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S/V Loner

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6. I agree. I think the Tea Party...

Reply to CrispyQ (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 7, 2024, 03:31 PM

Jun 2024

was smart enough to know that their influence was limited as a third party so the decided to take over the GOP lock, stock, and barrel and they were ripe for taking over. In our town the local tea party leader switched to republican and became the local GOP leader.

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Who are they again? [View all] angrychair Jun 2024 OP

Eff them malaise Jun 2024 #1

Never want to see red baseball caps again. Arne Jun 2024 #3

LOL malaise Jun 2024 #4

I think the Tea Party became the Maga movement. CrispyQ Jun 2024 #2

I agree. I think the Tea Party... S/V Loner Jun 2024 #6

Waiter... There are magots in my tea, Arne Jun 2024 #8

LOL n/t S/V Loner Jun 2024 #13

Can we now call them multigraincracker Jun 2024 #7

The Tea Party was astro-turf pretending populism. pandr32 Jun 2024 #11

And before that they were the Bush fascists NanaCat Jun 2024 #18

And dweller Jun 2024 #5

Without their orange mouthpiece they will MOMFUDSKI Jun 2024 #9

This is ForgedCrank Jun 2024 #12

If it's gonna be whack a mole forever Arne Jun 2024 #14

We are not angrychair Jun 2024 #16

Points to be made. ForgedCrank Jun 2024 #17

You said what you said angrychair Jun 2024 #20

You wish NanaCat Jun 2024 #19

I saw (literally) those tea potty bastards beginnings... wcmagumba Jun 2024 #10

And the Nazis will be back with some other nickname. Iggo Jun 2024 #15