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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If it were Biden's fault for printing$ (after a catastrophe, like we always do) then Donald adding far more debt than any potus in history would be even more responsible than he already is. No, there isnt more oil flowing than pre-war. Shame on your constituents for being so gd intellectually lazy.

G7 nations Harmonized headline HICP inflation rates spanning 2021-2023

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yes, I'm just brimming w/confidence here... Appreciate that, but I don't know how seems like I don't see how I can think of better Oops, that 1 sounds pretty condident-y I think its fair to say If thats ignorance, fine, but it seems I've no idea But it seems reasonable A real, yikes stuff...

Appreciate that, but I don't know how you arrive at that conclusion here
t seems like he wishes people with "bad religious takes" didn't have those takes & wishes the NYTs emploved reliqiously educated people to police bad takes, either on the spot or before publication.
10:32 AM : Oct 3, 2026
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Beni @splatterthouqht.bskv.s... 4h If he's only talking abt people who are choosing to study reliqion, needing more reliqious studv, I don't see how that would mitigate rando bad takes or publication of bad takes, by those who choose not to studv them.
I can think of better reasons for reliqious study This just isn't on the list

I'm aware of humanities fiscal issues...
If he was making that argument I think its fair to say it requires some editorializing to get there Because it doesn't exist in the text.
Which you did, and I didn't. If that's ignorance, to you, fine. But it sounds like a retrofit. to me.
Benj @splatterthought.bsky.... 17m I've no idea if Rock "parroted" antisemitism as you accuse But it seems reasonable to believe he referred to the entiretv of the OT, colloquiallv & imprecisely as unforgiving using only the darker passages as a benchmark. ïn a conversationa setting, not doctrinal, rather than bc he hates jews

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"There's not much happening in Gaza. There's a lot of 'good relationships taking place' right now in Gaza." —President Derpity Derp Derp

Sculpture of a face-down dying or dead man being dragged off by a vulture

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If this screenshot isn't enough to make you disbelieve in the veracity of their claims alone, the closing third of the piece just obliterates any facade of any seriousness...

"The 2020 Census did not collect citizenship status, and the Census Bureau does not have a comprehensive ndividual citizenship records' file to definitively match against voter rolls,' Noureldin wrote. The type of data the Bureau did use in its report, according to its own methodology, "are modeled population estimates, not evidence that 24,000 people voted illegally, he continued.
The report doesn't list any authors or even a bureau department from which the report came. According to Mike Schneider, an Associated Press reporter who covers the Census Bureau, that's
atypical.
"Every other report on the bureau's Census Publications' site is credited to a statistician, economist, demographer or researcher,' Schneider wrote on his Substack.
Not even a department within the bureau is listed on the completelw

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Marley, with a flower stuck to her nose.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Seine and Piave are silver spoons, there are English counties like hunting-tunes, played on the keys of a postboy’s horn, but I will remember where I was born But I shall rise again...

Stephen vincent benet poem (in part)

Well, I was tired of life; the silly folk, The tiresome noises, all the common things I loved once,crushed me with an iron yoke. 1 longed for the cool quiet and the dark, Under the common sod where louts and kings Lie down, serene, unheeding, careless, stark, Never to rise or move or feel again, Filled with the ecstasy of being dead...

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Sounds about right... but, too many vague questions

Green liberalism
Republicanism
Liberal socialism

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Today's media: We are impressed by the cacophony of loud sound & strong signal.

Old Maxell High-fidelity tapes advertisement of a man sitting in a chair in front of a speaker taking in a cacophony of sound so loud, crisp & clear that its blowing the lamp shade, his hair, and clothing back.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Thats gotta sting a nit, Greg. ⬇️ I'll take it.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

They definitely enjoyed doing it. And who can resist giggles? I hadnt actually looked at it other than ehat I could see in the mirror. And promised I'd wear it for a day no matter how it turned out. Stopped by a friend's house... she took a Pic. Here's the back:

A head that looks like someone stopped shaving it partway through...

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

...they held a concert out in Brooklyn...

Jon Caramanica, music editor of Vibe, at 2007 Pop Conference, Experience Music Project, Seattle, Washington.
Photo has been manipulated a bit (sharpening and blurring) to emphasize Caramanica rather than the people behind him

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Get fucked. Wait, Where's the $50,000 bribe you were caught on camera accepting from an undercover FBI agent? bsky.app/profile/isab...

(Likely, but not fully identified, afaik) ICE or CBP of brownish skin, but unknown heritage, wearing a gator to conceal his face, pointing a gun out his car window for no reason, at people unseen behind the camera taking his picture. Its a semi famous image because no one was doing anything, no officers stopped, no one was arrested fir anything and no one was even heard saying anything provocative. Just a self loathing, hyper aggressive, unelected bureaucrat, contemplating killing american citizens fir no reason other than hes a fucking idiot who bought all the propaganda.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Fun fact: On a passport the US Govt asserts unequivocally, that while traveling abroad, US citizens are "subjects" to their laws. So the next time someone says immigrants aren't "subjects of/to US law," ask them why the US explicitly states otherwise, when advising on foreign travel.

