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no_hypocrisy

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8. This "strategy" was used by Republicans during the McCarthy Era in the Fifties.
Thu Aug 10, 2023, 08:43 AM
Aug 2023

First, they'd research your life and maybe find something to "investigate". You were active in the labor movement. You were a Communist in college 30 years ago. You attended marches for social justice.

OK, so now, you're in the crosshairs of Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn (Trump's attorney), Robert Kennedy (yes, that one), and cowardly Republicans. You're ordered to appear before Congress where all implications (no proof/no evidence) showed you were a Communist and still are. You're an enemy of the State.

Next, your family was now ensnared as possible Communists. Your spouse, your children, your siblings, your parents. All without evidence. Because McCarthy & Co. "believed" you ALL were/are Communists. Your brother loses his job. Neighbors want you to move. Your kids are taunted at school. Your family hates you for putting them in this situation.

And that's what is going on with Hunter Biden. No proof, but hey! His father's the President, so OF COURSE he's equally liable. WITHOUT PROOF.

Here we go again . . . .

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