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    Sometimes, I wish I lacked a sense of guilt. I could make so much money conning these people…

    But then if I lacked a sense of guilt, I’d be one of them.

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    They just keep fleecing the rubes and the rubes just keep letting them

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      It looks so easy 😭 I wish I had the starting capital and lack of morals to start one of these grifts.

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        Just print out the word “freedom” in size 72 times new roman on your printer (doesn’t matter if it won’t fit on one line) and tape it to some blank t-shirts. Go to a Republican event and sell them

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      I hate to say it, but Dems should be trying to reclaim the word “freedom”. It makes absolutely no sense for Cons to be attached to it so strongly. We need more freedom fries and liberty toast.

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        I think they do, it’s just not repeated ad-nauseam and attached to everything like the Cons do. Free to be LGBTQ, free to read the books you want, free to organize labor, etc… Real, tangible, life-improving freedoms. Cons? All they want is freedom to take everyone else’s rights away. That’s their “freedom”.

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          But that’s the thing. The Dems want to campaign like they have for the past century, going out and making sensible campaign stops every so often. Obama was trying to change this, and honestly had the right of it - you blast your message everywhere, all at once, KEEP REPEATING IT, and shorten the general gist until it can fit in a meme.

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        Black Rifle Coffee, so anti-woke, you’ll go back to bed.

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    she got the idea for the brand while watching the Republican debates, where she noticed audience members drinking water that had “no connection to the people drinking it.”

    They could have been drinking the same water as the blue team. Disgusting.

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      Nope, Nestle is too woke. Anything that doesn’t say “Freedom” is too woke.

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        Ironic because freedom is also woke.

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      Pumped downstream of some chemical factories on the great Mississippi river for that slight hint of deregulation flavor.

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    Well, that’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard of.

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      That’s just what I was thinking. It should contain added microplastics and industrial waste. And it should come in bottles made of plastic that cant’ be recycled and never breaks down. That would be the proper way to support right wing environmental policies. It would also be another “don’t get vaccinated” way for them to kill their own supporters.

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    Is there a single generic product these imbeciles won’t line up to buy if you slap trumps face, or the word freedumb, or the anti-woke label on it? I should have been a grifter.

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      I jokingly asked my wife recently if I could quit my job and become a right wing YouTuber. I have worked in video and audio production for over a decade, I would have an operation up and running in probably a week if I really wanted to do it. We laughed and sighed…And then realized that unfortunately, I would probably be at least modestly successful.

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        I think the way you need to do it is The Onion style of journalism, with a wink and a nod. BUT when your crazy ass right wing theories get shared as “FACTS” on other social media sites you don’t dispute it. I kinda think that is how most right wing YouTubers do it.

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      I liked it better when W.C. Fields was attributed to have said it (although it isn’t definite that he did).

      He did say some fun things in about booze in films though:

      I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That’s the one thing I’m indebted to her for.

      I exercise extreme self-control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

      Whilst traveling through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. Had to live on food and water for several days.

      He also once said something serious which is also my own policy:

      Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against.

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    This is their version of corporate pride month merch.

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    Republicans will buy damned near anything out of spite.

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    This sincerely might be the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen, I don’t even have words anymore