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Hexenherz posted...

If I get into a big battle I want it to be because I'm dumb and didn't spot a person with my pet eagle before I started sneaking around a fort, not because it's forced on me so I can continue the game.

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Yeah, that sure looks like the follow-up to Origins and Odyssey. The skill tree (shown near the end) seems way more involved, beyond even what Origins had. Kinda worried about the lack of stealth in what they've shown, but I'll probably like this a much as those (a lot!)
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Antifa does exist, but the small town freak outs in recent months have been little more than witch hunts.
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Or don't. Fine. See if I care!
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who the fuck is scraeming "STOP EATING POPEYE'S" at my ass. show yourself, coward. i will never stop eating Popeye's
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https://wapo.st/3e0gwtR

For weeks, a mysterious figure on social media talked up plans for antifa protesters to converge on this historical site on Independence Day to burn American flags, an event that seemed at times to border on the farcical.

Lets get together and burn flags in protest of thugs and animals in blue, the anonymous person behind a Facebook page called Left Behind USA wrote in mid-June. There would be antifa face paint, the person wrote, and organizers would be giving away free small flags to children to safely throw into the fire.

As word spread, self-proclaimed militias, bikers, skinheads and far-right groups from outside the state issued a call to action, pledging in online videos and posts to come to Gettysburg to protect the Civil War monuments and the nations flag from desecration. Some said they would bring firearms and use force if necessary.

On Saturday afternoon, in the hours before the flag burning was to start, they flooded in by the hundreds heavily armed and unaware, it seemed, that the mysterious Internet poster was not who the person claimed to be.
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But fears of the antifa-sponsored protest had already taken root.

Macky Marker [Antifar's note: British rhyming slang ass name], a member of a Delaware militia called First State Pathfinders, posted a YouTube video calling on militiamen to go to Gettysburg. If you plan on coming, I would plan on coming full battle-rattle to be fully, 100 percent prepared to defend yourself and whoever you come with, Marker said in the video.
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A Facebook page called Central PA Antifa quickly denounced the event as fake, likening it to a hoax in Gettysburg three years ago.

In 2017, rumors of an antifa event at the national park prompted a large group of armed militia members to show up. They encountered no one from antifa, but one of the armed militia members accidentally shot himself in the leg with a revolver.

Still, news of this years supposed event spread quickly in conservative circles.

On June 22, the far-right website Gateway Pundit published a story claiming that Antifa domestic terrorists are planning to desecrate the Gettysburg National Cemetery and set the American Flag ablaze on Independence Day.

Local newspapers also picked up the story.

This town of fewer than 8,000 people grew alarmed. Residents flooded authorities with calls. Local officials pledged to mobilize the towns entire 20-person police department and bring in others from bordering towns to protect homes, businesses and statues.

Soon, militia groups were vowing to protect the town as well.

Multiple local residents in Gettysburg PA have contacted us with HEAVY concerns about the terrorist organization ANTIFA holding a flag burning event in their town, a group that calls itself the Pennsylvania State Militia posted on its Facebook page June 23. The group said it would mobilize its county response team as a deterrent against the enemy forces.

Other Facebook groups called Patriots Against Treason, Defend Our Flag and Nation, Protect Our Flag and Battlefield from Being Destroyed quickly formed and announced they also would send people to Gettysburg.

Bill Wolfe, a Gettysburg resident and member of a private Facebook group called III% United Patriots of Pennsylvania, said in an interview that the flag-burning event represented an ongoing attack on American heritage and culture.

Antifas activities, he said, were part of a decades-long campaign by the Communist Party to take over the country. [Antifar's note: I wish CPUSA was this well run]
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A separate Facebook post that circulated widely warned that antifa protesters were planning on MURDERING White people and BURNING DOWN Suburbs after the Gettysburg flag burning event. It cited a controlled unclassified law enforcement bulletin.

In the final days of June, local police publicly said that the post was false.

On Saturday, hours before the planned flag-burning protest, hundreds of bikers, militia members and self-described patriots began gathering outside the Gettysburg Cemetery and at nearby sites with Confederate memorials. Some waved Confederate flags. Many gripped assault rifles slung from their shoulders. One carried a baseball bat.

