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JohnnyRingo

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Thu Sep 11, 2025, 10:06 AM Thursday

"The hate and division on both sides". [View all]

When does it seem everything became unglued, when the hate really began to boil to the surface? I believe it can be pinpointed to 2008 with the spawning of The Tea Party when a black man with a "questionable" birth certificate was elected president.

The hate shifted to overdrive around 2016 when the Tea Party dropped all pretentions of concern for their taxes and went full on fascist against liberals. One man was at the center of it all from the birth certificate to "lock her up" then January 6th.

But yeah... "both sides".

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