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Robert Moses
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Oh bury me, then rise ye up And break your heavy chains And water with the tyrants' blood The freedom you have gained. And in the great new family, The family of the free, With softly spoken, kindly word Remember also me. -Shevchenko, Kobzar Taras, founder of modern Ukrainian
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100% to *under 50%* Never want to fucking hear about the GOP is the party of Ukraine aid again Tvoyu mat’
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@the_shoe_yes @KevinWGlass I would like to see the numbers on owning the Libs, bet America absolutely crushes those
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@MikeBlack114 @KoalaSalesman It gets better when you realize she implied her husband is a factory worker, and it turned he’s also ex McKinsey Then you read his LinkedIn, and it turned out his job is firing people at a steel company
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@agraybee It’s surreal that right at the moment BLM crossed the rubicon into genuinely popular acceptance, a lot of associated people decided to unveil a new slogan that would absolutely never get majority support, almost as though it was a challenge
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Not that there ever was an excuse, but now there are zero left for Mike and the House GOP You’re being given a completely historically unprecedented backstop to hold a vote on the security aid bill. If you refuse to take this, you are unconditionally the authors of any UA defeat
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100% of the Squad just voted for lethal aid to destroy the VSRF, a majority of the House Republican Conference voted to block it Yea, ok, I never want to hear the words “woke” or “progressive” or whatever again unless you’ve listed every single one of those 112 fifty times first
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If you vote for Trump, you vote for Ukrainian genocide If you claim Trump would be better, and you are in fact Ukrainian, you should strongly consider joining the VSRF, because you are functionally their ally
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@NGrossman81 This is at least the fifth time since June 2022 where it’s clear American law schools should be hit with a class action lawsuit to claw back tuition, and American law professors/commentators should collectively take a vow of silence and enter monastic communities for life
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@Bartaway [Scene: three men in a cell] “I am here because I spoke against Karl Radek” “But I am here because I spoke out for Karl Radek!” “…I’m Karl Radek”
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If the Lord is just
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Who could have foreseen that after rejecting aid attached to the toughest border bill ever they’re now saying no aid without the border If you voted for the GOP, you voted for Ukrainian genocide If you want absolution, better find a priest because you’re not getting it on earth
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@steve_vladeck It was completely foreseeable she would issue a ruling like this last weekend when I told you this was a travesty, or, at the latest, last week when she tortured the relevant cases during the hearing
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@FactsInEvidence @MBanditta @Teoyaomiquu …these blockades are literally illegal under EU rules because of the PCA between Brussels and Ukraine, and the European Commission is about to take the PiS regime to court over this, because they’re deliberately refusing to enforce the law and stop the blockades
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Or, hear me out, instead of dividing the Senate bill into fourths you could just pass the Senate bill in an hour and weapons could start flowing again to Rzeszow *tonight*
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Apparently, the Russian Navy’s pronouns are also “was/were”
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@steve_vladeck There was no reason, none, based on her already wildly inappropriate actions to grant her even a shred of the benefit of the doubt last weekend and yet…
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@the_powerbroker Because it is both procedurally preposterous and not that big of a deal (yet) substantively.
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Time for your regularly scheduled: If you voted for the GOP, you voted for Ukrainian genocide. If you didn’t realize this, not my problem, it’s between you and your malfunctioning frontal lobe If you want absolution, better find a priest, because you won’t get it in this life
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This is Democrats on *an institutional basis* offering to rescue the GOP from their own worst members to save Ukraine I never want to hear any criticism after today, I never want to hear whining about Jake Sullivan or the words escalation management, if the GOP fail to take this
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The Corn Pop saga continues to explain American politics, to expose media/activist bias, and to entertain me personally
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If you voted for the GOP last year, you voted for Ukrainians to be genocided, because that was the explicit position of the leader of the party at the time of the election If this troubles you, tough shit, you’re not going to get absolution That’s your fault, not anyone else
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@steve_vladeck At some point the legal academy really has to acknowledge their systemic and systematic failure either to predict our current state or affairs or to acknowledge we are now firmly within it
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@schlagteslinks It’s got it all baby Best POC result in three generations? ✅ Trump Under 35s by double ds? ✅ Women for the first time in 36 years? ✅
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Special kudos to The American Conservative for bravely publishing a gay man’s coming out story
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If you support Trump, you’re directly supporting the annihilation of Ukraine and its people, and you better find a priest because you will not get absolution in this life Hope the Lord is merciful, not just, or you’re going to have a hot time
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@KT_So_It_Goes The people currently rocking out with a bluey are virtually a perfect overlapping circle with the people who insisted he’d wouldn’t be forced to buy and worst case scenario would have to pay out $1b
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@un_a_valeable Let’s be clear. The reason anyone on the harder left (or in the dead center) dumped on them was because resistlib is just code for “their moms” and they have deep problems with their moms. It’s “fascinating” that the center-left and the anti-Trump ex-GOP got this mostly right…
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@IRHotTakes …not only did the UK wave on Kim Philby for years, for social class reasons, they did so also knowing his father converted and had essentially committed against the empire to help his best mate Ibn Saud The Philbys were legit multi generational traitors
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The Fellas: “Lads, what does Patron actually do with the UXO he finds? Patron:
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#Ukraine : A Russian BTR was taken out after it ran into an Anti-Tank mine laid by the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade in the East.
