Comments by "Meh Pluribus Unum" (@pluribus_unum) on "CNN" channel.

  1. If the Russians say it hasn't sunk, I'm more inclined to think it has sunk.
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  2. Tucker is vaccinated and boosted. Knowing this is all you need to know about him recommending Viagra for COVID-19.
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  3. I believe the Russian government's actions, not their words.
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  4. Criminality to take power is fine with the Republican leadership and the majority of its voters. That is an authoritarian political party, not a conservative political party. It's also a major domestic terrorism threat.
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  5. Threatening to crash the International Space Station because you can't get chips for your weapons and oligarchs can't shop or sail as freely as they used to, as you conduct what may well be genocidal warfare in Ukraine is a sign of an insurmountable weakness in your regime and position.
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  6. It's Zelensky's appropriate move to complain about NATO. It's NATO's appropriate move to stay on course with their mission and resist escalating, thus providing Putin with [the justification¹] for his excuse domestically and geopolitically for a war of territorial acquisition which he's been clear about his intentions to start for more than fifteen years. _______________________ ¹ EDITED. Was previously "validation". h/t @Zebra Zagadore for the change request.
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  7. I like political parties that don't try to overthrow my government.
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  8. You can support the United States of America, or you can vote Republican. You can no longer do both.
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  9. 3:24 - Let's never forget, we in the US have a secular Constitution. The biggest difference between religious Americans in the left and religious Americans in the right is that far more religious Americans in the right want to make the government a Christian theocracy. Additionally, we need to evolve past the idea that the right is more religious just because they say they are in polling. Many of those who claim to be religious on the right are posturing, frankly. The main reason for this is that the Republican party is openly Christian dominated, and often shows open hostility to other religious faiths or atheism. It is a "go along to get along" answer from GOP voters in some measure. Similarly, there are more Democrats who say they support an end to de-facto segregation in our communities than are willing to actually vote for it when it becomes a referendum on occasion.
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  10. Assassinated is a perfectly good word, why avoid it in the title on this video?
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  11. It is about control, not the sanctity of life. A woman's right to choose is hers alone because it is her body. All replies will be ignored.
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  12. The phrase means "white privilege over country". So no, she doesn't
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  13. I can't be the only one who doesn't want to see anything Toobin is previewing.
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  14. A coup attempt is often divisive for the party who commits one.
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  15. It's not simply garbage, it's terrorism. Stochastic in the case of Tucker and literal in the case of those he incites.
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  16. Poroshenko's courage is the real deal and he doesn't need a horse and can wear a shirt the whole time, unlike the frightened madman ruining Russia.
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  17. Dateline 2014: "After invading, not before, Putin amped up his criticisms of NATO expansion as justification for his belligerent actions."
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  18. This is like listening to a young Republican rave about how the Grateful Dead were really singing about deregulation and tort reform
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  19. When public knowledge of your public events is damaging to your campaign, you aren't a public servant.
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  20. The smart Russian trolls don't take rubles anymore.
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  21. He only agreed to testify to stall for time and to get his name in the headlines before his book got published. He is a traitor and coup co-plotter and participant. He should live in prison for the rest of his life for it, if real justice could be served. Thankfully, he wasn't suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill or anything really dangerous for society and the rule-of-law or something.
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  22. United with Ukraine. Proud to provide 90% of Ukraine's military aid. 🇺🇦💪🇺🇸
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  23. Toobin should not be working at CNN anymore, but profit over ethics rules the day in all modern media monopolies, which is the only reason he still does work there. Biden had every right to answer the question, politically should do so, and his answer doesn't constitute exerting influence.
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  24. This would be a fitting death for him since he helped shoot down MH-17.
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  25. The audience is the Russian people and the meaning is that as long as Putin stays, significant sanctions and isolation will continue.
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  26. The interpretation of "a well regulated militia" made by Scalia's majority ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller of 2008 has caused a dangerous uptick in gun deaths in the US, increasing 17% in 8 years between 2008 and 2016 and haven't stopped climbing since. Trump/Republican legalizing large mags and increasing loopholes on both the manufacture and sale of firearms, plus the pandemic and other factors decreasing both the psychological welfare and the standard of living for many in the US also contributed to another major uptick over the past 3 years It's almost as if it was decided based upon a flawed premise and the result is that the five fundamental freedoms (freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press, and the right to petition the government) are all being increasingly infringed upon by the far too unregulated firearms in the hands of individuals with no function whatsoever as part of a militia preserving local self-determination from centralized tyranny.
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  27. Personally, I know and sometimes visit with unvaccinated friends, I will continue to wear a mask then as well as when in retail stores and restaurants around unvaccinated and vaccinated staff and strangers. Since I wasn't wearing a mask in these situations because of a mandate -- because none has ever actually existed for them -- it's unaffected by any mandate and only dictated by my personal desire to limit the risk I present to my friends, those delivering my chosen services and goods and strangers.
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  28. The difference between CNN and FOX is that journalistic ethics are enforced, if imperfectly, instead of ignored by design.
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  29. Disaster aid is common sense and a federal responsibility, whether it's for Manhattan, Puerto Rico or Mayfield. Concerning Rand and his "compatriots in craven cause", harboring traitors is not compassion, comity, nor kindness. We, as Democrats, will always work for the benefit of, and in service to, all Americans -- regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, creed or political affiliation. We, as Americans, must call out enemies, both foreign and domestic. It is evident that the Republican party's autocratic and white nationalist faction is in control of the party now, and they mean to use the money and means at their disposal to dismantle democracy district by district, state by state until their theocratic apartheid regime is installed by felony and/or by force. Patriotism requires all those who oppose this warfare upon our Republic to disown, condemn, and combat this faction and the Republican party they've made in their image.
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  30. "Afraid to escalate things" is not what's happening, what's happening is that the US and our allies are working within the framework of NATO and UN leadership expressly because it is the right thing to do for international law, the sovereignty of nations, and provides an unparalleled position of strength. The billions in US military aid that Obama's European Defense Initiative¹ has provided to Ukraine over the last 7 years has been vital to Ukraine's amazing defense of their country. ___________________________________ ¹ Despite Trump's withholding of $400 million in the extortion plot of Zelensky that got him impeached.
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  31. I like Cabinet officials who uphold their oath of office and don't wait until their book comes out to profit from a newfound honesty they lacked when it mattered.
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  32. Sounds like there's a little more relief funding for the displaced and decimated.
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  33.  @hughrealman50  - The President of Russia.
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  34. “not particularly motivated“ is military speak for a near complete collapse of esprit de corps.
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  35. The restoration of the strength and power of the United States after the horrendous downfall caused by the Trump era makes me glad to be an American and a Democrat.
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  36. This is a leader I'm proud to support as a citizen an allied country.
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  37.  @paulbono2675  - Delusions won't serve you well outside the bubble of lies.
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  38. Rule by fiat and force its fascism. The Republican party is embracing fascism. Vote Democrat or aid fascism. Full stop.
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  39. Nailed it! "Where is this guy's weekly poker game and how do I get a seat at that table?", is the only thing about him I'm remotely interested in.
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  40. You don't have a clue, Michael.
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  41. Mike Lee and Chip Roy deserve a nod of thanks as they resign in disgrace.
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  42. And Benedict Arnold is still holding Trump's beer, because the Republicans have ensured Trump's not done yet.
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  43. And don't forget how Trump held up the Ukraine's military aid for two years, asking Zelensky for "a favor though".
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  44. "Love it or leave it" is one of the least patriotic things any US citizen or resident can say. Not to mention it is anathema to our collective civic mission to continuously perfect this union. We were the founded -- albeit hypocritically -- on an idea; that all are created equal, that we all hold the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Without the labor of enslaved Africans, indigenous peoples and other immigrants, as well as voluntary immigration and the intermittent influx of refugees, the United States of America would never have existed at all, nor could it have become a superpower. Isolationism is delusion and decay.
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  45. 1:52 - President Biden, please sign the mine ban treaty. And thank you for tasking the Pentagon with studying the reversal of the Trump administration's decision to allow mines in the US military, and to produce new anti-personal weapons. I hope that policy is reversed soon.
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  46. I'm glad Senator Rogers issued his apology and I think the problem of individual Republicans being intransigent on matters of personal responsibility and common decorum is indicative of a larger problem that the GOP leadership effectively promoted when they ignored it repeatedly when it was exhibited by ex-President Trump.
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  47. At least he took the notes on the crossed arms body language. Still, I want in on this guys weekly poker game.
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  48. Zakaria is true to his beliefs when he advocates for a continuation of neoliberal economics. He's not an ally of the Democratic party when he does it, however. The Democratic party, which is rapidly returning to labor-centric policies, isn't going to jump in to new neoliberalism with both feet the way Zakaria wants. Also, wooing white voters with the damaging economic policies that forced so many off decent wages and into a hand-to-mouth and paycheck-to-paycheck cycle is a fool's errand. White voters, as a group, haven't backed the Democratic presidential candidate since LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act. Democrats wisely listen to Stacey Abrams for strategy, not Grover Norquist era Republicans who had a falling out with the GOP and now [want] the Democrats to move right to accommodate him [them] and his [their] "Lincoln Project" political "rock and roll swindle" kind.
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  49. Respectfully, she doesn't need anyone else to come to her aid, and unwelcome chivalry is just a different form of chauvinism.
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  50. If you never hold a regular press briefing during your tenure, are you really a Press Secretary?
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  51. Chris Cillizza's exit will be greatly appreciated by all of us who keep track of all the water he's carried, and continues to carry, for the GOP's talking points.
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  52.  @cumsalot  - 📎💬 - It looks like you're trying to troll. Would you like help?
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  53.  @Lilo-A - Agreed, but since we don't know the wishes of Representative Beatty, in respect for her agency and autonomy as a person, we shouldn't assume she would want her husband, had he not passed away last year, to act in the way described.
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  54. A real Senate majority and maintaining the real House majority is the ONLY way to guarantee we don't [suffer as the extremist and often theocratic Republicans] continue to limit protections and rights we've relied upon for the past half century in the US.
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  55. No major NATO member country has a clean slate, especially the US, UK or Germany. That said, Russia's history and scale of war crimes in Chechnya and Syria is atrocious and worth timely reexamination. Let's hope they don't do in Odessa, or anywhere else, what they did in Grozny or Aleppo. Intentional targeting of hospitals, ambulance workers, firefighters and schools, and indiscriminate targeting of civilians, including with the confirmed use of banned¹ weapons, and the alleged use of chemical weapons. Looting of homes and businesses, arbitrary detention and beatings, systematic rape of women, men and sometimes children. Typical goon squad stuff all armies without civilian oversight, entirely or effectively, end up engaged in. ____________________________ ¹ Geneva Conventions of 1949
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  56. I'm disappointed that CNN videos where Closed Captions aren't available seem more and more common. Any plans to improve [CC] coverage on your content anytime soon @CNN?
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  57. When your bullsh*t stinks so badly even the cult won't buy it.
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  58.  @jayjohnson8403  - Yes, from 2004 onward when David Duke called Russia the last white empire on the planet, many white nationalists have embraced Putin. Marjorie Taylor Greene attended a speech outside CPAC last night in which white nationalist Nick Fuentes said, "Now they're going on about Russia and 'Vladimir Putin is Hitler'. They say that's not a good thing," then adding, "I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have said that,” while some audience members cheered him on.
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  59.  @SolSystemDiplomat  - Testosterone worship is so boring.
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  60. Maybe, if Justice Kavanaugh took firearm safety laws as seriously as his hero, Chief Justice Scalia, this threat wouldn't exist.
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  61.  @scabcrawler632  - Your fantasies aren't a counterpoint. There is no equivalent extremism on the left. Period. " First, right-wing attacks and plots accounted for the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994. In particular, they made up a large percentage of incidents in the 1990s and 2010s. Second, the total number of right-wing attacks and plots has grown substantially during the past six years. In 2019, for example, right-wing extremists perpetrated nearly two-thirds of the terrorist attacks and plots in the United States, and they committed over 90 percent of the attacks and plots between January 1 and May 8, 2020. Third, although religious extremists were responsible for the most fatalities because of the 9/11 attacks, right-wing perpetrators were responsible for more than half of all annual fatalities in 14 of the 21 years during which fatal attacks occurred." Center for Strategic and International Studies: June 17th, 2020
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  62.  @besmartvoteblue2702  - LudditeTaylorGreene2024
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  63. Musk is an enemy of humanity. Period.
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  64. Covering Trump constantly may be profitable, but it's not ethical.
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  65. "A top Republican legal strategist told a roomful of GOP donors over the weekend that conservatives must band together to limit voting on college campuses, same-day voter registration and automatic mailing of ballots to registered voters, according to a copy of her presentation reviewed by The Washington Post." When the voters are your enemy, you aren't a legitimate political party anymore. Friends don't let friends vote Republican.
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  66. The 90 tons of military assistance the US sent to Ukraine in January was a proud moment for me after Trump's criminal extortion of Zelensky. The US government is united in committing more military and humanitarian aid, though support for sending US troops beyond the borders of our NATO allies to halt any advance beyond Ukraine is still below 30%. Biden got buy-in on shutting Russia out of the SWIFT banking system now...which is also a big help.
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  67. Ignorant Christian white nationalists "have the keys" to the Republican party and their "joyride" isn't going to end without a tragedy of some scale. They are a national security threat in more ways than one.
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  68. The Republican party is still engaged in the white nationalist coup that began with the cooperation with Putin's intelligence services in 2016.
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  69. Fascism. The "Brownshirts" and online hate-based communities deployable by Trump -- and his long roster of accomplices and sadopopulist "progeny" in the Republican party and the U.S. right-wing -- are involved in a ongoing putsch that included the violent insurrection of January 6th, 2021, and the seditious speech and behavior that incited it. We can't forget that this coup attempt has not ceased, only metastasized.
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  70.  @Ass_of_Amalek  - I mean to suggest it was planned. "Israel has killed more than 50 Palestinian journalists since 2001, according to the Palestinian Journalism Syndicate, and Reporters Without Borders has recorded more than 144 journalists injured in just the last four years." The killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, explained: Shireen Abu Akleh covered occupied Palestine for two decades. She was killed doing her job. - by Jonathan Buyer - May 13, 2022 - Vox News
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  71. The new KKK hood is at least less cumbersome, I guess.
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  72. If 10% of the caring, but non-voting US residents who are heartbroken by this tragedy got registered (applications are online in most states) and voted for politicians of any party that will vote against the NRA's tyranny over our schools, supermarkets, shops, and streets...we would save thousands of lives and trillions of taxpayer dollars.
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  73. Messaging during this once in a century global pandemic is more difficult now because of the need to communicate to two very disparate audiences. One, a more diligent, more careful and cautious audience that will take precautions and get tested to protect others -- including some who still may be unable or unwilling to get vaccinated -- who want more complex, evolving and nuanced information, with all the caveats and qualifications intact. The other, a more questioning, more utilitarian about precautions, and more focused on restoring a pre-pandemic normalcy than focused a new post-pandemic normalcy -- including some who are proudly vaccinated and/or boosted -- who want more simple or consistent guidance and information with little or no revisions and caveats or qualifications.
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  74.  @yehimstone5492  - Because it's not true.
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  75. He politicized his own death by believing Republican lies.
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  76. Vaccines are free, as are on site tests. Get your shots and a booster 4-6mos later for the absolute best, and free protection against hospitalization, serious illness and death from being infected with the COVID-19 virus.
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  77. Summary execution is still barred by the Geneva conventions. Unlawful combatants are not entitled to the Geneva convention protections which apply to lawful combatants. This means that unlawful combatants can be can be attacked at any time and can be detained indefinitely without trial. The Geneva conventions do not allow them to be summarily executed.
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  78. He is the embodiment of the Republican party today. If they don't want him, reform the party and hold the traitors accountable.
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  79. Republicans upset that their record is coming back to haunt them don't deserve the time of day, let alone a single column inch.
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  80. 2014 - Putin invades Ukraine. 2014 - Obama creates the European Deterrence Initiative to initiate training, and intel sharing, and we start shipping over $500 million in military, security and defense aid to Ukraine. 2015 - Trump tells Larry King, "I was over in Moscow two years ago and I will tell you – you can get along with those people and get along with them well. You can make deals with those people. Obama can’t" 2017 - Trump threatens to take the US out of NATO. 2019 - Trump begins 2 years of extorting President Zelensky by illegally withholding Pentagon approved aid to Ukraine. 2020 - Trump is impeached for his extortion plot and refusing related Congressional subpoenas. 2022 - Biden commits over $9 billion in military aid to Ukraine and unites NATO and our allies in the most severe economic sanctions in history.
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  81. The bunker is the only part of his palace everyone will remember, I bet.
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  82. More can always be done, but it's also true that the diplomatic, financial, economic, commercial and military efforts targeted at Russia and their presence in Ukraine -- and largely led by the United States of America -- amount to the most severe [multilateral] sanctions on one country [a major global economy] in history, and the biggest single military assistance effort in Europe since Lend/Lease to fight the Axis Powers in WWII. I believe that the UN and the State Department, infamously slow-moving and large entities, have moved uncharacteristically rapidly to confront Russia's bald aggression. Under the last three Presidents combined, over $2 trillion in military aid to Ukraine has come from the US, which supplies over 90% of Ukraine's military aid. Under the current President, due to Russia's buildup and invasion, over $3 trillion in military aid has already gone to Ukraine, with over $6 trillion more headed to fight this potentially genocidal force from Russia.
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  83.  @jordanbolm8517  - Source better information. Under the last three Presidents combined, over $2 trillion [billion] in military aid to Ukraine has come from the US, which supplies over 90% of Ukraine's military aid. Under the current President, due to Russia's buildup and invasion, over $3 trillion [billion] in military aid has already gone to Ukraine, with over $6 trillion [billion] more headed to fight this potentially genocidal force from Russia.
