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Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

The willow is too close to the house.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Alternative history is always a weak argument. Always.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

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