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And just when I thought I'd never get to travel again, it's the no-expenses-paid tour of the Fall of the Roman Empire...

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I can’t help but wonder if they’re just trolling us for their amusement. A White House national climate adviser named “McCarthy” who wants to censor content? C’mon, man.

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When someone like Larry Summers says "we need to be more civil," what he really means is "we need to join forces to silence the malcontents on both sides so we can get back the business of lining our own pockets."

I love the last two memes. And, no, you can't know history and trust the government both.

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FWIW, I know a frothing democrat who lives outside of Seattle. She is the proverbial mask Karen. I talked to her a few days ago; she is incredibly upset about gas prices and is actually blaming... wait for it... Biden. Which totally surprised me.

Wait until the blackouts hit Michigan, where her elderly Mom lives. That might make her even more angry.

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The globohomo regime that's slimed its way into power across the post-West is basically Baghdad Bob at this point: yelling their delusional talking points into the camera as the bombs explode around them. Incredulity has given way to open mockery; yet still they continue, because they've got no other cards left to play.

https://barsoom.substack.com/p/rust-on-the-iron-pentagon

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There's the adage about authoritarians that "lying in the face of facts makes you appear stronger to your base," and Soviet defectors remarked more than once on variations of the concept that obviously false propaganda is intended not to persuade but to dominate and humiliate (because you KNOW it's a lie and can't do anything about it and, depending on the level of authoritarianism, may be forced to parrot it).

In your opinion, EGM, could that explain anything going on here?

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While I agree with you that Americans aren’t buying the party line, not sure why you said MSNBC (et al) are questioning it (tho I’m sure they know it’s false). Willie only asked Summers how to convey the Ukraine message better since polls indicated people didn’t believe high gas prices were because of Ukraine; he didn’t actually question him about the real reason.

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the beatings will continue until morale improves.

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Just say NO to government lies and edicts: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-say-no?s=w

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But how do we wake up the kids who come out of college? They've completely bought in. Maybe just time?

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Leaving this gem here: (makes Summers quote seem sane)

https://twitter.com/StephLauren/status/1536705957744582669

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Legacy media will never be forgiven no matter what they say now and going forward. They are as much to blame as Fauci, Collins, Biden and the rest

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Government: This isn’t working. Next up: Aliens

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These people will blame anyone and anything but themselves.

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Gato -

The quote you provided from Thomas Sowell is true. The problem I have is it doesn't seem to be true based on the urban plantations we've seen carefully groomed over the last 70 years.

Maybe Biden and all the galactic ghouls BS are indeed a bridge too far?

Maybe it self resolves with no help from the RINO'S during that time period?

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I wanna start a party called "Republicans for Joe Biden". Our campaign ad will be to play that clip of him boasting about how economically successful his presidency has been so far, and then say "If what this man is saying is true, you should vote for him. If not, maybe vote for someone else?"

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