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Nevilledog

(51,065 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 03:53 PM Oct 2020

This is from an actual United States Congressman.



Tweet text:
Spiro Agnew’s Ghost
@SpiroAgnewGhost
Please check into a mental hospital. You are all utterly deranged, it is fascinating to watch so many of you proudly show it off.

Rep. Clay Higgins
@RepClayHiggins
My wife has the gift of premonition.
Last night she dreamed that Federal squads were in our home seizing guns, knives, “unauthorized foods” and stored water. They said we had been “reported”.
Becca awoke crying.
What happened to our freedom? She asked.
What indeed.
12:47 PM · Oct 23, 2020 from California, USA
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LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
2. Omg... lol, reallY? Am i seeing what I see? Oh wow. What they have become today.
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 03:56 PM
Oct 2020

I was reading the headlines and started having conversation with myself that truly, for the first time ever, the gov has become a party. From DOJ to state and this and that.

Then walk into this thread and read this.

Surreal.

procon

(15,805 posts)
4. Probably shouldn't vote for Trump then, since he's
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 04:02 PM
Oct 2020

the one who uses unidentified "Federal squads" to attack citizens and levies tariffs on those imported “unauthorized foods”.

PETRUS

(3,678 posts)
10. "What happened to our freedom?" LOL
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 04:28 PM
Oct 2020

The US population has never really been "free," but politicians bent on building up a massive surveillance/security apparatus while loudly proclaiming that things like Social Security and Medicare are nascent tyranny certainly hasn't helped matters.

TheBlackAdder

(28,182 posts)
13. Perhaps she had a flashback of when he threw her into a fradie hole until she came to her senses. 🤔
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 04:43 PM
Oct 2020
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