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Cowpoke culture.

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As much as the DHS or Border Patrol, this is one of the problems with motherfuckin' cowboys. They all think they're no-bullshit, ruff tuff gunslingin' hard men. Never expect any moderation or well-thought-out moves when dealing with people who wear ridiculous cosplay costumes in their daily lives.

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Oh, my Goddess

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I know, right? These disingenuous bastards will stop at nothing to twist the damned narrative.

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When our niece crossed the border in 1999 there were already skeletons in the desert, I'm sure there are many more now.

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mine were silly enough to be slavic and Catholic ... so only really got to be white in the middle years of their grand-kids lives, to most Americans, except to Evangelicals.I saw that transformation happen in my late 30s.

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The problem isn't the horses. It's the horse's asses on top of them.

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I dig shit like that! My maternal grandad was 1pt Mark Twain, 1pt Will Rogers & 3 pts a more benighted Archie Bunker. I miss him all the time.

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I had seen him in concert twice, I still have the shirt.

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I'm jealous.

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I would share if I could.

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Glad to hear we're living in a post racial society!

The subtext at the time was that Haitians had settled in Cambridgeport and both Harvard and MIT had designs on the land

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Was recently rewatching the Wire. There's a scene where they take down the Immigration and Customs sign while replacing it with the DHS sign in one of the offices. DHS needs to go back down again.

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I'm not sure there is.

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That's why it was chosen. To trigger the libs. This was Darth Cheney after all.

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