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It's been done.

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It's one of their most popular strawmen from their strawman-of-the-day calendar!

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People generally didn't smile for photos back then. This is very likely edited. That looks like Clint Eastwood's smile.

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Sometimes I get 404, sometimes I get the comment. I just delete the 404 notification.

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Used to be you'd get your ass kicked if you wore the flag in part or in whole on your person... The only ones desecrating the flag now are MAGATS...

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when it does it for me no amount of page refreshing will load the comments.

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How about a compromise, we wont burn USA flags, but we will burn confederate flags................constantly. We will have bonfires of em

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Amend the amendment to prohibit desecrating* American flags actually made in America.

Desecration can only happen to religious / holy objects. Where in his TruChristian (tm) Bible does Daines find the American flag sacred?

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this might come back to bite them in the ass when the good people of texas have to burn something to keep warm this winter after the power goes out again and all they have left to burn is the 50 american flags that adorn their pickup truck.

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By this point, I believe they'll never stop trying to take a run at the ACA.

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But, implicitly, perhaps someone else can.

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You're assuming they ever will realize that?

Many of them still believe that there's a Satanic pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza parlor that doesn't even have a basement.

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Nice!

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Me too. I wonder what's up with that.

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Extended visitation at the "People of Walmart" website can be harmful to one's mental health. This is a typical entry there.

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Beau knows.

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