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  84. Janet Yellen has more integrity, humility, and decency in one white hair on her head than Larry Summers has in his entire body.
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  85. "Every man has the right to an opinion but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. Nor, above all, to persist in errors as to facts." - James Rodney Schlesinger, Nixon and Ford admin. Secretary of Defense "You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts."¹ - Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan ___________________________________ ¹paraphrasing the original quote above
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  86.  @wolfman231  - My money is on Trump University, Prager University, or Liberty University.
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  87. We know he is a white nationalist terrorist. The Republican party is consciously stoking terrorism because they have abandoned democratic politics for dictatorial polemics in an effort to retain power despite waning influence. We either identify and name the fascism rising among white, right-wing America. Or, we invite another coup d'etat attempt by white, right-wing Americans.
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  88. Authoritarian white nationalist propaganda served up by wealthy oligarchs like red meat. The Republican party is currently the single greatest terrorist and political threat to America and Americans.
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  89. How many hours before they threaten to crash the International Space Station again?
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  90. "I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country." - George W. Bush That's a conveniently revisionist and broad brush, John.
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  91. The more homicidally negligent megachurch con men die, the more lives will be saved.
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  92. There's no other way to say it, the Democrats are saving Republicans from themselves regarding COVID, climate change, healthcare, human rights, labor rights and criminal justice.
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  93. US hearts and minds manipulated by Russian disinformation are one of the deadliest domestic terrorist threats all Americans face daily, though we rarely recognize the threat for what it is. "Dating back to 2004, David Duke characterized Russia as the “key to white survival,” and American white supremacist Richard Spencer recently identified Russia as the “sole white power in the world.” Both Jared Taylor—founder of the white supremacist outlet American Renaissance—and Matthew Heimbach—a Unite the Right organizer and leader of the now-defunct Traditionalist Workers Party—have met in person with ultranationalist Russian political leaders in 2015 and 2017, respectively." "...racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” posed the most dangerous domestic threat to the United States. “Specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race.”" - Merrick Garland "Right-wing extremists perpetrated two thirds of the attacks and plots in the United States in 2019 and over 90 percent between January 1 and May 8, 2020." "...far-right terrorism has significantly outpaced terrorism from other types of perpetrators, including from far-left networks and individuals inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. Right-wing attacks and plots account for the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994, and the total number of right-wing attacks and plots has grown significantly during the past six years."
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  94. Putin has done what Russia's enemies only dreamed about [due to the risks of a nuclear confrontation]; destroying Putin's image, destroying Russia's image, destroying Russia's economy, and humiliating Russia's military.
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  95. A person becomes a combination of spray and flying ground meat in less than a second. A child becomes a cloud of human tissue, if peppered with these weapons.
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  96. The Republican party is not a conservative political party anymore. It is an authoritarian and extremist insurgency now.
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  97. Treason. I'm no fan of him, but Reagan rightly called out Russia for peddling lies. The Republican party ideologically is an extremist white nationalist party now, and Putin is a hero, even still, to some white nationalists. Putin's GRU effectively uses racism, sexism, classism, and other existing faultlines in our society against us through both parties, but the susceptibility of the Republican party is worse because it is the home of the white majority after the exodus from the Democratic party after the civil rights and voting rights acts.
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  98. He always was.
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  99. I like Presidential candidates who belong to a political party who doesn't surrender...to a white nationalist coup d'etat. — McConnell told top advisers, “The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a b---- for us,” after it became clear that Democrats were going to impeach Trump in the House, adding, “if this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is.” — On a conference call with top Republicans, McCarthy said Trump’s conduct was “atrocious and totally wrong,” blamed him for inciting the crowd and “inquired about the mechanism for invoking the 25th Amendment … before concluding that was not a viable option.” — McCarthy told Republican leaders he “planned to call Mr. Trump and tell him it was time for him to go. ‘What he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it,’ he told the group. Mr. McCarthy said he would tell Mr. Trump of the impeachment resolution: ‘I think this will pass, and it would be my recommendation you should resign.’” — McCarthy also told GOP leaders that he wished Big Tech companies would strip some Republican lawmakers of their social media accounts, ‘We can’t put up with that,’ Mr. McCarthy said, adding, ‘Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away, too?’”
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  100. Guess who wants to deal with the root cause (loneliness and isolation) with better public and mental health policy legislation and guidelines? Democrats. Guess who thinks the solution is theocratic dictatorship forcing Christian teachings in our schools? Republicans.
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  101. David Gergen gave us Reagan and the beginning of the end of a reality based Republican party. He is directly responsible for helping turn the Republican party from conservative to white nationalist. He's got no integrity on this issue and Fareed is a neoliberal falling back on supply side stupidity. Period.
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  102. Taking power by force is fascism. The extremist faction of the Republican party is openly advocating for violence unless they get their way and the mainstream faction of the Republican party is not holding the extremists accountable for their fascist rhetoric, nor their insurrection of January 6th.
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  103. We have reports of forced labor camps being run by the Russians, and Russia has announced their forced evacuations of Ukrainians to Russia. If Israel can't stand more forcefully against Russia, it needs better leaders or some major national introspection.
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  104.  @AkonFenty1992  - Tell FOX's Executive Vice President, Kevin Lord. "In the memo, which was sent out on Tuesday to Fox Corporation employees, Kevin Lord, the company’s executive vice-president, announced that more than 90% of the company’s full-time employees had been vaccinated, CNN first reported on Tuesday night." Source: Nearly all Fox staffers vaccinated for Covid even as hosts cast doubt on vaccine: More than 90% of Fox Corporation staff inoculated, according to memo announcing daily testing for unvaccinated employees The Guardian, September 15, 2021
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  105.  @justathought4675  - It's a reasonable inference, and one shared by many. Additionally, there's no functioning political spectrum anymore. There's a radicalized white nationalist base -- enraged, frightened and deployed by a controlling oligarchichal business class -- running roughshod over the Republican party as the mainstream liberals that form the controlling base of the Democratic party defend the democratic Republic and maintain, and struggle to expand, a comparatively anemic social democracy.
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  106. Frankly, you can keep all your thoughts and prayers unmatched with a voting record for candidates who back better firearm safety laws, like 98% of Democrats and 2% of Republicans.
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  107. The Republican party is corrupt to its core and is likely irredeemable at this point. It no longer stands for conservative values, it stands for itself and itself alone.
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  108. Escrow Russia's profits. Genius!
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  109. I don't care what strategists think or say, I care about what the Republican party leadership is going to do. They literally said, "the Democrats will take care of Trump for us". They are cowards passing the buck on holding their members to the law and ethical standards.
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  110.  @hollyrae1101  - We haven't left NATO, and have never been a member of OPEC, though we have wielded influence via allies, weapons dealing, and diplomatic efforts regarding OPEC. The plain fact is, the US and UK wouldn't likely ever become members, mostly because it was created to counterbalance British and American monopolistic and exploitative practices.
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  111. These are the words of an accomplice after the fact, not a patriot, Buck.
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  112. The fastest economic recovery in history. There is no comparison between the threat inflation poses to the American people and the threat the corruption and treason within the Republican party poses to the American people. We will get through global inflation with the same competent leaders who got us through a global pandemic. We will not survive with a nation at all recognizable to our founders if the Republican party isn't held accountable, including by their own voters, and reformed.
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  113. It's the white nationalism, st%pid.
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  114. If you've seen the endemic coup plotting and stochastic terrorism up close, like Cruz's aide has, and you're still a Republican, then you are a traitor.
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  115. It's just free airing of disinformation when anyone of Putin's cadre is "interviewed".
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  116.  @jessicalucero3271  - More to the point, how many were able to get a gun because of Republicans' fealty to the gun industry[?]
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  117.  @keneilstrachan2439  - 2008 was the beginning of getting their country compliant with the requirements for acceptance, not the point of an application for membership. They never applied, and shelved plans to apply in 2010 after (at the time) Putin-supported Viktor Yanukovuch was elected under allegations of election fraud.
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  118. Your criticism of Trump must've been as keen at the time he dramatically increased civilian casualties, I'm sure. "Trump pledged to stop 'endless wars' but his airstrikes in Afghanistan increased civilian deaths by 330% since 2016"
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  119. Phoenix Ghosts are going to haunt the Russian forces.
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  120. Kingmaker my a**.
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  121. Pre-taped deza is the laziest deza. Deza is shorthand for дезинформация, transliterated as dezinformatsiya, or disinformation.
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  122.  @yehimstone5492  - The fact is...we don't know, and in large part because "Rogan's Recipe" of pre-infection immune system targeted supplements and habits, as well as the post-infection regimen he used involved numerous items and habits, not just Ivermectin. Additionally, he might've just been one of the people who have no symptoms or mild symptoms regardless of his unique intake of things and general health habits. "Even though Rogan apparently did manage to avoid more serious consequences of Covid-19, it’s not clear which of the “therapeutics” that he had taken if any may have made any difference. For example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Covid-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel does recommend the use of certain anti-SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibody regimens under certain circumstances. However, the Panel also has determined that there is insufficient evidence there is “insufficient evidence” for them “to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of Covid-19.” When you do multiple things, it’s hard to tell which can take the credit. Plus, a sizeable percentage of people infected with the Covid-19 coronavirus do end up having milder illness." https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/10/15/joe-rogan-suggested-getting-vaccinated-then-getting-covid-19-for-more-protection/
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  123. Deluded criminals with a sexual predation problem are a Republican staple after Donald Trump.
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  124.  @ButlerJ2  - Again, we'll have to agree to disagree about the nature of this reporting and the motivations behind it. Best of the season to you and yours.
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  125. Rule by fiat and force its fascism. The Republican party is embracing fascism. Vote Democrat or aid fascism. Full stop.
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  126. Coup is a perfectly apt word. Euphemisms aren't necessary.
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  127. @Teratology - "In his $2 trillion infrastructure plan, Biden proposed a sweeping investment in green energy such as wind, solar and other renewable energy projects. In an effort to help fossil fuel workers transition to new jobs, the plan also includes billions of dollars to employ dislocated utility workers in the coal, oil and gas industries." You are undermining your own credibility when you lie or don't know the facts.
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  128. Theocratic-minded white nationalism owns the Republican party. Trump is just attaching his brand name to the long-standing white nationalism. The Democratic party was home to this often terrorist faction until 1964's passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act made them move to the Republican party.
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  129. It's not."Biden's Agenda", it's the country's business he was elected to conduct. Those national priorities voters elected him to make progress on are: 1. Preserve our democracy, threatened by the white nationalist and autocratic-minded Republican party. 2. Fix infrastructure that's crumbling because of Republican service to corporate greed and Republican legislative ineptitude. 3. Address the deadly legacy of white supremacy, the injustice it causes and work to save Black lives from homicidal police policies and conduct. 4. Fight climate catastrophe and reduce greenhouse gases. 5. Take the pandemic seriously and save lives. 6. Address the crushing economic climate and forecast for young Americans facing unparalleled fiscal challenges. 7. Restore the country's standing in the world and repair damage caused by the belligerent and fascistic Republican foreign policy.
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  130. Valid to you, sure. Valid under the Geneva conventions, no.
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  131.  @Rasmajnoon  - So far, we have only claims from partial sources. Russia says it's killed more than 180 foreigners, Ukraine says zero. You are a Putin lackey, so the facts aren't important to you, however.
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  132.  Helen R  - Yes, they sure did. They are part of the National Guard, formally. "A few months after recapturing the strategic port city of Mariupol from the Russian-backed separatists, the unit was officially integrated into the National Guard of Ukraine on November 12, 2014, and exacted high praise from then-President Petro Poroshenko."
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  133.  @karsaorlong3761  - No evidence for that claim outside of Russian's unreliable state sources. Additionally, the missiles Russia used are some of the oldest hypersonic military tech on the planet, from 1985 designs updated with Western chips and Russian AI to be steerable. It's not as impressive as Russia wants it to appear
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  134.  @zebrazagadore4827  - Done. Thank you for correcting my incorrect use of language.
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  135. Arwa Damon's coverage (2:48) is stellar here, imo.
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  136. Therapeutics are to treat people with severe illness due to COVID. Vaccines are to prevent infection, or severe illness and death if infection still occurs. There's no benefit to taking the therapeutics before you're ill, as they don't prevent infection, and won't stay in your system long enough to help if you do contract COVID after taking the therapeutics. The antibodies produced by your immune system when vaccinated will stay in your system for months to years, depending on your immune response and which vaccine you choose.
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  137.  @thomasbailey921  - She said the vaccines are a treatment. They are not, they are a prophylaxis. The confusion she expressed with her comment is clear.
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  138.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  - If Ivermectin prevents serious illness or death¹ it's also prophylaxis, not treatment. Additionally, in Japan it's allowed to be prescribed by doctors, but it is not a government approved treatment, nor a government approved preventative/prophylaxis for COVID-19. The biggest factors in the improvements in outcomes in Japan come from mandatory quarantine for all foreign travelers arriving in Japan, high vaccination rates (more than 77% of the population is fully vaccinated), mask wearing, social distancing and good levels of testing. ___________________________ ¹ as of now the research as a whole doesn't support Ivermectin's efficacy as prophylaxis or treatment for COVID-19.
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  139.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  - Since Ivermectin is over the counter, nothing is stopping you.
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  140.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  - I got your point, though I appreciate your reiterating it. I never claimed vaccines treat COVID-19. Likewise I wouldn't call seatbelts a treatment for injuries caused by a car accident.
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  141.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  - I will wait for better research before second guessing the decision on Ivermectin.
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  142.  @thefarmersdaughter8235  Best of luck to you with it. I wish you protection and health, regardless of the route you choose.
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  143.  @mshinn13  - You not knowing how to use Google isn't my problem.
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  144. They don't care, as long as those they want to suffer suffer more. The cruelty, white nationalism, and bigotry are.features, not bugs.
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  145. The event timeline begins here: "He legally purchased two AR platform rifles from a federally licensed gun store on two days: May 17 — just a day after his birthday — and May 20, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said, according to a briefing that state Sen. John Whitmire, chair of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, received from state authorities late Tuesday. The gunman bought 375 rounds of 5.56-caliber ammunition on May 18."
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  146. If you vote for Republicans who aren't willing to pass rational legislation to save lives -- and 99.99% of those politicians are Republicans -- you don't care that the number one cause of death for U.S. children is now death by firearm.
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  147.  @SolSystemDiplomat  - Sh!tposters are as valuable as the ruble in this market. Good luck.
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  148. Democrats delivering!
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  149. Wrong. The U.S. Soccer women's team pays for the men currently. U.S. Soccer isn't the same as commercial teams..
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  150.  @TheReformReport  - Beclown yourself at will.
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  151.  @almostthere2024  - The For the People Act and the compromise lesser bill, the Freedom to Vote Act. The Democrats have been working for years on paying legislation to address these things you laid out. "The Senate’s recently intro­duced Free­dom to Vote Act (FTVA) incor­por­ates most of the crit­ical provi­sions from the For the People Act (FTPA), land­mark voting rights and anti-corrup­tion legis­la­tion that passed the House of Repres­ent­at­ives in March 2021. It also includes new, much-needed safe­guards against attempts to under­mine the elect­oral process." "Never­the­less, the FTVA is comprom­ise legis­la­tion that reflects import­ant conces­sions respons­ive to crit­ics of the FTPA, includ­ing both Repub­lic­ans and moder­ate Demo­crats, such as Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia (an original spon­sor of the FTVA)." - Key Differences Between the For the People Act and the Freedom to Vote Act - Nov 17, 2021 - The Brennan Center
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  152. You do you. Let the 85% of the voters who want the gun safety laws Justice Scalia made clear were in compliance with his 2008 majority opinion in DC v Heller -- and that he expected Congress to pass long ago -- do us.
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  153. I guess maybe Senator Rubio shouldn't have let Trump off the hook for extorting President Zelensky by withholding $400 million in US military aid. The lack of accountability for Trump's high crimes and the reckless embrace of him, a dangerous anti-NATO Putin lackey, because it gave him and his party power was unforgivable.
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  154. Stop giving unnecessary airtime to white nationalists, please.
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  155. They are called Republicans.
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  156. #Kramatorsk demands justice. Russia must be investigated for Kramatorsk and every other war crime they are suspected of, just as the video of one captured Russian soldier being killed by forces fighting for Ukraine must be investigated.
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  157. Banning naughty language and nudity is a kind of cultural Puritanism whose time has long past, and anyone trying to push that kind of ban in modern society is tilting against wind turbines.
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  158. Atrocious nonsense.
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  159. They aren't. You are talking about the Republican party. Democrats have passed ethics reforms and transparency requirements again and again while Republicans have made corruption and nepotism open features of their party. This, like so many issues, isn't equivalent between the two major parties.
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  160.  @jordanbolm8517  - I do see what you're getting at, and you disagree with the Biden admin and NATO's assessment of what is defensive versus offensive armaments. Nothing wrong with that. But, $800 million in new military assistance, including those "game changer"¹ Switchblades, 800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems, 2,000 more Javelins, plus the 6,000 Swedish AT-4s is a major upscaling of the military support we were sending up until now. _____________________________________ ¹Fmr. CIA Director and Ret. Gen. David Petraeus, March 31, 2022 on The Story with Martha MacCallum.
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  161.  @heidihogshire  - The pleasure is mine. I remember so many in the left thinking GW Bush was the worst, and least legitimate, President the Republicans could ever offer up. If only we'd been right.
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  162. The sadism and stochastic terrorism are features, not bugs, in the Republican party today.
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  163.  @MrFlintlock7  - He was the first US Energy Secretary in history when Carter made it a cabinet level position. Regardless, you aren't interested in debate, only trolling.
