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usaf-vet

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6. What would happen if an everyday common citizen posted something like this?

Sun Jan 26, 2020, 01:38 PM

Jan 2020

Shifty _________ [fill in the blank] is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man. He has not paid the price, yet, for what he has done to our Country!

I bet that the poster would get a visit from the FBI and/or the U.S. Secret Service. And rightfully so, because it sure sounds like a threat at the least of bodily harm or worst.

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