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Rudyc1954

@rudyc1954

Atlanta, GA Inscrit le Mayıs 2018
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Rudyc1954@rudyc1954·
@RoKhanna Term limits before or after you pack the court???
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Ro Khanna@RoKhanna·
The next Democratic White House does not need a court reform commission like some college seminar. We need action. We need term limits for Justices. We need to expand this morally bankrupt Court from 9 to 13.
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Defiant L’s
Defiant L’s@DefiantLs·
AOC: "We now have a paramilitary force… like we saw in Jim Crow whether you just point a finger and 100 years ago accuse a black boy of something."
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Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi@SpeakerPelosi·
From the pump to the grocery store, the President’s reckless war of choice in Iran is hurting the American people. With inflation skyrocketing, working families are being forced to pay the price for Trump’s chaos—while he focuses on his billion-dollar ballroom.
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Right Angle News Network
Right Angle News Network@Rightanglenews·
BREAKING - Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones has sent the Democrats’ motion appealing the Supreme Court of Virginia ruling blocking their redistricting effort to the wrong court, just days after his first emergency appeal contained numerous spelling errors.
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Oli London
Oli London@OliLondonTV·
Trans TikToker Lilly Tino sends his food back at Disney despite eating most of it while complaining it was ‘over salted.’ The TikToker recently returned to Disney after women had called for him to be banned for filming himself in female restrooms.
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Crazy Vibes
Crazy Vibes@CrazyVibes_1·
In the middle of the most popular television show in American history, the actor who played its purest heart walked into the producers’ office and said he was done. Not because he was tired. Not because the money wasn’t good enough. Because the role was quietly killing the man playing it. His name was Gary Burghoff. And in 1979, at the absolute peak of M*A*S*H — a show pulling in 30 to 40 million viewers every week — he turned down $4 million (roughly $15 million today), creative control, and fewer episodes just to save himself. Most people would have called it career suicide. Gary called it survival. To understand why he left, you have to understand who he was before Radar O'Reilly ever existed. Gary grew up in Bristol, Connecticut, in the 1940s with a condition called brachydactyly — three fingers on his left hand noticeably smaller than the others. In an era when being visibly different made you a target, he learned early how to hide. He hid his hand in photos. He developed other talents so powerful that people noticed those instead. He became an exceptional drummer. A gifted wildlife painter. And, almost by accident, an actor. At sixteen, recovering from a basketball injury, a drama teacher steered him toward the stage. He auditioned for Take a Giant Step and beat out 450 other kids for the lead. The play opened on Broadway. He won awards. The money helped his mother stop working as a maid. Acting became his refuge — a place where his difference didn’t define him. When Robert Altman cast him as Radar in the 1970 film M*A*S*H, Gary brought something the script never asked for: raw, aching vulnerability. Radar wasn’t just comic relief. He was a scared kid trying to survive war by making himself indispensable. The film became a phenomenon. When CBS turned it into a television series in 1972, Gary was the only actor from the movie kept as a series regular. For the first few seasons, Radar was the wide-eyed Iowa farm boy who slept with a teddy bear and drank grape Nehi. But as M*A*S*H grew darker — confronting the horror of war alongside its humor — Radar changed too. Gary started playing him as someone slowly fracturing under the weight of what he was seeing. The teddy bear became a lifeline. The innocence became armor. He won an Emmy in 1977. Mike Farrell, who played B.J. Hunnicutt, later said Gary might have been the best actor on the show — his ability to find tiny, truthful moments was unmatched. But playing someone so different from himself, month after month, year after year, began to feel like psychological erasure. Gary wasn’t naïve or meek. He was serious, introspective, sometimes difficult because he cared so deeply about emotional honesty. Living in Radar’s skin for eight months a year started to make him forget what his own skin felt like. His marriage was falling apart under the pressure of fame and endless work. He barely saw his daughter. Fans everywhere called him “Radar” and expected the sweet, innocent character instead of the complicated man he actually was. By Season 7, something inside