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@it_bred @MikeBlack114 @KoalaSalesman For someone in the tech industry she sure has a lack of familiarity with internet search engines
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It is infuriating, despicable, and also completely goddamn predictable that the US Senate delegation to Ukraine on the eve of the two year anniversary of 2/24/22 are all Dems You can try to explain your 2022 GOP vote to a priest, but you’re not getting absolution in this life
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@FactsInEvidence @MBanditta @Teoyaomiquu There’s nothing legal about any of this, yes the PiS’s pathetic excuse for a government is ultimately to blame for it, and the ultimate consequence is going to be the Commission punishing ordinary Poles
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I cannot emphasize enough how historic this promise is There has never been a modern speaker elected who did not win solely on the basis of the majority party’s votes. This is the most significant guarantee any Democratic Party leader can make
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If aid passes, the Rada needs to build a statue to Stormy and give her honorary citizenship
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@BeijingPalmer They’re not just sitting on this heinous stuff out of respect. They’re sitting on a political powder keg, while dousing themselves in petrol, eg Smotrich saying “we shouldn’t bother to try to rescue the hostages” after he and Ben Gvir are why these people were left defenseless
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@ok_post_guy Look, you can make any argument about Fetts in re Israel/Palestine you want But the man was also cheering UAW’s victories down south this past weekend. And he’s utterly vicious towards Trump et al regularly Treating him as Young Manchin (coming this fall on CBS) is a huge error
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@peterawolf Weird how the guy who chose to defend Irving against all comers turns out to have like ninety other terrible positions that a lot of folks inexplicably choose to ignore as tho they cannot find literally anyone else to back up the point on which he incidentally overlaps them
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Mitt Romney gets treated worse by his own GOP every four-to-six weeks on endless repeat than the whole cavalcade of Democratic chucklefucks mistreated him in the entire 2012 campaign combined
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@FactsInEvidence @MBanditta @Teoyaomiquu If you want to be Deutschland’s low cost manufacturing center, you gotta obey the bloc’s goddamn laws
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Mary Tudor said that when she was dead and opened, they would find Calais engraved upon her heart Well, Avdiivka is carved into Mike Johnson’s motherfucking skull and whatever supine, pathetic thing passes for his soul Cazzo fascista
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Has anyone asked these guys to nail down which is worse: this speech, or Trump saying he’ll pardon the guys who did a paramilitary coup attempt?
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@SpaghettiKozak @ConspiracyBull1 Also love the implication a democratically elected Zelensky is the moral equivalent to Saddam (aka the only reason the anti war protests didn’t fly the Iraqi flag more often, which this dip would know if he had been alive back then)
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@CalmSporting @SpaghettiKozak …to be fair, some of them do this because they actively support Russia doing a genocide
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@John_A_Ridge @oftenwrongsorry It should—it’s essentially just the Senate bill. Even the “loans” for budget support etc are eventually forgivable, I believe in 2026 Utterly monstrous they waited over two months to pass the same shit
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Russia should remove its forces torturing and raping and murdering in Ukraine and send them to go fight IS, which actually is killing Russian civilians
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@Conblob @AstorAaron When abortion is a potential fucking murder charge or even capital crime, doctors will not stick around to fucking evaluate the system and roll the dice with prosecutors They will fucking leave. Their departments will shut down.
