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01-15-2021, 03:51 PM

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https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/med...port_FINAL.pdf

01-15-2021, 03:54 PM

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I'm going to tell my kids these were the founding fathers:

https://www.sunriseexposed.com/?wix-...=comp-kh21wffx

01-15-2021, 03:57 PM

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I'm going to tell my kids this was the mostly peacefulest day in American history.

01-15-2021, 04:02 PM

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How can we get this to happen in the US?

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/0...nefit-scandal/

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Dutch government collapses in fall out from child benefit scandal

The Dutch government has resigned in the wake of the childcare benefit scandal after an official report said ministers, civil servants, parliament and even judges had a role in the affair, which left parents powerless to fight back when accused of fraud.

01-15-2021, 04:02 PM

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everyone else is doing it:

01-15-2021, 04:04 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Braineack

I'm going to tell my kids these were the founding fathers:

They'll be horrified by your use of gendered language to describe the founding persons, who lived in an era in which slavery and the ownership of private property was legal, and in which it was not permissible to freely express one's true gender identity.

01-15-2021, 04:09 PM

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Well, and the fact that Braineack has sworn to never have offspring.

01-15-2021, 05:40 PM

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Well, and the fact that Braineack has sworn to never have offspring.

Aw you remembered! How sweet.

01-16-2021, 12:38 AM

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01-16-2021, 06:17 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Perez

I instantly thought of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

Rich.

01-16-2021, 10:16 AM

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Beware of RINOs.

https://the-daily-trumpet.com/2021/0...al-harrasment/

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Married ‘Never Trump’ Republican John Weaver, 61, accused of rape, ‘comes out as gay’ & confesses to sexual harrasment.

01-16-2021, 02:00 PM

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I instantly thought of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Party

01-16-2021, 06:09 PM

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This has been around the web lately, don’t think I’ve seen it here. It is for realz.

01-17-2021, 11:19 AM

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Pray.

01-17-2021, 11:21 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Perez

http://populist.press/germany-to-put...etention-camp/

01-18-2021, 09:03 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Joe Perez

The New York Post is a tabloid.

I'm not being sarcastic. It is literally on par with The National Enquirer or the Weekly World News.

journalism, 2021: attack your competitors for not making up stories and/or doing actual investigations.

01-18-2021, 09:04 AM

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journalism, 2021: destroy the competition so you can continue to invent the news.

01-18-2021, 09:11 AM

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Most votes in history.

01-18-2021, 09:15 AM

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most votes in history.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-m...al-15-dollars/

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Biden minimum wage proposal could lift more than 1 million workers out of poverty

BY KATE GIBSON

JANUARY 16, 2021 / 7:20 AM / MONEYWATCH

01-18-2021, 09:18 AM

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Am I the only one who is no longer seeing Tweets embedded inline, merely a blank space?