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I tell people's stories and sometimes fight for them. Director, Breitbart’s Border and Cartel Chronicles projects. bdarby @breitbart .com

Lubbock, TX
Joined February 2011
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Brandon Darby
11 months
Lubbock, Texas is so pretty this time of year. Most people don’t realize it looks this way.
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Lubbock, Texas is so pretty this time of year.
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10 months
Honestly, if I were to see an elderly person walking down the street alone in this manner and with this look on his face, I’d stop and offer to help him/call police and ask if an elderly person was missing.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
Some people clearly got jealous over my Lubbock pic. Wait until they see the bungalows over the Houston ship channel in Pasadena, Texas, where I grew up.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
@realTomPappert He’s not. Those are normal boots. The heel is like that to keep your feet from slipping through the stirrups
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Brandon Darby
11 months
@Skelly363 There’s a portal. I can’t tell you where it is though.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
There’s been a few people getting mad and trying to correct me. Some are calling me a liar or saying “That isn’t Lubbock, it’s a place in Switzerland. I’m like:
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10 months
@_Sola_Fide_ Did I insult her appearance? I just said this is her.
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Brandon Darby
5 months
I’m a single dad and I have a night to myself. There will be some whiskey, some ranch style beans, and some reruns of Gunsmoke and the Golden Girls. Just being honest.
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1 year
@elonmusk If you think that’s funny, check out this meme.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
@STOIC_2001 It’s SwitzerLubbock
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Brandon Darby
1 year
I don’t see what’s “funny” about poverty in Appalachia or San Francisco. Showing towns decimated by anti-coal policies is hardly comparable to policies that tolerate rampant petty crime. Come on, man. Not clever and a bit disingenuous in the comparison.
@Factschaser
Facts Chaser 🌎 🤦🏻‍♂️
1 year
Funny how many who like to criticize the “homeless” in San Francisco never show footage of West Virginia / Appalachia
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Brandon Darby
7 months
I’m old enough to remember when someone who tried to prevent Congress from voting was known as an insurrectionist.
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Brandon Darby
10 months
This will do the trick.
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Brandon Darby
9 months
My llama passed away this morning. RIP, Llamalo. Thanks for protecting my animals and for bringing enjoyment to my family and friends.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
And by graphic warning we mean graphic warning. It’s the reality, the ignored reality, so it must be shown. Too many communities affected by this violence.
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Brandon Darby
8 months
Sitting on my porch near Lubbock, Texas.
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Brandon Darby
7 months
While he was yelling “Yeah, b*tch, yeah b*tch” to the officer he was choking — you left that part out of your tweet, CNN.
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CNN
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Leonard Allan Cure was wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. Years after his release, he was killed by a deputy during a traffic stop.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
@Far_Point Whew. Thanks for the heads up.
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Brandon Darby
7 months
You should’ve reminded Hamas of this before they did what they just did. Israel has the right to destroy Hamas— and everyone directly associated with them — at this point. I do hope everyone can have peace AFTER that happens though 👍
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Ilhan Omar
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Reminder, Gaza doesn’t have shelters or an iron dome and to please pray for them. May peace prevail in the region and move us towards a moral awakening to care about the human suffering we are seeing. Palestinians are human beings who have been in besieged and are deserving of…
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Brandon Darby
7 months
Mao and Pol Pot did that sort of thing.
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Christiane Amanpour
7 months
“So many of those extremists, those MAGA extremists, take their marching orders from Donald Trump,” @HillaryClinton tells me. “There needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members” in the GOP, she adds in our EXCLUSIVE conversation.
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1 year
@realTomPappert On my feet at this very moment. I was out with my horses this evening.
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5 months
Brian Kilmeade needs to switch to decaf.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
Mothers Day is a bit difficult when your mom isn’t here anymore. Appreciate your moms, folks. They won’t always be here.
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Brandon Darby
10 months
If you’re someone who’s publicly shared private texts or emails in an effort to hurt someone else, I generally stay far away from you. Won’t hire you, date you, or be a friend — nothing. I just stay away in every way.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
Even I would struggle to finish this plate — and I can eat.
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Brandon Darby
3 months
This is fake. Stop trying to turn my state into an armed standoff, you f*cking a**hole.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
I really appreciate @JesseKellyDC teaching me how to go keto. Healthy, low carb meals like this are the way to go.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
@GavinWax @ChristinaPushaw @JennaEllisEsq @davereaboi Respectfully, it looked to me like you sassed your boss publicly— after he called you out for cursing a woman. I would fire someone for that as well.
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Brandon Darby
5 months
You mean the military-aged men in a combat zone who stayed after civilians left? Yeah, I support Hamas being treated this way. Actually, I’d support a lot worse for Hamas.
@HeerJeet
Jeet Heer
5 months
The majority of the American ruling class, indeed a majority of the ruling class in the West, supports this.
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Brandon Darby
5 months
When hostages accidentally get killed, I tend to blame the hostage takers for that sort of tragedy.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
I’m a single dad with full custody of a little one and tonight is my first night alone in many months— and I’m spending it drinking whiskey and watching the Golden Girls.