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Yes, correct, if you want to save Ukraine you do in fact have to continuously vote for the party of wokes and ladies and gays and Those People, because the GOP is the bonded and licensed chattel of Donald John Trump Tough shit assholes
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@AriSchulman @jbarro It all came down to crucial Nukuesha Oblast
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Put the Senate bill on the floor and keep your job, Mike
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If you think this is going to stop with Ukraine, you’re missing your frontal lobe or completely disingenuous The way precedent works is narrow specifics don’t really matter The next political hostage crisis could easily be “ending the CRA in return for aid to Taiwan”
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@it_bred @MikeBlack114 @KoalaSalesman Tbh the fact these dips think they can get away with saying this nonsense with a straight face when it takes a pico second per search query and maybe 90 seconds total to find out goes a long way to explain why they find a kindred spirit in heinous monsters like Simoyan
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@AtticusGF @LesserFrederick @AkivaMCohen I don’t really have words for how ridiculous this is. She redlined her own goddamn order.
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@ok_post_guy …it’s actually eerily reminiscent of how Russians and their fans reacted when it turned out the Ukrainians would, in fact, fire back
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A guy who said Jews going to gas chambers was no concern of his and they deserved their years of persecution, shielded genocide of Muslims and Hindus in Bengal and Catholics in Timor, and bombed the shit out of SEA Buddhists has a warm reception waiting no matter what you believe
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@NGrossman81 Thank you for being a rare person with object permanence and a memory of things Manchin has said very recently (and has voted in line with for like 9 months now)
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@peterawolf The actual reason this is frankly idiotic and harmful is that Manchin has explicitly said (and implicitly has voted this way since last June) that he will vote Nay on any Art III nominee who lacks R support. And frankly you can’t actually count on Sinema
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If you make excuses for Heritage, you quite literally are making excuses for the systematic mass murder of Ukrainians
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@CollieYimby They couldn’t send the military because almost the whole active duty IDF, including at least 70% of the manpower allotted to Southern Command, was in the WB to protect Smotrich and Ben Gvir’s voters during the RH/Days of Awe/YK/Sukkot/ST more or less month of holidays
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@steve_vladeck As for CA11, I’m sure the circuit whose Chief Judge who called an advocacy group “abortionists” and wildly irresponsibly made abortion a capital crime overnight in GA is going to reverse Cannon tout suite
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@GravitysRa1nbow The fact Abbott hasn’t been arrested at this point tells you everything you need to know about Merrick Garland
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@MikeBlack114 Mike, I think the fact the guy was videotaped at the range shrieking racial and anti semitic slurs before firing at targets points to the other problem Hertling has: Two decades of FNC on 24/7 at every single base has had consequences for asymmetric radicalization
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@davidfrum The Volstead Act didn’t impose the death penalty on guys who operated speakeasies. The scale and intensity of the trigger laws is unparalleled Also Prohibition was national. We’re going to live in a world where a death penalty offense in some states is completely legal in others
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Time to see if the House GOP can meet the Genesis 18:32 test
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This is why you can’t claim to support Ukraine and then vote GOP If they control the floor, they can block anything, and their pro UA members are cowardly cucks who refuse to push back on the leadership Every aid bill that passed did so when Pelosi controlled the floor Sorry
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Even the porn bots agree
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@BeijingPalmer He quite literally turned off and outright disgusted other fairly racist people, and he segregated the civil service He also didn’t want the US to be allied with the French or the UK, which was what Cabot Lodge actually wanted He really deserves all the obloquy he has received
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@mikenelson586 @iAmTheWarax @Kama_Kamilia “My apes! They have been funged!” “For the war effort, pryyatel’”
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@oftenwrongsorry @peterawolf It’s amazing people forget why he imploded and went offline in the first place, just like they memoryhole he really didn’t actually accurately predict 2022 any better than your average winemom resistlib, he just gave a bunch of leftists a socially acceptable way to embrace it
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@AlucardHex A bunch of very prominent Southern Baptists started yelling at him in public literally yesterday in addition to the UA delegation of Baptists that just went to DC
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Remember when I said the problem with sending shit without replenishment funds is that it leads directly to Matt Gaetz being able to compel American military officers to testify on live tv that arming Ukraine hurts the US military, because that POS McCarthy put him on HASC?
