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USAF Reportedly Leaves $56 Billion Worth of Coffee Pots in Afghanistan

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USAF Reportedly Leaves $56 Billion Worth of Coffee Pots in Afghanistan

USAF Reportedly Leaves $56 Billion Worth of Coffee Pots in Afghanistan

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe United States Air Force reports that the sudden withdrawal from Afghanistan has led to a significant financial loss. Pulling out so suddenly, $56 billion worth of coffee pots—49 of which were Keurig, while the remaining 175 were Mr. Coffees—were left behind, and now may be under Taliban control.

Scientists Discover Hottest Place On Planet Is Inside Your Tent The Second After Sun Comes Up

Scientists Discover Hottest Place On Planet Is Inside Your Tent The Second After Sun Comes Up

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Reading Time: 2 minutesBoulder, CO—Scientists at the University of Colorado School of Geophysics have overturned a long-held world record for planetary heat here on Earth. While the record was previously held by Iran’s Lut Desert, it’s been definitively relegated into the realm of sweaty has-beens. 

Bird Box Monsters That Cause You to Suicide Yourself Revealed to Just be The Clintons

Bird Box Monsters That Cause You to Suicide Yourself Revealed to Just be The Clintons

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe creators of the sci-fi horror flick, “The Bird Box,” have announced a sequel to the acclaimed movie, but this time you’ll be able to get a good look at the monsters.

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Man Who Thinks He Should Determine How and Where People Should Live Swears He Would Never Have Been a Slave Owner

Man Who Thinks He Should Determine How and Where People Should Live Swears He Would Never Have Been a Slave Owner

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Reading Time: < 1 minute“Just let them leave?” Harris spluttered. “Like live their own lives without our control? I hate them, but we can’t do that—their land is valuable, you hicks!”

Woman Wants Specific Gift for Mother’s Day and Also It Must Be a Total Surprise

Woman Wants Specific Gift for Mother’s Day and Also It Must Be a Total Surprise

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteConyers, GA—Local mother Julie Andrews is overjoyed to see what her husband gets her for Mother’s Day, and she expressed that sentiment abundantly during our interview with her.

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Chaos Erupts at School Board Meeting as Mother of 3 Forgets to Use Pronouns

Chaos Erupts at School Board Meeting as Mother of 3 Forgets to Use Pronouns

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Reading Time: 2 minutes“Out, out!” screamed Mx. Still. “I don’t know what alien gender you are, but on this planet, we give our pronouns so that we don’t make other people uncomfortable!”

CIA to Use Socially-Acceptable Clinton Predator Drone on US Soil

CIA to Use Socially-Acceptable Clinton Predator Drone on US Soil

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLooking to prevent another unarmed insurrection where the only people killed are defenseless women, the CIA has announced that it will begin using Predator drones over the US landmass.

White Supremacy Violence So Effective That Whites Need Not Even Be Involved

White Supremacy Violence So Effective That Whites Need Not Even Be Involved

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe data shows that the violence of white supremacy can occur even when the nearest white person is some 80 miles away.

Cooking Show “Chopped,” Chopped for Not Having Equality of Outcome

Cooking Show “Chopped,” Chopped for Not Having Equality of Outcome

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteChopped is being replaced by a new cooking show where the judges simply tell each other that no one dish is better or worse than the other and refuse further comment on the merits of the dishes.

Local 6-Year-Old Masters the Word “Impostor,” Uses It 600 Times a Day

Local 6-Year-Old Masters the Word “Impostor,” Uses It 600 Times a Day

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA local 6-year-old girl has mastered the word “impostor” and now impresses her parents with it no less than 600 times per day, at a median decibel level of 87.

Biden Administration Commits to Raising Only Free Range, Never-Caged Border Children

Biden Administration Commits to Raising Only Free Range, Never-Caged Border Children

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Reading Time: 2 minutesFacing blowback for policies at the border, the Biden administration has announced that it is uncaging thousands of migrant children.

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Dr. Fauci Supports Consumption Of Ethically Harvested Small Businesses

Dr. Fauci Supports Consumption Of Ethically Harvested Small Businesses

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Reading Time: 2 minutes“There’s nothing tastier than eating the bank account of a restaurateur who’s putting up a “PERMANENTLY CLOSED” sign,” he said with a chuckle and a smack of his lips. “Serve it up with a side of kids’ tears and you’ll have your new favorite dish.”

American Receives Waiver to Crucify Passengers Who Wear Neck Gaiters

American Receives Waiver to Crucify Passengers Who Wear Neck Gaiters

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Reading Time: 2 minutes“Following the science, we were going to—Dr. that tickles, less tongue—going to just bake their heads in ovens, but the FAA said that didn’t comply with safety standards, and passenger safety is our number one priority,” the spokesperson continued as Dr. Fauci flicked him in the nose with a face-mask retention strap.