Steve Eicholtz, a 59-year-old from Biglerville, Pa., said he had seen enough of images of looting and rioting. It wasnt going to happen here, he said.

These people are acting like savages, he told his fellow patriots, while holding an AR-15 rifle.

Weve been letting them get by with it for too long, but that changes now, said Don Kretzer, 52, of Chambersburg, Pa.

Less than a mile away, at the Virginia Monument, hundreds of bikers and armed men gathered around a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Christopher Blakeman, 45, of Falling Waters, W.Va., said he felt compelled to join a group of about 50 bikers, mostly from Maryland, to protect the monument from rumored antifa protesters.

It doesnt matter if its a hoax or not, he said. They made a threat, and if we dont make our voices heard, itll make it seem like its okay.

As the 3 p.m. start time for the planned flag burning approached, there was no sign of Alan Jeffs or of busloads of antifa members.

Suddenly, by the statue of Lee, a biker shouted that he had gotten an alarming call. Someone was preparing to burn a flag, after all, he said. Scores of people jumped on their bikes and roared toward the cemetery.

A man had entered the cemetery wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt. The man, Trent Somes, later told The Post he was visiting the grave of an ancestor, not protesting. A seminarian and associate pastor at First United Methodist Church in Hanover, Pa., Somes said a crowd of about 50 people surrounded him and aggressively questioned him about his shirt.

Police arrived and encouraged Somes to leave.

For his own safety, federal law enforcement made the decision to remove him, and he was escorted out of the cemetery, Jason Martz, acting public affairs officer for Gettysburg National Military Park, later said.

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Paul's Boutique > Ill Communication > Check Your Head > Hot Sauce Committee = Licensed to Ill > Hello Nasty > To the Five Boroughs

Bonus Q: Top 3 songs
Shadrach
So Whatcha Want
Shake Your Rump
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COVxy posted...

We probably should do something about the system that allows misinformation to flow so efficiently to a bunch of people who do not have the means to sift through it.

This is sorta tangential, but I came across this article today and boy is it not helping things

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/7/4/21313521/quit-facebook-other-social-media

Just no grasp of what's going on here.
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https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1279860278679801856
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Clearing out enemies from bases is my shit, though
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I'm too deep in Xbox's ecosystem at this point. The Series S would be tempting, but I just got a 4K TV, so...
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To me, it's not a big surprise that someone who was excessively sentenced and kept in prison conditions so bad they actually shut it down would be part of a movement against police and the carceral state.
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Whoops lol
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https://twitter.com/dril/status/1279814327776624640
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My "I hope there are videos of child sex trafficking" stance is raising a lot of questions already answered by my stance
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Tbh, I don't think we need to give much attention to a guy whose primary campaign for a congressional seat already held by a Republican hasn't raised any money. He's not even the most notable challenger to the incumbent.
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This is very pretty, but also palm trees are extremely flammable. Those things go up in flames every 4th
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Let's say 75 or below on Metacritic as our threshold.

I've been really enjoying my time with Phantom Doctrine. I can see why it didn't review all that well (it borrows heavily from Xcom without maybe doing much to improve upon it, it doesn't explain its mechanics very well), but it really scratches a lot of itches for me: tactics, stealth, good map design.

How about for you all?
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Wild stuff todqy
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ohiostate124 posted...

The lesson of "this guy had the same views as me during the Jim Crow era" is not what you think it is.
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Allergies are kicking my ass and death seems preferable.
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RoadsterUFO posted...

Tucker would probably win. The only thing standing between the United States and Democratic Socialism happens to be ignorant Baby Boomers voting for Republican Fascism.

Socialism or barbarism, as they say
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/02/tucker-carlson-2024-republicans-348334

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Your taste is bewildering.
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screaming about the unfairness of the two party system and bitching about how greens and turbocons dont get to debate in the presidential election is pointless, because they have no chance of winning the presidential election without a fundamental change to the system.

One fundamental change the system could make is letting third party candidates at the debate.

monkmith posted...

they have no chance in the presidential elections because the voting system isn't designed for anything but a 2 party system. there is no grand conspiracy in the media to blackball third parties, just the common sense fact that a 'first past the post' voting system encourages strategic voting, and strategic voting defaults to a 2 party system.