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@agraybee “Why does Jon Tester, the largest Senator, not simply eat the other Senators?”
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@SpaghettiKozak @Gerashchenko_en @andersostlund Assistant to the General Staff for Traveling Georgi Francheskovich Costanza trying to remember if he posted the itinerary for the trip to the front on VK in public
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@A57378889 @the_shoe_yes @KevinWGlass It’s not my fault you don’t understand that getting yourself a deadly cardiopulmonary respiratory disease six months after universally available adult vaccines is a most puissant way to own the Libs
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@greg_doucette First semester of ConLaw is a mandated course per the ABA. Imagine if Med schools had a mandated class on the Galen humoral system
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If you voted for the Republican Party last year, you voted for Ukrainian genocide If you want absolution, seek it in the hereafter
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@PartyWurmple @IRHotTakes Not a newspaper clipping Gonna be a footnote in a 1981 anthropology book on Melanesia
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Do people realize their feed is searchable by dates? Because I saw a whole lot of people who blamed NATO and everyone else except for Russia for Russia’s unprovoked genocidal war of conquest just suddenly decide overnight they were now violent indigenous rights activists
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@AtticusGF Modern Conservative Thought
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@peterawolf When it comes down to it these people are indistinguishable in their aims from the MAGA folks who are so clearly many of their parents
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@LesserFrederick The only realistic recourse was to surrender obviously. This definitely wasn’t an invasion army that telegraphed its intentions to rape, loot, and murder once in occupation for weeks even before the attack.
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@TWLadyGrey A. Baptists sent a delegation from UA to beg for help given RU atrocities against them plus Southern Baptist leaders began to lobby for this B. Iran/Israel strikes C. Most important of all: the boss is stuck in a courtroom in NYC fixated on his own troubles and unable to tweet
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BELL PEPPERS ARE NOW $3.99 EACH TIMES ARE HARD. PERIOD OCEANS ARE NOW BATTLEFIELDS
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To the people who told me and Fred that the party, whose undisputed leader remains an inveterate enemy of Ukraine, would definitely come through for Ukrainians because you were too pathetic too accept he remains the absolute ruler of the GOP? Enjoy the bad place, pack sunscreen
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@ABeardedPanda …the worst penetrator in their history was literally the son of a hardcore ideological traitor who conned the British government into not intervening to reverse the seizure of the Hedjaz from their wartime allies, while helping the invader do deals with the U.S.
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@BusinessmanLego @OneTrueStephen @chathamharrison A country that’s already willing to lose hundreds of thousands of its own men in a single year is a country willing to do a lot worse to the people it occupies
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@noonanjo If speedy delivery of Javelins are so crucial to Ukraine’s defense, and they absolutely are, then why the hell did Senator Cotton refuse to vote to convict an doubly impeached president who tried to extort Zelensky by denying them to him?
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This could end up being one of the greatest days to be Ukrainian in history. I wish my grandfather were still alive to see this. To the fascist simping traitors: Get Fucked.
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@GravitysRa1nbow The problem is: -he’s pushing this after 4/9 justices said “to hell with the Supremacy Clause” -magically and near instantly a ton of governors gave him support even tho they knew he’d probably lose at the Court -the head of the GOP just endorsed mobilizing all “loyal” Guards
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@SpaghettiKozak @ConspiracyBull1 The anti war side went to considerably lengths to say they were not pro Saddam, because Saddam sucked ass. The UA flag gets flown now because people are actually pro Ukraine
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@KT_So_It_Goes It was one of the easiest events to foresee in history, and in their arrogance and their vanity they botched it. Because I know something they refuse to accept: This person believes Trump is president, and Biden is not
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@grace_panetta …there was in fact an entire episode about George lying about being a white supremacist thought leader in order to score big perks
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@ArmandDoma By 2026, she’ll be marching for the new regime and saying stuff that, as the tweet, goes “sounded better in the original German”
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@CalmSporting It seems pretty clear the only reason anyone went in was a trio of coworkers decided to leave the office and go out for late coffee/early lunch and drove over to the school when they heard. It’s just their “office” is an elite paramilitary unit of a federal law enforcement agency
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