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  164.  @donaldthunberg7786  - hehe. The Ukrainians better watch out come 2024 or 2025. "According to the current plan the aircraft carrier will enter a dock for repairs at the 35th plant in April. The repairs will last till September." "Kuznetsov met disaster in 2018 when a seventy-ton crane smashed through the carrier’s hull and caused its PD-50 drydock to sink." "In 2019, large sections of Admiral Kuznetsov caught fire after a cable reportedly exploded during routine welding work." "USC vice president Vladimir Korolev said in summer 2021 that Admiral Kuznetsov will re-enter service by the end of 2023, but this timetable has not been recently reaffirmed by any Russian officials."
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  165. @dan mac - Thanks for clarifying. I'm glad my response tried to shed more light on my point, so this isn't making me blush more than I am now.
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  166. The Republican party knows Trump can't win in 2024, but they want him on the ticket because they are clinging to turnout numbers they may never see again until they reform the criminal party it is today.
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  167. Having been elected in 2002 and being a conservative Democrat representing about 11% of the party means Tim Ryan is in the middle line for promotion to higher committee positions and a larger public role.
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  168. Gabby Giffords wasn't simply shot, she had literal crosshairs put on her by Sarah Palin and Republicans. Republicans have gotten dozens of people killed with their disinformation and stochastic terrorism.
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  169. Haberman is just another Trump profiteer who values access over ethics.
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  170. The Republican party aided and abetted Putin for 13 years because they hated Hillary and Obama so much [that] they betrayed their country. They, as a party, refused to impeach and convict Trump for extorting Zelensky and demanding Zelensky support a Russian disinformation campaign. Kinzinger can't save a party that refuses to admit they have a white nationalist problem, including direct support from Russian white nationalists for Republican white nationalists with Putin's blessing.
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  171.  @mistaando9741  - Care to explain why that's relevant, or why you're asking?
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  172.  @mistaando9741  - Say what you mean instead of expecting other people to understand your strained comparisons.
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  173. Finally!
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  174. The Fourth Estate is broken and can't cover news, only market content now. Still though, Biden is still beating Trump's approval ratings by about 10%.
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  175. Chris Cillizza is just another Trump media parasite. It's pathetic and empowers fascists when they are given constant attention and media airtime and/or column inches. Clicks over conscience is what made the Trump Presidency possible, from The Apprentice to 24/7 rally coverage in 2015-2016.
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  176. And the Republican party, if they keep it up, will be the worst political party America has ever had.
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  177. No policies. No proposals. No solutions. No platform for his entire party in the last election. There is nothing useful about the majority of the Republican party, they are only peddling grievance and resentment.
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  178. Organized fraud in order to cheat or game the system is the GOP's SOP.
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  179. The Republican party is not serving the country, they are serving themselves.
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  180. This is only surprising because we don't pay attention. 71% of Russians asked say they support the war on Ukraine. Mostly because they believe the Russian state dominated media, but also because you don't say publicly you don't back Putin
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  181. No fatalities, some injuries. Passing the infrastructure bill was a major accomplishment by Democrats overcoming Republican intransigence. Only a handful of Republicans in the House and Senate supported it, even though many more are taking credit for something that they had nothing to do with passing.
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  182. They aren't a legitimate political faction, they are a white nationalist insurgency still seeking to overthrow democracy in America.
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  183. The Abrahamic God says life begins with the first breath outside the womb, considers forced miscarriage as a property offense for which the punishment is a fee, tells his followers to destroy the fruit of all women's wombs belonging to tribes who have offended him and throw their infants upon the rocks in the Bible, so there's that.
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  184. If Republicans cared about Supreme Court leaks, they'd be asking Ginni Thomas questions under oath.
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  185. Elon Musk is a blood diamond born and bred fraud and malignant narcissist. He is as dedicated to free speech as Xi is. "Musk's own commitment to free speech, however, has its limits. While Musk has criticized Twitter's leadership, he has repeatedly attempted to squelch speech that could negatively impact his economic interests. Musk's history underscores the risks of giving near-complete control of one of the world's most powerful communication networks to one extremely rich individual." "According to people familiar with the matter, [Tesla] also complained to the government over what it sees as unwarranted attacks on social media, and asked Beijing to use its censorship powers to block some of the posts." "In a recent TED Talk, Musk said free speech means "someone you don’t like [is] allowed to say something you don’t like." But Musk has not acted in a way consistent with that mantra when Tesla's profits were at risk." "
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  186.  @danialhillmann5374  - Elon is no more principled than Jeff and happily uses slave-like labor in China. April 18, 2022 - "Tesla Inc. has restarted production at its Shanghai factory and laid out stringent measures for staff operating in the so-called closed-loop system, according to people familiar with the matter. The electric-vehicle maker will provide each worker with a sleeping bag and mattress, a memo sent to employees and viewed by Bloomberg shows. Given there isn’t any purpose-built dorm, people will be required to sleep on the floor in a designated area and there will be other spaces allocated for showering, entertainment (both yet-to-be completed) and catering, the memo shows."
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  187.  @danialhillmann5374  btw, Jeff .doesn't own the New York Times, get your facts straight.
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  188. The Republican party is an enemy domestic of the United States of America. Full stop.
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  189. Anyone in favor of destroying the Roe v Wade precedent -- and placing all kinds of liberties generations of Americans have enjoyed under threat at the same time -- dishonor[s] Mother's Day. Every one of us should remember each year, as we celebrate what Mother's Day is now, that it was founded as an anti-war day of protest and memorial for the sons and daughters mothers have lost to war.
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  190. Trump didn't attempt a coup d'etat, the Republican party attempted a coup d'etat. Trump requires competent people in order to do anything. He is a highly dependent entity because of the type of leader he is. The complicity of the entire party leadership came when they decided to coverup the plot and treason instead of defend the country.
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  191. It's not. Don't believe the lies.
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  192.  @sheriefwoodard8686  - Actually, they're some of the most effective vaccines ever made.
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  193. Too many of the Christians are becoming white nationalists. "But the big draw is Vance’s orientation around fatherhood and family, the way he links children and the American dream and his clear interest in pronatalist family policy and fertility rates." - CNN
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  194. Proto-Nazi political party hosts Nazi Hungarian leader.
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  195. Driver: "I'm so pro-life, I run over women with my truck."
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  196.  @jockyoung4491  - No excuse. They posed no threat, whereas the truck is a deadly weapon. Heather Heyer was an act of terrorism incited by stochastic terrorism, including by many Republicans in elected office.
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  197. This is the rule-of-law. If you don't hold everyone to the same standard, there is no rule-of-law (objective) because it has been replaced with the rule-of-humans (subjective).
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  198. It's the guns. Period.
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  199. Dereliction of duty is serious and the officers who failed the community should be dealt with. What these officers make abundantly clear, however, is the "good guy with a gun" method is a fraud. Weapons designed to tear human bodies up like paper don't belong on our streets. Period. Justice Scalia said as much in his DC v Heller majority opinion, and Republicans agreed for decades...until they started losing elections left and right and became full-blown white nationalist in their get-out-the-vote strategy. Their embrace of these lies about guns, God, and government has corroded them to the core, and they can no longer govern at all, only obstruct.
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  200. Delusion is a hell of a drug. Get help.
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  201.  @chrisbammer8679  - If toxic false equivalency and "both sides" framing were flesh, that flesh would be Chris Cillizza. His mission statement for The Fix says it all: "My job is to assess not the rightness of each argument but to deal in the real world of campaign politics in which perception often (if not always) trumps reality. I deal in the world as voters believe it is, not as I (or anyone else) thinks it should be."
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  202.  @markpoidvin5382  - Pro-masturbation during company meetings. Noted.
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  203. It wasn't coup-like, it was a coup. Full stop.
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  204.  @shlepmessing8703  - A coup d'etat plot by the Republican Trump administration that included people at the highest levels of all three branches of the U.S. Government that specifically employed seditious conduct and speech by elected Republicans, the President, and the RNC, and violent insurrection directly, and purposefully, resulting from that sedition. " Generally, sedition is conduct or speech that incites individuals to violently rebel against the authority of the government. Insurrection includes the actual acts of violence and rebellion."
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  205.  @jamtommy6446  Shitpost away, while more children are ripped apart like paper, as the "coup-like" party continues to serve domestic terrorists, violent criminals, and wife beaters turned wife killers.
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  206. This Trump rally is really low energy.
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  207. It's a terrorist thing, as January 6th made clear.
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  208. Yes. A coup d'etat attempt is wrong. When do we accept that the Republican party is an irredeemable white nationalist extremist organization, not a political party anymore?
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  209. The thing he says he fears most in order to justify the annexation of countries he sees as illegitimately separate from Russia.
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  210. Republican leaders who are vaccinated and know the threat posed by the pandemic are killing Republican constituents with homicidal lies about the virus, vaccines and the public health actions necessary to prevent needless deaths. Why? Because they want to win elections through by using manufactured fear and anger to get their voters to the polls -- the ones who are still alive, anyway.
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  211. You didn't listen to his video, did you? "Schwarzenegger, 74, told how his own father, Gustav Schwarzenegger, had fought for Nazi Germany at Leningrad, and been left injured and “broken“." "The former California governor said: “He was broken physically and mentally and lived the rest of his life in pain. To the Russian troops listening to this broadcast, I don't want you to be broken like my father.“"
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  212. Since 1994, over 87% of domestic terrorist plots and attacks have been by right-wing or anti-government terrorists. Since 2001, the number of Americans killed by right-wing shooters and domestic terrorism is more than the number of Americans killed by all other forms of mass shooters and domestic terrorism combined. The Republican party is beholden to a Christian nationalist (overwhelmingly white) insurgent minority (20%-25%) because they deliver a disproportionate number of Republican votes. The reason the party allows itself to be beholden to this minority is the authoritarian outcome is welcomed by the majority of the membership. According to Pew polling from September 2022, 3 out of 4 Republicans want the United States of America turned into a Christian nationalist state, despite 2 in 3 knowing that would be wholly unconstitutional.
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  213. The turn to the right by CNN is destroying their network. I don't care what Republicans who happily caused the destruction of the country for decades have to say about the monster they created. Bring on the Democratic patriots who've stood against the destruction from day one, or fu*k off.
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  214. Coup. The media must use the word for what they did.
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  215. This World War "Z" is caused by being infected with the virus of Russian ethno-nationalist disinformation. Russia is invading a neighbor because Putin claims Ukraine's existence is a fraud and their presence in their own country is effectively the theft of Russia's historic lands and an assault on the essence of its very national identity. Hitler claimed the same.
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  216. Elon Musk is a malignant narcissist who doesn't care about freedom, as his conduct in -- and praise of -- China proves. Anyone who thinks Musk cares about the planet, democracy or free speech is not paying close attention at all.
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  217. He could not, except as theater. Anything he did would be illegitimate because even if Biden isn't certified, Trump leaves office by law. If the line of succession was maintained --- something not established firmly in law or in the Constitution regarding January 6th during certification of the electors --- the Speaker of the House becomes President, then President pro-tempore of the Senate (Leahy), then the Cabinet members.
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  218. Russia must be removed from the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Security Council. They are not adherents to the good faith communication, cooperation, and coordination of countries in the interest of lessening war and suffering wherever possible.
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  219. Call your Senators. Ask them to pass #HR8 as a "no-brainer" minimum action. This bill, passed with bipartisan support in the US House of Representatives, simply closes loopholes in the existing firearm purchaser background check system that Republicans and Democrats voted into law together. The NRA (an organization that was designated a foreign asset of Russia in 2016, btw) isn't anything but a gun manufacturer's lobby peddling lies about the 2nd Amendment to sell more product.
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  220. They don't influence Putin. They aren't like traditional oligarchs, they are part of a criminal mob.
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  221. There is one, and only one reason our firearm safety laws are out of step with both the meaning of "well regulated militia" and the majority will. That reason is the Republican party's servitude to the firearm manufacturer's lobby arm, the NRA. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema must decide how far they will go in their betrayal of their oath to the people and the Republic.
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  222. Committing criminal contempt isn't snubbing, it's committing criminal contempt. Using words to elicit an emotional response that will increase views, engagement and profit is advertising, not journalism.
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  223. An extremist white nationalist cult formerly known as the Republican party, openly in league with violent domestic terrorist organizations.
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  224.  @fuqutube  - A well organized militia keeps a community armory. The Scalia decision in DC v. Heller is a very recent interpretation (2008) and even he did not view military style rifles as personal defense weapons.
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  225. I take great satisfaction in knowing fewer people will die because his lies and deception end with him.
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  226.  @TJ-si7ug  - You love Trump and think Putin is a communist, when communist Russia ended in 1991. I'm not interested in your view, thanks. "...found only shreds of the organ that had been hit by a bullet from an AR-15, a semiautomatic rifle that delivers a devastatingly lethal, high-velocity bullet to the victim. Nothing was left to repair—and utterly, devastatingly, nothing could be done to fix the problem. The injury was fatal."
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  227. Ned Price did his job. So did Matt Lee. No story here except pampered access-driven journalists closing ranks like a High School clique when one of them gets butthurt.
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  228. The big difference between Republicans and Democrats concerning extremism is the fact that the leadership of the Republican party is embracing extremism to seize (or retain) power by force, not by being elected by free and fair elections. The terrorists promoting a race war to bring about a white nationalist Christian theocracy, are now part and parcel of the Republican base. There is no equivalent embrace of extremism by Democratic party leadership. In fact, the Democratic party is the only one of the two major parties dedicated to defending the Republic, self-rule and the democratic process that makes both possible.
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  229. Joe Rogan is a hate profiteer. Period.
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  230. "It is damaging to the prestige of the whole of orthodoxy because orthodoxy doesn't support war, violence, [or] terrorism." - Bartholomew I of Constantinople
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  231. At 1:11
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  232. How long will Maggie Haberman be a Trump family apologist as a career? Apparently, for the remainder.
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  233. Unless Cheney and Kinzinger are lauded by the majority of elected Republicans, the Republican party is the most serious national security threat to the United States of America. He [Trump] conducted a coup, with thousands of accomplices in the Republican party. They must be shunned and humiliated with these facts unendingly until they reform, or dissolve.
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  234. There is no major conservative political party in the United States of America anymore. There is only the extremist and authoritarian Republican party doing conservative LARPing.
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  235. Zucker was instrumental in replacing the serially bankrupt real estate trust fund party boy actual Trump public image with the cut throat, entrepreneurial genius dealmaker Trump public image. Thus, Zucker was instrumental in creating the persona that enabled the Republican party to become fully autocratic and white nationalist. Regardless, CNN navel gazing is disingenuous until they own that fact first.
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  236. The disingenuous newfound interest in holding police accountable is a stalling tactic put forth by the gun makers. Period. Go after the problem. The problem is a broken background check system and military style rifles on sale like Skittles.
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  237. Corruption is the only consistently shared Republican family value, apparently.
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  238. The Republican party isn't a fan of transparency and will employ totalitarian tactics to prevent the exposure of their plotting to infringe upon constitutionally protected liberties and rights. Mamas, don't let your children grow to be Republicans.
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  239. Republicans, not Congress.
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  240. Ethno-nationalism is not patriotism, whether in Russia or the US. Russian patriots oppose Putin and his cabal because he is not serving Russia or improving Russia.
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  241. Also Bob Woodard: "Rising addict Sun likely to come up again tomorrow morning."
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  242. Half of Republicans say we should cut funding for, or withdraw from, NATO. This is embarrassing as a US citizen. "Half of Republicans Say the U.S. Should Decrease its Commitment to NATO or Withdraw from the Alliance Completely.*" *"Gallup's Feb. 1-17 World Affairs poll, conducted before the Russian government began its invasion of Ukraine."
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  243. New footage of the violent insurrection from the #Jan6 Hearings: https://youtu.be/AAYUj3iwqLY?t=2h20m4s
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  244. And what happens in countries that have common sense gun laws -- some of which also have high levels of gun ownership -- when a child is immensely lonely and feels isolated? They find it much, much harder to kill dozens of their classmates and teachers, even when they try.
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  245. 0:12 - It wasn't a riot, it was a violent insurrection that was part of an organized coup attempt planned over months by the leadership of the Republican Trump administration. The Republicans party has yet to hold anyone accountable for the attempt to overthrow our government, which makes the entire party accomplices after the fact in the coup attempt.
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  246. Stubborn¹ things are at it again, making a proud man yield after bravely cowering from a consistent and patriotic public rebuke of this treasonous disinformation campaign and unethically riding roughshod over the Senate's principles and rules for decades because it was a "smart political thing to do". _________________________ ¹EDITED: was "Pernicious"
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  247. "Facts are stubborn things, but as someone has wisely said, not half so stubborn as fallacies." - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian novelist
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  248. I'm very interested in UFOs; Un-Indicted Fascist Operatives that took part in the ongoing coup d'etat attempt that began in earnest on January 6th, 2021. This clickbait stuff is just more chum in the waters.
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  249. The Republican homicidal focus in maintaining a tyranny of the minority through unending violations of the spirit of our Constitution, and too often the letter.
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  250. Anyone in government who believes that they are above criticism or accountability needs to be corrected. If they persist, it is worth debating whether they represent a threat to democracy and the rule-of-law.
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  251. Ethno-nationalism, like that embraced by the Republican party, always leads to autocracy, economic decline, and the widespread loss of liberties and rights. Cheating isn't winning, and Republicans haven't won in a long time.
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  252. The Republicans asked us to clean up their mess. So we will, again. "The Democrats are going to take care of that sonofab**ch for us." - Mitch McConnell on the phone with top advisers after January 6, 2021 " On a conference call with top Republicans, McCarthy said Trump’s conduct was “atrocious and totally wrong,” blamed him for inciting the crowd and “inquired about the mechanism for invoking the 25th Amendment … before concluding that was not a viable option.” McCarthy also told GOP leaders that he wished Big Tech companies would strip some Republican lawmakers of their social media accounts, ‘We can’t put up with that,’ Mr. McCarthy said, adding, ‘Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away, too?’”
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  253. Sh*thouse crimes and sh*t smeared on the walls of our Capitol by his incited terrorist mob. There has never been a more disgusting, infamous or treasonous President. The Republican party, and Maggie Haberman, aided and abetted this criminal all along the way, and after-the-fact to this day.