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Brandon Darby
10 months
@the_dadchef I can explain it. The same reason people don’t like bird poo on their cars. It doesn’t belong there.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
@donvan379 Take 114 west, pass the four corners and turn left.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
@davidbadash @FBI David, probably important for the director of such an agency to speak across the aisles. Also, they probably have more facts than do you. Maybe not. But likely.
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Brandon Darby
10 months
I quit smoking cigarettes 5 years ago today. That was tough, but I’m so glad I did it. 👍
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Brandon Darby
1 year
I found a nice little taqueria on the side of the highway in West Texas. Not a bad plate they gave me.
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1 year
@RonColeman But then you wouldn’t see these, Ron.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
Unpopular opinion: Trump likely wins nomination, but loses the general. Then many of you will absolve yourselves of blame by claiming “they” stole it. Then some will get violent and destructive. Then you’ll absolve yourself of that blame by claiming “they” entrapped the violent.
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Brandon Darby
10 months
Sitting on my porch steps enjoying the nice Lubbock night and look who came to see me.
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Brandon Darby
10 months
Go pick up a rifle and fight over there for a while, then send your family members. Oh, that’s not what you meant— you meant you’re okay risking our lives and the lives of those we love. Nope.
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Lindsey Graham
10 months
I will be working with Republicans and Democrats in the Senate to pass a resolution urging the admission of Ukraine into NATO. The best way to prevent future wars and promote peace is to create security guarantees that make aggressor nations think twice before starting wars.…
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Brandon Darby
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Good morning, y’all.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
Guys— this is some of the best chicken-noodle soup I’ve ever eaten. Amazing.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
Thank God for experts like you. Any ideas on where I should invest money?
@GerberKawasaki
Ross Gerber
11 months
It’s very possible #Prigozhin will be the next leader of Russia. Putin is on the run. Moscow is being attacked and the Russian military is in shambles. The end game is here. #Ukraine
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Brandon Darby
10 months
Elect me and I will build a giant dome over Texas and air condition the entire state — thermostat on 68. A big beautiful dome. And Mexico will pay for it.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
The wind storm pushed all the tumbleweeds against my gate and they look like zombies trying to crawl over.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
And that’s banana pudding in the background. Yep.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
I think someone hacked his Twitter account. Not trying to be ugly, but this is akin to Mike Pence tweeting out a rainbow flag and calling for single-payer healthcare for all. Come on now.
@POTUS
President Biden
1 year
MAGA House Republican proposals would slash funding for border security – a move that could allow nearly 900 pounds of fentanyl into our country. We need more resources to secure the border. Not less.
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Brandon Darby
7 months
I don’t see how anyone can watch this video of Leonard Cure and think the police officer was wrong to shoot him. The officer was being choked and having his neck/spine cranked — threat of death and severe bodily injury.
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Brandon Darby
10 months
In the past two months, I’ve had one person tell me I should “actually visit the border” before reporting on it and I just had someone else tell me I should actually visit Mexico if I want to report on cartels. I don’t even know how to respond to that.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
My great grandmother used to take a piece of Mrs. Baird’s white bread, put margarine on it, then pour white sugar in and feed it to me as a snack.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
Yep. 100 percent.
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Brandon Darby
10 months
@stillgray I get tired like that too after I eat too many Philly cheesesteaks
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Brandon Darby
11 months
Oh hell, y’all. This Lubbock woman just tweeted at me to tell her where in Lubbock I took the picture. Then she got mad, told me I was a fake who didn’t really take the picture in Lubbock. I’m not sure what to do with that.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
Lubbock, Texas is so pretty this time of year. Most people don’t realize it looks this way.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
I was shocked recently when a friend in a California had never heard of a pimento cheese sandwich. I had no idea it wasn’t something everyone ate. Also, I’m fixing to eat this pimento cheese sandwich. Just FYI.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
@jamestodman You baller, you.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
Lee’s Cafe in Lubbock, Texas. Smothered beef patties, mashed potatoes, candied yams, fried okra, and cabbage with cornbread.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
Read the comments/replies to this tweet. They’re hoping the least of these, the sojourner, and their children get eaten by alligators while simultaneously having “servant of Christ” in many of their bios.
@GregAbbott_TX
Greg Abbott
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The Texas National Guard took this picture in the Rio Grande river near Eagle Pass.
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Brandon Darby
5 months
Yeah, probably a good idea not to target, kidnap, and sexually assault Israeli civilians in the future. I think that’s the intended message.
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Pelham
5 months
The Zionist are destroying literally everything so it becomes unliveable…🇵🇸💔
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Brandon Darby
7 months
Jay Leeson passed away this evening. He was a good friend to many of us and to any overlooked rural community. I’ll have more to say about him at some point, but not tonight. Rest in peace, friend.
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Brandon Darby
10 months
A reminder that fried pickles exist and they are good.
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Brandon Darby
1 month
I agree that Israel should end the war, just as soon as they get the hostages back and completely destroy Hamas.