Text from a US passport, in the "Important Information" section admitting that visitors are the subjects of laws, within whatever nation they're in.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Old photo of my now 13 year old and ailing Marley. She has to put up with cats, and an aggressively annoying & bullying (at times) chihuahua, stray cats & dogs, squirrel, deer, rabbits, the occasional lake creature, and kids who want to put makeup on her and paint her toes. Destroyer of food.

Old photo of my now 13 year old Marley, when she was a pup.
Blue Heeler, Australian Shepherd, Border Collie, Staffordshire Pit mix.
Mearle coat, mostly white, with black and brown patches, tall alert ears, hoof-like paws, proud, and completely unaware of how adorable she looks

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yes. Yes, she would. A birthday note I found about a month or so ago from one of her friends who has too few friends for how delightful she is.

10th birthday card from a friend of my 11yr old.

hey Lulu, happy b-day. your the best friend I could ever ask for. you've been there for me whe people wern't. you made me feel like I was a part of somthing when really was'nt. When someone says to me "Whos your best frend your name always comes to mind. just want to remind you how amazing you are. I've seen you so much and you always find a way to keep going, there no one like you. you've been my ride or die, my go to person and the one who just gets me without me having to say , much. to the best times and active line asked. I just want to thank Sting for being my best friend and thankyou for everythinghappy birthday Lulu.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Oh, this is a little too on the f@cking nose...lol Gonna need some time to master this

80s guitar player, sick in bed, was my only prompt, lol.

Not too f@cking far off, tbh😂

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

As the trump administration demands, and fails to replicate something one of his predecessors had already achieved in 2015 before trump fucked it up allowing Iran to go from 4% enrichment to a metric tonne of 60% enrichment material, this is what trends in America...

Trending topics right now:
UFC attendance
UFC event
UFC fight
NASA women
AEW wrestling

As US/IRAN war negotiations collapse & the president & SoS attend a sporting event.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"It's my fucking ball! And I'm going home!" —president one special boy

An 20mos old(?) baby/toddler in a relatively normal idea living room, screaming like a madman into the cellphone at his ear, in "King Kong destroys the world" posture resembling a hungry gorilla on the loose outside a closed burger King.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

All he had to do was nothing... share.google/Ss9kJDwSnqKe...

Graph showing the expansion of installed Iranian nuclear centrifuges since trump violated the JCPOA agreement. (Its massive: from essentially zero, to nearly 15,000)

All details found in linked article.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Indeed. An Oil & Gas "yes man" taking bribes from rogues, thieves & villains. We could/should have been making resource deals & leading this industry in technology for the past 50 years...

Graph with exponentially differentiating columns, showing China installing renewable energy at 7.5x the rate of the US.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

That whole final third of the article is terrobly dispiriting... And you have to wonder how the Kurds could ever trust us, especially this administration, given Trump's track record, including this⬇️most recent calamity.

However, earlier this year the new, US-aligned Syrian government launched a swift military campaign to take control of the country’s north that included attacks against ISIS and pushing out Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces. Facing that campaign, Kurdish forces evacuated and stopped guarding the ISIS prisons when US forces pulled out of the country. In January, the US’ Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said that the purpose of the US’ alliance with the SDF had “largely expired.”

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Reminder, trump policy prior to Oct 7th: These two people are significantly responsible for much of the death & dystopia in the middle east...

Old post from twitter, says:

So, just to be clear
Trump/Jared admin:
Reneged/revoked JCPOA (10years of work, millions of manhours)
Sanctioned Iran, Causing S.K. to confiscate Billions of Iranian $
Changed decades off/ policy (recognized Golan Heights) and Moved Embassy
Assassinated Iranian icon/top General Sokumani
Left Palestinians out Of Abraham Accords
Javanka local profiteering

Trump: I take no responsibility

7:39 PM. 19 Mar 24. 142

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

What a great little loophole these "activist judges" gave themselves. Complete & totally control of completely ambiguous law!

T'he reason Republicans on the court spent so much time yelling at one another over this doctrine that didn't actually decide the case is because the major questions doctrine has a critical flaw: Iit's entirely made-up. It's not written down anywhere-not in the Constitution, not in the Declaration of Independence, not in the Magna Carta. not in the Bible or the Mahabharata. It's just not a historical thing. Nobody currently on the court learned about maior questions doctrine in law school because it hadn't been invented back when they were in law school. Conservative law professors essentially concocted this "doctrine' circa 2014 (they say necessity is the mother of all invention. and the existence of a Black president certainly seemed to necessitate the invention of ways of curtail Barack Obama's powers) as they were trying to find some way to limit the effectiveness of...

