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@historyiscool__ Limited edition Turkish one made in the 5 seconds between their entry and WW2’s end 🔥
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The stan view of history is bad. Leaders, past and present, are fallible and compromise, with horrific results. Look to lofty principles, not flawed men. The exception is Abraham Lincoln, whose memory is enshrined forever in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union.
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Coolest YT accounts are the ones like this.
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@henryzcohen Publicly, he hasn’t said anything too much different from the President, but privately:
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@nikicaga Americans are blood-and-soil nationalists but for candidates in minor legislative districts.
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@TNOQuoProQuid Yeah, I joke, and on foreign policy they may have legitimately been undistinguishable. But I don’t think we get the attempt to pass Medicaid under Nixon, though we may get the tax cut; there may be more progress on civil rights, though by 60 Nixon already had a Southern strategy.
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@TNOQuoProQuid Biden will be 86 at the end of a potential second term. FDR died at 63. He would have been 66, almost 67 had he finished out his fourth term. He could have tacked on an additional 5 terms and left at the age Biden will leave office at if he wins a second term.
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You can learn everything you need to know about Nixon from his relationship with Pat: - drove her to dates with other men and waited to drive her back - lied about her birthday being St. Patrick's Day (it was the day before) - likely beat her Pathetic, self-serving, and cruel.
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How I be looking at women when they hit me with that dollar store pepper spray
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Software engineer: donates hundreds of dollars to Democratic candidates. Likes Resist Lib posts on Twitter. Venture capitalist: ideal form of government is mixture of apartheid South Africa and fascist Italy. Spends most of his time arguing about racial IQ differences on X.
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Ben-Gvir: the Hamas-infiltrated United Nations will not stop up! Civilian casualties will not stop us! We will keep bombing, bombing, bombing until—wait, are you paying attention to the road? His driver: I fucking loved her man *hits the accelerator*
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@lxeagle17 It’s a transfer of wealth from elites to (future) elites. There’s a lot more good you could do with a billion dollars for poorer people than doctors; this is closer to building opera houses than donating malaria nets in terms of charity.
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Potential Trump VP scandals: Noem: shot a dog Stefanik: serial killer Scott: actually straight Burgum: hunts humans for sport Gabbard: registered Ba’ath Party member Donalds: thinks slavery was bad Rubio: actually gay Vance: reincarnation of Adolf Hitler
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Examples of good reactionary art: - Cormac McCarthy's novels - The Deer Hunter - Fyodor Dostoyevsky's writing - Joan Baez's cover of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
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@lionel_trolling “Sorry, but the creator of reality demands I do this” versus “I’m just in it for the cheap land.”
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- protectionist - flat tax rate - single payer healthcare - anti-corruption - legalize medical marijuana - pro-gay rights Jerry Brown 1992 was the popularist hero of David Shor’s dreams…
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Wakanda for... Silicon Valley Rationalists: Japan Urbanist YouTubers: The Netherlands 16 year old TradCaths: Poland Twitter Marxists: Kerala White Power movement: Idaho
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RFK ’68: enough big government! Replace the Great Society with business doing their part and devolution of power to the local level! Ted Kennedy ’80; bring back big government! The federal government must do more for people’s welfare; it’s what my brother would have wanted!
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@lefttwick Pretty surprised people keep bringing up the DRC and not Ethiopia; the latter government's barbaric campaign in Tigray is much easier to clearly call genocide.
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@sukhoinos I think there must be some mistake. I was told the Irish were decolonial anti-imperialist third worldist Maoists.
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The Catholic Church excommunicated a priest for being a Georgist 💀
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Hail to the chief, defender of the New Deal, the Great Helmsman of our nation, 9-term President William O. Douglas!
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Spanish Civil War Twitter: AbeLincolnite: there must be some mistake, I came here to write revolutionary poetry TradArchitecture: praying that the anarchists blow up Sagrada Familia 🙏 perroporfavor: ayudame gringa, gringa ayudame
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@nikicaga Teaching American leftists solidarity with the oppressed worldwide was a bad idea because they are, at the end of the day, Americans, and so they believe it means that people worldwide should have solidarity with them and their struggles in finding change.
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@souljagoytellem He is inevitable...
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@nikicaga This is also a state in which a major figure in a party they were allied with turned out to be a serial rapist (however bad you think he might be, it's worse) and apparently some of the state BJP knew and didn't do anything.
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Whoa, you hit your head pretty bad there. Youth crosstabs? Gaza War? Come on, President O'Rourke is going to sign Senator Beasley's healthcare bill. At the rate he's going up in the polls against Trump, we'll soon be able to change Missouri to lean Democrat!
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Me in 1900: I’m so Tolstoy-pilled. I’m a Georgist. I’m a vegetarian. I like free trade. Give women the vote! Do you guys read Jane Addams? The other miners: this is the third cave-in you’ve caused this week we’re gonna kill you with shovels in your sleep tonight.
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What makes America so unique is that we're the only Anglosphere country to truly not care about WW1. The British have Remembrance Day, Gallipoli was a key part of forging New Zealander and Australian identity and Vimy Ridge Canadian identity. We more or less forgot about it.
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“And on the debate stage we have with us President Biden, former President Trump, and Robert Kennedy Jr.” “Look, I—the former guy, he wants to remove the, uh, insulin price caps.” “The rivers, they’re gonna run red with Democrat blood, and the Mexicans too.” “SHOOT ME PLEASE!”
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(The article is about the death of the last known living member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade)
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@TheSpiralPro Byrd said the first thing, McCain said the second
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The Cory Booker and coffee relationship is NOT a joke. This isn't even all of them.
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@Grey_Athena It’s basically the language of Srebrenica, it’s really horrible
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