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It's that time of year again, avalanche of crazy clips to come!
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So Glenn Beck is still alive?
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Grifters. Each and every one.
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Suckiest Comicon ever.
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Oh look, a who's who of woo-woo.
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A Cavalcade of Fiends....
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Tulsi Gabbard has found her people.
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Rewriting history.
Acyn @Acyn wrote: Jr says the government is trying to go after his father for leading an “unarmed” insurrection and then goes on a rant blaming the FBI for January 6th
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Acyn @Acyn wrote: Greene: How can Lindsey Graham say that he hasn’t seen a smoking gun of evidence? I think somebody better run for Senator in South Carolina
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Work with them? You are them!
Acyn @Acyn wrote: Greene: We have stupid people in Washington DC and I can say that for a fact because I work with many of them…
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raison de arizona wrote: Sun Dec 17, 2023 7:51 pm Work with them? You are them!
:snippity:
Acyn @Acyn wrote: Greene: We have stupid people in Washington DC and I can say that for a fact because I work with many of them…
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raison de arizona wrote: Sun Dec 17, 2023 7:45 pm Rewriting history.
https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1736468594979152351
Acyn @Acyn wrote: Jr says the government is trying to go after his father for leading an “unarmed” insurrection and then goes on a rant blaming the FBI for January 6th
:think: so Jr is admitting that papa in fact was leading an insurrection :confuzzled:
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Underbussing the old guy is one way to get noticed by daddy.
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The other way is to dress up as Ivanka
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That location looks like a valid test target for a AGM-114 Hellfire.
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Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski wrote: Sometimes people ask me who the young people are who attend Charlie Kirk’s events. This is a sample from Day 1.
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That's appalling. I did like the phrase, "sea of blue", though.

Isn't it great. We're a Sea of Blue.
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much ado wrote: Mon Dec 18, 2023 2:26 am That's appalling. I did like the phrase, "sea of blue", though.

Isn't it great. We're a Sea of Blue.
Hmmm. She misquoted “Yellow Submarine”. It’s “Sky of blue, Sea of green.” :lol:
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Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski wrote: Steve Bannon, who may have enjoyed happy hour a bit too much, is screaming on stage that Trump is the greatest American in history and how he just keeps winning everything although I’m not sure what he has won in the past 6 years
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I'm not sure "witch hunt slayer" is really a thing.
MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch wrote: Habba: The Attorney General from the state of New York is trying to kill the Trump family
Citizen Free Press @CitizenFreePres wrote: Alina Habba:

"Me and President Trump got sanctioned a million dollars for going against crooked Hillary! You didn’t know that did you? Fake news. They won’t report it."
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MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch wrote: Very strange to brag about filing a lawsuit deemed so frivolous that you were sanctioned nearly a million dollars for being a terrible attorney. We reported on Alina Hanna’s humiliating loss here: https://youtu.be/S8mZDITUtiI
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Sorry I didn't copy the link but it sounds like Rosanne Barr was, well, Rosanne Barr. Her rantings were so unhinged, the MAGAts had trouble following her.

I realize she's mentally ill and I should feel sorry for her but she's making it pretty hard.
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Slim Cognito wrote: Mon Dec 18, 2023 2:00 pm Sorry I didn't copy the link but it sounds like Rosanne Barr was, well, Rosanne Barr. Her rantings were so unhinged, the MAGAts had trouble following her.

I realize she's mentally ill and I should feel sorry for her but she's making it pretty hard.
She was pretty unhinged, a clip:
Dream for America @Dream4Merica wrote: At Turning Point USA's far-right event for Gen-Z: Rosanne Barr is screaming about Stalinists & a Muslim Caliphate taking over the world.

Gen-Z deserves better.
Bonus throwback to Barr "singing" the national anthem:
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RTH10260 wrote: Sun Dec 17, 2023 8:03 pm
raison de arizona wrote: Sun Dec 17, 2023 7:45 pm Rewriting history.
https://twitter.com/acyn/status/1736468594979152351
Acyn @Acyn wrote: Jr says the government is trying to go after his father for leading an “unarmed” insurrection and then goes on a rant blaming the FBI for January 6th
:think: so Jr is admitting that papa in fact was leading an insurrection :confuzzled:
While contemporaneously...
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes wrote: That’s funny because Don Jr’s text to Mark Meadows on January 6th paints a different picture.
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Michelle Bachmann raises her fool head.
Madeline Peltz @peltzmadeline wrote: Christian Zionist Michelle Bachmann tells Charlie Kirk at Amfest conference:

"It's time that Gaza ends. The 2 million people who live there, they are clever assassins. they need to be removed from that land, that land needs to be turned into a national park."

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Remove them to where, exactly? :brickwallsmall:
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