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Veteran, War Hero, Con-Man, Grifter, Troll.

TFIFY.

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OMG what a terrible example of a human being!

/adjusts grip on death ray – “Are all creatures on your planet like this?”

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Saw the headline, knew exactly who they were gonna talk about, TLDR.

Sorry ProPublica!

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How sad of a human being are you when you are grifted by someone who uses your hate to con you out of cash and then convinces you to attack the people who point out you have been grifted?

Oh wait! You’re a CONservative and this has always been the MO of CONservatives.

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Looks like Brian has a nice game of pocket pool going while being interviewed.

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Kolfage? I don’t know him. He may have brought covfefe to a meeting or two. Maybe…

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“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” — attributed to Eric Hoffer

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Staff meeting…

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Sometimes I find myself rooting for the Vogons.

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At least the Vogons had an Infrastructure Week plan, with their hyperspace express route…

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Brian Kolfage had lost three limbs in an Iraq bomb blast in 2004…

Which three limbs did he lose? He appears, in that photo, to still have both arms. Is one (or both) of them just a very good prosthetic? Or, is that an old photo?

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He seems bitter, I wonder if he understands the cause of that bitterness, and is lashing out at the wrong people.

Two legs and a hand

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His right wrist looks as if it might be a bit deformed, so he could be hiding an amputated hand. Or that could just be a stump he’s resting on his leg and he has nothing in his pocket at all. But a guy like this gets no sympathy points from me.

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Facebook is a big part of the problem here.

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His third arm, possibly. :flushed: I guess I must be a bad person…

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Democracy doesn’t die in darkness. It dies on Facebook!

Turn it off, turn it off!

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Their poetry is great!

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