This was not inevitable; there are first past the post systems with more prominent third parties - as in Canada and the UK. The US makes it uniquely arduous for third party candidates to get on the ballot.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/bernie-sanders-democratic-labor-party-ackerman/

When the worlds first government-printed secret ballot was adopted in Australia in the 1850s, the law required a would-be parliamentary candidate to submit a total of two endorsement signatures to get on the ballot. When Britain adopted the reform in 1872, its requirement was ten endorsement signatures. But when the first US state, Massachusetts, passed an Australian-ballot law in 1888, it required one thousand signatures for statewide office, and, in district-level races, signatures numbering at least 1 percent of the total votes cast at the preceding election.

Yet those barriers were mild compared to what came afterward. Over the three decades following US entry into World War I, as working-class and socialist parties burgeoned throughout the industrialized world, American elites chose to deal with the problem by radically restricting access to the ballot. In state after state, petition requirements and filing deadlines were tightened and various forms of routine legal harassment, unknown in the rest of the democratic world, became the norm.

The new restrictions came in waves, usually following the entry of left-wing parties into the electoral process. According to data gathered by Richard Winger of Ballot Access News, in 1931 Illinois raised the petition requirement for third-party statewide candidates from one thousand signatures to twenty-five thousand. In California, the requirement was raised from 1 percent of the last total gubernatorial vote to 10 percent. In 1939, Pennsylvania suddenly decided it was important that the thousands of required signatures be gathered solely within a three-week period. In New York, according to one account, minor-party petitions began to be challenged for hyper-technical defects.

Although these statutes have been assailed on all sides, a 1937 Columbia Law Review article reported, their severity is constantly being increased, probably because the interests oppressed seldom have representation in the legislatures. Indeed, when the Florida legislature found socialists and communists advancing at the polls, it responded in 1931 by banning any party from the ballot unless it had won 30 percent of the vote in two consecutive elections; naturally, when the Republican Party failed to meet that test, the state immediately lowered the threshold.

By comparison, in Britain getting on the ballot was never a major concern for the newly founded Labour Party; the only significant requirement was a 150 deposit (first instituted in 1918), to be refunded if the candidate won at least 12.5 percent of the vote. In its first general-election outing in 1900, the party started with a mere 1.8 percent of the national vote. Despite the allegedly fatal spoiler problem, it then gradually increased its vote share until it overtook the Liberals as the major party of the Left in 1922.

Today, in almost every established democracy, getting on the ballot is at most a secondary concern for small or new parties; in many countries it involves little more than filling out some forms. In Canada, any party with 250 signed-up members can compete in all 338 House of Commons districts nationwide, with each candidate needing to submit one hundred voter signatures. In the United Kingdom, a parliamentary candidate needs to submit ten signatures, plus a 500 deposit which is refunded if the candidate wins at least 5 percent of the vote. In Australia, a party with five hundred members can run candidates in all House of Representatives districts, with a $770 deposit for each candidate, refundable if the candidate wins at least 4 percent of the vote.

In Ireland, Finland, Denmark, and Germany, signature requirements for a parliamentary candidacy range from 30 to 250, and up to a maximum of 500 in the largest districts of Austria and Belgium. In France and the Netherlands, only some paperwork is required.

The Council of Europe, the pan-European intergovernmental body, maintains a Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters, which catalogs electoral practices that contravene international standards. Such violations often read like a manual of US election procedure. In 2006, the council condemned the Republic of Belarus for violating the provision of the code proscribing signature requirements larger than 1 percent of a districts voters, a level the council regards as extremely high; in 2014, Illinois required more than triple that number for House candidacies. In 2004, the council rebuked Azerbaijan for its rule forbidding voters from signing nomination petitions for candidates from more than one party; California and many other states do essentially the same thing.

In fact, some US electoral procedures are unknown outside of dictatorships: Unlike other established democracies, the USA permits one set of standards of ballot access for established major parties and a different set for all other parties.

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Bump
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bumperino
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Divinity: Original Sin II
Invisible Inc.
Desperados III
Hard West
Steamworld Heist

Thank you for your service
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You gotta learn what fascism is, my dude
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tremain07 posted...

