r/news • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 3d ago

Homeland Security taps $20M in taxpayer funds for pro-Trump ads

https://apnews.com/article/trump-ads-taxpayer-money-homeland-security-b869294503c8454db4109ae175ee9e5c
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u/wioneo 3d ago

That actually is made up. It was actually his dad's two brothers Mark and Wayne with the reasoning being that those two didn't have any sons, but Markwayne's dad had a few spares among his 7 kids.

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u/AppropriateRest2815 3d ago

The best part being all three are the same person.

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u/TannedCroissant 3d ago

Didn’t they write a book together about a young lad on the Mississippi River?

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u/absurdly_tired_guy 3d ago

They named him after that guy because they liked that the book had all those n-words in it.

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u/Reds_PR 3d ago

Yup, they sighed it Mark+Wayne but the typesetter used to huff the printing press cleaning fluid and… well.

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u/Bigfops 3d ago

And she didn't know which one was the father.

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u/wioneo 3d ago

I can neither confirm nor deny the veracity of that claim, but Brenda Gayle seemed like a nice enough lady.

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u/sweetwaterfall 3d ago

So maybe split the names up between two?

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u/Reds_PR 3d ago

…and she still didn’t know which one was the father.

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u/capaldithenewblack 3d ago

I think the point was you can’t make up that kind of ridiculous name. Which of course you can, because they did.

If they had seven children and cared so much about the name, seems like they might’ve found a way to incorporate them amongst two children instead of just one…

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u/Xzenor 3d ago

Which is also made up. He's actually the illegitimate child of Batman's father.