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Old 08-22-2025, 01:57 AM   #12841
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Lol, Alex Jones is even worried.

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Old 08-22-2025, 06:06 AM   #12842
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Shortly before 7:00 a.m. Friday morning, the FBI and Montgomery County police were seen at the Bethesda home of John Bolton, who served as national security advisor for part of Donald Trump’s first term. Montgomery County police sealed off the street on which Bolton lives while an unmarked black SUV parked in front of Bolton’s house. Montgomery County police confirmed that they were on site in support of the FBI.

Bolton was the target of an investigation at the end of Trump’s first term for allegedly disclosing classified information in his 2020 memoir,#The Room Where It Happened.
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Old 08-22-2025, 06:55 AM   #12843
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I saw the special election for gerrymandering would be around $400M. It's a small price to pay to own the Republicans though.
Its just adding a question to the ballot, its already an election day. Where did you see that number?

Obviously the Texas gerrymander is free because owning libs is cost free
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Old 08-22-2025, 07:08 AM   #12844
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Its just adding a question to the ballot, its already an election day. Where did you see that number?

Obviously the Texas gerrymander is free because owning libs is cost free
Sorry, I got the number mixed up with something else and this is estimated at around $250M (https://www.reformcalifornia.org/new...st-250-million)

It's a special election and not just another question on the regularly scheduled election day. They are doing it this fall so that they can gerrymander the districts for the regular election.
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Old 08-22-2025, 07:36 AM   #12845
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Old 08-22-2025, 07:42 AM   #12846
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How long until the show trials begin?
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Old 08-22-2025, 07:53 AM   #12847
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You can't have show trials if they're incarcerated and commit suicide when security cameras malfunction or while tapes are being changed.
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Old 08-22-2025, 08:00 AM   #12848
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A neighbour of Boltons being interviewed...

https://bsky.app/profile/gtconway.bs.../3lwyiu65irk2g

That guy is gonna sell a LOT of tshirts
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Old 08-22-2025, 08:11 AM   #12849
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Shortly before 7:00 a.m. Friday morning, the FBI and Montgomery County police were seen at the Bethesda home of John Bolton, who served as national security advisor for part of Donald Trump’s first term. Montgomery County police sealed off the street on which Bolton lives while an unmarked black SUV parked in front of Bolton’s house. Montgomery County police confirmed that they were on site in support of the FBI.

Bolton was the target of an investigation at the end of Trump’s first term for allegedly disclosing classified information in his 2020 memoir,#The Room Where It Happened.
John Bolton is a guy who has been around in the background pushing for conflict and killing non-white citizens around the world for a long time now. Wouldn't be sad if he goes away. Mike Pompeo too.
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Old 08-22-2025, 09:25 AM   #12850
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Can someone explain the outrage over Cracker Barrel changing its logo? Apparently it’s woke?
I was curious too. Apparently, when Cracker Barrel first started, their logo was a simple word mark of Cracker Barrel in brown lettering against a gold background. Later in the 70s, they added a graphic to that of a wooden barrel and a man sitting in a chair, leaning against the barrel. They've now decided to remove the chair, barrel and man from the new logo, also updating the gold background to be in the shape of a barrel.

This is apparently very outrageous and "woke" to MAGA. I guess because the man and chair are gone? Complete idiots.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/cracker-ba...-ew9aMS2Z-VCZk
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The logo change isn't, presumably, going to change the quality of the food, which is basically the middle class Denny's. So who gives a ####? But that is MAGA to a tee, if they aren't outraged 24/7 they would likely commit suicide the next day because their lifeforce, their will to live, will be gone.
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What the White House wants to cancel in the Smithsonian:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/...e-smithsonian/
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John Bolton is a guy who has been around in the background pushing for conflict and killing non-white citizens around the world for a long time now. Wouldn't be sad if he goes away. Mike Pompeo too.
Didn't Trump hire both those clowns in his first term?
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I was curious too. Apparently, when Cracker Barrel first started, their logo was a simple word mark of Cracker Barrel in brown lettering against a gold background. Later in the 70s, they added a graphic to that of a wooden barrel and a man sitting in a chair, leaning against the barrel. They've now decided to remove the chair, barrel and man from the new logo, also updating the gold background to be in the shape of a barrel.

This is apparently very outrageous and "woke" to MAGA. I guess because the man and chair are gone? Complete idiots.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/cracker-ba...-ew9aMS2Z-VCZk
I think it’s also that CB associated with LGBTQ+ previously

https://www.crackerbarrel.com/cultur...ion/pride-page
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I think it’s also that CB associated with LGBTQ+ previously

https://www.crackerbarrel.com/cultur...ion/pride-page
Based on the articles I've read while trying to figure this whole thing out, I don't think LGBTQ has anything to do with this current outrage. It's all about removing "Uncle Herschel" from their logo.
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Didn't Trump hire both those clowns in his first term?
He did and now they are critical of him so obviously need to be punished.
Its not who they are that matters, its the weaponization of the justice system.
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Based on the articles I've read while trying to figure this whole thing out, I don't think LGBTQ has anything to do with this current outrage. It's all about removing "Uncle Herschel" from their logo.
Yes the cracker and the barrel being removed irks the maga...
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Based on the articles I've read while trying to figure this whole thing out, I don't think LGBTQ has anything to do with this current outrage. It's all about removing "Uncle Herschel" from their logo.
I could be wrong but I thought they were known for being anti-LGBTQ+.

Okay, I’m wrong. But I thought they had been boycotted for being anti at one time.

So, yes, I was correct about them being boycotted in 1991 for firing homosexual employees. Then they were boycotted by MAGA for being LGBTQ+ friendly .
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Old 08-22-2025, 10:39 AM   #12859
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Didn't Trump hire both those clowns in his first term?
Yup, Bolton served under Reagan, Bush and Trump and was also part of Team Romney during his run. Pompeo was in 2 roles under Trump as Secretary of State and Director of the CIA and prior to Trump's first win, was a member of the Congress for the longest time too.
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The point here being that Bolton was highly critical of Trump at the end and called him "unfit for office".
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