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hamsterjill

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8. Hot Wheels knows where his bread is buttered.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri Jun 5, 2026, 10:23 PM

16 hrs ago

He knows he'd better get something going before all of the big cattle baron donors start riding his sorry ass.

Don McLaughlin, the former mayor of Uvalde, Texas (the one who confronted Beto at the press conference about the Robb shooting) is now a Congressman and he's been on the screwworm issue for a while as he represents the two of the three counties that have been declared disaster areas. Hot Wheels knows he needs to catch up.

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