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 I can't think of a good reason for KMcC to withhold J6 video from the public, except to protect the provocateurs and glowies. 
 I feel bad that NATO and the US convinced Uke to get rid of its nukes.

Never trust the US. That's the lesson. Now we have to take away the money train. 
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He deserves credit for what he accomplished a long time ago. Give him a crystal ball in '95, he probably would have done more. 
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Newt is good in "normal" times, totally worthless in less normal times. 
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I keep reading about house rule 1.something.something that the speaker pro-tem has as much power as he wants up to what an elected speaker has. 
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Maybe Angry Bow-Tie will come through. 
 Next steps should be IMO

Acting Speaker House Rep. Patrick McHenry continues on with ongoing inv... 
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I keep reading about house rule 1.something.something that the speaker pro-tem has as much power as he wants up to what an elected speaker has. 
 How many reps were sitting on their vote waiting to see which way the wind was blowing? 
 Guess which side SMB came down on? 
 Why did Nancy Pelosi still occupy the Speaker’s hideaway office?!

Why didn’t McCarthy boot h... 
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Yes, and who threw her stuff out today? Maybe K McC, because it was not his to give anymore? 
 My choice for Speaker is not Trump, but Steve Bannon.

Just IMAGINE what Bannon would do to fight... 
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Can he spare the time? It's a full time job (when they're not on vacation). 
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If it was someone not in the House, imagine how freeing that would be. 
 It's possible DHS gets a copy of all the phone #s that DON'T ping tomorrow. 
 I made a toy piggish latinish encoder that can change every day, but the output of which can be decoded by people and not machines.

Example:
https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/status/1708199520935321943 
 Words are funny things. When a lawyer uses the word "fact", he's not talking about "truth". For us, facts are truths. For lawyers, they might be, might not be.