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Solzhenitsynen wrote about a clapping incident with Stalin in The Gulag Archipelago. Here's a version of it https://historyinsights.com/11-minute-applause/

After Joseph Stalin gave his speech at a conference for the Communist Party in 1937, the audience exploded into applause. Everyone in the room leaped to their feet and began to clap wildly. Some seemed to be in a contest of who could stand and clap the fastest.

Yet, the big question soon came: who would have the nerve to stop clapping first? After a few minutes, nobody showed the courage to stop, and so the applause went on. The clapping continued nonstop for eleven minutes.

Finally, one man had enough and stopped clapping. As soon as he sat down, the frenzied audience also quieted down. Soon, the room was completely silent.

Later that night, the man who stopped clapping first was arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison. Authorities reportedly told him “don’t ever be the first one to stop clapping!“

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Excellent real-life validation of Kevin's article from a major Russian scholar.

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You know what I really hate? LOL. Damnit, I was LOLing myself silly but I doubt I'll make it three months. Hilarious.

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It's been reported that nearly half of Congress absented themselves in protest, but it went unnoticed because aipac hired "seat fillers"...

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former UK ambassador and human rights sage craig murray calls out congress for its support of israel evil in america, gaza and the world...https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/no_author/the-presence-of-evil/

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Beyond brilliant, Kevin. You surely grew up on MAD magazine and (((Alfred E. Newman))). How else could you capture the Jewish zeitgeist in such pitch-perfect mocking form?

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Thanks, Cat! Actually I read MAD in grade school, National Lampoon in high school, and Swift and the absurdists in college ; - )

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I'm still masturbating.

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For years I have been saying that Netanyahu is running America.

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You deserve more reader comments, K.B.

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This is the only sane response to that abhorrent incident in Congress- mockery. Yet, reality is actually giving satire a run for the money.

Thank you, Kevin. Don Jeffries and you help keep me sane in this clown world of what's left of the USA.

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It's obvious Netanyahu is running this country in service to Israeli, he is American after all, went to high school in Pennsylvania, repeat loud and clear; Isreial did 9/11

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Out of the park!

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Great satire, making me want to LOL for 3 months!

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A grand a minute ...

or even more ???

US-folks MUST wake-up by now; if not, they're lost for good ...

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Jul 25·edited Jul 25

The biggest bang ever for the buck must be jew untermeyers financing of cyprus scofields ghost writer of the notes in the convicted forgers Scofield Bible, wop pompeo darent go to bed every night without reading them or his Kentucky wasp wife would divorce him!! No zio southern baptist redneck can leave home without it, and there are 70million of them Christian zionists ardently awaiting the rapture ONLY THEYR IN DENIAL, just who is a returned Jesus supposed to wipe out after having slain the anti-christ at Lod in Palestine? Arabs? No no no, He will slay all of "the chosen of God" according to Scofield, ie the Rev 3:9 synagogue of satan that pence, pompeo and hagi are currently fetting!!

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