You can see why this doctrine is 1seful to a power-hungry Supreme Court iustice. At its core, it allows the unelected members of the court to overrule the policies of an elected president because it deems those policies important. 'That's a wild, unrestrained power. Imagine going through the trouble of winning an entire presidential election only to be told by the court that you can`t enact your policies because they are 'politically significant.' The major questions doctrine places the Supreme Court first among allegedly equal branches of government
All of the Republicans on the high court now agree that their imaginary power is real, but, luckily for those of us who would like to vote for our leaders. that's all the Republicans can agree on when it comes to this doctrine. They don't agree on where, legally speaking, the

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Keep your chin up DNC, you're doing great...

Matt Hooper from Jaws (1975) facial expression of excruciating pain, with a shark FleshLight (do your own "research" on what a fleshlight is please) pictured above

Genghis Khan type figures laughing hysterically whole holding a crying baby..

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Already, by 2016, trump had the approval of 95% of the force... The insidiousness of this is difficult to articulate.

In terms of partisan affiliations. Trump has cultivated immigratior security forces as political allies an effort that appears to have been successful. In 2016, the union that represents ICE officers endorsed Trump's campaign with support from more than 95% of its voting members. Today, ICE recruitment efforts increasingly rely_on far- right messaging to appeal to political supporters
Both ICE and CBP have been deployed against political opponents in nonimmigration contexts, including Black Lives Matter protests in Washington D.C., and Portland,_Oregon, in 2020. They have also gathered data, according to political scientist Elizabeth F. Cohen, to

scientist Elizabeth F. Cohen, to "surveil citizens' political beliefs and activities - including protest actions they have taken on issues as far afield as gun control - in addition to immigrants' rights."
In these ways, ICE and CBP do bear some resemblance to the informal paramilitaries used in many countries to carry out political repression along partisan and ethnic lines, even though they are official agents of the state.
Why this matters
An extensive body of research shows that more militarized forms of policing are associated with higher rates of police violence and rights violations, without reducing crime or improving officer safety.

militarized police forces are harder to reform than less- militarized law enforcement agencies. The use of such forces can also create tensions with both the regular military and civilian police, as currently appears to be happening with ICE in Minneapolis.
The ways in which federal immigration forces in the United States resemble informal paramilitaries in other countries - operating with less effective oversight, less competent recruits and increasingly entrenched partisan identity - make all these issues more intractable. Which is why, I believe, many commentators have surfaced the
term paramilitary
and are
using it
as a warning

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Ty Must be Politicos way of whitewashing the recorded record... Copy & paste headline text above the link in posted into Google and the article pops up & loads to read when clicked. 1st 3 Google returns:

Google search return of 1st 3 articles

2021-
Trump grants Venezuelans temporary legal status on his...

2025-
Supreme Court again allows Trump to strip protections fro....

2019-
Why Trump may protect one group of immigrants (sub-head- to help win over Hispanic voters)

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The tough on crime, drain the swamp guy strikes again!

Among the lucky recipients: a man whose daughter had given millions to a Trump-backed super PAC, a former governor of Puerto Rico, a former F.B.I. agent who had pleaded guilty in a political corruption case and a California woman whom the president had granted relief once before
The woman, Adriana Camberos was initially convicted in 2017 for her role in a scheme to sell millions of counterfeit bottles of the caffeinated drink 5-Hour Energy After her sentence was commuted by Mr. Trump in 2021, she was convicted again in 2024 in an unrelated fraud. When she was pardoned in the new case this week. it marked the second time Mr. Trump had opened the prison gates for her

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The tough on crime, drain the swamp guy...

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Fuck off forever WaPo... Time to bury you in the hills with the NYTs.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

She wore her best Trump suit pants outfit, wore confidence like makeup, put up all the tv trimmings, and greeted her guests to a feast of propaganda. Those last few minutes... hooboy.

Caption from video:

And the most important statements of the US president

Caption:

To sum it up, he is finishing off Zelensky

Or so, they'd like...

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

3/5 of the four legged members of the family.

Marley (Australian shepherd, blue heeler, border collie, staffordshire pit mix), Timber (some kind of rescue cat, lol, bottom), and Ruby (sister, top)

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Other one's in talks with Stephen King, who has some sway with the cows and chickens... 🐦 A crow 🐦🐦A conspiracy 🐦🐦🐦A murder of crows

Crow approaching a cat with the caption:

Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior Edgar Allan Poe?

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

We're a rare breed, and don't live long, but we exist.