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  254. Cawthorn is the Republican id made flesh.
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  255. Ignore right-wing trolls sowing disaffection ahead of the midterms to depress voter turnout. #VOTE2022 so the rule-of-law we are witnessing with a professional, ethical DOJ isn't blocked by a corrupt Republican majority in Congress as they eliminate democracy in exchange for a Trump dictatorship.
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  256.  @justathought4675  - It's my opinion, based upon the fact that more than 90% of FOX employees are vaccinated, that he dodges the question every time he's asked directly, and that he is a self-serving and duplicitous individual.
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  257.  @3rdreichball525  - You should've led with, "you get your news from communists".
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  258.  @rokko_fable  - You are unfamiliar with how vaccinating the population works. And no, vaccination status is not private information, as established many times by the Supreme Court.
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  259.  @rokko_fable  - At least you've picked the most popular conspiracy theory rationale. Independent science, not government or pharma advice, guides my decisions on vaccination. Look at Corbevax, the non-profit vaccine from Texas Children's Hospital, for an example of a vaccine produced without any ulterior motives. Remaining unvaccinated and being a willing vessel for a deadly virus isn't my idea of personal responsibility.
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  260. Coup d'etat attempt that employed a violent insurrection incited by years of seditious behavior and speech from elected Republicans at the highest levels of all three branches of the U.S. Government. The Republican party must be razed and re-raised, or it must be destroyed altogether. It is white nationalist and has nothing whatever to do with conservatism, only extremism.
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  261. It was a coup d'etat conducted with the support of the elected Republican leadership, who are now also all accomplices after the fact, even if they weren't accomplices in on January 6th, 2021. The Republican party trying to bury the evidence and hide the truth from the US public while using the central lies at the heart of the coup in order to kick legal voters off the rolls, and give away the public's control of our state level democratic processes to autocratic Republican partisans. The elected Republican leadership and their assault on our democracy constitutes the second greatest threat to the Republic since [its] inception. Full stop.
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  262. The Republican party leadership has steadfastly refused to do anything. Worse than that, they are blocking all action with a Senate filibuster; too cowardly to even debate the solutions passed by bipartisan majority of the US House. Vote for Democrats or you might as well keep your statements of sympathy to yourself.
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  263. January 6th hearings and intractable subservience to the gun makers finally being realized by more of their voters 12 weeks from the midterms is what [got] Republican votes. The idea that the lack of action was a bipartisan problem is pure BS. The Republicans alone have blocked action for four decades. The GOP even failed to act on military style rifles even after Chief Justice Scalia said they would take action in 2010, when he wrote the opinion in DC v Heller.that opened the floodgates on gun deaths and mass shootings.
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  264. We don't like to talk about it much, but post-Soviet Russia has sometimes been an indicator of what the US will confront about 10 years later. The mainstream political rise of ethno-nationalists in Russia has been mirrored in the US, again with that approx. 10 year lag. Some key similarities aiding the rise of ethno-nationalism in both countries: 1) Massive Income Inequality The US and Russia have vast income disparities. In the US, CEOs were making 351x what an average worker made in 2020. And it's not changed much in two years. 2) Money Dominates Politics Money corrupts politics in Russia and the US. Due to Republican obstruction, the 12 years under the Citizens United ruling with no campaign finance reform means the wealthy can dominate politics. 3) Elections Aren't Representative In Russia, rigged elections mean votes aren't representative of the public will. In the US, gerrymandering, racist hurdles and obstacles, racist voter roll purges, closing polling locations, and the discriminatory allocation of equipment, staff and materials result in elections they are not representative of the public will. 4) "Patriotic" Nationalism The Cold War created a lot of hubris, arrogance and machismo politics, all of it wrapped in a thick blanket of nationalism, for the US and Russia in particular. We are so marinated in nationalism that we rationalized our own illegal invasion and high civilian-toll bombing campaign under what amounted to a marketing slogan, "Shock and Awe". 5) Sexual Violence The United States is ranked 11th in the world for sexual violence. Russia, in 2017, decriminalized domestic violence, leading to a massive increase in cases, including a large increase in rapes. 6) Declining Social Status and Living Standards Russia's collapse was dramatic, and a great shock to Russians. Though the US hasn't collapsed, millions are seeing declining social status and a lower standard of living. Many millions more whites suffer from a perception of declining social status because their long-held privilege is being challenged and in some cases corrected.
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  265. Fine. Await your dismissal. Trump was the most corrupt President in history, you were awarded the appointment as a political favor, and Biden is fully within his right. The goal of de-politicization is why you should resign.
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  266. Not censuring Marjorie Taylor Greene gets you her attending an event last night where Hitler and Putin are praised.
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  267. "Now they're going on about Russia and 'Vladimir Putin is Hitler'. They say that's not a good thing," said Mr Fuentes in his remarks. "I shouldn't have said that. I shouldn't have said that,” he said, while some audience members cheered him on.
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  268. Russia is acting as if their brutality in Mariupol is about to be ramped up. The Kremlin's trolls are working overtime to paint the defenders as abandoned by Zelensky when they know full well they were cut off from their supply lines. That this is Russia's big victory and even it is not complete after two months is shocking.
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  269. Quit trying to make Gaetz 2024 happen. It's never going to happen. 3:05 - Gaetz peddles Putin propaganda on hypersonics like the Trump wannabe he is.
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  270. Pompeo is a traitor who endorsed [the coup attempt] and plotted to [k]eep Donald Trump in office illegally after Joe Biden won the election. Mike Pompeo is an a**hat, but he's not stupid. He knew Joe Biden had won and was actively attempting to overthrow our government. The turn against democracy and toward autocracy by the GOP is an ongoing domestic terrorist threat. Why? In no small part because coup d'etats are not a punishable crime among enough Republicans. Why is that? In no small part because the Republican leadership lie to their voters and told them there were legitimate questions unanswered about the 2020 election when they know there aren't. They passed the buck on patriotism; Mitch McConnell literally said, "The Democrats are going to take care of the sone-of-a-b** for us.", about Trump after the January 6th coup attempt.
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  271.  @markcollins2666  - Governments, sometimes rightly sometimes wrongly, seize assets all the time from both suspects and convicted criminals.
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  272. 80 years later, and being a Russian soldier hasn't gotten better for them, or their victims. Now, as then, desertion or unauthorized retreat isn't punished as a crime, violators are summarily executed. Millions of Russian POWS were simply abandoned by Moscow after WWII. If I were a Russian soldier, I'd be considering defection and surrender every hour of every day until I was free or dead.
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  273. 1:17 - The way out it is to end the war and go home, Colonel.
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  274. The legal system doesn't get to table the rule-of-law because of foreign policy concerns without intervention from one of the other branches, the legislature or the executive. Firtash helped Trump try to steal the election. He is no hero.
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  275. "In their effort to discredit President Donald Trump’s perceived enemies, close allies of the President have received key documents and information from a Ukrainian oligarch wanted in the U.S. on corruption charges, according to five people directly involved in this effort and two other people familiar with it."
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  276.  @springbloom5940  - "Obama Says U.S. Will Boost Military Presence in Europe, Warns Russia" "The White House said Obama will call on Congress to support a "European Reassurance Initiative" of up to $1 billion to increase U.S. military rotations on the continent." - NBC News - June 3, 2014 "Trump, who was impeached for withholding nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine, said 'this deadly Ukraine situation would never have happened' if he were in office" - Business Insider - Feb 24, 2022 "Biden seeks $10 billion for aid to Ukraine, $22.5 billion for COVID expenses" - Associated Press - March 3rd, 2022 "How U.S. Military Aid Has Helped Ukraine Since 2014" "U.S. assistance makes up 90% of Ukraine's foreign military aid, according to the Independent Defence Anti-Corruption Committee, a nongovernmental watchdog group in Kyiv" - NPR - December 18, 2019
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  277.  @springbloom5940  - CITATIONS FUCKING SUPPLIED
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  278.  @springbloom5940  - CITATION NEEDED 😂 No lies. Just cold hard facts you don't want to hear, apparently.
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  279.  @springbloom5940  - I've given you valid citations and the record is clear to all who care to consult it. Would you like to lay out your evidence that proves I'm lying? I'll wait.
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  280.  @springbloom5940  - Again, CITATIONS FUCKING SUPPLIED: "Today I met with fellow leaders from our NATO Allies to discuss our shared commitment to collective defense and Transatlantic security. As President Putin threatens the very foundations of international peace and security, NATO is once again demonstrating that it stands for freedom and democracy." "As I said yesterday, the United States will defend every inch of NATO territory. Our commitment to Article 5 is ironclad. I have ordered the deployment of additional forces to augment our capabilities in Europe to support our NATO Allies. And I strongly welcome the decision to activate NATO’s defensive plans and elements of the NATO Response Force to strengthen our collective posture, as well as the commitments by our Allies to deploy additional land and air forces to the eastern flank and maritime forces from the High North to the Mediterranean." "We were joined today by our close partners Sweden, Finland, and the European Union. President Putin has failed in his goal of dividing the West. NATO is as united and resolute as it’s ever been, and NATO will maintain its Open Door to those European states who share our values and who one day may seek to join our Alliance. As we navigate this crisis, we pledged to work even more closely together in our defense of freedom and the democratic values that imbue our Alliance with purpose and power." - White House Press Office, February 25, 2022 "Obama Says U.S. Will Boost Military Presence in Europe, Warns Russia" "The White House said Obama will call on Congress to support a "European Reassurance Initiative" of up to $1 billion to increase U.S. military rotations on the continent." - NBC News - June 3, 2014 "Trump, who was impeached for withholding nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine, said 'this deadly Ukraine situation would never have happened' if he were in office" - Business Insider - Feb 24, 2022 "Biden seeks $10 billion for aid to Ukraine, $22.5 billion for COVID expenses" - Associated Press - March 3rd, 2022 "How U.S. Military Aid Has Helped Ukraine Since 2014" "U.S. assistance makes up 90% of Ukraine's foreign military aid, according to the Independent Defence Anti-Corruption Committee, a nongovernmental watchdog group in Kyiv" - NPR - December 18, 2019
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  281. Voluntary gun buybacks save lives and don't impact the 2nd Amendment in any way whatsoever. Why do Republicans oppose them?
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  282. You are a disinformed deployable follower of the autocratic-curious right-wing. Dismissed.
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  283. Voting in an end to democracy is the Republican party's current political "solution" to their inability to compete in "the free market of ideas" against Democrats.
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  284. The coup attempt is ongoing. #VOTE Don't buy into the "failure" of Biden manufactured out of the cuts from a thousand lies. 1) Fastest economic recovery on record 2) Millions of lives saved at home and abroad by the "whole of government" response to the global COVID pandemic 3) Record $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill 4) Millions saved from bankruptcy, homelessness, and even death by the American Rescue Plan 5) Record low employment, the lowest since 1970 6) Appointment of more federal judges to the bench than Reagan -- in 2021, Biden appointed more than double the number appointed by Reagan in 1981. 7) Halted all federal executions 8) Removed the ban on trans service members 9) Restored the U.S. commitment to global action on climate change, including rejoining the Paris Accords and vastly broadening the effort 10) Boosted wages by 2.4% with pro-labor policies and anti-monopoly executive actions 11) Record job creation -- more than 8.3 million jobs created 12) More than $25 billion in student loan debt forgiven, with more coming 13) $350 billion in reduced deficit spending 14) Restored and supercharged NATO 15) Cut child poverty in half. 16) The most diverse cabinet and government in U.S. history, including the first woman Treasury Secretary, first Native American Secretary of the Interior., first woman Director of National Intelligence, first openly gay Cabinet member, first Black woman on the Supreme Court, etc. 17) Rebuilt, and restored oversight of, the entire U.S. Immigration system the Republicans intentionally broke and made more xenophobic and corrupt. 18) Has never threatened to nuke Mexico or a hurricane ...ALL OF THAT and still running a smaller deficit than Trump, with a course charted to surplus again -- like Clinton and Obama did before.
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  285. The political media's attempt to push Chris Christie as a viable 2024 candidate is emblematic of the myopia problem with the beltway "illiterati".
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  286. The Republican party is an extremist white nationalist party and is using terrorism as a political tool. The clearest sign of all that the Republican party is becoming a fascist organization is the fact that they are inciting people to threaten and attack healthcare workers, election workers, peaceful protesters and law enforcement. Democracy and the rule of law are secondary, at best, to the acquiring and/or retention of power for the majority of the Republican leadership, and much of their membership. This Republican embrace of fascism is no longer speculative, it is an indisputable fact after January 6th, 2021.
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  287. Only Republicans are stopping solutions. Ask your Senators why they will or won't vote for #HR8, a bill that merely fixes the loopholes in the background check system Republicans and Democrats made the law together. Why do Republicans refuse to deliver fixes to the holes in the background checks they made law, and constantly say they support?
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  288. Russian Generals covering their butts, or just the truth leaking out as fear of Putin continues to slowly erode?
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  289.  @hollyrae1101  - Despite his damaging rhetoric, funding and troops for NATO increased during Trump's administration, mostly from Obama era funding commitments he kept, but also from other increased spending. _________________________ "...despite Trump's frequent criticism of NATO's cost-sharing formula — a sizeable increase in U.S. outlays for military operations in Europe since he took office." "Most of that jump in spending was on the European Deterrence Initiative, an effort to strengthen U.S. military forces in Europe begun by the Obama administration in response to Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and continued backing of pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine." "During the first three years of that effort, originally known as the European Reassurance Initiative, [Obama's administration] dedicated about $5.2 billion to building up the American military presence in Europe." "The Trump administration has more than tripled what its predecessor spent..." - NPR: Under Trump, NATO Nations Get More U.S. Troops And Military Spending, December 3, 2019
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  290. It's also the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) because members must be net exporters of petroleum. The US didn't qualify to apply for membership based on this alone until four decades after fracking's use began -- the biggest hurdle though is that membership must be approved by 3/4ths of existing members.
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  291.  @luminousfractal420  - Additionally, before the invasion of Georgia, in 2008, GW Bush told both Georgia and Ukraine he welcomed and supported their desire to join NATO, despite the (highly irregular and invalidly unilateral) assurances that daddy HW Bush's Secretary of State had made to the Gorbachev in 1990 that NATO wouldn't expand one inch to the east. NATO's open door policy is fundamental to the alliance, and can't be overturned by one member country, let alone one President, but HW Bush was giddy with "last remaining superpower" imperial arrogance.
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  292. The Republican party cheered the pardoning of a serial pedophile, Judge Roy Moore. The Republican party engaged in a party-wide propaganda campaign to smear, intimidate, and/or silence the rape victims of both Donald Trump and Brett Kavanaugh. The Republican party knew about the serial sexual assault and violent threats and incidents with Cawthorn when they funded his campaign and welcomed him into their circle gleefully. Sexual predators are at home in the Republican party because the Republican party made it a home for them.
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  293. Roll down like waters.
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  294. The Republican party is still being led by this treasonous coup plotter, and his terrorist accomplices still control the Republican party's political fate, as a loud, violent 30% leading an acquiesced 70%.
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  295. The Vice President was right to take the debate over Democratic policy goals and Senator Manchin's obstruction directly to the voters of West Virginia.
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  296. The Urkel gambit. Love it
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  297. Putin weakens himself more each day the war rages on. Any Russian military member who surrenders is more patriotic to Russia than Putin has ever been.
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  298. They all know he incited the violent insurrection, many additionally know it was as a part of a larger coup plot.
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  299. If it's not his wife being charged with crimes, I don't care what a Republican who is partly responsible for funding the installation of partisan hacks on the Supreme Court by being a happy dues-paying member of the Federalist Society for decades has to say.
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  300. Ken Jeong said it perfectly: "We have to play common sense, be kind to each other and don't be an a**hole [get vaccinated, get your booster, have precautions like wearing a mask, keeping a safe amount of distance, etc.]." https://youtu.be/MDJK2o8kUcE?t=2m55s
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  301. Voluntary buybacks save lives. Why do Republicans oppose them?
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  302. Kyle Rittenhouse is a white nationalist, stop being a useful idiot and Van Jones is discredited.
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  303. @V03 - Threadbare talking points straight out of the NRA isn't a rational rebuttal to the fact that strengthening gun laws and closing loopholes -- as is supported by the majority of the public and has been passed into bills by Democrats over a dozen times as Republicans refuse to even debate them -- is wholly consistent with, even arguably a requisite of, Scalia's ruling. "Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion for the majority provided Second Amendment protection for commonly used and popular handguns but not for atypical arms or arms used for unlawful purposes, such as short-barreled shotguns."
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  304.  @Wedge-Antilles  - Those who rationalize needless death with pablum are a sorry lot.
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  305.  @jessicalucero3271  - No need to make it easier when the proposals on the table are supported by the majority and merely strengthen ing existing laws and expand others to close loopholes. None of which challenges the Constitution's 2nd Amendment protections, including those derived from the DC v Heller ruling.
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  306. @V03 - Apparently you don't know stats. It's been known for a while now that the Republican party is out of step with the pubic on gun laws, including their constituents. Justice Scalia is even opposed to current Republican doctrine: "“We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms. ‘Miller’ said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those ‘in common use at the time.’ 307 U.S., at 179, 59 S.Ct. 816. We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of ‘dangerous and unusual weapons.’" "2 in 3 support stricter gun control laws" "70 percent of Republicans, said they are for banning assault-style weaponsEight-in-10 likewise said they favor a federal database to track all gun sales." "Most polls show that as high as eight-in-10 Americans have told the pollsters they favor bans on assault weapons, high-capacity ammunition magazines and “bump stocks,”
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  307. To paraphrase, this selling of absurdities has already lead to atrocities, most glaringly on January 6th, and it is leading to more. The coup and related violent insurrection is part of a white nationalist threat that is ongoing and metastatic.
