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It was always about hate…

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It was always about hate…

Last week, I was horrified when reading the stories of ICE agents in Chicago dragging naked children out of their beds and putting them in vehicles. And while I was disgusted by the behavior, I was even more upset to see the reaction of people online supporting it. Because, as with everything associated with this President, you may agree with the initial understanding of the most basic argument, but the way things are carried out with such inhumanity and callousness is just tragic and if you are in favor of it, then you are absolutely a bad person.

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How to Tell Your Friends That They’re Acting as Tools for the Fascists

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Note: This article has been edited, re-written, and expanded as of Sept 16th in light of new information that has been released since it’s initial publishing, and events that have transpired since.

I had been fighting the urge to say anything for days. On any other week I might not have. My band had a gig the day Charlie Kirk got shot, and so I found myself on facebook doing promotion, and that’s where it happened- I saw people I knew and cared about eulogizing a hateful man. Not right-wingers mind you, self-professed liberals, allies, “capital D” Democrats, etc… Calls for “decorum” rang out, folks praising him for being a Jesus following Christian, making a big weepy show of saying this isn’t the way to do politics. I was perplexed, as far as I knew, most of these folks had never heard of Charlie Kirk, and certainly wouldn’t possibly be fans of his, would they?

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Military Atrocities, Nü Metal, & Me.

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20 years ago I was boots on ground in Iraq for the first time.  Roughly 1.5 million Americans can say something similar as veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF).  
Many were in their 20s, and for many it was their first experience ever leaving the US.  
I don’t know that I’ll ever be able to adequately put into words what deployment felt like.  I write fun goofy articles.  I don’t write about the fucked-shit.   I don’t have the language.
I don’t have the nerve.

But I’m not writing about my experiences in Iraq.  I’m writing about something that came before.  Something I still to this day can’t get out of my brain.  A bit of brainwashing that I don’t think any generation of US troops before could have ever imagined.  

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In 2024, Patriots Should Not Vote! – written by Pennsylvania Patriot

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In 2024, Patriots Should Not Vote! – written by Pennsylvania Patriot

My name is David D. I don’t want to give my last name because what I’m about to say might upset some people. What I will say is that I’m a guy who lives in a red part of Pennsylvania. I have a job and a family and I love my town and my state and my country. In 2016, I voted for President Donald Trump and then I did it again in 2020, only to watch as the Deep State stole the election to put in Joe Biden. Like so many in my community, I was furious that America just stood by and let that happen. But here we are four years later with President Trump wanting my vote to help drain the swamp and take on the deep state and make the America I know and love great again. But I can’t give it to him. What’s the point?

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The Endorsement of Donald Trump by RFK Jr.: Who does it help? Who does it hurt?

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The Endorsement of Donald Trump by RFK Jr.: Who does it help? Who does it hurt?

On Friday, in what a certain sect of America considered a major political move, independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he would be suspending his campaign and endorsed former president Donald Trump. Kennedy made it very clear that he would not be ending his campaign, but that he would be taking his name off of the ballot of all swing states and states expected to go to Trump. The intention is clear unless you’re an absolute idiot: Kennedy is not really staying in the race, but if he can do anything to take one vote away from Kamala Harris, then he’s damn well going to try. The fact that the junior Kennedy was then announced as part of the transition team showed that it was obvious where his allegiances lie, which is interesting for a man who entered the election cycle as a democrat.

With Friday’s announcement, I thought I would look closely at Kennedy’s decision and ask the following questions: Who does this help? Who does this hurt? Where has the announcement of a political candidate supporting his previous rival moved the needle? Let’s dive in.

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