Seems like Trump stands a good chance of winning again

So are you capable of processing new information, or do you just apply this conclusion to whatever you come across?
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TC, have you played Kentucky Route Zero?
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He posted this a couple weeks ago, in response to [unclear]
https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1275236810210279424
Now he's written a defense of Ghislaine Maxwell
https://spectator.us/ghislaine-maxwell-know-jeffrey-epstein-alan-dershowitz/
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/we-need-live-it-white-house-readies-new-message-nation-n1232884

After several months of mixed messages on the coronavirus pandemic, the White House is settling on a new one: Learn to live with it.

Administration officials are planning to intensify what they hope is a sharper, and less conflicting, message of the pandemic next week, according to senior administration officials, after struggling to offer clear directives amid a crippling surge in cases across the country. On Thursday, the United States reported more than 55,000 new cases of coronavirus and infection rates were hitting new records in multiple states.

At the crux of the message, officials said, is a recognition by the White House that the virus is not going away any time soon and will be around through the November election.

As a result, President Donald Trump's top advisers plan to argue, the country must figure out how to press forward despite it. Therapeutic drugs will be showcased as a key component for doing that and the White House will increasingly emphasize the relatively low risk most Americans have of dying from the virus, officials said.

For nearly six months the administration offered a series of predictions and pronouncements that never came to fruition. From Trump promising that "the problem goes away in April" and predicting "packed churches all over our country" on Easter Sunday to Vice President Mike Pence's claim that "by Memorial Day weekend we will have this coronavirus epidemic behind us" to Jared Kushner's pronouncement the country would be "really rocking again" by July because Americans were "on the other side of the medical aspect of this."

This all followed the White House's initial message in January that the virus wasn't a threat at all. Asked if he was worried about a pandemic, Trump said at the time, "It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine."

The message then morphed to the idea that the virus would be swiftly crushed by a robust federal response. "WE WILL WIN THIS WAR," Trump tweeted in March.

Soon after, the president demanded governors open up their states and said he had the authority to force them to do so. "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" and "LIBERATE MINNESOTA!" and "LIBERATE VIRGINIA," he wrote on Twitter in April. Within days he decided to shift responsibility for the pandemic to the governors, saying, "The federal government will be watching them very closely and will be there to help in many different ways."

In recent weeks, the message has been that the country is back, face coverings and social distancing are optional, even as the number of coronavirus cases across the country surged.

"We have to get back to business. We have to get back to living our lives. Can't do this any longer," Trump said in an interview with Axios last month before his campaign rally in Tulsa, where almost no one socially distanced and few wore masks. "And I do believe it's safe. I do believe it's very safe." A number of Trumps own campaign staffers and Secret Service agents contracted COVID-19 in Tulsa.

Eager to move forward and reopen the economy amid a recession and a looming presidential election, the White House is now pushing acceptance.

"The virus is with us, but we need to live with it," is how one official said the administration plans to message on the pandemic.

As often is the case with plans crafted for Trump by his aides, the question hanging over this effort is whether he will stick to the script. Trump said this week that he's "all for masks," after months of resisting pressure for him to embrace face coverings. Yet in that same interview with Fox Business on Wednesday, the president said the virus will "just disappear, I hope."

That's not the message senior administration officials said they're preparing, and some of the president's allies have cringed when he's talked in the past about the virus disappearing, only to then see it further spread.

Next week administration officials plan to promote a new study they say shows promising results on therapeutics, the officials said. They wouldn't describe the study in any further detail because, they said, its disclosure would be "market-moving."

Officials also plan to emphasize high survival rates, particularly for Americans who are within certain age groups and don't have underlying conditions. The overall death rate from COVID-19 in the U.S. has been on the decline. More than 130,000 Americans have died of the virus.

Trump is expected to be briefed by Dr. Deborah Birx, one of the most visible members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, before Monday on her assessment of new hot spots that she's visited this week, including what governors have said they need and how the new surge is affecting minority communities, officials said. Birx was in Florida, Texas and Arizona this week.