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  308. Huzzah! Indisputably true!
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  309.  @Ass_of_Amalek  - Your point is well made. Basically, I'm suggesting planning.
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  310.  @UltraCasualPenguin  - No, I don't. Are you deranged?
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  311. Babies shredded by assault weapons until only DNA testing can officially identity them (clothes aren't enough and their faces don't exist anymore). Even Justice Scalia himself thought these weapons would be regulated by Congress with new legislation in 2009 or so, as he spoke contemporaneously about his majority opinion in DC v Heller; the Republican majority Supreme Court ruling that brought us more U.S. mass shootings than days in the year.
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  312. If you haven't read much about how the cult of Trump and Q-Anon destroy families, this story is chillingly similar. Heartbreaking.
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  313. Democracy is a continuing practice, not an inherited birthright. We must maintain the practice of democracy and never assume it's secured from societal fascism, dictators, militias, autocrats, theocrats, oligarchs and their deployable followers.
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  314. Their bunker busters aren't as precise, nor as defensible, given current scrutiny on even tactical nukes, is my guess.
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  315. Not that the use of either is truly defensible, just cynically defensible given the disparity [with]¹ which each technology is publicly understood or acceptable. ___________________________ EDIT: ¹ was "work" (autocorrect typo)
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  316. If you aren't voting for Democrats, you are ensuring more mass shootings.
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  317. I wonder how many Russian hackers will leave now. It is more than zero, for sure.
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  318. The Republican and Tory connections to Russian oligarchs and foreign assets of Russia are disqualifying as far as the majorities in their countries are concerned. Yet they remain able to run candidates because bigotry is still a stronger political force than patriotism on the right.
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  319. Congressional term limits worsen corruption and increase lobbyists' power. They are also unconstitutional and so would require a Constitutional Convention or 2/3rds vote by the House and Senate to propose that change, plus ratification by 3/4ths of the States for it to be added to the Bill of Rights. Every age group of white voters supported Trump over Clinton in 2016 and Trump over Biden in 2020. Worse, they supported Trump more in 2020 than in 2016.
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  320. The RNC is now pro-dictator. Full stop. “At this dangerously divided moment in our history, all leaders—regardless of party—must not pour fuel on the fire with more toxic partisanship. We must reaffirm what has made this nation great: the rule of law,” - Larry Hogan
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  321. As with Bernie Sanders, the problem for me as a voter isn't the fact of the health condition, it's the fact of the lack of disclosure. It's an unforced error for both campaigns and will have a negative impact of some measure, though nobody really knows how much of an impact -- much as we don't know how much or little Bernie's cagey-ness about his pre-existing health conditions hurt him in 2020.
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  322.  @MrDragonkilla  - Your notions about what helped or hurt isn't founded in anything other than speculation. That's fine, as far as it goes. Regardless, I'm speaking my piece about what my own view on these two unforced errors is. I made it clear I'm not purporting to know if it mattered to their campaigns for anyone else.
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  323. Petty. Vindictive. Vain. Litigious. Greedy. And those are the good things about Trump.
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  324. It's not a MTG problem, or a DJT problem, it's that the Republicans are the problem. Republicans are dictated to by their extremist white nationalist faction. Many elected Republicans, across all levels of government from local to federal office, are openly praising the domestic terrorists who played a key part in the Jan. 6 Republican coup d'etat plot as the embedded "special forces" leading a violent insurrection in our Capitol building. MTG will come and go. The white nationalism problem will stay.
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  325. We'll take care of that hiccup in time.
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  326. The Republican party chooses to be led by Trump. They are not being held hostage, they are willing followers.
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  327. The U.S. military's long history and practice regarding the killing of civilians is a legacy and practice bringing national shame upon all Americans, and often constitutes war crimes. All Americans should condemn it and demand better. But...any "Brandon" fans can sit down and take a number without a citation of when they criticized Trump for being far worse on civilian deaths because he loosened rules of engagement that Biden restored and strengthened. "After Trump Loosened the Rules of Engagement, Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan Rose by 95 Percent"
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  328. Bill Maher has serious problems with misogyny and islamophobia, and his sensitivity to the changing cultural landscape is revealing.
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  329. Who cares what they say in response. This is not news, it's chaff cast into the world of social media for clicks and profit.
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  330. The Republican party has abandoned their country in order to save their ideologically bankrupt party.
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  331. The Republican party is engaged in an ongoing insurgency against the United States of America. These lies are anathema to our representative democracy.
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  332. Dana Bash knows full well he isn't the authority to refer an indictment for criminal charges against the former President. It throws Constitutional issues into the mix which are unnecessary and pointless. The Democratic party led two bipartisan efforts that resulted in Trump being impeached twice in the House and they then sent the indictments against him to the Senate, where Republicans ignored the threat of a coup d'etat attempt that was literally illustrated to them in the closing arguments of his first Senate trial, and then lost their spine to hold him accountable, with Mitch McConnell telling top Republican advisors, "The Democrats are going to take care of the son of a b---- for us...if this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is.” But, they continued to lie to their voters about the process, their view of Trump, and refused to hold him accountable for his crimes, this time including sedition and a coup, leaving their oaths unfulfilled yet again.
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  333. Russian white nationalist terrorist groups fund, and train white nationalist groups from Europe and America with Putin's tacit consent. Ethno-nationalism, like Azov's, is fueled and funded by Putin's regime and Russian oligarchs allied with him. It is a strategy to use these beliefs to incite terrorism and destabilize liberal democracies he has made into his enemies through this and other attacks on their sovereignty. Ethno-nationalist terrorists are a tool Putin uses. He only opposes Azov because that group is killing Russian forces. "uses the internet to recruit new members and then radicalizes them to use violence to pursue its white identity political agenda"...so, like the current Republican party or Putin's Russia?
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  334. Treasonous terrorist leader of a treasonous terrorist party. Nationalism is the opposite is patriotism.
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  335. April 13th, 2022 - Mark Meadows kicked off the voter rolls in North Carolina for committing voter fraud.
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  336. You are equating a private business owner choosing to not serve a white nationalist with an armed mob, organized by the leaders of the Republican party, attempting to overthrow our government. One of the greatest indicators of potential radicalization is the loss of status or privilege, perceived or real. Both white Democrats and white Republicans are more susceptible to radicalization because of this fact. That said, the equivalency suggested between civil rights protests by the left, and armed insurrection by the right is discrediting.
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  337. The Republican party is extremist. The fact that they won't even allow anyone except conservative Democrats to have a debate in Congress AT ALL on their legislative proposals -- which are as minimal as where the NRA was 30 years ago -- means there is NOTHING CONSERVATIVE about this Republican party. Sen. Ryan is a conservative. The majority of the Republican party is extremist, gun crazed, and theocratic-curious -- still unwilling to acknowledge that Joseph R. Biden Jr. Is the current President of the United States of America, and openly hostile to the application of the law to them and their coup attempt of January 6th, 2021.
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  338. Bolton wants to invade Iran. Bolton isn't a voice of reason or insight -- he's an Islamaphobic partisan.
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  339. Not turned off here.
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  340. The 2024 election is going to be a helluva ride. #caveatemptor
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  341. It's not the age of our elected representatives, it's the "white" of the radical Republican party and their white enablers across all political and apolitical spectrums. Every age group of white voters supported Trump over Clinton in 2016 and Trump over Biden in 2020. Worse, they supported Trump more in 2020 than in 2016.
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  342. That took longer than i thought. I know the Kremlin Kaucus would be doing their useful idiot act again, but I thought they'd be able to pipe up again sooner. War crimes make even useful idiots think twice (self- servingly, of course) sometimes.
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  343. Unless you cater to white nationalists who tried to overthrow our government and kiss Trump's ring, you can't get elected as a Republican. Let me repeat that. Republicans must express their antagonism to democracy and our Republic, or they cannot get enough votes to win. It's not a political party, it's an insurrection club.
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  344. Extortion from a domestic stochastic terrorist.
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  345. Putin is a mob boss. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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  346. The rule of law is not an impediment to the Republican party, as the criminally unethical nominations of Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Coney-Barrett, Kyle Rittenhouse's reception by the party, Trump's entire presidency and January 6th prove unequivocally.
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  347. The Covid-19 vaccine provides much better protection than the immunity you can get by getting Covid-19 -- if you don't die from getting Covid-19, of course. The (non-peer reviewed) Israeli study has been contradicted by numerous subsequent studies. In my view, getting vaccinated for Covid-19 is a moral imperative to help protect those who cannot get vaccinated because of health or genuine religious reasons.
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  348. If only hypocrisy mattered to the Republican party's voters. It is a extremist and autocratic party with nothing to do with conservatism anymore.
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  349. I think you missed the part about how it's not profitable for providers to supply coal fueled power to most of these areas. This is a win-win and oil and coal profits are mostly unaffected.
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  350. Thom Hartmann and Lamar Waldron¹ recently discussed the scheduled release of these documents, and speculated Biden would push out the release date again, as other President's had done. According to Waldron, it was a plot to kill Castro and pin the blame on a "lone-wolf" Russian asset that was put together by the CIA with the Mafia supplying the assets and shooters on the ground in Cuba, that was turned on President Kennedy by either just the Mafia, or the Mafia and the CIA together. At that point, he goes on, Robert F. Kennedy got involved in the cover-up because he (and many others in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations) believed if the US plot to assassinate Castro was known by the Soviets, nuclear war would erupt, annihilating humanity. _________________________________ ¹Lamar Waldron has written extensively on the assassination of JFK, the Warren Commission, the withholding of the Commission's report, etc .
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  351. Senator Graham is an accomplice after the fact to the coup d'etat attempt of January 6th, 2021. Full stop.
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  352. The Republican Coup Plotters "Democracy to Dictatorship" in 38 PowerPoint Slides Presentation https://youtu.be/hmKqdu3NC9U?t=9m1s
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  353. Ukraine and the world, not Putin and the ethno-nationalists.
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  354. Fossil fuel companies are driving everyone off a climate cliff for record profits. Not to stay solvent, or to deal with the market shocks, but simply to get richer faster than ever before by exploiting those very shocks, exploit the planet, and exploit all the people on the planet so they can pass down inherited billions and and uninhabitable earth.
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  355. It is cult like, it's not almost cult like. A dangerous white nationalist theocratic cult.
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  356. The Republican party is the obstacle. Period. If you are tired of children terrified of their own school, stop voting for Republicans. Otherwise you do not actually care about gun violence.
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  357. Israel is escalating their genocide of Palestine, instead of standing against the genocide in Ukraine, including these mass abductions and the allegations of forced labor camps run by Russia using captured Ukrainians.
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  358. Criminal traitor criticizes lesser criminal traitor.
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  359. I'm intentionally setting to the side the impact and expression, both socially and politically, of these audiences. I did so to make the PR point as its own comment here. Disinformation kills, whether from Joe Rogan or Bill Maher.
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  360. We must all familiarize ourselves with sacrifice for the war against the bully in the Kremlin.
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  361. If these images aren't solicited by the families looking for their missing loved ones, it's not going to improve the position of Ukraine militarily, politically, or morally.
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  362. There are dozens of regular people, white nationalist militia members, and domestic terrorists who were involved directly with the coup plotters in the top leadership of the Republican party. Anyone who is lapping up Musk's honey about "the kind party" is a likely deployable follower who can be radicalized into a fascist and given orders to commit crimes against humanity.
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  363. Anyone who votes for Republicans is voting for more mass shootings. Period.
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  364.  @albertgreen8347  - Please learn to do you own research. George W. Bush and Republicans touted their votes for and his signature on the 1990 Gun-Free School Zones Act as a better solution than firearm safety laws. Now they are pushing "Fire Exit-Free School Zones" instead of firearm safety laws and loophole fixes for the background check system. "Yearly changes in the rates of mass shootings showed that, on average, restrictive states had lower rates of mass shootings than most permissive states, for most years." "And from 2010 onwards, the gap between permissive and restrictive states started to widen, with rates falling in restrictive states and rising in permissive states." "Levels of gun ownership were also significantly associated with mass shooting rates." "After taking account of key factors, a 10 unit increase in state gun law permissiveness, as defined by the scale, was associated with an 11.5% higher rate of mass shootings." "These findings held true, even when different factors were accounted for and whether or not the mass shootings were perpetrated by someone in a close relationship with the victims." "And a 10% increase in gun ownership was associated with a more than 35% higher rate of mass shootings." "“On the absolute scale, this means that a state like California, which has approximately two mass shootings per year, will have an extra mass shooting for every 10 unit increase in permissiveness over five years,” explain the researchers." “It will also have three to five more mass shootings per five years for every 10 unit increase in gun ownership,” "...year after year, states with strong gun laws, including New York, have the lowest gun deaths in the nation, whereas states with weak laws have the highest."
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  365.  @albertgreen8347  - More guns, more shootings -- including more mass shootings. "After taking account of key factors, a 10 unit increase in state gun law permissiveness, as defined by the scale, was associated with an 11.5% higher rate of mass shootings."
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  366.  @albertgreen8347  - Your gun fetish has nothing to do with the actual text of the Second Amendment and the country is moving past you and your murderous distortions of fact. If I'm lying, prove it. So far you have no citations and no supporting arguments, just opinion and conjecture.
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  367.  @albertgreen8347  - The Republican party hasn't disowned him, so are you disowning the Republican party then?
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  368.  @albertgreen8347  - The nation you want isn't the one you are a citizen of. Good luck with your isolationist anarchist political party idea.
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  369.  @albertgreen8347  - I am a Son of the American Revolution. I don't need to read up to know unequivocally why this nation is unique; and it's the fact that we are a nation built by immigrants, both forced and voluntary, who are united in our belief in the common values we share and agree to abide by, not by a shared geography, culture, or heritage. Precisely the opposite of your isolationist and ethnonationalist vision.
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  370.  @albertgreen8347  - Your beliefs aren't the actual history. Sorry. "Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson viewed the United States as a place for refugees. “I had always hoped that this land might become a safe & agreeable Asylum to the virtuous & persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong,” wrote Washington. While Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1817 that America offers “a sanctuary for those whom the misrule of Europe may compel to seek happiness in other climes.”" "Jefferson added, “This refuge, once known, will produce reaction on the happiness even of those who remain there, by warning their taskmasters that when the evils of Egyptian oppression become heavier than those of the abandonment of country, another Canaan is open where their subjects will be recieved as brothers, and secured against like oppressions by a participation in the right of self-government.”"
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  371. So, coup d'etat gets a "meh". But, conning you out of your donations when you were warned for five years Trump and his cabal are fraudsters is a "deal-breaker". These are not good people, let alone patriots.
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  372. Elon is pro-censorship, as long as it makes him more money. "...According to people familiar with the matter, [Tesla] also complained to the government over what it sees as unwarranted attacks on social media, and asked Beijing to use its censorship powers to block some of the posts."
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  373. Trump is the product of the Republican voters, not the cause of them. 3 out of 4 Republicans want the United States of America turned into a Christian nationalist state, despite knowing that it would be unconstitutional according to the Pew Research Center polling. The Republican party has no integrity anymore.
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  374. The Republican party is an extremist white nationalist organization that's quickly becoming a full-fledged domestic terrorist organization.
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  375. Vote out Republicans. Full stop. It's not both sides. Period.
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  376. May have insulted? He definitely insulted Detroit to Detroit. Period. Haberman is a Trump apologIst and relies on Trump palace intrigue for her income these days. Take anything she says about Trump with a pound of salt.
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  377. Fear mongering and hatred are all the Republican party has anymore. It's a nationalist party trafficking lies and disinformation and embracing stochastic terrorism as a common political tactic.
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  378.  @brianclarke4831  - Meanwhile, Russian many POWs are claiming they were duped and lied to, not fed for three days, were often lost, and are sleeping in trenches.
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  379. I find it discrediting that Chris Cillizza sees a spine in the Republican party leadership. Anyone with eyes and common sense sees how cowed they still are by the white nationalists deciding on the political agenda for the party.
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  380.  @ButlerJ2  - I'm not celebrating his death, I'm celebrating the lives spared because he's no longer peddling homicidal conspiracy theories. There is a crucial distinction. The idea that cynical pragmatism in a deadly global pandemic is a moral failing is debatable, but I don't care to debate it with you.
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  381. The idea that preachers, priests, monks, rabbis, etc. are more ethical than the lay population has caused incalculable suffering across history. Marcus Lamb fraudulently received -- and was later forced to return -- $3.9 million in PPP loans from us taxpayers, is an adulterer and used the church's private jet for personal vacations without reimbursing the church whatsoever.
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  382.  @ButlerJ2  - May the road rise to meet you.
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  383. Obama started the European Defense Initiative, which is why Ukraine is able to fight Putin effectively now. Biden sent 90 tons ($200 million) of military aid last month, he's committing another $350 million now. The rehabilitation of Trump and other Republicans who were traitorously obsequious to him, like Romney, knows no shame.
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  384. False equivalency doesn't fix the obstruction of the Republican party, nor does it get the election security and campaign finance reform bills the Democrats have passed in the past three congressional terms through the Senate.
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  385. When war crimes are a part of your military strategy, you aren't a military, you are a terrorist organization.
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  386.  @franklin9400  - Whatabotism is an admission that you have no real counter argument. The U.S. Military in the Vietnam war, Iraq and much of the Afghanistan war embraced terrorism including the bombing of civilian populations, attempted genocide, widespread psychological operations, torture and disinformation. The key difference is that there is absolutely no accountability in Russia, as opposed to numerous investigations, legal actions, reforms, and reporting inside the U.S. addressing the terrorism of the U.S. Military. So, are you going to condemn Russia?
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  387.  @franklin9400  - it is whataboutism, by definition. You still refuse to condemn or defend Russia's actions except to say, "what about the U.S., the Russians are no worse"...so, whataboutism I even dignified with a rebuttal illustrating key differences -- despite the fact that all you've said this far is that Russia likes to emulate the United States military in being war criminals. And I agreed that the U.S. Military has acted as a terrorist organization in the past.
