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Goddamn Cassanova Brown at AEI, those pants showing some thicc legs 👀👀👀

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Oct 23, 2022Liked by Matt Welch

Best WFTW yet! Really enjoyed the exposure to other events/outlets.

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I gotta say everytime I see Kennedy I fully expect the next segment to be either Kurt Loder or Tabitha Soren. In a related note, I think MTV news was the last time I trusted the media. :D

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Jesus. Why does Rufo have to be such a dick?

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Ugh. I’m listening now. He’s such a weasel. I’m embarrassed for his wife.

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Kmele nonchalantly passing on the Atlas Society’s “black tie encouraged” panelist code

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Post-racial.

Post-dress code.

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Oct 23, 2022·edited Oct 23, 2022

RE: John Lennon and UFOs, Larry Warren, one of the USAF Security Police who claimed to see a UFO in Rendlesham Forest in 1980 (he probably didn't witness whatever it was) now makes a living selling John Lennon memorabilia (which probably isn't genuine) and apparently claims to have the same strain of herpes as Lennon as he also slept with May Pang (which is almost certainly untrue).

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>> "and apparently claims to have the same strain of herpes as Lennon as he also slept with May Pang"

I hope this "catches on" as the new way to signal highest-devotion. I'm so ready for that interview at a landscaping store between a sex shop and crematorium at which Giuliani brags about having the same strain of herpes as Donald Trump because he and Stormy Daniels both slept with Trump back in the 2000's.

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I saw a documentary that featured David Irving at a Second World War event. He shook someone's hand and said "You've now shaken the hand of the person who has shaken the hands of the most people who shook Hitler's hand." I guess sharing STIs is similar.

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This seems like a good premise for a horror movie. Kind of in the vein of Hell Toupee.

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Speaking of Rufo and the school-related culture wars, I see that Loudoun County School Board is about to conduct a review of nine school names (https://wtop.com/loudoun-county/2022/10/loudoun-co-school-board-set-to-begin-name-change-reviews-for-9-schools/). The nine schools are Ball’s Bluff Elementary, Belmont Ridge Middle, Belmont Station Elementary, Emerick Elementary, Frances Hazel Reid Elementary, Hutchison Farm Elementary, Mercer Middle, Moorefield Station Elementary, Seldens Landing Elementary and Sully Elementary.

How about (Bill Maher-style)....New Rule: if you have no idea who the fuck -- or what the fuck -- a school's namesake is without an internet search, the name is fine.

That being said, "Ball's Bluff" sounds sketchy.

On a serious note, schools should be way more worried about covid-closure related declines in reading and math than any of this shit.

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Kmele claiming chopping wood is fun is the whitest thing Ive ever heard.

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I don’t know... I might not have a super principled libertarian stance (same as vast majority of the country). But I thought Rufos arguments are extremely compelling to vast majority of folks. He’s also a better debater than the Reason guys.

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Every time I listen to Chris Ruffo I'm reminded of Anal Cunt's third studio album... "It Just Gets Worse."

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6th, I can't read.

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We’re gonna wind up with AG Vermeule, aren’t we.

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