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chervilant

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28. Most of my liberal friends

Tue Jan 27, 2015, 10:28 PM

Jan 2015

actually ask questions about what we are told. Most of my liberal friends understand that much of what we see or hear from the M$M is propaganda designed to promote the false patriotism that Johnson (and, more recently, Dylan) so eloquently decried.

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