One of the officials indicated that coronavirus task force meetings and public briefings will be more frequent a shift already underway this week. Those meetings and briefings were daily for much of March and April, but they tapered off when Trump pivoted to focusing on the need to reopen the economy. Nearly 20 million Americans are now jobless and the unemployment rate remains in the double digits, despite a record drop in the past month.

Recent public briefings from the task force, so far, have taken place outside the White House complex. Members of the coronavirus task force, led by Pence, have taken questions from reporters five times in five different places, ranging from the Department of Health and Human Services to various Sun Belt coronavirus hot spots.

One official said moving the briefing locations is an attempt to minimize questions from the White House press corps. Another said it was also designed to prevent Trump from being tempted to take over the briefings.

Some of Trump's allies had lamented that he was hurting himself politically by spending sometimes two hours at the podium sparring with reporters and often veering off topic, rather than conveying a specific message about the pandemic.

In recent days, however, Trump personally asked the task force to resume briefings but decided he would not participate in them, according to three White House officials.

The change comes as multiple recent national polls show Trump trailing presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

On Thursday, the president claimed that when Pence held a recent call with governors and asked the state executives what they might need, none of them requested federal assistance.

"Not one governor needed anything. They don't need anything. They have all the medical equipment they can have. Thank you, U.S. government," Trump said.

But as Pence has crisscrossed the country this week, visiting places with virus outbreaks such as Dallas, Phoenix and Tampa, he has been quick to note several requests from the governors of those states in real time. For example, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday expressed a desire to continue federal funding for testing sites in his state that was set at the end of June.

Pence agreed and promised to extend "that every bit as long as Texas wants us to," noting that "this is all hands on deck" during a press briefing with other members of the coronavirus task force.

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They read a lot of bullshit online
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Baltimore police? Lying? Well I never.

Related:
https://twitter.com/ryanlcooper/status/1279143447883059200
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https://twitter.com/Guenboozy29/status/1279138177358475265

Things seem to be going well!
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Also there is reason to believe the virus doesn't spread as well outdoors. Jacksonville famously reopened it's beaches in mid-April, and a lot of people looked at the photos of that crowd with dread. But Florida's spike didn't come for another two months, after bars and restaurants were opened.

https://nypost.com/2020/04/18/hundreds-flood-florida-beach-as-florida-reopens-some-parks/

On Memorial Day weekend, everybody freaked about that pool in Missouri. But when the tests came in...
https://www.foxnews.com/health/no-new-coronavirus-cases-lake-of-the-ozarks-pool-parties
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No doubt about it, Jeffrey enjoys his social life.
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BudDupree48 posted...

. It takes one person to go to a protest that is infected and you know how it works after that.

You don't know how it goes if they're wearing masks, as protesters almost universally were

https://apnews.com/ae9f6976abdf5442f4d1c998808a54ba
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"There's no evidence to suggest significant spikes resulting from protests" vs "of course there was, it's obvious!"
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Police have been trained. Here's how that's working out.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/08/san-jose-police-shooting-implicit-bias
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AlephZero posted...

The science is pretty clear, Coronavirus doesn't target people with the correct political affiliations.

To the extent that political affiliations lead one to wear a mask or not, this is true.
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Why hasn't there been one in NY, Boston, or Minneapolis? Seattle? Why, if the spike is a product of protests, are the spikes occurring most prominently in the southern part of the country, regardless of whether those localities had protests or not?
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Reminder that the climate crisis is likely to bring with it all sorts of fun diseases.
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Sariana21 posted...

Max Boot should run for president.

I disagree
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I get a Vanilla Coke, not sure about the snack.
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Pope_Francis_I posted...

Yeah, Bush wasn't even all that bad. Everyone seems to cry about the Iraq war when they forget that both houses of congress voted for it.

1. Republicans voted unanimously for it, but Democrats were significantly split.
2. The Bush administration repeatedly lied, starting within days of 9/11, to build the case for invading.

This podcast offers a useful overview of the Bush Administration's malfeasance on the issue
https://player.fm/series/blowback/episode-3-curveball
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David Duke received <1% of the vote in the 1992 Republican presidential primary, which party leadership tried to keep him out of. Bear in mind, HW was an incumbent at the time.
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