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  388.  @davesnothere3425  - No, the best protection is vaccination, 4-6mos booster and the additional immunity provided by a 14x less lethal breakthrough infection. "Weak" Omicron could still kill you or disable you for life if you're unvaccinated. The fact that full vaccination plus added protection that breakthrough infections contributes is the highest protection (approximately 87-98% protection from hospitalization, serious illness or death) shouldn't make people seek a breakthrough infection, especially since doing so carelessly puts others at risk. ADDENDUM: The protection from the mRNA vaccines, with booster at 4-6mos, is approximately 82-95%. The immunity provided by infection is around 40-60%, with some non-peer reviewed outlier studies finding as high as 80%, but with -- as mentioned -- a 14x greater risk of death by not getting vaccinated.
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  389.  @davesnothere3425  - The science is well supported by studies across the spectrum, including entities not profiting from any drug or vaccine. You go on being afraid of whatever conspiracy and conspirators you like, however. I've no interest in convincing anyone of anything, just speaking my peace.
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  390. No. More guns = More homicides. More guns = More suicides. More guns = More firearm accidents. More guns = More dead children.
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  391. Unless and until the Republican party decides to reorient back to supporting the United States of America, they are all accomplices after the fact.
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  392.  @tinman3586  - NATO and racism are two that come to mind first for me.
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  393.  @tinman3586  - We treat Russia differently than China because NATO was created to contain aggression in Europe, which Ukraine is in, and the Uyghurs aren't a majority white community, so their suffering isn't treated the same by Western societies still affected by the legacy of slavery and the racism it fused to a shared Western "post-colonial DNA" that "exceptionalizes" Ukrainians by contrast.
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  394. @dog ville - I think that's one of three main reasons. I believe Biden did it for two reasons: 1) His own electoral politics. 2) The fight for the majority in Congress this year. I think most Democrats also did it primarily for these reasons. Many Republicans did it for these same reasons; their own electoral politics and the fight for the majority in Congress this year. Many politicians are also serving their fossil fuel donors; with 1/3rd of the "legal bribes" going to Democrats and 2/3rds going to Republicans -- including many also enriching themselves with shares in fossil fuel companies as profits and monopolist price-gouging rise.
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  395.  @howitzer551  - I just wanted to give you the two top-of-mind differences why Russian atrocities are treated differently than Chinese atrocities. It was good to read your different view, thank you for replying.
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  396.  @completelynuts5038  - You mean the same thing Obama suggested four years earlier? "President Barack Obama told the European Union on Wednesday it cannot rely on the United States alone to reduce its dependency on Russian energy, as relations with Moscow chill over its seizure of Crimea from Ukraine." Germany laughed at Trump when he echoed Obama because he exaggerated so much when he said they would become 100% dependent on Russia when they import only about a third of their oil and gas from Russia.
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  397. The white nationalist and autocratic-curious Republican party has no policy proposals or solutions for the country's challenges. There's no meaningful Republican party anymore. It's now an insurgency alienating all real conservatives.
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  398. Act the fool, earn the foolishness.
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  399. Contrary to the popular narrative, the vast majority of independent voters are not centrists, they are consistently right or left leaning, but don't want the Republican or Democratic party label associated with them.
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  400. The majority of the right wing, in the U.S. and elsewhere, have lost their ever loving minds. Putin and today's Republicans share two things, being pro-mass extinction (aka, addicted to oil profits) and being ethno-nationalists. Both are uninterested in democracy as anything other than a beneficial veneer atop autocracy. Democracies and liberal societies must continue to vigilantly confront these threats, and the homicidal "alternate realities" they sell to their supporters.
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  401. It's not unlocked doors that are the problem, it's the locked hearts of NRA-compliant Republicans.
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  402. The war criminals are going all-in. Lend/Lease will be a huge boost to Ukraine. Getting those anti-aircraft systems to where they're needed is key to saving more lives.
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  403. Rewriting history to thwart justice for a white nationalist autocratic coup attempt that included organizing and deploying a violent insurrection effort perpetrated by right-wing white nationalist and anti-government militias isn't simply whitewashing. What Laura Ingraham is doing -- and anyone else who knows Trump incited the insurrection, but is lying and blaming BLM and AntiFa -- is being an accessory after the fact.
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  404.  @fondonteven8241  - I did not intend to minimize his actions. My apologies for that result.
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  405. But they didn't back impeachment because, as they said, the Democrats will take care of Trump for us. Treasonous and unforgivable.
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  406. White nationalist media serving a white nationalist and extremist political party -- both are intractable enemies of the nation and democracy.
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  407. Cover this as the coup attempt that it was, not as palace intrigue.
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  408.  @theoutlook55  - Basically, they can be attacked at any time and can be detained indefinitely without trial. Executed? No
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  409.  @saltmerchant749  - That's what I said. The right to be a combatant means the protections on lawful combatants provided by signatories to the Geneva conventions are afforded to you. The Geneva conventions protect even unlawful combatants from torture or summary execution, but not indefinite detention, [n]or [are they afforded] any of the other protections afforded that apply to lawful combatants.
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  410.  @saltmerchant749  - The bar against the torture or summary execution of anyone is covered in the Geneva conventions, according to most interpretations. I believe mercenary forces would fall under unlawful combatants, based on these interpretations. Where you've got a point is if they are deemed 'unlawful belligerents', a term not covered in the Geneva conventions, but which was used by the GW Bush administration to describe terrorists, and formed the basis of justification for using Guantanamo to detain them indefinitely. Using foreign soil under military control meant they could proceed without having to define that term under US civilian law either. In practice, I'd imagine many Ukrainians aren't adhering to the conventions, and we know the Russian forces aren't. Without suggesting there is an equivalence, Zelensky's encouraging of civilians to fight is also against the conventions, but a rational and realistic decision nonetheless. I think it's likely that your sentiment is shared on the ground in Ukraine by many, regardless of the laws of war.
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  411.  @Rasmajnoon  - Mmmhmmmm.
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  412. A radical and extreme effort to place ideologues on the highest court in the land -- expressly in order to overturn the established precedents upon which many privacy rights all Americans have enjoyed for generations is derived using a deeply flawed and dangerous rationale -- is what changed the institution fundamentally. Not the effort to inform the American people about the scheme's likely imminent fruition.
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  413. Mass quantities, without commensurate logistics produces well seated flocks of ducks quickly.
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  414. Thank you President Biden. This is another part of the multi-front fight against Putin's war on democracy and autonomy [in] Ukraine, just like the vital $1 billion in military, security and defense aid from the US to Ukraine 🇺🇦.
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  415. This is indicative of a flailing effort.
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  416. Trump worsens immigration -- and always has. "...despite warnings that it would cause massive migration, President Donald Trump pushed devastating sanctions onto Venezuela. (Trump also appointed Elliott Abrams, who played a role in the Iran-Contra affair and was linked to a failed coup attempt against Chávez in 2002, as the special envoy to Venezuela.)"
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  417. It's up to law-abiding gun owners to vote out Republicans who are openly collaborating with right-wing and anti-government domestic terrorists. The Republican party attempted a coup d'etat on January 6th, 2021 and Republicans like S.E. Cupp prove they will not defend the Republic or the Constitution when they refuse to condemn and abandon the criminal Republican party that won't take ANY ACTION AT ALL to save lives. The number one cause of death for children in the U.S. is death by firearm, Republicans won't address it and will just delay, distract, and disinform. The number one terrorist threat to Americans in the U.S. is the right-wing and anti-government terrorists they attempted a coup with. Republicans won't address it and will just delay, distract, and disinform.
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  418.  @brewed_for_success  - Merch bot says what?
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  419.  @Lysergikal  - NATO's open door policy is fundamental. It's Ukraine's choice¹. Full stop. ___________________________ ¹ Just as it was Russia's choice when Putin wanted to join NATO, but didn't want to have to go through the process of qualification, nor wait in line behind earlier applicants, so Putin never followed through on applying.
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  420. Any news outlet not calling the events of January 6th, 2021 a coup d'etat attempt is an accomplice after the fact. Not just an "attack on the Capitol". Not just an "insurrection". Not just a "violent mob". Not just sedition. A coup d'etat that used seditious speech and behavior that incited a violent insurrection at the precise location and at the precise Constitutionally mandated time at which the peaceful transfer of power for the U.S. Government must occur. It was a coup attempt that used sedition by Republican leadership at the top of all three branches of government to incite an insurrection that included open collaboration and planning with multiple domestic terrorist groups.
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  421. How it could help Trump is that the Republican electorate is happy to trade democracy for power. Period. ALL AGE GROUPS OF WHITE VOTERS aligned with Trump more in 2020 than they did in 2016. Fascist tactics are already commonplace with the GOP leadership, from the head of their party -- Trump -- to the family or neighbor you refuse to confront as a fascist because they are family, go to your church, or it's just unpleasant. Democracy means white patriots call out -- AND COUNTER -- the fascist tactics of Republicans from in the next room, or next door, before democracy is replaced with autocracy and oligarchy and/or dictatorship.
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  422.  @goodale1812  - Without agreeing with or endorsing your conjecture about her motivation, thank you for the correction.
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  423.  @deborahfreedman333  - Reporting the facts she reported isn't throwing shade, in my opinion. You clearly disagree. Fair enough.
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  424. There is no Donald Trump good businessman myth without Jeff Zucker. Zucker created the role Trump is still playing with The Apprentice. But, you don't seem to me to be the fact-based reality type.
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  425.  @seantonnesen1636  - Talking to walls isn't a sane person's pastime.
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  426.  @seantonnesen1636  - if the "?" Is about talking to walls, what I mean is that I don't attempt to debate or persuade, I only comment with my opinion. The evidence that Trump is still using the persona Zucker and NBC created for him is easy to find, including the article I posted in reply.
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  427.  @seantonnesen1636  - Deja view.
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  428. Calling it evil is not action confronting the problem. I don't want to talk about the "good guys" or the "bad guys" with guns, I want to talk about the smart guys being thwarted by the rich guys selling guns who are paying off the elected officials representing the dead guys killed by guns. These children are unrecognizable because of what these military style weapons do to human flesh. Parents have only clothes to go by and are giving DNA samples to ensure they've identified their own child.
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  429. Integrity matters. The problem with hundreds of elected Republicans, and a couple dozen elected Democrats, is that they have no integrity. Negotiating with someone with no integrity is pointless. The Republican party is not interested in policy or legislating anymore, because lying and cheating are so much easier and Republican voters won't punish them for their criminality.
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  430. COVID and Democrats bringing record jobs and subsidies for healthcare because they are the only party that knows how to run the economy and pay down the deficit, and that healthcare is a right.
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  431. Like Elon? "According to people familiar with the matter, [Tesla] also complained to the government over what it sees as unwarranted attacks on social media, and asked Beijing to use its censorship powers to block some of the posts." "In a recent TED Talk, Musk said free speech means "someone you don’t like [is] allowed to say something you don’t like." But Musk has not acted in a way consistent with that mantra when Tesla's profits were at risk."
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  432.  @isaachunt7107  - The Constitution has nothing to do with it, and Elon bought Twitter for profit and power, not "freedumb". "To be clear, no one has a legal right to tweet—that is, to post on Twitter, a platform owned by a private company. And Elon Musk is no pro-speech absolutist. He reportedly fires Tesla employees who disagree with him and recently fired an employee who posted a candid review of Tesla’s autonomous driving system on his YouTube channel. Musk’s interest in taking over Twitter has more to do with exerting control over his favorite playground than it does with promoting free speech."
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  433.  @charlesvan13  - "impossible to list" is mighty convenient for someone with no citations or evidence.
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  434.  @charlesvan13  - You've ascribed things to CNN that didn't happen, overlooked all corrections issued (a practice FOXNews viewers are understandably unfamiliar with), and are citing disinformation as fact. In other words, over 80% of your claims are bullshit.
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  435.  @charlesvan13  - The indictment was one and for lying to the FBI¹, not about Alfa Bank claims being somehow illegal, which they weren't. The lawsuit[s] I think you might be referring to [are]n't an indictment, as [they're] by Alfa Bank, not the Federal government. That lawsuit is about how information was obtained². ___________________________________________ ¹ "In September, special counsel John Durham indicted Michael Sussmann, a lawyer with ties to Democrats, on charges that he lied to the FBI in 2016 about who his client was when he brought the bureau information about the Alfa Bank computer allegations. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty." ² "... pair of lawsuits...which doesn’t directly dispute the information collected by the researchers. Rather, it claims that the data they found was the result of a “highly sophisticated cyberattacks against it in 2016 and 2017” intended “to fabricate apparent communications” between Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization."
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  436.  @charlesvan13  - What I claim is you are misinformed or disinformed. Putin aided Trump in 2016¹ and 2020², including numerous instances of coordination, including asking for Russia to hack presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on live television. ________________________________________________ ¹ "Tuesday’s bipartisan report, from a panel chaired by North Carolina Republican Richard Burr, undercuts Trump’s years of efforts to portray allegations of Kremlin assistance to his campaign as a “hoax,” driven by Democrats and a “deep state” embedded within the government bureaucracy." "The intelligence community’s initial January 2017 assessment of Moscow’s influence campaign included “specific intelligence reporting to support the assessment that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and the Russian government demonstrated a preference for candidate Trump,” the committee’s report says. The panel also found “specific intelligence” to support the conclusion that Putin “approved and directed aspects” of the Kremlin’s interference efforts." ² "A new report by the U.S. intelligence community on Tuesday says Russia sought to help former President Donald Trump in last year's presidential election. But the document also emphasized there was no indication Russia or any other country attempted to alter actual votes." "Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized "influence operations aimed at denigrating President Biden's candidacy and the Democratic Party, supporting Trump, undermining public confidence in the electoral process and exacerbating socio-political divisions in the U.S," says the report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence." "The unclassified document is the most comprehensive look the intelligence community has released regarding foreign efforts to meddle in the 2020 election." "But the central message is the same one the intelligence community has been delivering since last August: Russia wanted Trump to win, though its effort was not on the same scale as in the 2016 election."
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  437.  @charlesvan13  - Tell yourself whatever you want.
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  438. When you start wars, your neighbors are going to defend themselves from your aggression. Putin blew up 20 years of Russian history in 20 days.
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  439.  @jeffkardosjr.3825  - One more vote for Putin by the invocation of false equivalency. Logged.
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  440. "Put America first" is not a platform or a policy proposal, it is just a dog whistle for white supremacists.
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  441. We know, Tom. But thanks anyway.
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  442.  @dark_master_Makei  - $1 = 109 Rubles. It's over but for the pillaging of the coffers while the oligarchs jump into the life boats, Boris. Grain? Yep. Military strategy? Nope.
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  443.  @AmauryJacquot  - Keep telling yourself Russia isn't eating its own tail. Putin is a moron.
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  444. Vote out the NRA employees posing as civil servants. Dying is an inadequate word for the fact that their limbs were ripped from their torsos by the force of the military style weapon used against them. These weapons turn chunks of flesh into vapor, by design. The official identification of these children requires DNA because they are not distinguishable from each other due to the fact their faces are no longer faces and clothes aren't enough for a legal identification.
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  445. % of Republican Voters for President Barack Obama [|||| ] 9% Joe Biden [|| ] 6% Kamala Harris [| ] 5% We should be clear-eyed as we defend our people, our nation, the Republic, and our democracy. Anti-Trump Republicans are not on the playing field (at the ballot boxes) yet.
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  446. If you don't want your adult children to be subpoenaed by the committee investigating your coup attempt, don't install them into federal positions in a nepotistic manner, or if you do, don't attempt a coup.
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  447. Biden and Democrats created the fastest economic recovery in US history. Labor unions have an ally in the Democratic party, and more unionized workers are realizing the Republican party is only an ally to corporate boardrooms.
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  448.  @dickjones8119  - Go back to cheerleading Putin, it's much more natural for you.
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  449.  @SolSystemDiplomat  - I hope not. She's been cremated four years now.
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  450. Teslas aren't solving climate change, and in fact Elon Musk is a significant polluter destroying habitat with no hesitation or remorse. Musk is a right winger, and claiming he's not because he accepts gay people is ridiculous. "SpaceX’s site is surrounded by state and federally protected lands. The explosion littered parts of the delicate ecosystem of the Boca Chica tract of the Lower Rio Grande Valley national wildlife refuge – comprising tidal flats, beaches, grasslands and coastal dunes that host a huge range of wildlife – with rocket debris." Elon refuses to even disclose Tesla's greenhouse gas emissions. "...that the car company is among the 15% of the world’s largest companies, across 14 indices, that do not disclose their overall greenhouse-gas emissions. General Motors and Ford, meanwhile, are far more transparent—about both the emissions they create in making their vehicles and their targets for reducing those emissions."
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  451. % of Republican Voters for President Barack Obama [|||| ] 9% Joe Biden [|| ] 6% Kamala Harris [| ] 5% We should be clear-eyed as we defend our people, our nation, the Republic, and our democracy.
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  452. Bullsh*t, Vlad...the world isn't stupid and obsequious, like your minions.
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  453. Operation Cover Our Asses will convince few, but allow the already convinced to rationalize, stemming the "bleeding" for the Republican party ahead of the second most important election of our lives [, the midterms] this year.
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  454. Nope. "The women’s team has won four World Cup titles while the men’s team hasn’t won any, the lawsuit points out. And if both teams played and won 20 "friendly" matches in a year, the women would earn a maximum of $99,000 and the men would earn an average of $263,320, according to the suit. In this scenario, players on the women’s team would earn 38% of what the men earn."