Split image meme: Left, a man (Willen Defoe) in bright casual clothes crouches by water, labeled "Making a sandwich." Right, the same man in dark formal attire by a lighthouse, labeled "Putting all the stuff back.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

They are eager to erupt violently. Pent-up chemical response to imaginary threats just waiting to be released... If you so much as flinch, show exasperation, or put your car in "park."

Clip from OP article:

into park, causing it to lurch forward slightly.

The reports indicate the federal agents did not like this—so much so that an agent threatened to shoot and arrest the driver. The driver, frightened, asked why. An agent, according to the reports, responded that the driver had attempted to hit him with the ambulance.

“I was still in such shock,” the driver later wrote, “that they were not only accusing me of such a thing, but crowding and cornering me in the seat, pointing and screaming at me, threatening to shoot and arrest me, and not allowing the ambulance to leave the scene. This was no longer a safe scene, and in that moment, I realized that the scene had not actually been safe the entire time that they were blocking us from exiting, and that we were essentially trapped.”

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Who are you to wave your finger? You must have been outta your head Eye hole deep in muddy waters u practically raised the dead Rob the grave to snow the cradle Then burn the evidence down Soapbox house of cards & glass so Don't go tossin' your stones around Foot in mouth & head up asshole... —tool

Kid Rock in his heas-to-toe red and silver flaming chicken outfit he wore to the oval office like a month before the president & vice-president berated Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A persistent, consistent failure to do even basic assessments of veracity... or rely on their own reporting of long-standing and widespread, broad-spectrum, organized & planned malicious lying by individuals & agencies...

Old black & white photo outside the tv station:

WTAF TV 29 studios

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy.

5 lines of color spectrum lettering on black background reading:

That didnt happen
So hard it
U happened other
Things that
Actually happened.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

😂😂😂😂😂 Andrei Glukhov Chernobyl (miniseries)

Andrei Glukhov (character from
Chernobyl (miniseries))

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

😂😂😂😂😂 Andrei Glukhov Chernobyl (miniseries)

Andrei Glukhov
(Character from the miniseries Chernobyl)

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

"Milton Freidman...warned in his 1990 book Free to Choose "The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny."" "Perhaps Trump should give it a read." Imagine the coverage this kind of drastic change might have gotten if it were preplanned...

both the Trump and Biden administrations to inject trillions into the economy, primarily in the form of grants or forgivable loans.
Return on investment
However, Trump and Biden's intervention during the pandemic differed greatly n their impact.
For example, both presidents took minor equity stakes in their emergency relief programs to airlines, but they pale in comparison to the total package cost. In fact, President Trump, the self-proclaimed "great dea| maker" gave away six times as much as the TARP program under President George H. W. Bush, and 10 times more than President Biden's $50 billion CHIPS Act, through his more than trillion in pandemic relief funds.
President Biden's CHIPS Act, which passed on a narrow but bipartisan vote, injected more than $50 billion to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors. The program catalyzed over $500 billion in private sector commitments, promising a more than 10x

Like potting weakened prey, Trump ounced to re-trade the deal with Intel. While Intel was in a challenging strategic and financialposition, it had not reached a point o crisis, nor was it near one The semiconductor industry is essential to U.S. national security. However, private investors were ti, willing to brovide capital to Intel. Domestic competitors were interested in acquiring the floundering manufacturing unit.
NoW, xhe government stake in Intel threatens to place other potential American competitors, such as Broadcom, AMD, and Qualcomm, at a disadvantage should their interests come into conflict.
Future fears
Such crony-like capitalism has also made CEOs from other industries wary. The pharmaceutical industry receives tens of billions of dollars year federal funding for critical research and development, as do the defense and space exploration industries. Does the government then deserve equity stakes in companies like Pfizer, Lockheed Martin, or Spacex?

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Me February 10, 2024, after trump said if NATO nations dont pay into defense spending, the amount trump thinks is sufficient, that trump would encourage Putin to do "whatever the hell he wants."

Febryary 10, 2024 Twitter post from NYTs and my response

Trump Says He Gave NATO Allies Warning: Pay In or He'd Urge Russia to do whatever the hell they want

Replying to @maggieNYT
On this day, private citizen started a kc new Arms Race. Book it.
An aggressive US adversary aunched a full-scale ground invasion into a sovereign nation & S/EU ally. Inprovoked.
A former US POTUS said he'd ncourage them to do whatever they want, even if it's war they want.

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Benj @splatterthought.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Yep. They administer desensitization tactics like a dentist administering novocaine during a root canal...

A banner from 2020 GOP CPAC reads:
We are all domestic terrorists

My reply, captured by Demcast:

Saturate the airwaves with the terminology, desensitize the audience to it, hijack it, sensationalize and glorify it, adopt it, commidify it, direct aggression towards those who bismirch it. Indoctrination. @splatterthought
The Republican Party is now openly embracing being domestic terrorists

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