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The Duke and the Dork

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 1/22/2026 3:56:48 AM

— Once upon a time, there was a good-looking, articulate, young boy named David Duke who attended a conservative elementary school in New Orleans. In Junior High, as an eighth-grade project, he was irresistibly attracted to the subject of segregation. He then attended a military school in Georgia and “by the time he graduated was already a member in good standing of the Ku Klux Klan”––ultimately becoming a grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In his self-published 1988 autobiography, My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding, Duke stated: “We [Whites] desire to live in our own neighborhoods, go to our own schools,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: chumley 1/22/2026 4:29:56 AM (No. 2058507)
I had to quit reading this trash about half way through. Its just a hit piece on Vance that compares him to David Duke and complaining that he doesn't kiss Israel's butt hard enough. I guess he didnt take the bribes.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bgarrett 1/22/2026 4:36:36 AM (No. 2058508)
David Duke was a student at LSU in Baton Rouge while I was there. He would get up at Free Speech Alley and start talking. The hippies didnt want to hear it and would boo him and tell him to shut up. Real hippies in 1970 were a lot different from what the media is saying about them now. NONE of the hippies there had any interests in politics.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: 5 handicap 1/22/2026 5:55:36 AM (No. 2058520)
I do not much care for Joan Swirsky... I do not much care for Tucker either... Both have way too much hate they eschew!
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Reply 4 - Posted by: spacer 1/22/2026 6:39:54 AM (No. 2058529)
Pat Buchanan had this millstone hung around his neck too. I must say though the lines of good /evil , civilized/barbaric too me have never been more clear. Islam is the evil force that is destroying good...for 1400 years. You can play politics till the cows come home but the tiny nation state of Israel is the epicenter , for now. Pick your side folks
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Laotzu 1/22/2026 7:46:59 AM (No. 2058558)
The MSM is doing yeoman's work keeping Tucker Carlson's name in the news. Harry and Meghan would kill for this kind of daily coverage.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: montwoodcliff 1/22/2026 8:41:27 AM (No. 2058584)
I am saying it here and I’ll keep saying it, but I think Trump’s successor will be Marco Rubio, not Vance. This article has nothing to do with my prediction. This was a hit piece on Vance and I’m ignoring it. Just keep an eye on Rubio.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: so_free_me 1/22/2026 9:40:34 AM (No. 2058608)
Thanks for this article. I was truly alarmed and disheartened to see Tucker in the White House. And seeing Vance stubbornly refusing to distance himself from TC has me giving up completely on considering him for Prez. I listened to my last TC podcast last summer when he disparaged me and my ilk as if we were the Beverly hillbillies because we dare to hold dispensationalist views.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Timber Queen 1/22/2026 10:57:15 AM (No. 2058646)
Dang, from the title I thought this article was going to be about Harry and Megan. I was so looking forward to a post by "Marbles". /s Honestly, I really don't get all this recent press that J.D. Vance is an antisemite and the pile-on to hang Tucker Carlson around his neck. I see a lot of smoke but haven't' felt the heat of the flames yet. To me J.D. is a strong successor to President Trump; is that why the long knives are out?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 1/22/2026 11:11:17 AM (No. 2058653)
This is a hit piece, and the title is click bait. Who benefits from this?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Riley 1/22/2026 11:32:53 AM (No. 2058657)
Trash article trashing Vance. Useless drivel.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: PrayerWarrior 1/22/2026 12:00:22 PM (No. 2058675)
This writer is just trying to stir the pot. We don't know her motivation, but if I had to guess, she has it out for Tucker Carlson and anyone he associates with. J.D. Vance is a good man and will make a great president after President Trump. We're voting for the ticket of Vance/Rubio.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: JimBob 1/22/2026 2:39:14 PM (No. 2058759)
I've never heard of this Swirsky broad before. What a hateful piece! She's mad because Vance is not condemning Carlson, who she apparently hates. Sounds to me like an 8th-grade girl. "You don't HATE the person I HATE, so I HATE you! I haven't kept up with Tucker, the last two times I heard him was once, when he interviewed Jeffery Sachs, and then a second time when he interviewed Vladimir Putin. I don't particularly agree with either one of them, but at least have a civil conversation rather than just cutting someone off and hating them. I'll keep an eye out, and when I see 'Joan Swirsky' in the byline, I'll just move on to the next article.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 1/22/2026 2:52:42 PM (No. 2058776)
Re #7, I wasn't thrilled to see Mark Levin in the White House the other day either but like any other citizen of these United States the President has a right to freedom of association. Everyone laughs at Don Lemon banging on about how the parishioners in St. Paul owe him "accountability" because an employee of ICE might attend church with them but he bears a lot of similarity to some of our self-appointed hall monitors of conservatism.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: dbdiva 1/22/2026 3:20:41 PM (No. 2058783)
I follow prophecy and for awhile now, the LORD has indicated that President Trump does have traitors in his administration and we are to pray for them to be exposed and removed. People we support as MAGA aren't but are really Deep State. He actually named names in his latest message. While I've been willing to give Pam Bondi space to build cases to bring to trial, many on this site are right about her. She is a Deep Stater. Also named as being a deceiver is Suzy Wiles. Several months ago He started to mention "the white wolf"....someone who is very close to the President but is not who he appears to be. Today He divulged who it is and I confess my jaw dropped. It's JD. #6 could be right. Mike Johnson was mentioned as being compromised but he's been given a chance to repent. I expect many will take this info with a grain of salt and that's OK but please do pray for the President to be safe and for him to have discernment concerning those who are traitors so he can deal with them. Several months ago the LORD indicated that President Trump was aware of one of them but He didn’t mention who that was. I've been following prophecy for several years and things He mentioned years ago are now coming pass. Things look grim at the moment but we WILL have our country back.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: earlybird 1/22/2026 3:54:45 PM (No. 2058793)
Joan Swiesky tries to hatchet JD. She cuts no ice with me. Mark Levin at the WH hardly amounts to "freedom of assodiation" for PDJT. There for an interiew? No explanation.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Bluehouse 1/22/2026 9:33:18 PM (No. 2058876)
I pretty much agree with the author. Mostly because Tucker has really changed from the Fox News persona to a big Islamic supporter. His 1/20/26 newsletter: Could a Nuclear Iran Stabilize the Middle East? https://tuckercarlson.com/january-20-2026-morning-note. His notes/letters are full of a lot of non conservative ideas. He supports Islam and hates Christian Zionists https://cbn.com/news/israel/tucker-carlson-accuses-christian-zionists-heresy-i-dislike-them-more-anybody; https://wng.org/opinions/i-dont-think-im-against-that-actually-1762665058. JD Vance has not distanced himself from these views, although he didn't endorse them either. I don't know where the hate for Mark Levin, a dear friend of Rush Limbaugh, is coming from as Levin is not mentioned in the article. I realize this reply is late and will not be read. But Miss Lucianne deserves better.
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