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29 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Every suburban, mall-hopping non-mask-wearing, Applebee's-crowding Republican in central Iowa drives a $50K crew-cab pickup and none of them know how to park it. Meanwhile, actual farmers drive a 15-year-old F150 because they don't need to impress anyone in the Lowe's parking lot
Just because you go to Lowe's every weekend doesn't mean you're a contractor, Kyle.
And stop trying to back into every goddamn parking space when you can barely keep your truck off the sidewalk making a right turn
Exactly.

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It wasn't even 6 hours before we got the first "liberals have nothing to fear from My Good Friend The Nominee, whose views on social progress are to the Right of Torquemada, because she's smart" column. Centrists' fetish for civility is gonna be the death of us all.
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Abolish.
The.
Police.
We.
Can.
Do.
Things.
Differently.
If.
We.
Choose.
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This is such a classic example of "repectable conservative" weasel-wording. Civil Rights was a "noble crusade" until "identity and racial spoils factionalism" ruined it? What does that even mean? "I liked it when MLK wanted to work with LBJ but then they got too uppity." /1
"Conservatives seized an opportunity." To do what, exactly? He knows the answer, but doesn't want to say the quiet part out loud. It was the opportunity that Lee Atwater saw. There's a reason Reagan launched his campaign yammering about states' rights in Philadephia, MS. /2
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