@thehill
The Hill
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Stephen Colbert is calling on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the country’s war with Hamas. His comments come after Netanyahu took responsibility for a deadly strike that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
It’s on, y’all. It’s on.
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Brandon Darby
10 months
Evie Maes in Lubbock, Texas, treated me right.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
I’m starting to see a lot of people with blue checks who are claiming they’re not paying for Twitter blue. You guys do realize that some of them are actually paying and trying to act like they’re not, right?
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Brandon Darby
8 months
I see many of my friends in Texas celebrating — not that truth won, but that our “side” stuck together and won. Not did someone do wrong or not do wrong, but that our own won regardless of that. Don’t believe me? Look at their celebratory words for yourselves. Politics.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
@elonmusk @iamharaldur People who publicly do stuff like that to me get fired immediately. I can’t have that. “Hi, Mr. Musk. I work for you at Twitter. Can we please talk? Thank you.” —- How a good employee handles things if they really feel the need to get a hold of a boss.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
@KatTimpf You’ll be okay. Even the Donner Party found something to eat eventually.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
Don’t hate me just because I have a quesadilla and five tacos and you don’t.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
I do apologize if I’m being rude. It’s just bothersome watching famous rich people basically say “Do you know who I am? You’re lucky I’m here! Give me my drinks for free.”
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Brandon Darby
1 year
Nothing like a good healthy breakfast.
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Brandon Darby
5 months
Don’t be jealous of my lunch.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
@elonmusk What if someone identifies as they/them? Technically, you’d have to charge them the org rate.
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Brandon Darby
8 months
I don’t care what consenting adults do in their bedrooms and I don’t even care if they have alternative arrangements in their marriages — none of my business. But if you chose to heavily use Jesus and “traditional family values” in your campaign, now we have an issue.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
These three are just enjoying the sunset with me.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
Ranch style beans and buttered bread. You probably can’t even imagine eating this good.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
@althumanoid It’s Switzerlubbock
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Brandon Darby
1 year
It’s good that most of America doesn’t know the heaven that is a pimento cheese sandwich. Too much demand would raise the costs.
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Brandon Darby
10 months
I have a child, asshole. If you want to go to direct war with Russia, fly over there and take up a rifle. You don’t get to risk my child’s life just because your war cult has a Red Dawn fetish. You grow up and think.
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Brandon Darby
9 months
If you’re a billionaire and you own a private 757, I’m probably going to keep my money and let you pay for your own lawyers.
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Brandon Darby
4 months
I’ve kept a secret and I’ve decided to finally be open about. The truth is, I prefer eating a ribeye steak over prime rib. I think cooking it as a steak is superior to cooking it as prime rib. There.
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Brandon Darby
11 months
Just one more war… this one will be different… but this time it’s really important and the fate of the free world depends upon it… yeah, yeah, we know we’ve said it all before, but this time it’s really different… they’ll greet as as liberators… this time…
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Brandon Darby
4 months
No, sir. The headline warns you with “Graphic” What transnational criminal orgs are doing in Mexico is largely ignored by most media outlets. Communities in Mexico deserve their stories told and shown just as much as other human beings.
@RenTheLast
Willie Singleton III
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@brandondarby I think we need to get back to not providing the actual photos of the recently deceased. Wtf is this? A child could click on your site and see that crap. I'm just saying someone has to maintain a level of decency despite all that's happening.
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Brandon Darby
9 months
If you don’t like dogs trying to love on you nonstop, then don’t come to my house. I won’t “just put them outside.” This is their home, so I’m more likely to put you outside if there’s an issue.
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Brandon Darby
9 months
Some huevos rancheros in a small West Texas town in the middle of nowhere. 👍
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Brandon Darby
5 months
I would say that people fleeing from police is what led to crashes, but you do you.
@hrw
Human Rights Watch
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NEW: Dangerous chases of vehicles thought to contain migrants under the Texas government’s Operation Lone Star program led to crashes that killed at least 74 people and injured at least another 189. In a new report, HRW documents the spike:
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Brandon Darby
1 year
I really care about some of the people on both sides of the Trump-DeSantis fight, but I’m going to be honest with you. Some of y’all are acting like lunatics. Love ya, but you’re acting a little crazy.
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Brandon Darby
4 months
Don’t come to West Texas pulling that sh*t.
@tariq_raouf
Tariq Ra’ouf
4 months
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 We are going to inconvenience every single person who doesn’t give a fuck until they give a fuck. That’s how this goes.
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Brandon Darby
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@Grits39452 Lubbock/Lauterbrunnen Valley, tomato/tomahto.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
I know I already tweeted this pic, but it’s worth another tweet.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
Nice way to spend an evening in West Texas.
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Brandon Darby
1 year
I think this will do the trick for me.
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Brandon Darby
10 months
My early morning text from a neighbor :)
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Brandon Darby
10 months
My truck just got its spray-in bedliner today. I’m not going to lie, I’m feeling kind of fancy.
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