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Quixote1818

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20. Trump going to Alamo, Texas will motivate some of the most brainwashed

Reply to Cobalt Violet (Reply #7)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 12:58 AM

Jan 2021

I know it wasn't the actual Alamo, however Trump probably was sending a signal to the dumb ones and they will heed the call and forever live in infamy as a buffoon, Trump cultist who accomplished nothing but getting shot in the head for a snake oil salesman they thought was God.

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