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  455.  @bigtt87  - These issues are resolved now with the latest ruling, and best rebutted by the US Soccer men's team's amicus brief in the case. "The U.S. men’s soccer team argued in a court filing Friday that members of the women’s national team should have been paid more than the men’s team, siding with the women in the appeal of their high-profile equal pay case against U.S. Soccer." "In a blistering amicus brief Friday, the men’s team claimed U.S. Soccer had underpaid and discriminated against its women’s national team players for decades, arguing that a district court judge had wrongly decided against the women last year." "[A] judge ruled last spring that the women’s team had not been discriminated against because they agreed to a different contract structure, and that their claim was undermined by the fact that they had ultimately been paid more than male players. But the men’s team called the ruling “flawed” and “oversimplified,” saying that the court had wrongly ignored the fact that the women’s pay relied on their performance, not just the number of games they played." "In equal-pay case, U.S. women’s soccer players argue [the previous] judge ‘penalized’ them for their success." "The men’s team argued that, contrary to the [previous] judge’s ruling, the women had been “pressured” to accept “an unfair and unequal" collective bargaining agreement."
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  456.  @bigtt87  - I'll take the men's team over your take every time.
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  457.  @bigtt87  - What it means is, your view is blinkered and an old saw to fight equity by asserting equality for the future without accounting for the past is the same thing as equity, which accounts for the past and present inequality as well as the setting of an equal footing in the future. "[Women] players get to games through second-class travel, are denied equal training and medical support, use more dangerous, inferior facilities, and are under-promoted compared to their male peers, among a range of inequities." "A lawsuit settlement Tuesday to end the prolonged fight delivers $24 million, mostly back pay for the women, and an agreement that the national men’s and women’s teams will be paid the same from now on, as is fair and just." "Global soccer is inequitable in its treatment of women’s teams, as shown by a Goal()com 2021 report on prize money. FIFA’s men’s World Cup prize purse in 2018 amounted to $400 million in total payouts for the 32 competing teams; the winning side, France, got $32 million. The next year, Women’s World Cup teams competed for $30 million total. That’s right: the total tournament pot for 24 women’s teams was less than France’s men got by themselves. This imbalance won’t improve until member nations push for change and do better by their own athletes."
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  458.  @Yuan-lo3zz  - If you are dyslexic, forgive the keystone of my comment below: That misogynist trolls awoken by the whims of insecurity, self-loathing, and/or testosterone poisoning can't distinguish between "equity" and "equality" isn't my concern. I hope your Andrew Tate subscription is paying out for you, at least.
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  459.  @Yuan-lo3zz  - No defense. You stand on a misconception. It's not my job to fix your errors, or debate your troglodyte arguments. Bye.
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  460. Bwaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaaa.
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  461. The Buk stops here?* ...wokka wokka...
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  462. * Actually more likely an s300 or similar fixed air defense system, not the mobile Buk.
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  463.  @t.m9341  - Bum = Russian missile system. Get over your tired irrelevance or lack of sentience.
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  464.  @stuartellison7389  - You can pretend time machines exist and today's Republican party will ever resemble that Republican party all you like. That and $3 will get you coffee. If it walks like a white nationalist insurgency and it Tweets like a white nationalist insurgency, it's probably a white nationalist insurgency . You should feel free to call me with your Meacham speech when -- and if -- the Republican party regains control of itself.
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  465.  @GaryBackus  - Trump is the dictator, as he keeps telling everyone.
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  466. Unconstitutional and increase corruption. The Democrats have passed bills to fix money in politics over a dozen times since the Citizens United ruling. Why won't Republicans even debate, let alone vote, " those bills? The GOP voted UNANIMOUSLY against relieving the baby formula crisis and cracking down on the rampant price gouging by fuel companies reaping record profits. The Republican party can't govern, only sow manufactured grievance.
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  467.  @sergeant_salty  - The For the People Act is comprehensive and has been passed by Democrats three times. The Republican party is corrupt and won't even debate the bill.
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  468. @Nathan Z Solomon - When the Republican party spends a half century implementing the vision and plan laid out by the Powell Memo and have constantly undermined democracy as a specific and discreet part of that process, as Powell intended it to be, means that they are very much responsible. Many of your proposals are either in existence, like Ballotpedia and Open Secrets, or are a part of the proposals put forth by Democrats with very little support and much open hostility from Republicans.
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  469. @Nathan Z Solomon - You aren't an impartial observer, just a right winger without a home pretending you're not partisan. Own what you are. Read up before you assert things that aren't true. And found, find, or fund a real conservative party to replace the autocratic white nationalist Republican party.
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  470.  @t.m9341  - Just tell him you have a crush on him already. Stalking Biden like this is just making you less interesting by the day.
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  471.  @SUKADIK13  - Welcome to YouTube, 3 week old account. Good luck trolling.
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  472. This is tepid water, not even weak tea. It's just more white nationalism and cozying up to QAnon.
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  473. They are just butthurt because he didn't hold still and shut up when they tried to lynch him.
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  474. The Republic's greatest single enemy is the Republican party.
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  475. Republican anti-government rhetoric and embrace of white nationalism, including a violent coup attempt and persistent threats of fascist violence create a problem for all US citizens and residents, as well as the world.
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  476. Henry Kissinger is the guy who told President Carter that if he didn't let the corrupt U.S. puppet, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (the former Shah of Iran) into the U.S. for likely life-saving cancer treatment, that he would be able to, and would, kill the SALT nuclear weapons control agreement treaty ratification in the Senate. Carter caved, understandably. The revolution and the taking of the U.S. Embassy and its occupants as hostages followed. "That point of decision has most often been explained as a spontaneous, compassionate response to a medical emergency. But, examined in the light of interviews with more than 50 people who played a part, it emerges as a much more complicated act. It reflected a calculated political gamble taken in response to highpressure lobbying within and outside the Administration and with an eye on the upcoming Presidential campaign. And it led directly to the trauma of the following weeks and months: the seizure of the American hostages in Teheran (see ''How a Sit-In Turned Into a Siege,'' page 54), the shattering of relations between the United States and Iran, the altering of strategic realities in the oil-rich Persian Gulf." ""What made Kissinger's intervention particularly sensitive was the fact that it came just as the Administration was completing the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks with the Soviet Union and preparing for what it expected to be the biggest political battle of Carter's first term. The President knew that Kissinger's position on SALT would influence the outcome of the ratification debate in the Senate. Both men say they never linked the two subjects in their discussions about the Shah, but explicit linkage was hardly necessary. ''SALT,'' Hamilton Jordan, White House chief of staff, observed later, ''was the background for all our discussions in those days.''" "When David Rockefeller made that April 9 visit to the Oval Office, he said recently, ''I had some other matters I wanted to discuss with the President, and as we stood up, at the end of the conversation, I told him of my concern that a friend of the United States should be treated in such a way and said I felt he should be admitted and we should take whatever steps were necessary to deal with the threats (to the Teheran embassy). I didn't tell him how to deal with it, but I said it seemed to me that a great power such as ours should not submit to blackmail.''"
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  477. The Republican party is harboring white nationalist terrorists willingly and consciously because they see no other path to retaining any power at all. There is no turning back from the wholesale corruption of the current GOP that doesn't involve a massive exodus from the party until it is replaced or reformed from outside.
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  478. I'm humbled and grateful that he is sharing his story and grief. As the equivalent stories from Aleppo, Baghdad and Grozny, etc. have shown us, wars of choice focused on bombing are the most brutal and cruel. We must work harder for human rights and the right of self-determination for all. When power is shared and the heat of international and domestic conflict is tempered and cooled by a chorus of public voices it is possible to limit [the] spread of violence and horrors of war.
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  479. For future reference, CNN, I'm also not interested in what ferret fetishists (not merely owners, mind you) love about their ferrets.
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  480. The troglodytes populating much of the comments section are butthurt because fairness drives them nuts.
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  481. For-profit media is a willing co-conspirator in the rise of autocracy. Doom scrolling pays big because fear gets clicks. Your are either voting for Democrats, regardless of your party registration, as well as demanding the Republican party reform and disavow the white nationalist faction within it -- or you are working against our democratic republic and hurting the existential national interests of the United States of America.
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  482. Just as there is a moral imperative for US citizens to not send money to fund any Republican who refused to impeach and convict Trump for his high crimes connected to his illegal and treasonous withholding of $400 million in military aid to Ukraine and Zelensky.
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  483.  @J_Madison  - You do you.
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  484. The stupidity of smart people has harmed, or even killed, millions of people. Elon Musk is a billionaire protecting his billions with misinformation, whether he believes the misinformation or not doesn't matter. Just like most American billionaires, he would not be a billionaire without the benefit of American taxpayer dollars and infrastructure. Elon is just the latest poster boy for this evil hypocrisy, joining others like Warren Buffett and Ross Perot.
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  485. A grade school level debate about racism from two supposed heavyweights of this new 21st "neo-machismo" philosophy. Revealing and damning evidence of their unfitness for the esteem they are given by so many as anything other than white patriarchal revanchists.
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  486. As Remnick points out, this isn't new, and has been voiced by numerous notable Democrats, including President Biden. “We must ask those who represent us at the federal, state and local levels: Will you deny the will of the people? Will you ignore their voices?” Biden continued. “We have to ask, are you on the side of truth or lies, fact or fiction, justice or injustice, democracy or autocracy? That’s what it’s coming down to.” - July 13th, 2021
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  487. You understand this is exactly the same vigilante insanity that the January 6th, 2021 insurrectionists believed, right?
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  488. The Republican coup plot is ongoing. They intend to steal the election in 2024 by ignoring the will of the people and choosing their own "winner".
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  489. You are stuck in a loop posting the same comment forever.
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  490. The press as a whole must report on the Republican party as the extremist terrorist threat it is.
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  491. A good bit of this fraud was perpetrated by Republicans directly connected to the Trump administration. The Republicans in the Senate made sure fraud prevention and enforcement would be more difficult with the CARES Act because graft and greed are part and parcel of the Republican party now.
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  492.  @myndgodandpsyche  - You can tell yourself whatever you need to so you can remain a Republican, I guess. Here's a few headlines to prove my point. Trump administration is blocking COVID stimulus oversight: government watchdog letter Trump Friends and Family Cleared for Millions in Small Business Bailout Beneficiaries of the PPP included a lettuce farming venture backed by Trump’s son, Kushner companies, and a dentist who golfs with the president.  Release of PPP loan recipients' data reveals troubling patterns Tenants paying rent at Trump Organization and Kushner Companies properties are beneficiaries of PPP loans. Trump, Kushner properties nabbed $3.65 million in PPP loans Oops: Jared Kushner Reportedly Created a Shell Company to Secretly Pay Trump Family Members and Spend Half the Campaign’s Cash Etc. Etc.
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  493.  @myndgodandpsyche - Drivel straight from OAN, NewsMax and FOXNews. The 2020 election was the most secure and audited in modern US history. Trying to cram the story about crime statistics into this conversation is just more evidence you are interested only in trolling, not conversing. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
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  494.  @t.r.campbell6585  Go back to pretending RFK Jr. speaks truth to power. Film critique isn't [your] forte.
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  495.  @richarddecredico6098  - the Grateful Dead were the enemy of the right-wing because they are virulently anti-war, shared assets, free love, free drugs, and freedom. When money mattered more than message, they sold records to everyone and anyone, but still were always a liberal band with a liberal message in many songs. "Dead lyricist Robert Hunter wrote the words and Jerry Garcia wrote the music. The song changed a lot through Hunter's many rewrites. At some points it was a forceful anti-military (some may say anti-American) song, but the final result isn't so serious. It's a fun song that the Dead frequently played live."
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  496.  @richarddecredico6098  - 🎯
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  497.  @gigipamela  - U.S. Blues
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  498. Taking power by force is fascism. This is fascism leveraging the rule-of-law in an attempt to deny the rule-of-law.
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  499.  @jjboys215  - I hear your point, and the admirable values and pragmatism within it. But bringing aggression and violence into the response is also wholly unnecessary and an illustration of the residual cultural impact of the historical values of chivalry, which is intrinsically patriarchal and often employs a form of vigilante "justice" that undermines the rule-of-law. She won the day and ensured Representative Rogers faced the proper opprobrium without additional outside, and unprofessional actions.
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  500.  @Dnyce07  - Her husband passed away last year. There's nothing soft about not needing or wanting a man or partner to interfere in your professional life. I'll go out on a limb and say the Democrats don't want you, if for no other reason than because you express such a regressive view of this situation.
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  501. The Republican party condones and often embraces stochastic terrorism from its elected leaders, including Boebert, Hawley, Jordan, Cawthorne, Taylor-Greene, Gosar, Brooks and Trump.
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  502. Most Republicans believe Trump won because of lies. Many Eastern Ukrainians believe the US is to blame for Putin's war because of lies. Disinformation is deadly. Just ask Heather Heyer, George Floyd¹, or Ashli Babbitt. ____________________________________________________ ¹Racism comes from some of the oldest disinformation.
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  503. The Republican party is dominated by white nationalists. Orgies and cocaine wouldn't be their biggest problem even if the claims were real. The Republican party needs to clean up its act because of the coup plotters and treason within their ranks.
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  504. Shut down disinformation from enemies both foreign and domestic.
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  505.  @ComicPower  - It's also accurate because the local populations have long suffered the winds of hostile and occupying empires.
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  506. The Republican party is still acting as an accomplice after the fact as an organization and as a bloc of the electorate. Trump is the Republican party. The Republican party is Trump. One and the same.
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  507. Beto is right in line with the author of the majority opinion, Republican Chief Justice Scalia, who fully expected that the laws the majority of Americans want and which Democrats have passed, would be law by now. Only Republicans today oppose the majority of the people in this country, and even the Republicans of the last decade, including the author of the opinion they mischaracterize to justify their homicidal obstruction and negligence. "In particular, Justice Scalia strongly suggested that his reading of the Second Amendment would still allow laws prohibiting felons from owning guns, prohibiting the carrying of firearms near schools and government buildings, and “laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”" "Even more importantly, Justice Scalia limited the Second Amendment right to the kinds of weapons “in common use at the time” of the amendment’s passage. Total bans on assault-style weapons are completely constitutional (though the law expired in 2004)."
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  508. Prosecuting coup plotters for plotting a coup is about maintaining our democracy and the rule of law. The Republican party has proven themselves to be the greatest national security threat the US faces today and for the foreseeable future unless, and until, justice can prevail.
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  509.  @campflyingdragon2863  - Term limits on Congress worsen corruption, give more power to lobbyists, are undemocratic and unconstitutional. Remove Republicans and vote in the midterms, or you aren't doing anything.
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  510. If your party wants to elect a traitor and criminal, your party is traitorous and criminal.
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  511. The swamp is their brand.
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  512. Then quit creating them, Sean.
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  513.  Tommy Gunna  - Obama: $340 million in military, security and defense aid to Ukraine. Creates the European Deterrence Initiative to get military, security and defense aid to Ukraine after Russia invades. The U.S. rapidly becomes responsible for 90% of Ukraine's military aid. Trump: Extorts Zelensky by illegally withholding $400 million in military aid from Ukraine until he is impeached for the crime. Ultimately costs the Ukrainians $38 million in lost military aid because of the delays his crime caused. Threatens to leave NATO. Biden: Over $2 billion in military, security and defense aid to Ukraine, with $6 billion more approved by Democrats in the House last week. Massively expands the EDI program Obama started, including making up for the lost $38 million in military aid to Ukraine Trump caused. United allies to impose the greatest economic toll on any country since World War II upon Russia, almost forcing them into debt default.
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  514.  Tommy Gunna  - The invasion was delayed because of COVID-19, and reportedly because Ukraine would only grow stronger as Trump's interference in the EDI program was eradicated by the 6x more robust arming of Ukraine by Biden.
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  515.  Tommy Gunna  - You can persist in believing whether whatever you want. I'll continue to read Russia experts, ex-Putin insiders, professional NATO and Russia military analysts, and others with actual knowledge of these matters.
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  516.  Tommy Gunna  - Politically expedient fallacies aside, here's one expert on what is the widely agreed upon reason for the timing, as I've shared before. "Now that Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched a ground war against Ukraine that he apparently has been planning for years, many have wondered why he waited until now." "Wouldn’t it have been easier for Putin to invade Ukraine when Trump was president? The United States had abdicated its traditional leadership role in global alliances and left much of the rest of the world open to expanded Chinese and Russian influence. Plus, NATO had already expanded eastward to Russia’s borders, and the Kremlin already controlled Crimea and had proxies in the Donbas." "[Some American politicians and commentators on the political right have tried to answer the question by comparing the purported strength or weakness of President Joe Biden with that of Trump, alleging that Putin saw Trump as stronger than Biden, even though Putin’s own description of Trump¹ suggested the opposite. But beyond personality,] there’s a far more likely and logical explanation if you look at policy alignment between Russia and America during the two administrations: With Trump in office, Putin was already getting what he wanted. The election changed all that." ___________________________________ ¹CNN host Farid Zakaria reminded President Vladimir Putin of his words about the outstanding talents of Donald Trump, the US presidential candidate, during SPIEF. “Why do you distort everything? I said on the go that Trump is a bright person. Why not bright? the president replied. Putin explained that he supports Trump's readiness for a full-fledged restoration of Russian-American relations. “Hopefully, the new American head of state’s sense of responsibility will motivate him to work with Russia and keep the peace.
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  517. Loud and creepy, he's a perfect Republican apologist.
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  518. Women will die. In fact, Republican restrictions on rights are already killing women. A greater ban in the 26 states likely to do so will cause up to a 33% increase in deaths of women who are pregnant. This is not a pro-life movement. It is an anti-women's autonomy movement.
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  519.  @wokechoke6845  - You can't even bring yourself to admit what this decision will do to Americans. Many states are already criminalizing leaving the state to obtain an abortion. Thousands upon thousands of women will die because of the misguided reading of a religious text. Your self-soothing lies about access don't save a single life.
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  520. You can support the United States of America or you can vote Republican. You CANNOT do both.
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  521. Don't invade sovereign countries, and you won't have this problem, Mr. Putin.
