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Thanks for pointing out what the threshold for banishment is in the Kennedy family. Not many boundaries except for voting R.

I value the opinion of random folks from Nebraska as much as I value the opinions of the Uber wealthy, or people who are famous because they won the genetic beauty lottery.

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My advice. The Nebraska Waltzes should post a new pic with them all in an updated t-shirts with the words. Nebraska Waltzes for Trump… corrected for the Democrat Coastal Elites… are they clueless to what is important or what.

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Sep 11·edited Sep 11

You are definitely the most enjoyable FP writer. A great read!

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Wait a minute. I’m of the perspective that the politician, Walz abandoned his family values.

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Another bullseye, Kat!

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I wouldn't want to be related to anyone running for office these days - the violation of our freedoms and the level of discourse engaged in by all of them makes them all pariahs in my book.

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Any of the Walz’s pushing a book? When it comes to honesty, I’ll take dysfunctional poor families way before dysfunctional rich ones. Not to stereotype, just to notice the motivation.

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Kat you nailed it with regard to the Kennedys. They stood by family members who did some very embarrassing and awful things. But the one thing the family could not take was RFK.jr endorsement of Trump.

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I will drink to them all with my last can of Billie Beer.

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I think the "unfollow me" and "I won't date you" stuff has been shown to be much more prevalent on the lib side.

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I do like that they dragged grandma out of - what I can only imagine is - her death bed for a political stunt. Classy move.

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Tom Wolfe Lives!

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Meh, this doesn't do anything for me personally, but I guess it does for the writer. Public dissent of family member or ex-staffer are almost always just a grasp for 15 mins of fame and a recurring guest appearance on CNN a la Scaramucci.

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The democrats have turned the usual politics into the Thunderdome. As far as private citizens with relatives in politics, they don’t lose the right to post their own opinions when it’s in conflict with the relative, especially if one believes the agenda of the political relative is helping to destroy the country.

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Makes me long for simpler times, like when Billy Carter was embarrassing older brother Jimmy by selling "Billy Beer" and trying to cash on his fame . . .

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Walz's devastating economic, and social track record in Minnesota is all anyone needs to see what he will do to the rest of America. Woke Gender politics (disproven in WPATH files, and Cass review), anti policing sentiment, and all around mindless Orwellian rhetoric, and tactics.

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