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50. Happy New Year and thank you for the best political discussion site on the internet!

Reply to EarlG (Original post)

Thu Jan 1, 2026, 02:22 PM

4 hrs ago

And as to this -

I still remember the Free Republic post from those early weeks, in which a confident Freeper stated, "Go back in a few months and they won't even be there." Well, a quarter-century later, we're still here.

Meanwhile in FReeper-land, the hamsters are still spinning the wheel to keep Rim Job's site going!

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