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  522. The Republican party alone obstructs the gun safety laws that would save schoolchildren. Those laws were expected to come when the Republican majority opinion by Chief Justice Antonin Scalia was released. As Scalia himself said at the time, those laws were seen as common sense, likely to be passed with bipartisan support by the Congress, and fully in accordance with his DC v Heller opinion regarding the boundaries and intent of the Second Amendment. "In particular, Justice Scalia strongly suggested that his reading of the Second Amendment would still allow laws prohibiting felons from owning guns, prohibiting the carrying of firearms near schools and government buildings, and “laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.”" "Even more importantly, Justice Scalia limited the Second Amendment right to the kinds of weapons “in common use at the time” of the amendment’s passage. Total bans on assault-style weapons are completely constitutional (though the law expired in 2004)."
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  523. They all knew, and they didn't stop it when they could. The Republican party is the number one threat to the Republic.
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  524.  @chanchan3242  - The arming and training of Ukraine to defend themselves was a direct result of Putin's invasion in 2014. Russia created the problem, if the buildup is a problem for them.
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  525.  @chriswilkerson4074  - I did. You're the second one to point out my error. Thank you.
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  526.  @RichRocketMan  - Division was created by the Powell Memo and the Southern Strategy that resulted from it 60 years ago Frankly, division is unavoidable because the Republican party won't stop living in revisionist history. Dump Trump and all his autocratic ilk if your interest is the strengthening of the Union.
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  527.  @RichRocketMan  - I never challenged your assertion that the two parties are currently united in supporting Ukraine. My contention lies in your assertion that truth-telling and accountability are divisive, instead of the actual source of division; that white nationalist politics have dominated one of the major political parties for the entire history of the Republic.
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  528.  @ИванПупкин-к3ь  - Sad and unconvincing deza. Nice paragraph formatting, however
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  529.  @ИванПупкин-к3ь  - Not everyone, albeit most everyone. A fact which makes your job much easier, as we both know.
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  530.  @RichRocketMan  - You are deluded, I'm afraid. The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) saw the potential for January 6th, 2021 and covered the report released by Trump's DHS well (summary below). "The United States faces a growing terrorism problem that will likely worsen over the next year. Based on a CSIS data set of terrorist incidents, the most significant threat likely comes from white supremacists, though anarchists and religious extremists inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda could present a potential threat as well. Over the rest of 2020, the terrorist threat in the United States will likely rise based on several factors, including the November 2020 presidential election."
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  531.  @RichRocketMan  - ...or, if you prefer, straight from the horse's mouth: Since 2018, White supremacists have conducted more lethal attacks in the US than any other domestic extremist movement, demonstrating a "longstanding intent" to target racial and religious minorities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, politicians and those they believe promote multi-culturalism and globalization, according to the report. "As Secretary, I am concerned about any form of violent extremism," wrote acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf. "However, I am particularly concerned about white supremacist violent extremists who have been exceptionally lethal in their abhorrent, targeted attacks in recent years."
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  532.  @jordanbolm8517  - I get that is your view. Regardless, your claim Biden is weak and doesn't want to win is an opinion not shared by Fmr. CIA Director and Ret. Gen. Petraeus, dozens of other military and national security experts who are both tree Republicans, Independents, and Democrats, nor the hundreds of elected Republicans, Independents and Democrats who voted for all of Biden's military aid packages to Ukraine.
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  533.  @jordanbolm8517  - First, thank you for the sentiment. I am enjoying it as well. My definition of a win would be not starting World War III by going into Ukraine with our own troops or supplying Ukraine with jets they may well cross into Russia with, as long as there's no expansion of the war into NATO territory. Meanwhile, we should do everything else right up to that "red line" I agree with the Biden admin. and NATO on.
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  534.  @jordanbolm8517  - Thanks for the question and your greater thoughts on this travesty. In other news, are you experiencing Spring at the moment, and if so, any garden or recreation plans you've got on the near horizon? I'm behind, but happy because our chickens got an upgraded coop in the exchange of priorities.
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  535.  @jordanbolm8517  - PS, "The Company" has had staff on the ground in Ukraine since before it's genesis in 1991, and I'm sure you're right on their "staffing up" when the UK [i]ntel on Russian war plans came to us through their Five Eyes cooperation, if not before.
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  536.  @jordanbolm8517  - I lived in Olympia for a year, and Portland for two. Near Gettysburg in Frederick, Maryland now. During the period between the vernal equinox and the winter solstice, about 6-7 per hen, we only have 5 hens, so three dozen in a "big" week, two dozen in a "small" week. ... Addendum: just reread and saw you asked per hen for a month. About two to three dozen a month per chicken.
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  537.  @heidihogshire  - I stand corrected. I should not have said any one country, it is the most comprehensive set of multilateral economic sanctions on a major global economy. I'm well aware of the escapades of Reagan, Bush, and "Bush: the redux".
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  538.  @heidihogshire  - You came off fine. No worries at all. I'm glad you reminded me about Ramsey Clark too.
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  539.  Сергей Тимофеев  - You can have famous USSR test pilot Alexander Garnaev's Hero of the Russian Federation Medal for your service to the Kremlin. He's renounced it and resigned from his duties as the chairman of the Club of Heroes recently, because he knows Putin's bulls**t when he sees it.
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  540.  @jordanbolm8517  - I like my Maryland a lot, I missed its thunderstorms in particular when I was living in the NW. With all the eggs, we have a couple baker friends, and the in-laws just 5 houses away, but also eat our fair share in various ways. I hope this Spring has been good in WA.
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  541.  @jordanbolm8517  - I do live on a farm, in fact. Just 2 dogs, 3 cats, and 6 chickens. Hopefully, a few goats coming next year. Spring came in warm and went through some genuine winter squalls, uncharacteristically. We always get some spring snow, but the winter storm spasms don't usually hit us like they do a bit higher up in the hills to our north and west.
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  542.  @jordanbolm8517  - Ugh. I tried to move into another thread, but the messages keep getting moderated out for guideline violations, I can only presume. Anyhow, in order: yep for mowing less milk after the first few years because we don't want new goat kids either growing the herd beyond about 8, or needing to sell for meat so they don't. Now: Farm Then: CTO/Software Engineer No worries, happy to answer. Happy to continue to chat over the virtual clothesline anytime.
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  543.  @jordanbolm8517  - I loved Evergreen State, where I lived in Olympia, but Olympia is the Austin of WA. I imagine where you are is more like Amarillo or Lubbock?
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  544.  @jordanbolm8517  - I am very big on embracing the weird, as Austin advocates. Safe in MD as long as the ☢️ stay in their silos, I'm way too close to Fort Detrick. What do you do in WA? If you don't mind my asking.
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  545.  @jordanbolm8517  - Good thing WA coffee is so good, I'd never survive the pace of a warehouse.
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  546.  @tonyboxofdonuts  - Please stop spreading white nationalist propaganda. It makes you look like an irresponsible bigot. Unless of course, that is what you are. The violence of white terrorist mobs has always frustrated and weakened US democracy and undermined our founding principles. It used to be the Democratic party which made a home for the white nationalist terrorists, but after the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, the Republican party became their chosen refuge. They should have no place in any major political party because the public should progress beyond the colonial thinking that retains that place for terrorism in politics. Alas, individuals like you delay that day, but can't deny it its inevitable dawning. "More than 70 years ago, a U.S. senator published a book warning of the same destruction of White civilization [as The Great Replacement Theory lie]." "Theodore G. Bilbo, a Democrat, had twice been governor of Mississippi before he served in the U.S. Senate from 1935 to 1947, when “the growing intolerance among many whites toward public racism and anti-Semitism” led to his fall, according to an account in the Journal of Mississippi History."
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  547.  @CantHandleThisCanYa  - So, when they are running for office again, act accordingly.
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  548. The new footage shown at the first night of the #Jan6 hearings (From the Washington Post) https://youtu.be/AAYUj3iwqLY?t=2h20m2s
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  549. Just like Kyle Rittenhouse, when you attack people armed with a weapon and refuse to allow those people to flee, a logical self-defense move is to attempt to disarm you. White nationalists are often domestic terrorists, and these two are terrorists.
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  550. You should've picked freelance barn painter.
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  551.  @m_a_s6069  - Biden shares some of the fine qualities of the last one-term Democratic President, Jimmy Carter. If the press ignores Biden's accomplishments and focuses upon gas prices and inflation the way they did with Carter, and he is replaced with a white nationalist of some stripe from the GOP, I'm not going to cast the blame on the Biden camp.
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  552. Biden is the most honest President we've had since Carter. All presidents need to be able to spin, and sometimes lie. Just like good leaders in business. But if Republican leaders say Biden lies, he's definitely the most honest President in a long time.
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  553. Moscow is sunk, literally and politically.
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  554.  @lorellaldos5263  - And it's garbage.
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  555.  @lorellaldos5263  - Again, your story is the Russian disinfo story. Garbage.
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  556.  @lenafrandi9870  - You are a Russia apologist peddling disinformation. Projection about people who "write in their own words what their employers pay them for" just shows us all your cards
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  557.  @mariodumont9417  - Defending Russia by comparing war crimes isn't a good look. You are a pro-Putin account without integrity.
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  558. Terrorism. Rape as a weapon of war is, literally, terrorism.
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  559. Kinzinger is persona non-grata to the majority of Republicans. He represents no one but himself. The Republican party has no integrity. They cannot be taken at face value until they do. If they want credibility, they must earn it back. Thus far, they have steadfastly refused to address the thousands of authoritarians and ethno-nationalists in their elected ranks. In fact, the domestic terrorist threat that is white nationalism and anti-government militias is a key minority faction of their party. Many members of this faction see Vladimir Putin as the single greatest defender of white power on the planet today. For his part, Putin encourages Russian white nationalist groups to fund and even train American white nationalists. Most egregiously, numerous elected Republicans, including their party leader, are responsible for the coup d'etat attempt of January 6th and have yet to hold the planners, inciters and participants in their party to account for this treason.
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  560. 6:12 - Political pandering does happen on both sides of the aisle, but the degree and deception levels are very different. Democrats have passed 95% of the bills they said.they would pass out of the House. Only the obstruction of the Republican party and the Koch funded Democrats Sinena and Manchin has kept these bills from becoming law. Mitch McConnell and the GOP only want to hurt Democrats, whilst Democrats keep working hard to deliver on their promises, despite the intransigence of the GOP. The Republicans are in flagrant and open betrayal of their own voters' demands, because they believe outrage is the only saleable get-out-the-vote strategy they have left to play.
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  561. Will other autocratic-minded political parties see what their fear, lies and hate will bring them? Do Republicans see the writing on the wall?
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  562. Fascist. No bones about it.
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  563. We the people know the difference between news coverage of released evidence from a legal trial and a trial by public opinion.
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  564.  @MrFlintlock7  - Did you not read the preceding quote? I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you are not great at reading comprehension.
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  565.  @MrFlintlock7  - Fun Fact: Nixon colluded as a private citizen with South Vietnam to destroy the nearly completed peace talks the LBJ administration had accomplished in order to give him an advantage in the 1976 presidential race. Reagan colluded with Iran as a private citizen to delay the release of the US hostages in Tehran to give him an advantage in the 1980 presidential race. Trump colluded with Russia, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Israel as a private citizen to attack the US through means such as dissemination of disinformation, phone hacking and computer hacking, the use of active measures to boost the weakest Democrat (Bernie) in the primary and to suppress voter turnout on the left in the general, while also boosting turnout on the right. Again, all to give him an advantage in the 2016 election. All also took some of the above listed actions to aid Trump in 2020.
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  566.  @MrFlintlock7  - You brought up the corruption of the Nixon administration to deflect from addressing the quotes about opinions vs. lies. I'm just enriching the discussion with a related point about corruption and Republican Presidents.
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  567.  @MrFlintlock7  - ..and scene. Enjoy your Christmas, Eid, Hanukkah, Diwali or other appropriate seasonal holiday, celebration or remembrance.
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  568. Trusting Susan Collins is as stupid as trusting Liz Cheney. Just because they're not all-in on white nationalist autocracy, and ostracized from the party by its leaders for it, doesn't mean they are honest brokers -- they are not.
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  569. The Republican party is an extremist organization controlled by their white nationalist minority. Trump is an enemy domestic of the United States of America.
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  570. White nationalism switched parties, we cannot turn away from this fight against [the] fascist autocracy that's holding sway over the Republican party.
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  571. Putin helped Bernie Sanders, Tulsi Gabbard, and Trump. In 2016 and 2020. The self-sabotage of the Republican party and the uninformed part of the left that blindly opposed Clinton and Biden is a two-pronged vulnerability in our presidential electors politics.
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  572.  @JustMeELC  - I'm talking about sarcasm. The aircraft carrier is a lemon, as pointed out by the original reply.
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  573.  @bobby1970  - Next up ... Admiral Дэви Джонс (Davy Jones) named the new head of the Russian Navy.
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  574. The both-siderism of S.E. Cupp is for one and only one reason, to prevent or stunt accountability for the Republican party. She misrepresents the facts again and again, and pretends the Democrats are a part of the problem on firearm safety laws when they are the only party representing the majority of Republican constituents' positions on gun control.
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  575. GFY Chris.
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  576. More Clark, less Petraeus.
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  577. Republicans alone are blocking change. When you yell at Biden as if he's part of the problem, you only help Republicans cover up the fact that they are single-handedly blocking all reform of our deadly firearm safety laws.
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  578. @Youtube Sucks - The number one cause of death for children in this country is death by firearm. Not auto accidents. Not drowning. There is nothing that challenges the Second Amendment, including the DC v. HELLER ruling in the numerous bills passed by Democrats in the House -- they are all fully in accordance with the Second Amendment. Republicans won't even pass HR8, the bill that does nothing more than close the background check loopholes in the bills Republicans voted for previously. 90% of the American people want the fixes that bill has for the loopholes in our existing background check laws. So,10% are holding the country hostage for the NRA wth no reasonable argument for why. Nobody is coming for your guns. So, what are you going to do about our children?
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  579. Putin is living out his Stalin envy. #stoprussia The Russian siege of cities often follows the same pattern of war crimes: 1) Targeted bombing of hospitals, schools, and ambulances. 2) Indiscriminate bombing of civilians, including with cluster munitions and thermobaric bombs (creates a slow burning plasma cloud that penetrates any small air gaps in windows, cars, military vehicles, etc., or occasionally an unexploded suffocating cloud of toxic gas) 3) Encircle, continue no. 1 and 2 and starve anyone and everyone inside the Russian siege forces until they capitulate, escape or die.
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  580. He's selling a book and you're doing marketing for him. He's just continuing the con, nothing more or less.
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  581. Women cannot be equal without the right to control their own bodies. You cannot be pro-democracy and support the repeal of a woman's fundamental right to make her own medical and maternal decisions.
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  582. @dan mac - there is a clear parallel between the Luddites and today's Republican party. They are both engaged in denial about their anachronistic stands against the majority and willing to use violence as a part of their resistance to reality and [in] the maintenance of their cherished delusions.
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  583.  @kevinpreston5590  - 9 in 10 white evangelicals support "somewhat more influence", and 7 in 10 white evangelicals support "a great deal more influence" from the Christian Bible over the executive, judicial, and legislative branches. The open adulation of Donald Trump as the instrument of God draws a thick line under this fact. There is no corresponding degree of anti-secularism among the left's faith factions. While there isn't much actual "religiosity" difference between the parties, only a 5% difference. The latest polling says 43% of Republicans are absolutely certain God exists, while 39% of Democrats are absolutely certain God exists. While the strongest supporters of "more God in governance" on the left are Black protestants, and [5]* in 10 want to see "great deal more influence" -- like white evangelicals -- they are understandably skeptical of "returning the Bible to the bench" in general, and esp. at the Supreme Court, or making any particular faith a litmus test for presidential candidates because of the intertwined history of chattel slavery and the white church. Church attendance is usually overstated in polling, and it is only my conjecture, as stated, that there's many Republicans who claim religiosity because it's simpler than "swimming upstream". ____________________________ *CORRECTED
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  584. You can drive a nail with an AR-15 too. Neither one is a reasonable use of the weapon.
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  585. Power over principles has polluted the Republican party so completely it's been turned into a superfund site.
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  586. Eastman is a traitor. He is entitled to a lawyer. This lawyer is not going to save him from facing justice for his crimes.
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  587. If the Republican party overthrows our democratic republic, as they are trying to do, the only difference between Republican voters and Democratic voters will be that Republican voters had their ballots counted in one more election than Democratic voters. Overthrowing their own democracy to own the libs.
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  588. There's one major reason we aren't able to be protected by herd immunity, namely the homicidal Republican party and their right-wing media co-conspirators.
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  589. It should be hindering the far-right Republican party more.
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  590. Putin went to war with the military he had, thinking he had the military he wanted (to borrow the war criminal Rumsfeld's quote). Russian forces in Ukraine have been decimated, in the literal meaning of that word; more than 1 in 10 of their forces are dead. Another 5 of every 10 have been taken out of the fighting through surrender, capture, retreat, or evacuation due to sustained injuries. This is a sh*tshow of a military endeavor, and we now have dozens of undeniable war crimes and crimes against humanity -- including a number perpetrated by Russian forces as witnessed by journalists first-hand -- which are already drawing investigations by independent and official entities covering such crimes. Nobody comes out of this safer for the foreseeable future, and unless Putin starts crossing one of the "golden bridges of retreat" provided to him -- including the proposals from Ukraine for Ukrainian neutrality and the acceptance of the "independence"¹ of the breakaway areas -- this is going to spread into other conflicts, regionally or contagiously.
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  591. ¹ Everybody involved in negotiations accepts this supposed independence actually means becoming even more dependent upon Russia, and their de-facto control by Russia. Then, as the head of foreign intel in Russia accidentally revealed, absorbtion into the Russian Federation*. *This moment can be seen in any full clip of the portion of Putin's "war pep rally" meeting where he upbraided the head of foreign intelligence, saying, "Speak plainly, Sergei".
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