him broke. When his contract ended in 1979, the producers offered him a fortune to stay. Gary said no. He told them family had become the most important thing in his life, and he wasn’t available as a father anymore. But the deeper truth was simpler and sadder: he was disappearing. His final episodes, “Goodbye, Radar,” aired in two parts. He played them with such raw honesty that cast members were crying on camera for real. Fans wrote letters begging him to return. He didn’t. Leaving at the absolute peak devastated his career. He was so identified with Radar that casting directors couldn’t see him as anything else. The few roles that came were pale versions of the same gentle character. A planned spinoff never took off. Some of his co-stars — Alan Alda, Mike Farrell — thrived afterward. Gary largely stepped away from Hollywood. Many assumed he had failed. That walking away had been a terrible mistake. But Gary never defined success by fame or money. He moved back east, remarried, focused on his first love: wildlife art. He painted detailed animal portraits. He played drums with small groups. He spent real time with his children. He lived quietly and intentionally. In rare interviews years later, he was asked if he regretted leaving M*A*S*H. His answer never wavered: “I regret that I couldn’t find a way to stay without losing myself. But I don’t regret choosing to survive.” In an industry that worships visibility, Gary Burghoff did something almost unthinkable: he chose obscurity over fame. Peace over fortune. His own identity over a role that threatened to consume it. He understood something most people chasing success never learn: success that costs you yourself isn’t success. It’s slow erasure. Today, at 82, Gary lives a quiet life far from the spotlight. He rarely attends reunions. He doesn’t cash in on nostalgia. When fans meet him at the occasional convention, they’re often surprised by how different he is from Radar — more serious, more layered, more himself. And that might be the most beautiful part of his story. By leaving Radar behind, Gary fulfilled the deepest lesson the character ever taught: that gentleness in brutal environments is strength, not weakness. That holding onto your essential self is the ultimate act of courage. Radar survived war by clinging to his innocence. Gary survived fame by doing the same. The teddy-bear-clutching clerk showed millions that kindness matters. The actor who played him showed something even rarer: that knowing when to walk away — even when the whole world is begging you to stay — can be the bravest choice of all. In a culture obsessed with staying relevant at any cost, Gary Burghoff chose to remember who he was before anyone was watching. And in doing so, he gave the rest of us permission to do the same.
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Rudyc1954@rudyc1954·
@KurtSchlichter Please stop! The only cotton picking going on these days is the cotton from aspirin bottles!!!
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TMK
TMK@themagaking·
Centuries from now, historians and psychologists will study the Trump Derangement Syndrome from 2016 to 2028 as one of the most bizarre episodes of mass hysteria in American history.
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Scott Jennings
Scott Jennings@ScottJenningsKY·
Dems in VA broke the law to try to change a fair 6-5 map into a 10-1 abomination. They got struck down by Dems on their own Supreme Court, and now they want to decapitate an entire branch of gov't over it? Insane. This must be what Hakeem Jeffries meant by "maximum warfare."
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Tim Hannan@TimHannan·
One day Putin, Trump, and Netanyahu will be gone.
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Buzz Patterson
Buzz Patterson@BuzzPatterson·
Pete Davidson is a disgusting POS. His Charlie Kirk joke is tasteless and unnecessary. Why does the left think this crap is funny?!
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Rudyc1954@rudyc1954·
@atensnut @LindaTraitz And they say America is a racist country!! Show me another country with the kind of diversity our congress has! It’s all bullshit!!!
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Juanita Broaddrick
Juanita Broaddrick@atensnut·
Ilhan Omar - Somalia Pramila Jayapal- India Zohran Mamdani - Uganda Raja Krishnamoorthi - India. Shri Thanedar - India. To name a few……foreigners should not have any authority in decision making for AMERICANS. This isn’t the representation American citizens deserve.
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Rudyc1954@rudyc1954·
@RealDeanCain Happiness is a choice!!! He chooses to be a miserable phuckhead.
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End Wokeness
End Wokeness@EndWokeness·
Cambridge gunman ID'd: Tyler Brown In 2020, he fired upon police officers, but Judge Janet Sanders gave him 5 years of prison. FIVE! He has a 20-year criminal record.
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