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DC Comics Introduces New Villain, ‘Superspreader!’

DC Comics Introduces New Villain, ‘Superspreader!’

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWriters have hinted that the DC superheroes will try to put an end to the terrible, murderous menace by masking him up with at least two masks, as their leader Dr. Science S. Fauci recommends, “but it won’t go as well as they’d hope, and only 99.6% of them will survive.”

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Practicing: Psaki Caught Circling Back to That on New Merry-Go-Round

Practicing: Psaki Caught Circling Back to That on New Merry-Go-Round

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki will finally be making good on promises to circle back to that.

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Biden Gets Nose Caught in White House Vacuum Trying to Sniff Hair in Rollers

Biden Gets Nose Caught in White House Vacuum Trying to Sniff Hair in Rollers

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteLess than 12 hours into his tenure in the White House and President Joe Biden has suffered an adorable mishap that makes our hearts smile. While watching workers move in his items, he snagged a vacuum from a janitor and tried to sniff the hair in its rollers.

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Nanochip in New COVID Vaccine Too Large to be Injected Safely

Nanochip in New COVID Vaccine Too Large to be Injected Safely

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn a massive bungle between Moderna and Microsoft, the nanochip in the new COVID vaccine is far too large to be injected safely.

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McConnell Says in Lieu of Extra COVID Relief, He Will Let Americans Smell His Pay Stub

McConnell Says in Lieu of Extra COVID Relief, He Will Let Americans Smell His Pay Stub

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Reading Time: < 1 minute“Look, I know that people think money grows on trees, but we have to face the fact that it doesn’t. Congress has to work very hard to tax that money from you, and we can’t just go giving it back,” McConnell said.

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Congress Says Stimulus 3.0 is Fun Carnival Games But Warns, “They are hard to win.”

Congress Says Stimulus 3.0 is Fun Carnival Games But Warns, “They are hard to win.”

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Reading Time: 2 minutes“I get it, I get it. 2.0 had some problems. It wasn’t much fun for people. Americans want fun. Reading 5500-page stimulus bills isn’t fun at all, now is it? So we didn’t bother doing that, which is our way of leading by example. And here’s our next show of leadership,” Nadler said as he tossed a BB-gun to a confused reporter.

Prison Officials Drip Water on Ghislaine Maxwell Every 90 Seconds to Make Sure She Doesn’t Commit Suicide

Prison Officials Drip Water on Ghislaine Maxwell Every 90 Seconds to Make Sure She Doesn’t Commit Suicide

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWaking her up every 15 minutes might not work, so prison officials have gotten serious.

Americans Select Their Victors in 46th Quarter Quell

Americans Select Their Victors in 46th Quarter Quell

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Reading Time: 3 minutes“Look, listen here,” Democrat, former Games volunteer Bernie Sanders told reporters. “Hey you, yah schmuck! We’ve had a lot of problems in this country, ain’t got enough bread lines, no joke. If we, mark my words, do not win the Games tonight, there will be hell to pay! We must embrace Cuban-style government. Great literacy program and some of the world’s best swimmers!”

CA Mandates Halloween Candy be Dispensensed via Potato Cannon to Prevent Illness

CA Mandates Halloween Candy be Dispensensed via Potato Cannon to Prevent Illness

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Reading Time: 2 minutesAll candy will have to undergo a mandatory 14-day quarantine prior to consumption, unless it is used in peaceful protests during the November 3rd evening riots, in which case it is to be considered decontaminated via moral and ethical virtue washing.

Mike Pence to Undergo Brief Downtime for Personality Upgrade

Mike Pence to Undergo Brief Downtime for Personality Upgrade

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Reading Time: 2 minutesVice President Mike Pence is scheduled to have a brief downtime on Thursday as White House IT personnel install a personality app into his operating system.

California Mandates Restaurant-Goers Wear Horse Feeding Bags

California Mandates Restaurant-Goers Wear Horse Feeding Bags

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Reading Time: 2 minutes“We’ve almost beaten this disease, and by wearing your feeding bags, I’m certain that we’ll have coronavirus crushed within the next five years or so,” Governor Newsom told reporters. “Just wear your mask into the restaurant, and when your food is brought out in your nose bag, make the exchange as quickly as possible and without breathing.”

Twin Category-5 Megariots Forecast if Trump Wins

Twin Category-5 Megariots Forecast if Trump Wins

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Reading Time: 2 minutesRegardless of Biden and Harris’s landfall intensity, life-threatening highway stoppages and strong arson are likely over a large portion of the east coast, the west coast, and Chicago, as well as unsurvivable, rapidly-intensifying peaceful protests in Denver, CO and other metropolitan areas.

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